(Milwaukee, WI) – The Fresh Coast Protection Partnership, the community-based partnership between Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) and Corvias announces the construction of its first green infrastructure project at the New Testament Church of Milwaukee.
The partnership, approved in 2019, was developed to implement and manage green infrastructure (GI) projects across MMSDs service area through an integrated delivery approach that provides innovation, efficiency and inclusion in support of MMSDs overarching goals to reduce overflow volumes, localized flooding and improving water quality.
The New Testament Church of Milwaukee constructed wetland project is the first project in the Program’s pilot phase of work to get to construction. New Testament Church is situated on 64 acres, located on the northwest side of the City of Milwaukee with a congregation of approximately 850 members.
stock.adobe.com These aquatic rodents may appear to be destructive, but a new study has found that the benefits of reintroducing beavers to the Milwaukee River include helping prevent downstream flooding.
Beavers once roamed the land and waters of what we now call Wisconsin in abundance. They were used for food and warmth. Their fur became an essential currency, especially once European settlers arrived. Trapping of beavers made it so that by about 1730, beavers were locally extinct along the coastline of Wisconsin.
Now, there are calls for beavers to return not for their fur but for the potential impact they could have on flood mitigation in the Milwaukee River watershed. A recent collaborative study between the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Milwaukee Riverkeeper and UW-Milwaukee analyzed the prospect of increased beavers on the watershed.
/ It will be years before the long-blighted Burnham Canal springs to life as an urban wetland.
In recent years, Milwaukee’s rivers have gradually been revitalized becoming cleaner and more welcoming to fish, wildlife and humans.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District The Burnham Canal project (starred) is a small piece of the EPA-designated Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern.
But decades before cleanups began, manufacturers commonly dumped waste into the waterways. That toxic legacy contributed to the EPA designating the Milwaukee Estuary as an “area of concern.
Advocates say a series of projects, some underway and others proposed, will help lift that designation.
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As city populations boom and the need grows for sustainable energy and water, scientists and engineers with the University of Chicago and partners are looking towards artificial intelligence to build new systems to deal with wastewater. Two new projects will test out ways to make intelligent water systems to recover nutrients and clean water. Water is an indispensable resource of our society, as it is required for sustaining life and economic prosperity, said Junhong Chen, the Crown Family Professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and lead water strategist at Argonne National Laboratory. Our future economy and national security greatly depend on the availability of clean water. However, there is a limited supply of renewable freshwater, with no substitute.
DNR hosts meeting on Milwaukee Estuary AOC May 7, 2021, by Eldin Ganic
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a public meeting to discuss the disposal of dredged material from the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern.
“The public meeting will occur at 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Room 104 at the Port Milwaukee offices located at 2323 S. Lincoln Memorial Drive in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” said DNR.
The meeting will also be available virtually via Zoom video conferencing.
On April 28, 2021, the DNR received a request from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) to approve a low hazard grant of exemption to dispose of materials dredged from the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern (AOC).