To help pay for improvements the City of Greenfield worked with R/M to apply for and receive over $650,000 in funding for this project so far, which is about 30% of the overall project costs. These grants focused on five critical areas of project design and construction completion of design plans, water quality and stream characterization, permitting, public outreach and community engagement, and construction. Those opportunities included the following.

Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) teamed with the Village of Brown Deer to plan and design a restoration and naturalization project for a stretch of Beaver Creek and Brown Deer Trail in the heart of the Village. Village officials recognized the need to revitalize a significant portion of the creek and the heavily-used trail that runs parallel to it. R/M set out to transform the entire appearance of the creek and trail by altering the layout and adding natural features to make a pedestrian-friendly corridor that connects the Village’s outer residential neighborhoods to a growing commercial and retail development corridor.

When constructed in 1974, the 250,000 gallon elevated tank for the City of Pewaukee was adequate for serving the small customer base. Planning for a larger tank began in 1999, but was delayed for a number of reasons, one of which was finding a suitable site. Finally in December 2015, the City of Pewaukee awarded the contract to construct a 750,000 gallon tank. By then the original tank, which had not been re-coated for years because of lead in the paint, was looking pretty shabby.