Published: July 28, 2010
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, DNR, floods, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, MMSD, sewage, storm, storm water
Comments: 3
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A report to state environmental officials says more than 2 billion gallons of untreated sewage and storm water were dumped into Lake Michigan and Milwaukee area rivers during the recent storms.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s report to the Department of Natural Resources says that’s more than four times the capacity of its [...]
Published: April 22, 2010
Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, EPA Office of Water, Hovnanian Enterprises, runoff, storm water, U.S. District Court in Philadelphia
Washington (AP) — One of the nation’s largest homebuilders has agreed to pay $1 million and take steps to prevent runoff from its construction sites under a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA officials said the agreement will protect the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways.
The allegations against Hovnanian Enterprises involve sites in 18 states [...]
Published: April 12, 2010
Tags: annexation, Bruce Sylvester, Capital Area Regional Planning Commission, CARPC, Caryl Terrell, Department of Natural Resources, development, DNR, Gjestson, John Imes, McKeever, retention, sewer, storm water, Verona, water
By Paul Snyder
Verona’s promise to exceed state requirements for storm water retention is not good enough for Dane County planners who want the city to be perfect if it plans to grow.
“What we thought would be a slap on the back and, ‘Good job, Verona,’ actually turned out to be a few commissioners only sniffed [...]
Published: February 25, 2010
Tags: flood, Michael Lewis, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, prevention, redevelopment, runoff, Stibal, storm water, Tim Bate, West Allis
By Sean Ryan
West Allis planners would rather sacrifice the flood-prevention benefits of new runoff rules than risk losing redevelopment opportunities.
The city, which flooded when storms swept through southeast Wisconsin in 2008 and 2009, is leading the charge against the proposed Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District rules, which are designed to prevent floods. The district’s existing rules [...]
Published: February 22, 2010
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, developer, Dousman, D’Antuono, housing, lawsuit, permit, Richard Herr, runoff, settlement, Stoneridge Associates, Stoneridge Associates LP, storm water
By Sean Ryan
Developer Richard Herr will pay the state $240,000 to settle a storm water runoff lawsuit he claims unfairly targeted his 300-acre property in Dousman.
“The long and short of it is they fined me because they thought I had money,” Herr said of the state Department of Natural Resources. “It has nothing to do [...]
Published: January 29, 2010
Tags: construction site, discharge, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, limits, permit, storm water, turbidity
Christopher Reive and Katie Jeremiah
Dolan Media Newswires
Portland, Ore. — Beginning Feb. 1, a construction site of 1 acre or more will be subject to new compliance standards.
Water used to wash out concrete and construction materials — including stucco, paint and curing compounds — as well as soaps or solvents used to wash vehicles and equipment, [...]
Published: December 22, 2009
Tags: Jensen, Lewis, Mielke, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, redevelopment, Ruekert & Mielke, runoff, southeast Wisconsin, storm water, Thur, West Allis
By Sean Ryan
Municipal engineers in southeast Wisconsin will not accept new runoff rules without an explanation of cost and effect for redevelopment projects.
“We just need to think about more of the possibilities and kind of narrow down more of the costs,” said Michael Lewis, West Allis director of public works and city engineer.
The proposed Milwaukee [...]
Published: December 10, 2009
Tags: American Road & Transportation Builders Association, Environmental Protection Agency, Goldstein, highway, Newport, roadwork, runoff, storm water, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
By Sean Ryan
New federal runoff rules will unnecessarily increase road construction costs, according to a national road builder association.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s storm-water runoff rules for construction sites will apply to road expansion projects. Contractors working on highway projects long have been required to control runoff, but the EPA rules released this month require [...]
Published: December 1, 2009
Tags: DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Federal Register, monitoring, nephelometric turbidity units, Odefey, pollution, quality, runoff, Ryan, Stevens, storm water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water, Wisconsin Builders Association, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Sean Ryan
A new federal runoff rule guarantees that contractors and developers will add a position to many construction sites in Wisconsin: water quality tester.
“The one kind of negative thing, from our perspective, is that because there is a standard, that would trigger monitoring of some sort,” said Pat Stevens, general counsel for the Wisconsin [...]
Published: November 16, 2009
Tags: 100-year storm, American Public Works Association's Wisconsin Chapter, engineer, G factor, Grisa, Grisa Scale, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, public works, rainfall, storm water, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Wisconsin Initiative for Climate Change Impacts
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
Increased intensity and frequency of rainstorms has researchers in the state considering more storm-water regulations.
The so-called 100-year storms, which dump roughly six inches of rain in 24 hours, are occurring more frequently. That is leading planners, up to their ankles in floods, to wonder if they must design larger systems to handle more [...]
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