The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a $42 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan to Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, which will help fund the Waterway Flood Management and Restoration Project, expand stormwater management capacity and reduce flood risk in historically underserved communities.

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Lawmakers this week introduced a bill that would allow the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to build a nearly $100 million project to contain contaminated sediment as part of an intensive cleanup of the waterways that feed Lake Michigan.

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Milwaukee officials on Wednesday called on elected leaders in nearby places and the state Legislature to follow the city's lead on a number of clean-water initiatives, including a recently passed ban on the use of coal-tar sealants on parking lots and driveways.

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For once, officials at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District say one of their top projects for the past year can't be found underground. When they take account of their best work in 2016, they are just as likely to point to the top of the Northwestern Mutual Commons building.

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Milwaukee is on the cusp of becoming the next local government to ban the use of coal-tar sealants by contractors.

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A budget originally calling for spending $14.1 million on a pair of stormwater drainage basins in a Milwaukee industrial corridor has lately increased to around $15.2 million.

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The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has received a roughly $14.1 million apparent low bid for the construction of two storm-water basins that will be part of a flood-management system meant to serve Milwaukee’s 30th Street Industrial Corridor.

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Faced with an old stormwater system and heavy rains that are becoming ever more common, Green Bay officials are looking to spend well over $100 million on an extensive improvements meant to combat flooding.

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Lannon-based RAMS Contracting Ltd. has submitted the lowest bid for a flood management project in Wauwatosa.

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It’s always been about the details for Richard Schluge.

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