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Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin Great Lakes Legacy Act Project area
Fact Sheets
Legacy Act Project Sets Stage for Revitalized River Neighborhood November 2009 (PDF 136 Kb, 2 pages)
Dredging Project Begins - Fact Sheet, June 2009 (PDF 122 Kb, 2 pages)
Kinnickinnic River Great Lakes Legacy Act Project Gets Under Way, August 2008 (PDF 132 Kb, 2 pages)
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Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin
Authorized Legacy Act Project Site
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program Office and state partner Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are celebrating the end of a Great Lakes Legacy Act project that dredged a section of Milwaukee’s Kinnickinnic River—an important step in a revitalized river community. The Kinnickinnic River project removed around 167,000 cubic yards of sediment contaminated with PCBs and PAHs (polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) between Becher Street and Kinnickinnic Avenue on the south side of Milwaukee. Dredging began June 1 and as of the end of October all major field operations were completed.
Federal government and state share costs
Using Great Lakes Legacy Act funds – money set aside by Congress to clean up polluted sediment (mud) along U.S. shores of the Great Lakes -- EPA funded 65 percent or $14.3 million of the $22 million cost of the project. The required nonfederal share of 35 percent or $7.7 million came from a state bond fund under the Governor’s Growing Milwaukee Initiative for sediment cleanup. The special fund was approved by the State Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jim Doyle in 2007.
The Kinnickinnic River cleanup is the result of many years of collaboration between EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, WDNR, the city and Port of Milwaukee and local stakeholders including Business Improvement District #35.