July 17th, 2015 On July 13, 2015, 114 Glendale residents petitioned the Glendale Common Council for the removal of the Estabrook Dam. The petition comes [...]

Milwaukee Riverkeeper was recently awarded $47,400 to put Milwaukee on a “Low Salt Diet” by monitoring salt levels in area rivers and changing the practices [...]

We, as a community, need to come together with our city leaders and leaders at MMSD to aggressively address this problem and devise innovative solutions to fix our old and failing infrastructure. Efforts to install more green infrastructure and practices to collect, treat, and infiltrate storm water need to be massively scaled up to make a difference.

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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is holding a public hearing on the wetland and waterways permit application for the City of Waukesha's proposal to divert water from Lake Michigan for its municipal water supply. The hearing will also cover the DNR's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the overall diversion project.

Fish Passage, Dam Repair, Public Access and Safe Portage. The community is invited to listen to a presentation by Milwaukee County Parks and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources about this project.

REPLACING THE JUNEAU AVENUE BRIDGE The Juneau Avenue Bridge was originally known as the Chestnut Street Bridge and was built in 1840. It was the [...]

The Deep Tunnel System consisted of over 17 miles of Deep Tunnels that were dug 300 feet underground for the purpose of trapping sewer overflows. MMSD [...]

GATHERING BY THE WATER In the Ojibwe language, ominowakiing (or Milwaukee) means "Gathering place [by the water]." One of the main reasons Milwaukee thrived in [...]

In the face of this threat, last winter the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its Great Lakes-Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS) with no clear [...]