Environmental Rehabilitation and Flood Management at Underwood Creek

摘要

Sometimes improving environmental conditions means undoing the well-intentioned actions of the past. Such was the challenge faced by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) in rehabilitating a 6,600-ft segment of Underwood Creek, an urbanized tributary stream to the Menomonee River, one of three rivers that combine in Milwaukee before discharging into Lake Michigan.