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Starms Early Childhood Center, a Milwaukee Public School (MPS), recently replaced 80% of its asphalt with green infrastructure (GI), including a permeable rubberized play surface designed to represent Lake Michigan. In addition to allowing water to pass through it, the new play surface also helps connect students to local geography and watersheds.…

Learn more about MMSD's 2022-2024 Strategic Plan in this Blue Notes update from executive director, Kevin Shafer.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and both houses of the legislature unanimously approved a change in state law to move years of river pollution into a permanent new home, the Dredged Material Management Facility.

Approximately 58% of the energy needed to power the South Shore facility in January 2022 was generated by methane gas from the digesters, a renewable energy source.