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June 20, 2015 Milwaukee Riverkeeper has filed a lawsuit against the Milwaukee County Board for violating open meeting law during a Committee on Finance, Personnel and Audit meeting held January 29th, 2015, during which certain[...]
Milwaukee Riverkeeper has a long history of working to protect the County Grounds (located off Hwy 45 & Watertown Plank Rd. in Wauwatosa). The organization was originally formed in 1995 as Friends of the Menomonee[...]
June 22, 2012 On June 20th, the Milwaukee Public Works Committee of the Common Council voted to start negotiations with Waukesha to sell them water to meet the city's needs, but they excluded selling water[...]
February 5, 2010 The Journal-Sentinel has reported that Milwaukee County could begin courting a private developer to build a hydroelectric power plant near Estabrook Dam under a plan the County Board's parks committee endorsed this[...]
May 17, 2010 Milwaukee Riverkeeper was recently featured in a FOX 6 news story about the battle for removing the Estabrook Dam. Milwaukee Riverkeeper is in favor of removing the dam, as explained in its[...]
Read a summary of this position February 2009 Contact: Cheryl Nenn, (414) 287-0207 ext. 229 Location: The Estabrook Dam is located on the Milwaukee River in the Cities of Glendale and Milwaukee at Township 7[...]
November 21, 2013 Riverkeeper Cheryl Nenn's opinion article, wrote on behalf of the Compact Implementation Coalition, was featured in the Journal Sentinel! November 20th, 2013 By Cheryl Nenn At the heart of the water debate[...]
Image from CircleofBlue.org Milwaukee Riverkeeper is leading a group of environmental non-profits called the Compact Implementation Coalition (CIC) which is working to ensure the proper implementation of the Great Lakes Compact and watch[...]
June 17, 2015 On the night of January 15th, 2015, the Shorewood Village Board voted to support the removal of the Estabrook Dam joining the Milwaukee Common Council and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District who[...]
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 on the heels of the Milwaukee County board’s approval of[...]
