Clear Water Farms
The River Alliance of Wisconsin and the Lower Fox Demonstration Farms Network will work with farmers in the Lower Fox River Watershed to achieve certification through the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS). These will be among the first farms in the country to be AWS certified. AWS requires sites to go beyond their current practices and […]
Menomonee River Edge Analysis and Assessment
Menomonee Valley Partners (MVP) will work with the City of Milwaukee and a team of consultants to conduct a river edge assessment and analysis for the Menomonee Riverwalk. This information will be used to give property owners along the river clear guidance on waterway related permitting associated with the Riverwalk construction
Stewardship Investment Fund – 2019
LNRP serves as an umbrella group for eleven conservation organizations and organizes three local farm groups from Sheboygan to Door County. LNRP uses their Stewardship Fund as an incentive to local conservation groups to engage in strategic planning and invest in increasing their capacity to do water related work.
Root River Floodplain Restoration Project
Hunger Task Force continues to leverage volunteers and funding to restore the 75 acres of natural areas on their farm in Franklin. This phase of the project includes invasive species control, brush mowing, prescribed burning and restoration of a CRP field.
North-South Regional Restoration Initiative
With a grant from the Fund, GLCCC will hire 50 disadvantaged young adults from southeast Wisconsin to restore habitat at three project areas. Their crews clear woody debris blockages in streams, remove invasive species and install green infrastructure. Under the current proposal, GLCCC will partner with Ozaukee County Planning and Parks, US Bureau of Land […]
Water Centric City
The City of Milwaukee’s Environmental Collaboration Office (ECO) will promote, implement and operationalize a number of new initiatives and programs aimed at improving water quality. Along with developing strategies to implement the city’s recently adopted Green Infrastructure Plan Framework and ban on coal-tar based sealants, the city will create a “Commercial Rainwater Harvesting Kit” and […]
Bay Beach Amusement Park
Bay Beach Amusement Park has been in operation since 1920 and is now the ninth oldest amusement park in the United States. During the first two decades of operation the beach itself was one of the primary draws to the park. Poor water conditions caused by pollution from nearby industry forced the city to close […]
Manitowoc County Green Infrastructure Code Audit
Building off of a similar efforts in Southeast Wisconsin and the city of Sheboygan, BLRPC will conduct a review of codes and ordinances in Manitowoc County to determine whether or not they inhibit the use of green infrastructure to manage stormwater. BLRPC will then prioritize and recommend changes to existing codes and ordinances to make […]
Construction of a coastal wetland to intercept storm water drainage along the Green Bay shoreline
University of Wisconsin Green Bay ($60,000)The University of Wisconsin Green Bay’s project aims to better manage stormwater runoff from its campus, as well as reduce the impact of stormwater on Green Bay. Students, faculty, and staff will all collaboratively work to install a shallow coastal wetland at the discharge pipe of a stormwater drainage system. […]