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Article: Brookfield balks at tab for flood control Aldermen say most work would help only Elm Grove
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 27, 1999
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Although Brookfield and Elm Grove have worked together for a year
on ways to reduce flooding along Underwood Creek, a rift has
developed over who would pay for what in a proposed flood abatement
plan that would cost millions.
The plan, prepared by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning
Commission, suggests that "reasonable" cost sharing for the plan --
which carries a price tag of between $24 million and $31.4 million --
would be 40% from Brookfield and 60% from Elm Grove.
It states that while 70% of the water runoff into the creek comes
from Brookfield, Elm Grove -- which is downstream from Brookfield --
would receive 93% of the flood-damage reduction benefits from the
plan. ...