HAPPY EARTH DAY

FROM RESTORE THE LAGOON

We will be putting together a 2017 calendar, but we need all of your help.

What we would like is to use your beautiful pictures you have taken over the years near or on Mill Pond. With those pictures if you would like to share a brief story, we can add that as well. Names of loved ones, recent or old we want to see them all. The calendars will be for sale at our annual festival this year on Saturday August 2...

Racine Health Department doing the testing.

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South Milwaukee Mill Dam DNR Directives

The Department of Natural Resources

is extending the deadline for repair of the Mill Dam with several

conditions described below.

Timeline History

On November 19, 2012,

the Department conducted an inspection

 of the South Milwaukee Mill Dam.

The

inspection report includes timeframes for addressing deficiencies and improving the safety and structural

integrit...

Progress continues in the efforts to deliver a long-overdue study of the Oak Creek watershed.

The latest example of momentum: The South Milwaukee City Council, at its meeting Tuesday night, unanimously (7-0) endorsed the work underway to jointly study the watershed.

Here is a draft of the resolution they passed.

https://4thdistrict.files.wordpress.com/2015...

South Milwaukee is connected to one of The biggest and well Known Parks in The State of Wisconsin..

Grant Park

Over the years The State  ,The City of South Milwaukee ,DNR ,Milwaukkee County parks  have tended to the Grant park Needs

For example....

FRIENDS OF THE MILL POND & OAK CREEK WATERCOURSE, INC. is an organization of over 50 members whose objective is the restoration and beautification of the land and water environment that surround the...

http://dnr.wi.gov/wnrmag/2014/04/turtle.htm

Use caution on crossing guard duty

If you see a turtle crossing the road, take caution when pulling over and again when reentering the roadway. Before dashing into the street make sure there are no cars coming. Use extreme caution if the road has blind corners or is on a busier stretch of roadway. Once you determine it is safe, carefully, but quickly, move the turtle off the street. Help the turtle cross by ...

We had our first event for 2015-

raffles

silent Auction