Downtown Campus Green Infrastructure Improvements
Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) is transforming two underused, highly-visible areas at its downtown locations into vibrant, public green spaces. Support from the Fund will allow the College to replace a dilapidated building and parking area with a rain garden pocket park. MATC will also install an accessible green roof on one of its main […]
Resource Center Green Roof and Pervious Parking
Marinette County, recently hit hard with PFAS pollution and high lake levels, is working to increase awareness of the benefits of green infrastructure through the creation of a publicly-accessible green roof on the Marinette County Courthouse and Resource Center and the installation of pervious asphalt in the adjacent parking lot. This green infrastructure project is […]
Community Rain Garden Project
Water quality is a top of mind issue for residents of Marinette and Menominee due to their exposure to PFAS. Project partners will create bid ready plans to implement green infrastructure on a highly visible twenty-acre site that currently feeds directly into the Menominee River. The community foundation has partnered with the Great Lakes Protection […]
Using Green Infrastructure to Restore North Point Bluff
North Point Park in the City of Sheboygan is a public natural area situated on a rocky prominence along Lake Michigan known as Sheboygan Point. This project funds various restoration activities including green infrastructure, invasive species removal, native plantings, and public outreach. The green infrastructure aspects will provide hydrologic restoration and stormwater management for a […]
Transforming an “Ideal Place for a Gas Station” into Restored Habitat
Once marketed as “the ideal place for a gas station,” this 125-acre degraded area just east of Sturgeon Bay in Door County will become resilient and high-quality habitat through wetland and stream restoration, invasive species treatment, and native species planting. Improved trails, including a boardwalk, and programs to expand community science and empower participation in […]
Take Back My Meds Milwaukee 2020
Roughly one third of any prescription goes unused and less than 10% of that medicine is ever collected and disposed of properly. Unused medications left in the house have been found to start or feed addictions. Medicine flushed down the toilet flows directly to Lake Michigan, as wastewater treatment plants are unable to treat it. […]
The Lower Fox River Clean Water Agenda
The Alliance for the Great Lakes is working to help local governments achieve their goals of a 30% reduction in nutrient loading to the Lower Fox River and Green Bay by 2030. Support from the Fund helps the Alliance provide an actionable structure for reaching these water quality targets and for generating local community buy-in. […]
Resilient Landscapes to Improve Watershed Health
Together with project partners, Clean Lakes Alliance will develop a strategy for community-based water quality initiatives including stormwater infiltration, increased pollinator habitat, and phosphorus reduction. Planned project outcomes are more resilient landscapes, measurable water quality improvements in Dane County, and modeling for communities throughout the Lake Michigan watershed looking to promote resilient landscapes and healthy […]
Water Quality Improvement via Habitat Restoration and Green Infrastructure on Milwaukee’s Southside
The Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (SSCHC) will restore and maintain native habitat in a 4.5-acre tract along the Kinnickinnic (KK) River, in a highly developed area that is one of the most densely populated in the state. They will also install green infrastructure at one or more of their clinics within the Kinnickinnic and […]
Restoring Water Quality in a Coastal Urban Lagoon Environment
Milwaukee County will work with partners to launch a multi-year effort to improve water quality in the Veterans Park Lagoon in downtown Milwaukee. The park, which is a popular spot for boating, fishing, and dog-walking, has faced dangerously high levels of toxic algae in recent years. Identifying the source of the contamination will be the […]