Number
050359
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution relative to approving a Harbor Siphon Agreement between the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and the Port of Milwaukee.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the execution of an intergovernmental cooperation agreement between the City of Milwaukee, the Harbor Commission of the City of Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District concerning acquisition, creation, and exchange of land rights for the harbor siphons project number c07010.
Body
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee Board of Harbor Commissioners at its meetings on November 5, 2004 and May 6, 2005 have agreed, for certain considerations, to exchange land with the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission in order to permit the construction of the Harbor Siphons Project; and
Whereas, The District is empowered to project, plan, design, construct, operate and maintain a system of sewers for the District's sewerage service area; and
Whereas, The District, during its work on the Central Metropolitan Interceptor Sewer Rehabilitation Program, has identified the need to construct siphons under portions of the Milwaukee harbor to enhance the District's ability to better treat sewage generated within the District's service area; and
Whereas, The District has identified the need to construct two siphon crossings of the Harbor Basin that meet at a common point on Jones Island in close proximity to the District's wastewater treatment plant and to the Harbor Commission's container shipment yard; and
Whereas, A plan to mine the siphons under the harbor in both directions from Jones Island would produce rock and soil that can be used in a cost effective manner to partially fill the former car ferry site adjacent to the District's wastewater treatment plant and the Harbor Commission's container shipment yard; and
Whereas, The District intends to completely fill the former car ferry site w...
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