Published: January 30, 2012
Tags: Clean Water Fund Program, David Simpson, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, Franklin, John Bennett, Maureen Hubeler, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Ruekert & Mielke, Ryan Creek, Ryan Creek interceptor
The city of Franklin is using $27 million in federal Clean Water money for a project to promote development even though the terms of the loan specifically forbid such use.
Published: August 26, 2011
Tags: Barry McNulty, Cheryl Nenn, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Valley Power Plant, We Energies
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Environmentalists want a federal agency to mandate changes at the We Energies Valley Power Plant in Milwaukee. Cheryl Nenn of Milwaukee Riverkeeper said her group is concerned about river water used to cool plant equipment. She said the system that sucks in water kills fish and their eggs. Her group wants the [...]
Published: June 29, 2011
Tags: Clean Water Act, Daniel Sweeney, Dave Eastman, Elliott Moeser, Glendale, Karen Schapiro, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Mike McCabe, Milwaukee River, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, pollution, public works, Richard Maslowski, Robert Whitaker, runoff
By James Briggs Residents of a Glendale subdivision are threatening to sue the city to block a planned public works project. Glendale plans to remove grass swales from the Alberta Court subdivision and replace them with concrete gutters and curbs. Grass swales are natural channels used to absorb storm water runoff. The project, though, would [...]
Published: September 27, 2010
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Estabrook Dam, Glendale, Milwaukee River, Milwaukee River Preservation Association, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Nenn
By Joe Lanane Milwaukee County risks opening the tap on public spending if it stems the free flow of water through the damaged Estabrook Dam in Glendale, according to a biologist from Milwaukee Riverkeeper. The organization’s Cheryl Nenn said repairing the 73-year-old dam on the Milwaukee River and cleaning the area around it will cost [...]
Published: March 23, 2010
Tags: Coakley, Duchniak, Kappel, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Nenn, pipeline, Underwood Creek, water, Waukesha, Waukesha Water Utility, Wauwatosa
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan Wauwatosa residents want a guarantee from Waukesha planners that a water pipeline emptying into Underwood Creek will not lead to flooding and pollution. “I’m taking an ‘I’m from Missouri’ stance on this one,” said Bill Kappel, Wauwatosa director of public works. “You have to show me it’s OK before I buy into [...]
Published: December 7, 2009
Tags: Barb Agnew, Clark, County Board Committee on Economic and Community Development, David Gilbert, engineering campus, Friends of the Monarch Trail, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee County Grounds, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Nenn, preservation, UWM Real Estate Foundation, UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc., Wauwatosa
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By Sean Ryan A strategy to preserve land during construction of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus in Wauwatosa is polarizing the project developer and environmentalists. The UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc., which is developing the project, accepts the strategy even though it will force a complete redesign of the engineering campus. “We need to rework [...]
Published: November 10, 2009
Tags: Aecom Inc., Bachhuber, Department of Natural Resources, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, runoff, runoff rules, Schapiro, storm water, Wisconsin Natural Resources Board
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Municipal officials see a proposed change in state runoff rules as flexibility. But to a clean water advocate, it looks more like a loophole. The state runoff rules, created in 2004, are intended to decrease the amount of dirt and pollution that storm water carries into waterways. Many municipalities are building [...]
