Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Valley Creek Corridor

Recipient: Wisconsin Department of Administration

Project Type: Habitat Restoration Planning, Engineering, and Design

Recommended Funding Amount: $500,000

Congressional District(s): WI-06

Summary: This project will result in plans to restore the entire 1.8-mile Valley Creek urban riparian corridor, an important Lake Michigan coastal tributary. The City of Port Washington and the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program will partner to develop 90 percent design plans that include nature-based solutions to prevent degradation, protect critical infrastructure, reduce flooding risk, and restore riparian, floodplain, and estuary habitat.

For more information on the Office for Coastal Management grant program funding this project, please visit the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law webpage.