Assessment of Urban Stormwater Infrastructure Using Molecular Tools for Human Bacteria
Milwaukee Riverkeeper will work in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Great Lakes WATER Institute (now in the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences) to monitor and identify stormwater outfalls that contribute human sewage to the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern due to illicit sanitary sewer connections or leaking sewer pipes.
Area Planning for the Adaptive Management Option by the City of Appleton.
With this $75,000 award, the Fund for Lake Michigan is supporting the City of Appleton’s goal of using Adaptive Resource Management for compliance with their water quality standards. Adaptive Resource Management is an iterative decision-making process that emphasizes not only meeting current resource objectives, but also learning and improving systems for the future. A previous […]
Applying the Science of Source Specific Indicators to Improve Milwaukee Area Water Quality
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee ($90,000)This $90,000 grant will support a two-year, Master’s level research position in Sandra McLellan’s lab at the School of Freshwater Sciences. The McLellan Lab was awarded $1,539,819 to refine the science of DNA sequencing and to reduce the public health risks that fecal pollution poses. However, this funding does not […]
Amsterdam Dunes Restoration Implementation
Sheboygan County Planning & Conservation ($75,000)Located in southern Sheboygan County, Amsterdam Dunes is one of the largest tracts of undeveloped sand dune and wetland complex along the western shore of Lake Michigan. Sheboygan County purchased this 328-acre property in 2014, and, with support from the Fund for Lake Michigan, started restoring the site. Currently, tile […]
Alverno College West Campus Stormwater Study
These funds will help students and faculty of Alverno College to conduct a Green Infrastructure Study for the college’s 46-acre campus. The Alverno campus is home to much of the last remaining open land within the highly developed Kinnickinnic River Watershed and provides some of the best opportunities to capture and treat large volumes of […]
Alice’s Garden, the Urban Farm Rainwater Project, and the Stormwater Harvesting Project
Alice’s Garden will work with Milwaukee Water Commons and Reflo Sustainable Water Solutions to design, build, and install a Rainwater Harvesting System. This system would channel rainwater from surfaces near the garden including Brown Street Academy playground and potentially 20th Street, through a bioswale into underground cisterns. Captured water would be treated and available for […]
Advancing and Implementing Municipal Water Quality Protection
This project builds on a review of the municipal codes of all 28 communities within MMSD’s service area, which resulted in recommendations for how to support green infrastructure on the local level. This project will help local governmental bodies implement these recommendations and update their laws and review processes to get green infrastructure in place.
Addressing Fish Passage Impediments in the Menomonee River Watershed
This grant will support Milwaukee Riverkeeper’s ongoing work removing impediments to fish passage in the Menomonee River watershed. Previous work on the project has involved identifying and prioritizing physical barriers in the watershed. During this phase of the project, Riverkeeper will remove several significant barriers and continue to work with local agencies to prioritize their […]
Agricultural Outreach Coordination for Milwaukee River Watershed Conservation Partnership
In 2016, MMSD received $1.5 million from NRCS to install federally-accepted conservation practices on agricultural lands within the Cedar and Ulao Creek Watersheds. MMSD will contribute $2.4 million toward the project through its Working Soils ® Program, a new initiative to purchase permanent conservation easements on farmland. A grant from the Fund for Lake Michigan […]