{"id":2942,"date":"2025-09-02T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/centerforwaterpolicy\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:32:41","slug":"opinion-milwaukee-has-turned-toxic-legacy-into-civic-asset-with-river-cleanups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/centerforwaterpolicy\/opinion-milwaukee-has-turned-toxic-legacy-into-civic-asset-with-river-cleanups\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Milwaukee has turned toxic legacy into civic asset with river cleanups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CWP Water Policy Scholar (2024-2025) and affiliated faculty at the School of Freshwater Sciences James Wasley wrote an opinion piece in the <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> about celebrating the final stages of a 50-year process to restore Milwaukee&#8217;s rivers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the article, Wasley outlines how the construction of a facility that will hold toxic contaminants from the Milwaukee Estuary could also be developed into an educational and civic space \u2014 highlighting years of work to remove local waterways from the national list of toxic hotspots. Because the city is still finalizing plans for the site, Wasley made a call for &#8220;compelling public rationale for what comes next.&#8221; He shares his vision, developed during his year as our Scholar, in the piece.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read it here:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2025\/08\/26\/port-of-milwaukee-water-river-restoration\/85784465007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Milwaukee has turned toxic legacy into civic asset with river cleanups | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Center is proud of its longstanding work with Milwaukee-area partners to restore Milwaukee\u2019s rivers. Check out the Center\u2019s work surrounding opening the new lakefront land to the public <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/centerforwaterpolicy\/center-for-water-policy-hosted-earth-day-webinar-possible-future-uses-of-new-lakefront-at-the-port-of-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/centerforwaterpolicy\/is-the-proposed-dredged-material-management-facility-an-opportunity-for-the-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/centerforwaterpolicy\/new-short-film-envisioning-new-futures-for-the-lakefront-at-the-port-of-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CWP Water Policy Scholar (2024-2025) and affiliated faculty at the School of Freshwater Sciences James Wasley wrote an opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about celebrating the final stages of a 50-year process to restore Milwaukee&#8217;s rivers. &nbsp; In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39778,"featured_media":2945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-spotlight-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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