The agreement provides funding to the wisconsin department of natural resources

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides funding to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The key activities include identifying potential green infrastructure and climate resilient practices to treat and capture untreated stormwater runoff in the Veterans Lagoon. This involves a feasibility study conducted through a sub-award to Milwaukee County Parks to assess solutions for improving water quality, habitat restoration, and recreational use of the lagoon. The anticipated deliverables include permit applications, a quality assurance project plan, cultural resource investigations, and the feasibility study, which is expected to eventually reduce approximately 11 million gallons of untreated stormwater runoff. The project aims to increase climate resiliency, improve water quality, support native species, and benefit the Milwaukee community.

Specifically, the recipient will identify potential green infrastructure best management practices and climate resilient actions in the veterans lagoon to treat and/or capture untreated stormwater runoff. Activities:activities include subaward management, quality assurance project plan development, and reporting. Subrecipient:the activities implemented through subawards include hiring a contractor to conduct a feasibility study to identify solutions for water quality, habitat restoration, and recreational use opportunities to ensure that future projects are meeting targeted objectives and goals.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include federal, state, and local permit applications and relevant regulatory approvals, quality assurance project plan, cultural resource investigations work products, and the feasibility study. The expected outcomes will eventually reduce approximately 11,000,000 gallons of untreated stormwater runoff captured or treated. Improvements to the lagoon will increase climate resiliency, improve water quality, support native species, and benefit the community. Intended beneficiaries are all those who live, recreate, or work in milwaukee, wisconsin.