Joel Garcia of Badger Railing Inc., Milwaukee, secures a decorative railing around a bio filtration box along Capitol Drive in Shorewood on Monday.

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Twice in recent summers, visitors to parts of Michigan's western coast were greeted by mounds of garbage strewn along miles of sandy beach: plastic bottles, eating utensils, food wrappers, even hypodermic syringes.

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John Douglas of Cornelius Contractors Corp., Jackson, clears the way Thursday to install a new ring for a sewer grate at North Prospect Avenue and North Astor Street in Milwaukee.

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett wants to increase spending on the city's ailing sewer lines, which have come under scrutiny because of massive flooding in recent years.

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By James Briggs The city of Milwaukee has agreed to endorse a private insurance company in exchange for money. As a result, Pennsylvania-based Utility Service Partners Inc. can use the city‘s logo in direct-mail marketing pitches to city residents, despite ...

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By James Briggs A Milwaukee lobbyist is preparing to ask for financial help — on behalf of the city — to pay for sewer projects and to train new workers. Dick Wanta, executive director for the Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association, ...

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Jamaal Stokes, an employee with D.F. Tomasini Contractors Inc., Sussex, cuts wood while setting up a safety barricade Wednesday in the 2700 block of 43rd Street in Milwaukee.

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By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Great Lakes advocacy groups say proposed federal budget cuts would damage efforts to deal with one of the region’s biggest environmental problems — sewage overflows. A federal program makes ...

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The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District is spending $150,000 to figure out if it was at fault for basement backups that damaged more than 10,000 homes and businesses in July.

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The storms of July 22 in Milwaukee opened a gaping sinkhole at East North Avenue and North Oakland Avenue that swallowed a Cadillac. Now work at the intersection has been extended an additional two weeks until Sept. 20 before the ...

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