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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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, ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...