The polluted water contaminated the soil in the floodplains that now sit dry. The North Avenue Dam, for example, flooded areas along the river until it came down in 1997. Industry and urban development have contributed to this in various ways. The degradation in the area has been occurring for more than 100 years. The parks project is focused on the upland area of the river corridor, the hills and meadows that line the Milwaukee River. These grants are funded by the federal government and passed through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to local partners like the parks department.ĭegraded meadow and floodplain along Milwaukee River. The entire project from planning to implementation will be funded through a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant. The project is also working in coordination with other remediation projects in the estuary, including an EPA project aimed at remediating pollution in the waterway that is expected to run from roughly the Estabrook Dam to North Avenue.
The parks department is working with Shorewood and the Urban Ecology Center and the River Revitalization Foundation on the project, “So it’s a big multi-partner effort,” Dutack said. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and generally means they are considered to be seriously environmentally degraded. An unfortunate designation comes from the U.S. These natural areas are part of the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern. The parks in question are Kern, Lincoln, Estabrook, Gordon, Riverside, Pleasant Valley and Hubbard - the latter is a park owned by the City of Shorewood. The project is focusing on a seven-mile stretch of the corridor containing approximately 600 acres, seven parks, the Milwaukee River Parkway, Cambridge Woods, and 240 acres of natural habitat. “Along the rivers there are wetland and forest habitats that are not commonly found in southeastern Wisconsin anymore.” “The Emerald Necklace design not only was providing areas for people to recreate in, at the end of the day it preserves some habitat that you really don’t see in Milwaukee anymore,” Dutack said in an interview with Urban Milwaukee. If everything goes to plan, the department will recreate a unique habitat native to the area that has been missing from the river corridor for some time. Natalie Dutack, a parks department employee, is in charge of the new project, which will try to restore some of the natural plant and wildlife habitats that prevailed along the Milwaukee River. Milwaukee historian John Gurda called this “sprawling, urban wilderness” of nearly 900 acres “one of our community’s greatest natural treasures.” Milwaukee County Parks is now in the early stages of a revitalization and restoration project for what is undoubtedly an important link in the county’s emerald necklace, perhaps even the crown jewel: the Milwaukee River Greenway.
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