Milwaukee Riverkeeper met last week with the City of Waukesha and other environmental groups to discuss details about Waukesha's proposal to divert Lake Michigan water for its drinking supply. The recently-passed Great Lakes Compact limits diversions of water outside of the Great Lakes Basin, but because Waukesha County straddles the basin boundary, the city can use Great Lakes water provided the water is returned to Lake Michigan. How the water will be returned is the issue now on the table.
This past Wednesday, the Wisconsin Senate Committee on the Environment held a hearing on SB 5—called the Clean Lakes bill—that prohibits the display, sale, and use of lawn fertilizer containing phosphorus, with certain reasonable exceptions. Milwaukee Riverkeeper sent a letter supporting that bill, which was read in part at the hearing by our colleagues at River Alliance of Wisconsin. The Senate Committee voted in favor of the legislation, and a House Committee voted in favor of companion legislation (AB 3) on the same day.
Milwaukee Riverkeeper is honored to have been selected as one of eight finalists in the new River Network-MillerCoors Watershed Protection Grant Contest. The public can now vote on which organizations will receive a $10,000 grant for river restoration work. We need your help to make sure that Milwaukee Riverkeeper wins one of the four grants! The funding will go towards training and equipping o
Milwaukee Riverkeeper speaks for the rivers, and we believe that removal of the dam would have the greatest positive impacts on river ecology, flood management, water quality, sediment management, fish and aquatic life, terrestrial wildlife, and recreation. Dam removal will help us reach our vision of restoring the natural and wild aspect of the Milwaukee River for current and future generations. We believe that the ecological health restored by a free flowing river is of higher long term value than maintaining the current impoundment created by the dam.
selected as one of eight finalists in the new River Network-MillerCoors Watershed Protection Grant Contest. The public can now vote on which organizations will receive a $10,000 grant for river restoration work. We need your help to make sure that Milwaukee Riverkeeper wins one of the four grants! The funding will go towards training and equipping o
