2008 Fall Field Trip

Mark your calendars! The 2008 WGWA Fall Field Trip will be held on September 20th. This year we are planning a one-day trip in southeast Wisconsin, beginning and ending in Milwaukee. Our itinerary includes:

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  • A tour of the Jones Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, with a special presentation for our group on water quality issues and MMSD projects,
  • A stop at the Great Lakes Water Institute, the largest academic freshwater research facility on the Great Lakes,
  • A look at beautiful Bradford Beach, where a shoreline restoration project is underway including a pocket beach constructed to prevent sand migration and water gardens installed around storm sewer discharge points to mitigate e.coli impacts on the beach,
  • A trip to lovely Estabrook Park to look at an outcrop of the youngest visible Devonian bedrock in Wisconsin (the Milwaukee Formation complete with asphalt vugs) and also talk about sewer discharge to the river, the history of the Milwaukee Cement Company and a brief summary of the remediation of Estabrook lagoon,
  • Catered lunch at Riverside Park in West Bend, former location of the Woolen Mills Dam on the Milwaukee River where removal of the dam has lead to 60 acres of previously flooded land being developed as parkland and a rebound of fish species,
  • A vigorous climb (or you can take the easy way) up a spectacular kame at the Glacial Blue Hills Recreation Area along the Ice Age National Scenic Trail,
  • A walk along the boardwalk at the Cedarburg Bog UWM field station, a beautiful fen and a true Wisconsin gem and
  • The site of a dramatic slump failure of the bluff along Lake Michigan at Klode Park in Whitefish Bay where a successful (?) shoreline stabilization technology has been implemented.

One of the primary field stop leaders will be Professor Bill Kean from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We are looking for additional volunteers for stop leaders and there is still time to join the Planning Committee to help with various other tasks. Contact the Committee Chairperson, Paula Richardson at prichardson@rsv-jefferson.com for a list of these tasks or to be notified of the next teleconference meeting.

Hope to see you all in September for another wonderful outdoor adventure!

Paula A. Richardson, P.G.
WGWA President-Elect