Blue Notes
MMSD's Christmas Wish List
Kevin Shafer of MMSD asks Santa with help in adding another 352,827,081 gallons of green infrastructure initiatives.
Dear Santa, I hope you won't think I'm greedy, but I would like to add 352,827,081 more things to my list this year. Actually, it's one big present with a lot of parts for all my neighbors here in the Milwaukee area to help protect homes, businesses, our rivers and Lake Michigan when Mother Nature doesn't play nice. Santa, we've had some big storms here in recent years that caused millions of dollars in flood damage. Some people lost their homes. To make things better, we have a plan here at MMSD that is all about green and cost effective solutions for solving problems. You see, Santa, we've already invested $4 billion in gray infrastructure (pipes and plants) in our region and it's really helped. If we want to see more improvements in our…
Jay Sykes
10:28 am on Friday, December 9, 2011
@Ben Hogan... The deep tunnel solved approximately 90% of the problem, in both gallons of untreated sewage flow into the lake and the number of rain storms that cause an overflow of any amount, to occur. The MMSD does not own the sewers in local communities, places like Shorewood(most specifically south of Capitol & east of Oakland in the area north of Capitol-with combined sewers) that are … more ›