Crescent Beach Restoration
This water quality improvement project at a popular Lake Michigan beach will redirect a stormwater outfall into a retention pond, based on an FFLM-funded engineering and design plan. The improvements will reduce the number of health-related beach closures and beautify this 3/4-mile long beach near downtown Algoma.
Water Centric City 2020
With support from the Fund, the City of Milwaukee ECO office will implement several new programs, policies, and educational campaigns aimed at improving water quality and firmly establishing Milwaukee as a “Water Centric City.” Initiatives under this grant include developing enforcement tools for the citywide ban on coal-tar based sealants, launching the City of Milwaukee […]
Catalyzing Milwaukee Public Schools’ (MPS) Sustainability Future–Phase II
With this grant, MPS and partner REFLO will expand the reach of the successful green schoolyard movement. MPS will remove asphalt and replace it with green infrastructure, native plantings, vegetable gardens, and nature-themed play structures at five additional schools, transforming their outdoor spaces from asphalt seas to vibrant, living, growing spaces. The green schoolyards, where […]
REPHA’s Westside Academy’s Green School Community Engagement
Reflo will work with Renew Environmental Public Health Advocates (REPHA) to engage the surrounding community in the schoolyard redesign process at Westside Academy and to encourage them to install rain gardens and rain barriers on their own properties. This project aims to develop a model for effectively welcoming residents, local business owners, and other neighbors […]
Adams Garden Park
Under the leadership of Sharon and Larry Adams, retired co-founders of Walnut Way Conservancy, a vacant lot in the Lindsay heights neighborhood will be transformed into Adams Garden Park. The site will feature office space and green infrastructure, including porous pavement, bioswales, native plantings, trees, and a cistern that captures 100 percent of the runoff […]
Green Infrastructure at the STEAM Education Center
This grant will help convert a large degraded paved area along the Sheboygan River into usable park space, featuring green infrastructure and new public access to the river. It’s part of a larger project to create a learning and outdoor recreation area that connects the 8th Street Bridge Public Boat Launch with the new Visitor […]
Monitoring the Performance of a Subsurface Gravel Wetland
Marquette will conduct research on the effectiveness of treating polluted runoff with subsurface gravel wetlands. These engineered wetlands have shown significant promise as a green infrastructure practice but have not been widely adopted in Wisconsin due to a lack of monitoring studies and technical design standards. Oshkosh is an ideal site for this work, and […]
Resiliency Coordinator
This grant helps the City of Green Bay hire a Resiliency Coordinator to promote improved water quality and flood mitigation through green stormwater infrastructure, low-impact development, and other measures. This will be the first full-time person dedicated to sustainability within Green Bay city government.
Improving Stormwater Capture & Coastal Habitat Using an Engineered Dune and Swale System
North Beach, one of Racine’s prized community assets, has undergone restorations since 2004 that have lifted it to designation as one of America’s 50 Best Beaches (USA Today) and a Blue Wave Clean Beach. Since high Lake Michigan water levels are taking their inevitable toll on water quality, more is needed to keep the beach […]
Long-Term Assessment of Lake Sturgeon
This funding supports the Wisconsin portion of a Lake Michigan wide effort to better understand the movement and live cycles of sturgeon. Two PIT (passive integrated transponder) tag antennas will be installed, one on the Milwaukee River and the other on the Peshtigo River. Results will inform future fish stocking strategies.