A Toxic Legacy: Cleaning Up Milwaukee’s Waterways
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- John Gurda shares with viewers developments aimed at improving Milwaukee's water quality. We’ve come a long way in cleaning up Milwaukee’s waterways, but industrialization during the 20th century has left several feet of toxic sediment that is a threat to human health and a killer of aquatic life. Since 1987 the Milwaukee, Wisconsin estuary-our harbor and the rivers that feed it-has been a federally designated Area of Concern, one of 43 hot spots on the Great Lakes. Milwaukee is poised to launch the biggest clean-up effort in the Great Lakes' history.
This toxic legacy is lurking beneath our Milwaukee rivers and must be removed before Milwaukee can enjoy our waters with complete safety. Our generation has the opportunity to leave our rivers better than we found them for future generations to enjoy.
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She will bring the darkness to the light.
So... What happens to it at jones island? Are we just going to... Leave a giant toxic pile for the future to deal with?
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District is partnering with the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, We Energies, and Port Milwaukee to create a new Dredged Material Management Facility (DMMF) in the Milwaukee harbor. When it is completed, this facility will provide safe, secure containment for 1.9 million cubic yards of sediment removed from the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers. To learn more about the DMMF and Milwaukee Area of Concern projects: www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/milwaukee-estuary-aoc/dredged-material-management-facility
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Thank you for pushing on and continuing these efforts.
Is there anyway that you could install biowales in the streets to stop the amount of run off that occurs? Maybe plant, plants that can “filter” the water and make it more clean for the aquatic life and more importantly all life around that given ecosystem? I think that controlling water run off is an important thing to do and would help the city of milwaukee be a healthier and greener city.
Hi, Ramen, MMSD works with the local community to add green infrastructure tactics such as bioswales along city streets and green roofs to help adsorb water where it falls and to help reduce polluted stormwater runoff. Green infrastructure captures, absorbs, or stores rain and melting snow, taking on numerous shapes and sizes from 55-gallon rain barrels to rain gardens, trees, and porous pavers for parking lots, driveways, and sidewalks. Join us to manage water where it falls on your property and become a Fresh Coast Guardian. www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/green-infrastructure
Salt stored in harbor leaches into Lake Michigan. Why does no one ever talk about how Lake Michigan has been harmed?
MMSD along with numerous partners are committed to making progress to eventually de-list the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern. To learn more visit the Waterway Restoration Partnership: www.mkewaterwaypartners.org/
For concerns with salt management on the port of Milwaukee please contact: portmilwaukee.com/port
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Still waiting 4/23
Hi, Work on cleaning up Milwaukee's Area of Concern has begun! To view the list of AOC projects that MMSD is leading the efforts: www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/milwaukee-estuary-aoc
To learn about other Milwaukee Estuary AOC projects underway, please visit the Waterway Restoration Partnership: www.mkewaterwaypartners.org/projects/