The Conservation Fund works with partners such as the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to provide innovative, cost-effective conservation solutions.
Milwaukee's Metropolitan Sewerage District is working with the Fund to implement its Greenseams program, an innovative flood management program that uses land conservation as a tool to safeguard the community and its water supply.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District sought a cost-effective approach to flood management for its service area, encorporating 28 communities and 1.1 million people in a 420 square-mile area.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District chose the Fund to implement its Greenseams program, an ambitious initiative to conserve water and prevent flooding through land protection. The Fund helps the MMSD acquire land along river corridors containing hydric soils that can rapidly absorb millions of gallons of water when left undeveloped.
To date, the Greenseams program has acquired 41 properties from willing landowners, totalling 1,296 acres in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area.
View the 2007 Annual Report (Download PDF)
View the Greenseams Program website.
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From government agencies to corporations, from private landowners to land trusts and local communities, the Fund's partners seek our expertise to:
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