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The best option to grade around your home is to use screened topsoil off the pile at a local landscape or garden center. This will be sourced locally and most likely a native silty clay loam that will be easy to work with, settle into a desired semi-permeable state, and will support vegetation. For more tips: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property/proper-grading-around-your-home

@@mmsd thanks. What can sand do? I got bags & bags of it. Will sand bring termites or carpenter ants?

You're cooked.......did you not watch the video and listen to what she said?

Hi! We heat-dry Milorganite Fertilizer at our Jones Island Water Reclamation facility in 12 bus-sized, rotating kilns, which can reach temperatures of 900-1,200 F.

Installing a garbage disposal in your sink can help avoid clogs from food when rinsing dishes. Dispose of all fats, oils, and grease in the garbage. This includes butter, cooking oils, fry oil, oils, dairy, and grease left from cooking meats and/or anything else that gels or solidifies at room temperature. While these will go down the drain or toilet when warm or with soap, but as they cool or mix with water they solidify in your pipes creating a clog that is very messy and difficult to remove. Never pour or flush hard chemicals, paint, oil, pesticides, cement, plaster, medications, or more than the recommended amount of drain cleaner down your drains. www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/what-not-to-flush

Ideally, the ground should drop one inch for every one foot that you move away from the house for the first 5-to-10 feet around your house. While this is not always possible, the ground should never be sloping upwards as you move away from your house foundation. www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property/proper-grading-around-your-home

Thank you for your ongoing support in our community! The Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, a health provider on the south side, recognized the critical link between the river's health and the community's health and was essential in engaging the local community in the Pulaski Park project. This project proves that when neighbors, community organizations, and government work together, we can make an investment that everyone values. www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/flood-management/kinnickinnic-river/pulaski-park

Toilet paper is specifically designed to break down in the water. Although paper towels, napkins, and facial tissue appear to be the same material, but they do not disintegrate in water like toilet paper. Any items flushed other than toilet paper can create costly clogs in your home pipes, our community sewer pipes, and our water reclamation facilities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages all Americans to only flush toilet paper, not disinfect wipes or other non-flushable items that should be disposed of in the trash. www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-encourages-americans-only-flush-toilet-paper

Please put hair in the garbage. Only flush down the toilet the 3 P's (pee, poo, toilet paper) to avoid clogs in your pipes and our community sewer pipes and facilities.

You're welcome! For more tips on how to grade around your home: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property/proper-grading-around-your-home

Type of Soil for Grading Around Your Home Bagged topsoil is not the best choice for grading around your home (it’s usually a compost mixture higher in organic content) and is expensive in volume. The better choice is a screened topsoil off the pile at a local landscape or garden center. This will be sourced locally and most likely a native silty clay loam that will be easy to work with, settle into a desired semi-permeable state and support vegetation. For more tips on how to grade around your home: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property/proper-grading-around-your-home

It may be tempting to put the rain garden in a part of the yard where water already ponds, but don't! A rain garden aims to improve infiltration, and the wet patches show where infiltration in the yard is slow. Check out our rain garden manual to help guide you in installing your rain garden. www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/green-infrastructure/rain-gardens

Our simple answer to your question is Do Not Flush Wipes. MMSD finds clogs in sewer pipes that appear to be from wipes and urges the communities we serve to only flush the 3 P's (pee, poo, and toilet paper) to avoid costly clogs in your pipes at home, the sewers, and the water reclamation facilities. For more information on what no to flush, please visit: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/what-not-to-flush

Please only flush the 3 P's (Pee, Poo, toilet paper!) We recommend throwing diapers into your trash receptacles so they don't clog pipes in your house or our system. www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/what-not-to-flush

You’re trying to be funny right? That’s what trash cans are for

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District is partnering with the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, We Energies, and Port Milwaukee to create a new Dredged Material Management Facility (DMMF) in the Milwaukee harbor. When it is completed, this facility will provide safe, secure containment for 1.9 million cubic yards of sediment removed from the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers. To learn more about the DMMF and Milwaukee Area of Concern projects: www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/milwaukee-estuary-aoc/dredged-material-management-facility

Ideally, the ground should drop one inch for every one foot that you move away from the house for the first 5-to-10 feet around your house. If you added soil use screened topsoil off the pile at a local landscape or garden center. This will be sourced locally and most likely a native silty clay loam that will be easy to work with, settle into a desired semi-permeable state, and will support vegetation. Tamper the soil before planting grass seed or laying sod.

Great point! We recommend using screened topsoil off the pile at a local landscape or garden center to grade around your home. This will be sourced locally and most likely a native silty clay loam that will be easy to work with, settle into a desired semi-permeable state, and support vegetation.

Tamper the soil before planting grass seed or laying sod. Avoid using bagged topsoil is not the best choice (it’s usually a compost mixture higher in organic content) and is very expensive in volume. The better choice would be screened topsoil off the pile at a local landscape or garden center. This will be sourced locally and most likely a native silty clay loam that will be easy to work with, settle into a desired semi-permeable state and will support vegetation.

Hi, Work on cleaning up Milwaukee's Area of Concern has begun! To view the list of AOC projects that MMSD is leading the efforts: www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/milwaukee-estuary-aoc To learn about other Milwaukee Estuary AOC projects underway, please visit the Waterway Restoration Partnership: www.mkewaterwaypartners.org/projects/

For more tips on managing water on your property: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property

You're welcome! For more helpful tips on disconnecting your downspout and maintaining your gutters, please visit: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property/gutters-and-downspouts

Hi, Concrete lacks the flexibility and water tight seal that polyurethane sealers, as shown in this video, offer. This flexibility is very important to compensate for the soil freezing and thawing. Using a polyurethane sealer, instead of concrete, will help prevent more cracks from forming in the future. To fill large gaps use dry sand within ½” or ¾” of the top of the concrete then finish with sealant. If the gap is wider than an inch or there are chunks of concrete missing, you may need to actually patch it with some concrete, leaving a gap for the sealant to finish with.

@@mmsd Thank you so much for detailed answer. Helpful !

Hi, my gap is just above 1 inch. Can I still use this method?

@@svddwd You can try the above method before patching with concrete and sealant.

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Hi, Aymee, Bagged topsoil is not the best choice (it’s usually a compost mixture higher in organic content) and is expensive in volume. The better choice is a screened topsoil off the pile at a local landscape or garden center. This will be sourced locally and most likely a native silty clay loam that will be easy to work with, settle into a desired semi-permeable state, and will support vegetation. For more grading around your home tips: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property/proper-grading-around-your-home

Thank you for your comment! Please visit www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property/foundation-drains to learn more about foundation drains and how to reduce your risk of a sewer backup.

You're welcome 😊

For more info on Rain Gardens: www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/green-infrastructure/rain-gardens