Morning pour

Published: September 20, 2011
Tags: Emerald Park Landfill, Findorff, Findorff & Son, Harnack, J.H. Findorff & Son, Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewer District, MMSD, Veolia Environmental Services

Minority builders await MMSD protest outcome

Published: May 11, 2010
Tags: Dakota Intertek, Emerald Park Landfill, GNG Enterprises, Graffin, Joel Kennedy Constructing, Jones Island, Kastens, Meade Electric, Michael McCabe, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, minority, Minority Business Enterprise, MMSD, Noble Walton, Ormiston, pipeline, sewer treatment plant

By Sean Ryan A pipeline project award that could generate jobs for Wisconsin minority contractors is held up in a dispute over the low bidder’s minority- and women-owned business participation. The 25-month project to build a Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District pipeline from Muskego to Milwaukee offers a lot of work to minority-owned companies such as [...]

Illinois firm submits low pipeline bid

Published: April 29, 2010
Tags: Emerald Park Landfill, Ill., Jones Island sewer treatment plant, McCook, Meade Electric Co. Inc., methane gas, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Muskego
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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Meade Electric Co. Inc., McCook, Ill., submitted the low bids for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s methane pipeline project. The contract is to build a pipeline to transfer methane gas from the Emerald Park Landfill in Muskego to Milwaukee, where the gas will be burned to power the district’s Jones Island sewer [...]

Methane pipeline project would connect Jones Island, Muskego landfill

Published: March 11, 2010
Tags: Emerald Park Landfill, Hawk Construction, Jones Island, methane, Mike Martin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Muskego, pipeline, sewer treatment plant, Spoerl, utility, Zywicki

By Sean Ryan Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District engineers are trying to line up an alternative methane pipeline route to avoid the trouble of building through a dense urban area. “The closer we get into the city, a number of issues come up,” said Mike Martin, MMSD technical services director. “It’s just purely the congestion because [...]

MMSD pushes for methane power

Published: April 28, 2009
Tags: Emerald Park Landfill, Jones Island, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, pipeline, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District is proposing a 17-mile methane gas pipeline to minimize effects on waterways and decrease permitting requirements. The district wants to take methane gas generated at the Emerald Park Landfill in Muskego, pipe the gas to Jones Island in Milwaukee and burn it to power MMSD’s Milorganite production [...]