Sweet Water – Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust
{"Image DocumentName": "Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust", "Image ImageDescription": "Sweet Water \u2013 Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust. Sweet Water -is a collaborative effort to achieve healthy and sustainable water resources throughout the Greater Milwaukee Watersheds. Southeastern WI Watersheds Trust works with many municipalities throughout the Greater Milwaukee Watershed from the furthest northern reaches to the estuary. We are working with a group of municipalities along with Root-Pike WIN to develop a watershed restoration plan for the Root River. We are working with municipalities within the Menomonee Watershed, a subset of whom share a stormwater permit. These include: West Milwaukee, Butler, Brookfield, West Allis, Wauwatosa, Greenfield, and Menomonee Falls. This group is now expanding with the support of an EPA grant that will fund their work to develop a pilot watershed-based permit for the Menomonee River, one of 3 pilots in the country. This group of municipalities is also pledging support for the outreach campaign which will become part or component of their i/e permit requirement. The outreach campaign is being developed for the entire Greater Milwaukee Watershed and all municipalities within that 1100 sq. mile region may be able to credit the campaign to their e/i. Will be in discussion with the DNR on that point. We recently submitted a planning grant to the DNR in partnership with this group with the meeting of the i/e requirement outlined in the grant as one of its objectives. The campaign will focus on behaviors and actions residents can take to reduce the flow of stormwater and nonpoint pollution from their homes and other activities. The main messages will be build around these actions with an underlying and maybe overlaying message being that the actions of each person when multiplied across a highly populated area can have a positive or negative affect on the health of our waters and therefore we each have a role to play.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}