DARLINGTON – Long before climate change became a global concern, this small southwestern Wisconsin community knew it had to do something to deal with persistent severe flooding.
Bev Anderson remembers 1950, the year the floodwaters of the Pecatonica River rose quickly around the buildings of downtown Darlington, leaving her stranded.
The floods rose halfway up Darlington s main street after a particularly heavy rain, flooding basements, damaging businesses and risking the lives of the people who lived and worked in the city s small downtown. The Alliant Energy men strung a rope from one building across to another because the current was so bad, she said. And we all went across holding on to that rope to get out of there.
Climate change is bringing heavier rains. Here are steps Wisconsin communities are taking to combat flooding Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
DARLINGTON – Long before climate change became a global concern, this small southwestern Wisconsin community knew it had to do something to deal with persistent severe flooding.
Bev Anderson remembers 1950, the year the floodwaters of the Pecatonica River rose quickly around the buildings of downtown Darlington, leaving her stranded.
The floods rose halfway up Darlington s main street after a particularly heavy rain, flooding basements, damaging businesses and risking the lives of the people who lived and worked in the city s small downtown.
Listen • 4:22 1 of 4 Volunteers strive to maintain every bit of habitat for monarch butterflies and other species, including west of existing developments on the Milwaukee County Grounds. 2 of 4 This stand of wild plums are part of the habitat conservationists are working to maintain wildlife habitat within the county grounds. 3 of 4 These buildings represent part of the development that has risen within the quadrant in recent years. These buildings represent part of the development that has risen within the quadrant in recent years.
Susan Bence
This mature tree stands on the footprint of the proposed 6-story building.
Susan Bence
The city of Wauwatosa, Milwaukee’s neighbor to the west, has seen tremendous growth and development in recent years. Perhaps no area has been more hotly debated than the one situated east of Interstate 41 and north of Watertown Plank R
Argonne and partners to develop an artificial intelligence-assisted system for resource recovery from municipal wastewater.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced it has awarded $27.5 million for 16 water infrastructure projects. The goal of all these projects is to reduce energy use and carbon emissions in our aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment.
For one of the projects ($2 million over three years), DOE s Argonne National Laboratory, along with lead organization University of Chicago, Northwestern University and other partners, will be developing an artificial intelligence-assisted system for recovery of energy, nutrients and freshwater from municipal wastewater. Water is an indispensable resource of our society as it is required for sustaining life and economic prosperity. Junhong Chen, Argonne s lead water strategist.