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8/26/2008

Carving Out A New Deep Tunnel

See what it's like 300 feet underground where workers are mining a new Deep Tunnel in bedrock with a massive boring machine.

5/13/2008

Deep Tunnel expansion underway

Miners have started carving out a two-mile long expansion of the Deep Tunnel system to reduce the risk of basement backups and sewage overflows

3/31/2008

Clean Rivers, Clean Lakes V, April 28, 2008

Come join us at Discovery World for an important watershed planning conference targeting the Greater Milwaukee Watersheds from the Northern Kettle Moraine, South to Union Grove, and from the Subcontinental Divide east to Lake Michigan, and points in between.

3/12/2008

Family tours of the Jones Island Reclamation Facility

Family tours of the Jones Island Reclamation Facility (JI) are being offered as part of the Family Science Day sponsored by the Wisconsin Elementary and Middle-Level Science Teachers (WEST).

3/11/2008

MMSD Green Solutions Promoted at Discovery World St. Patty's Week

From rain barrels to properly disposing household hazardous waste, find out how to be part of the solution.

9/11/2007

2008 Budget Hearing Schedule

MMSD is currently putting together its budgets (capital and operations & maintenance) for 2008 and your input is encouraged. Four public hearings are scheduled at District headquarters, 260 W. Seeboth St., Milwaukee, WI.

5/4/2007

Kids Deliver a Dose of Education to Doctors and Nurses

The students from Vieau Elementary School volunteered to help make people aware of a safe and proper way to dispose old drugs. Their volunteer work is part of an after school program called Civic Leaders, which is supervised by students from Alverno College.

5/4/2007

Medicine Collection Day

Help protect Lake Michigan, prevent accidental poisonings and reduce substance abuse. Bring your expired and unused medicine to a special “Medicine Collection Day” on September 16, 2006.

2/14/2007

$138 Million Sewer Project Tunnels Under Milwaukee Harbor

Part of MMSD’s $1 billion Overflow Reduction Plan, the Harbor Siphons project will deliver most of the wastewater that is cleaned at the Jones Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.

1/23/2007

Greenseams Looks Back at a Historic Year of Conserving Land

2006 will go into the record books for Greenseams land conservation efforts in the Milwaukee area.

10/27/2006

Does your Cooking Cause Indigestion in the Sewer System?

Pouring fats, oils and grease down the drain can cost you big money for plumbing repairs and cause sewer overflows.

10/16/2006

Drafting a New Look for the Kinnickinnic River Trail

Join the National Park Service, WDNR, City of Milwaukee, UWM Community Design Solutions, Groundwork Milwaukee, and the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center for the Kinnickinnic River Trail Charette (design workshop) scheduled for Wednesday, October 25th from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.

6/6/2006

County Grounds Construction Getting Underway Soon

The $84 million Milwaukee County Grounds Flood Management Project is about to get underway.

3/16/2006

Construction Project Updates

Updates on the following projects: Hart Park Flood Management Project, State Street Construction and 72nd, St. Charles & Milwaukee Ave. Construction.

8/17/2005

Frequently Asked Questions About the Hart Park Project

Questions & answers and contact information.

6/7/2005

MMSD Employee Receives National Environmental Honor

A national environmental group focused on protecting and restoring rivers has presented the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s (MMSD) Dave Fowler with a 2005 River Hero Award for outstanding watershed protection efforts.

5/16/2005

County Grounds Flood Basin Closer to Reality

Plans are again moving forward on the Milwaukee County Grounds flood management basin project that will reduce the threat of flooding in Wauwatosa and Milwaukee, communities that sustained millions of dollars in flooding damage in 1997 and 1998.

5/16/2005

Commissioner Recognized for National Environmental Achievement

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) Commissioner Dennis Grzezinski, an environmental attorney, has been awarded a 2005 National Environmental Achievement Award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA).