NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):
National Coastal Resilience Fund
Project Title: Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Valley Creek Corridor (WI)
Organization:
City of Port Washington
Project ID:
0318.24.080456
Description:

Identify nature-based solutions to mitigate Valley Creek’s unstable condition, while building ecosystem and community resiliency within an important Lake Michigan coastal tributary. Project will develop 60% designs for 1.8 miles of urban stream restoration, two culvert upgrades, daylighting of the 550 foot box culvert, and restoration of the estuary and floodplain wetland.

Award Amount:
$915000.00
Location:
Port Washington is a northern suburb of the Milwaukee metropolitan area, in Ozaukee County, WI. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, this project will plan for transformative restoration of the entire 1.8-mile Valley Creek stream corridor, which discharges to Lake Michigan in the City.