Citizen-Based Stream Monitoring
Collect chemical, physical, and/or biological water quality data to assess the current overall stream health. The data can inform management decisions and may be used to identify impaired waters for biennial lists.
Citizen-Based Stream Monitoring
Collect chemical, physical, and/or biological water quality data to assess the current overall stream health. The data can inform management decisions and may be used to identify impaired waters for biennial lists.
Citizen-Based Stream Monitoring
Collect chemical, physical, and/or biological water quality data to assess the current overall stream health. The data can inform management decisions and may be used to identify impaired waters for biennial lists.
Citizen-Based Stream Monitoring
Collect chemical, physical, and/or biological water quality data to assess the current overall stream health. The data can inform management decisions and may be used to identify impaired waters for biennial lists.
Information and Education
The Contaminants of Emerging Concern Product Stewardship Initiative is a two-year cooperative effort to implement a comprehensive pharmaceutical and personal care products waste collection, awareness and education, and product stewardship program to prevent toxic discharges to the Great Lakes and improve water quality and wildlife and fish habitat. This initiative will expand the Wisconsin pharmaceutical waste mail back program throughout the states Great Lakes basin, support existing pharmaceutical waste working groups, initiate additional working groups in other Great Lakes states, and sponsor both local government and industry product stewardship dialogs that will lead to a model public policy program framework.
Watercraft Inspections Clean Boats, Clean Waters
Propose a 3-year project to research and develop instrumentation that monitors ballast water and measures whether or not it adheres to the international regulations.
TMDL Development
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District proposes to develop third-party pathogen, phosphorus, and sediment TMDLs for the Kinnickinnic River Watershed in Southeastern Wisconsin. Additionally, Cladophora algae blooms and increased beach closings have been shown to have a direct relationship to polluted stormwater runoff. The TMDLs will result in pollutant load and wasteload allocations that must be met to meet water quality standards and targets and in implementation plans that will identify the steps needed to achieve the load and wasteload allocations.
TMDL Development
MMSD and Partners create TMDL for Watershed.
Educate and engage residents
The Sweet Water Trust proposes to develop and implement a public education effort based on their past public water quality survey. This media campaign includes 2 radio spots, 2 television advertisements, 2 outdoor billboard advertisements, 2 newspaper display advertisements, 3 feature stories, 2 published feature stories, 2 radio interviews, 10 newsletter stories, and 10 web-based stories. The targeted audience is the general public within the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area and others within the Milwaukee, Menomonee, Kinnickinnic, Oak Creek, and Root River Watersheds. Sweet Water will track when advertisements and other mass media messages go out and the visits to a website that will be devoted to providing information to listeners/readers/viewers that are prompted by the media campaign to visit the website. Information will be shared with state and local agencies. A final report will be submitted to the WDNR when the project is complete.
Watershed Mapping or Assessment
Increase stewardship for the KK River by engaging diverse stakeholders: increase direct access to the KK. Receive community input and buy-in for the design of trailheads and amenities. This project will promote individual stewardship and involve community based organizations, residents and school in initiatives to restore, enhance and protect the KK river watershed. Tangible results will include construction for five trail heads in conjunction with the City of Milwaukee. With the external groups engagement it will assist in determining the planning process to identify themes and a how long term development of the trail corridor will help transform the KK river and neighborhoods that the river travels through. This project would include: 1) Assemble partnership team to develop structure for workshops and recruiting strategy. 2) Identify and recruit business owners and community based organizations 3) Hold interactive workshops for students, residents and business for interpretation at trail heads 4) Landscape architect translates outcomes of workshops and develops concept designs 5) Additional workshops for feedback 6) After final public input, develop final construction documents with specification for bidding and cost estimates. A final report incorporating all of the project deliverable will be provided.
Improve Public Access
The Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers is proposing to inventory existing access for streams and Lake Michigan for boating, fishing and other forms of riverfront recreation. The goal is to provide an urban water trail and access map, both in paper and electronic format. Public signs and information will be provided for current public access points. A needs assessment would be created based on the inventory, and recommendations and guidance created for future actions and changes needed in local ordinances to facilitate public access to Milwaukee's rivers and Lake Michigan. An additional goal of this project is to inspire public involvement in natural resource management, protection, and restoration activities along our rivers and lake, and provide a greater "sense of place" to the watershed. The Milwaukee Urban Water Trail will create educational materials that will be distributed to the public to promote existing river access. The project would include a needs analysis and action plan that would assess local ordinances and make recommendations for improvements. FMR will publicize the project in newspapers, town meetings, website, quarterly newsletter, conferences, and regional partnership meetings.
Educate and engage residents
New outreach media will enable the KRLT to reach new and more diverse constiuencies, expand their membership base, educate and inform more people and promote the greater protection of the Kinnickinnic River. More specifically they wish to receive new materials for:Changing demographics of the Kinnickinnic River watershed, build new opportunities to publicize the KRLT and its work to protect the River, Highlight the land protection successes of the KRLT, gain new members, build a larger river protection constituency, educate the community about new threats to the River, promote protection opportunities in the watershed, educate the public about the many values of the River and its watershed, enhance outreach opportunities and leverage new sources of funding.
Biomonitoring Toxicity Tests
Conduct toxicity monitoring on Kinnickinnic River and Burnham Canal, Milwaukee Estuary to include seven acute and chronic tests for the KK River project area. There are 5 sites on KK & 2 sites on Burnham.
Water Quality Planning
Project: Kinnickinnic River (MI01) Watershed Planning
Nine Key Element Plan
Kinnickinnic River Milwaukee PWS Plan - Nine Key Element Plan - The Kinnickinnic River Watershed Priority Watershed Project plan assesses the nonpoint sources of pollution in the Kinnickinnic River Watershed and guides the implementation of nonpoint source control measures. The purpose of this project is to reduce the amount of pollutants originating from nonpoint sources that reach surface water and groundwater within the Kinnickinnic River Priority Watershed Project area.
TMDL Development
TMDL development for Kinnickinnic Watershed
Engage Volunteers in Monitoring/Restoration
Continue expansion of trash and debris cleanup efforts and programs within Kinnickinnic River Watershed waterways and associated riparian lands.
Restore Riparian Habitat
Rehabilitate in-stream and riparian habitat within the eroding portions of the mainstem of the Kinnickinnic River between Chase Avenue and Becher Street. Actions required could include land acquisition for buffer expansion, bed and streambank protection measures, and fisheries habitat improvements.
Monitor Targeted Area
Support work by the Great Lakes WATER Institute to identify sources of human bacteria in the Kinnickinnic River Watershed.
Restore Wetlands
Support efforts to restore the Grand Trunk Wetland Site at the Milwaukee Harbor
Runoff Evaluation
Identify and Implement Best Management Practices for use of salt to decrease loading into the waterbodies of the Kinnickinnic River Watershed.
TMDL Development
Cooperate on third-party TMDL work being conducted by MMSD in the Kinnickinnic River Watershed.
Sediment Remediation
Large Scale Remediation of KK River - This fullfills a recommendation identified in the 1990s in the Milwaukee Remedial Action Plan.