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.

Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) has worked with a local utility company to ensure their storm water infrastructure not only keeps their business running and their customers happy, but also meets the compliance needs across the areas of service. For the various locations in which their facilities are built, R/M collaborated with the client to ensure green infrastructure met their requirements.

Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) designed site engineering plans for a major addition to this existing school facility. The project included the design of two large rain gardens adjacent to a new idea laboratory section of the building. The rain gardens were programmed to receive storm water from the majority of the expansive school roof and to infiltrate the water naturally into the ground instead of directing it to another area of the site.

This education sector project, that consisted of two phases, started with an existing elementary school, with a typical asphalt play area and parking lot that drained directly into the city’s storm sewer system and land improvements to a wooded lot adjacent to the school grounds.