Engineering Department News and Information

Project Description
The City of Oak Creek will be reconstructing and expanding W. Drexel Avenue from S. 27th Street to the I-94 overpass in 2012. The project will begin February 13 and continue through late November.
The project is a complete reconstruction of the two-lane asphalt roadway to a concrete four-lane divided boulevard. The project features a separated 10’-wide multi-use pathway along its north side, on-street bicycle accommodations, storm sewer, box culverts, street lighting, and traffic signal modifications along with additional turn lanes at 27th Street. [ more.... ]

After the devastating floods of July 2010, MMSD established a $151 million program to help reduce the risk of basement backups by cutting down on massive volumes of excess water that get into sanitary sewers from homes and businesses. Significant amounts of water leak into cracked pipes on private property.... [ more.... ]

Each parcel contributes a certain amount of run off to the City storm water management system. The more impervious area a parcel has, the more run off is generated from that parcel. The City Council adopted a storm water management system user charge to enable the City to fund some of its storm water needs. [more.....]

Root-Pike WIN is a grassroots collaborative engaged in the activities listed here to meet its mission to protect, restore and sustain land and water resources in the Root River watershed, Pike River watershed and near shore Lake Michigan. | http://www.rootpikewin.org/index.php/keep-our-waters-clean.html

