Petroleum is being shipped out of the Port of Milwaukee this spring for the first time in at least a decade, raising environmental concerns.

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Even though the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors has squashed a veto by County Executive Chris Abele and plans to move ahead with a repair of the Estabrook Dam, the debate over the structure's future rages on.

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A Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge said Wednesday he will decide by the end of next week whether to enforce specific repair deadlines on the Estabrook Dam.

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A final timeline to repair the Milwaukee County-owned Estabrook Dam should be in place within about two weeks.

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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