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Article: Sewerage district looks to purchase 7000 acres
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2002
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Sewerage district looks to purchase 7,000 acres
Owners of undeveloped land meeting tonight on flood prevention
plan
By PETER MALLER of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Germantown -- Owners of almost 7,000 acres of undeveloped land in
Germantown and Mequon have been invited to attend a meeting tonight
to hear the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's proposal to
acquire their land for flood prevention.
The sewerage district plans to spend $15 million in five years to
acquire farmland from willing sellers in Milwaukee's suburbs and then
build prairies that can absorb vast quantities of moisture, according
to Margaret Kohring of The Conservation Fund, a non-profit ...