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Greenseams Menomonee River Watershed Projects
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1 - Lucht
Acres: 32.02
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $130,766
Date purchased: September 8, 2003
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The former Lucht property is located in the upper reaches of the Menomonee River and contains about 71% hydric soils.
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2 - Reinders
Acres: 70.5
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $374,366
Date purchased: December 23, 2004
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service and Pheasants Forever are restoring 56 acres of the former Reinders property, located in the upper reaches of the Menomonee River.
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3 - Schwefel
Acres: 49.4
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $212,180
Date purchased: April 15, 2005
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The Upper Menomonee River forms the eastern boundary of the former Schwefel Property...
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Acres: 51
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $517,000
Date purchased: May 6, 2005
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4 - Minor
The former Minor’s Garden Center property contains about 54% hydric soils that are a mosaic of lowland meadow and floodplain forest with some upland areas.
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Acres: 5.5
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $13,836
Date purchased: July 27, 2005
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5 - Conley
Located along the Menomonee River where the waterway passes under Fond du Lac Avenue, the property is 100% water absorbing hydric soils.
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6 - Anderson
Acres: 22
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $109,990
Date purchased: June 17, 2004
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The former Anderson property, located north of Freistadt Road directly across from Kennedy Middle School...
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Acres: 54
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $130,000
Date purchased: October 13, 2003
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7 - Rades
The Rades property already has trails along a creek for neighbors to enjoy.
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8 - Schloemer
Acres: 25
Purchase Price: $37,500
Date purchased: April 30, 2004
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The Schloemer property is 100% hydric soils. The property is located in a large marsh that drains into the Menomonee River.
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9 - Gebhard
Acres: 10
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $16,570
Date purchased: April 30, 2004
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The Gebhard property is 100% water-absorbing hydric soils. The property is located in a large marsh that drains into the Menomonee River.
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10 - Hoerig
Acres: 73.5
Location: City of Mequon
Purchase Price: $901,588
Date purchased: August 25, 2005
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Both Pigeon Creek and the Little Menomonee River flow through the Hoerig property, which contains about 80% hydric soils.
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11 - Burczyk
Acres: 62
Location: Village of Mequon
Purchase Price: $747,572
Date purchased: October 25, 2004
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The Burczyk property consists of 73% hydric soils and a tributary that flows into the Little Menomonee River.
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12 - Sikh
Acres: 17.79
Location: City of Mequon
Purchase Price: $126,641
Date purchased: September 24, 2003
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MMSD’s purchase of this property, formerly owned by the Sikh Religious Society, connects the approximately 640-acre Mequon Nature Preserve with the Menomonee River Parkway.
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Acres: 85
Location: City of Milwaukee
Purchase Price: $488,000
Date purchased: January 1, 2003
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13 - Kaiser
The Kaiser property protects 39 acres of designated environmental corridor.
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14 - Brookfield Knull Easement
Acres: 1.25
Location: City of Brookfield
Purchase Price: $12,250
Date purchased: November 15, 2002
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MMSD partnered with the City of Brookfield to purchase two conservation easements that include extensive flood plain portions of Underwood Creek...
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15 - Brookfield Underwood Creek Easement
Acres: 14.91
Location: City of Brookfield
Purchase Price of easement: $130,000
Date purchased: October 2003
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MMSD partnered with the City of Brookfield to purchase two conservation easements that include extensive floodplain portions...
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16 - Huntington Park
Acres: 90.59
Location: City of Mequon
Purchase Price of easement: $78,270
Date purchased: November 7, 2006
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This easement is protecting mature wooded wetlands adjacent to the Little Menomonee River and other Greenseams protected sites.
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17 - Babiasz
Acres: 29
Location: City of Mequon
Purchase Price: $406,000
Date purchased: May 11, 2006
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The property was purchased with part of the money coming from a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Stewardship Fund.
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18 - Dobberfuhl
Acres: 10
Location: Village of Germantown
Purchase Price: $70,000
Date purchased: June 28, 2006
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It has both upland and lowland mature woodlands. This property is surrounded on three sides by the Village of Germantown’s Wilderness Park.
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