Number
201437
Version
ORIGINAL
Sponsor
Ald. Murphy
Title
Resolution authorizing City execution of an Agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District regarding the District’s Western Milwaukee Phase 2B Flood Management Project along the Menomonee River located in the City of Milwaukee.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes City execution of an Agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District regarding the District’s Western Milwaukee Phase 2B Flood Management Project, in the 10th and 15th Aldermanic Districts, this Agreement includes, among other things, modifications to City-owned sewers modifications to City-owned underground communications, and modification to City-owned water mains.
Body
Whereas, the purpose of the Western Milwaukee corridor projects (WMCP), is to protect an estimated
62 structures from the one percent annual probability floodplain along the Menomonee River; and
Whereas, the WMCP comprise part of the Menomonee River Watercourse Management Plan adopted by the District Commission, which identified overbank flooding near West State Street on the west side of Milwaukee; and
Whereas, the WMCP will complete the levee system in the corridor that starts in the City of Wauwatosa just west of Hart Park at West State Street at the upstream end and extends into the City of Milwaukee eastward to U.S. Highway 175; and
Whereas, the purpose of this Project is to design and construct a continuation of the floodplain levee and floodwall system started in Hart Park in Wauwatosa to just west of the U.S. Highway 175 overpass, including completion of the remaining gap in the levee and floodwall system from east of the North 59th Street and West State Street Pump Station to approximately North 50th Place; and
Whereas, as part of this Project, approximately 1,700 feet of earthen levee, 1,200 feet of floodwall, and 200 feet of combined floodwall and earthen levee will be designed and constructed as part of the WMCP, as well as four storm sewer lines, 15” to 72” in diameter totaling 5,100 feet; and
Whereas, The City desires to cooperate with MMSD to facilitate implementation of the Project; and
Whereas, this Agreement describes the individual responsibilities of the District and the City with respect to the Project; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee that the proposed Agreement that is part of this file is hereby approved, and the appropriate City officers and employees, including the Commissioner of Public Works, are hereby authorized to sign the Agreement, or one in substantially the same form and substance as submitted, and to undertake such acts as are required of the City thereunder or in furtherance thereof, to effectuate the Agreement and this resolution, including signing of deeds and easements contemplated and required by the Agreement; and, be it
Further Resolved, That any expenditure of City funds that may be necessary as a result of the City signing the Agreement will be brought forth for Common Council consideration and approval.
Requestor
Department of Public Works
Infrastructure Services Division
Drafter
Environmental Engineering Section
Robert Seleen
February 16, 2021