The Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District named UW-Milwaukee its October 2015 Green Luminary.
MMSD noted the campus’ greenroofs, cisterns, and rain gardens, which manage 16.5 million gallons of water annually.
Professor architecture and James Wasley and Kate Nelson, UWM’s chief sustainability officer, have spearheaded UWM’s water management efforts. Nelson called it the campus’s “best cooperation between academic units and facility operations.”
The MMSD video highlights the “spiral garden” west of the power plant and the green roof atop the Golda Meir Library.
UWM has seven green roofs including two above underground parking structures.
The green roofs and rain gardens are part of a larger stormwater master plan, which is being implemented in part with matching funds from MMSD.
“It’s doing a lot of things to solve problems, but it’s also making a better urban environment, Wasley said.
