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Special Feature: See the Green Roof Ducklings
Project
Concept: The
University of Wisconsin Great Lakes WATER Institute
(GLWI) building is situated on Milwaukee’s
inner harbor. Surrounded by paved roadways and cement
docks and walkways, the building itself supports
86,700 ft2 of horizontal asphalt and pea
gravel rooftop. In 2003, a 7,600 ft2 first-floor
section of the GLWI roof was converted to a vegetated ‘green’ roof
in order to demonstrate an innovative and cost-effective
stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) for the
Milwaukee metro area and University of Wisconsin
System. The installation and maintenance of the GLWI
green roof offers a working model of an aesthetically-impressive
stormwater mitigation strategy that is especially
suited to dense urban development. In collaboration
with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
through their Stormwater BMP Partnership Program,
funding has been secured to make this pilot GLWI
green roof a reality.
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