MMSDs New Regional Green Infrastructure Plan

Visions of 740 Million Gallons:

Clean Rivers, Clean Lake 2013

Karen L. Sands, AICP Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

We Serve:
1.1 Million Customers 28 Municipalities 411 Square Miles

We Protect the Public & Lake Michigan:

Convey/Store/Reclaim Wastewater Manage Flooding

We Have:
300 Miles of Sewers (municipalities and individuals have 6,000 miles!) 521 MG Tunnel System 2 Water Reclamation Facilities

4/30/2013

Regional Green Infrastructure Plan

Implement the 2035 Vision Help Prioritize GI Funding Decisions Provide Input to Next Facilities Plan Logically Implement WPDES GI Goals

Regional GI Plan / 2035 Vision Goal

Capture 0.5 of Rainfall = 740 MG

How Much is 740 Million Gallons?

GI Evaluated in the Plan For

GI Opportunities/Benefits Public/Private Property Watershed Conditions

Green Infrastructure Recommendations, By GI Strategy

740 MG =

Green Infrastructure by Surface Type

Impervious Area: Airport Buildings Parking Lots Streets Turf Grass Area

Green Infrastructure by Surface Type

Impervious Area: Airport Buildings Parking Lots Streets Turf Grass Area

Green Infrastructure Benefits

Economic Benefits Social Benefits Environmental Benefits

GI Benefits/Opportunities
Parks Redevelopment Existing Neighborhood GI Vacant Land Future Watercourse Projects Selective Sewer Separation

High-priority Areas, by Watershed

Recommendations Support Other Initiatives

MMSD: PP II TMDLs Flood Management Partners: Watershed Restoration Plans Other GI Initiatives

How Do GI & PP II Intersect? Rain Gardens!

Discharge to Mowed Grass Discharge to Rain Garden

Provides Watershed-specific Summaries

Recommendations Amount and Cost of Each GI Strategy Amount of Impervious Area

GI Plan Investment by Surface Type

Who Much of Each Strategy?

Where Will Green Infrastructure Go?

Key Next Steps

Expand Collaboration Develop Programs / Implement Projects Standardize Fund Learn, Share, Adapt

So Just How Will We Track Success?

Whats So Groundbreaking? 1st Plan

Emphasizing Combined & Separate Sewer Service Areas Supporting Private Property Inflow & Infiltration Promoting Turf Grass with Soil Amendments

QUESTIONS?