Urban and Rural Stewardship - Odorous gases in Milwaukee

The Urban/Rural North America Neighborhood Level Impact of Water Sustainability and Stewardship.

December 4, 2011

MILWAUKEE - recently there was an alert of a sewage smell in Shorewood related to gasoline fumes. Over the years, sewer smells have been reported relative to leakages that threaten safety. Milwaukee has had scares relative to flooding, drains, sewage back-up, untreated sewage, death from Cryptosporidium, Asian Carp, rain and ground water.

This is a wake-up call for Milwaukeeans to be more involved and know what your dollars are paying for - where your dollars are going and for what - to what organizations and do they represent Milwaukeeans.

The government representation for your review (click below) are:
-- Department of Natural Resources

-- Wisconsin Department of Health Services

-- Milwaukee Health Department

-- City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works

-- Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District/MMSD.
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Shorewood Officials Hope Soil Samples Will Reveal Gas Spill Source - Milwaukee News Story - WISN Milwaukee

Gas leak in Shorewood - October 7, 2011 - Channel 12, WISN video
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Riverwest
Vince Bushell, publisher, Riverwest Currents article, What's the smell? Or Things to know about sewers, dated December 2011 speaks about the recent "rotten egg" smell emitting from along the Milwaukee River and possibly in some homes.

"Sewers create sewer gas, as part of the normal operation, although you should not be smelling it in your home, said Bushell. "In November the Michels construction was hired by the City of Milwaukee to repair a large sewer main that follows the Milwaukee River along Riverboat Road. The municipalities own most of the sewer pipes. MMSD, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District is in charge of the larger collection tunnels and overseas the sewerage treatment plants. Michels uses a method developed in the mid 1970;s called Cured In Place Piping or CIPP."

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On November 4, 2011, Milwaukee Professionals Association/MPA, sent notice to Wisconsin legislators of the NEW efforts of Urban and Rural stewardship being forged over the next year by MPA due to the DISCRIMINATORY practices of:
-- University of Wisconsin School of Freshwater Sciences
-- Milwaukee Water Council
-- THE Water Conservancy.

Problem: African American, People of Color and the Work Challenged - the majority population and true stakeholders, were left completely OUT. However, government resources were not.

The Alliance for Water Stewardship was established about two years ago to build the first global water certification program for businesses, cities and other major water users and managers.

Locally, UW-Milwaukee, our urban and state-supported university partnered with Milwaukee Water Council and THE Water Conservancy and excluded the majority stakeholders, yet staged an afternoon presentation that was labeled as "public involvement". The behavior was discovered by Mary Glass.

Glass immediately went to the drawing board and launched efforts that would include all paths/platforms related to water use, rights and privileges, cost, proprietary claims, funding, entrepreneurship, drains, environmental hazards, sewage, Great Lakes, etc.
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"Because of the Enduring Concentrated Poverty and history of "by-design" exclusion of the majority stock-/stakeholders of Milwaukee (African American, other People of Color and the Work Challenged); we are scrutinizing transparency, outreach to Milwaukeeans for business development and employment, customer care, issues of quality of life and economic development," said Mary Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association. "Right away we see the continued over-saturation of partnerships of Michels Construction and We Energies with the City of Milwaukee."