In Milwaukee, the state legislature granted municipal governments the right to build new land along the coastline. These projects on lakebed fill must accommodate the public trust doctrine.
Sarah Martinez, SeaGrant Water Science-Policy Fellow with the Center for Water Policy at UW-Milwaukee’s School for Freshwater Sciences, offered details about an upcoming CLE program that discusses issues surrounding lakebed fill projects on the Environmental Law Section Blog. Martinez will be part of an educational CLE Zoom forum on Jan. 19, 2022, entitled “Public Rights in Milwaukee’s Fresh Coast.”
Read the full blog posting: https://www.wisbar.org/NewsPublications/Pages/General-Article.aspx?ArticleID=28842