Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Cahill Park has been cordoned off for crews to dig a detention basin that will provide rain relief for residents in the southern end of the village.
The light poles and backstop at Cahill Park baseball field came down Tuesday, marking the beginning of a four-month-long detention basin project that will bring rain relief to the south end of the village. The public will not be able to use Cahill park or the parking lot until the project is completed. The tennis courts, pavilion and playground area will remain open for public use. The project is expected to be completed by October 1. The project will incorporate Friends of Bay Baseball's plans to install an artificial turf infield. The booster organization's $400,000 remodeling plans also include two dugouts, a new scoreboard and concrete stadium seating. The project received a $150,000 contribution from the Whitefish Bay School District …
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Whitefish Bay trustees awarded a $2.2 million contract for the detention basin, and will soon be choosing a contractor to install storm water pipes at Estabrook Park.
Whitefish Bay trustees have chosen a contractor to oversee the Cahill Park detention basin project, which will begin in roughly one month. The Whitefish Bay Village Board on Monday night awarded a $2.2 million contract, including a 5 percent contingency budget, to H&H Civil Construction, which has completed 75 ball field and grading projects in the past. The work is expected to begin on May 15. The project consists of excavation, restoration, storm pipe reconstruction, parking lot reconstruction, and the reconstruction of the baseball field, which will be made of artificial turf. A new underdrain system would be built under the baseball field to manage excess rain water. Friends of Bay Baseball's plans to install an artificial turf infield…
Monday, March 18, 2013
FEMA will pay for 75 percent of a $4.2 million storm water detention basin that will soon be constructed in Cahill Park.
Whitefish Bay will only have to pay $523,000 for a $4.2 million storm water management facility in Cahill Park, thanks to a grant from the federal government. Village officials recently learned that the Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a $3.1 million grant for the storm water management facility, which will reduce storm water flows in the southern end of the village. Now that the funds are being granted by FEMA, the state government and Whitefish Bay Village Board will split the remaining balance, which is roughly $1.1 million. Village Manager Patrick DeGrave said the village hopes to start the project in early spring. The Cahill storm water management system would construct a dry detention basin with an eight- to nine-foot drop…
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The board plans to issue $16.6 million in bonds as part of its 15-year infrastructure plan that would improve sewers and fund the Mandel TIF district.
The Whitefish Bay Village Board plans to borrow $16.6 million this year as part of its 15-year capital improvement plan. The 15-year plan approved by the board in July calls for $108 million in future bonding. This year's $16.6 million bond issuance will cause a $92 tax increase for the owner of a $400,000 home in 2014. If the board continues to borrow at the scheduled pace each year, property taxes on a $400,000 home will peak in 2021 to a $356 increase compared to the 2012 tax bill. The board will have to make new bond issues every year, at which time it will also be able to readjust its spending priorities or alter its capital improvement plan. This year's bond issue, which will go before the board on Feb. 18 for final approval, will …
Friday, September 21, 2012
The $11.5 million plan to route storm water flows from Cahill Park to the Milwaukee River is one part of a larger 15-year plan to protect the village for a 10-year storm, and with street ponding, a 100-year storm.
The proposal to turn the Cahill Park softball field into a storm water retention basin was the center of attention at a Wednesday night village meeting about the village's 15-year, $105 million infrastructure plan. A little more than 100 people came to Cumberland School for the informational meeting, most of whom sought details on the village's plan to create an eight- to nine-foot drop at the north end of the park by the softball field, allowing roughly 500,000 cubic feet of rain water to drain into the park and provide relief to residents in the southern half of the village. After 24 to 48 hours in the retention basin, the rain water would drain southward through a recessed passageway and empty into the storm sewer at Sheffield Avenue, …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Friends of Bay Baseball hopes to raise $150,000 from donors to move forward with the $200,000 turf project, and is also requesting funds from the village and school district.
Whitefish Bay baseball's booster group is proposing to install artificial turf in the infield of Cahill Park's baseball diamond. Friends of Bay Baseball hopes to raise $150,000 from donors toward the $200,000 turf project, and is requesting funds from the village and school district to help out with the project. The Whitefish Bay Village Board agreed to provide a requested $50,000 contribution Tuesday night, and now the group plans to go before the School Board. Carl Fuda, the head of the Junior Dukes youth football program, made the request to the village. Fuda said artificial turf would reduce maintenance costs and make the field more durable for the wide variety of sports groups that use the field. Artificial turf would also allow …
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Whitefish Bay officials received more detail about an $11 million plan to temporarily store rain water in a Cahill Park basin, while adding larger sewer pipes and catch basins downstream.
Cahill Park would be lowered as much as eight to nine feet in some areas to temporarily hold rain water under a proposal presented by the village's engineering consultants Monday night. The concept of a storm water retention facility was presented last year as a way to reduce surface flooding in the area. The village hired Crispell Snyder later in the year to design a storm water management plan in the area, which is roughly bordered by Ardmore Avenue on the east, Henry Clay Street on the north, Shoreland Avenue on the west and Glendale Avenue on the south. The plan would not affect the tennis courts or playground equipment on the west end of the park, but would lower the western portion of the park to hold rain water. The northern end of …
Vinny
9:26 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This is a project that, those who fought for it, never expected a ceremonious shovel dig at the beginning of the project. I'm sure what they'd rather have is the Village support when it's all done. I hope it turns out that way. The softball diamond was a blight and the upgraded baseball diamond and landscaping could be an improvement - just hope the hole in the ground isn't too bad... more ›