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Deep tunnel cleanup process begins
JSOnline.com Newswatch
Jan 09After several days of pumping fresh air through the deep tunnel, gas detectors Monday afternoon found the atmosphere was safe for workers to begin the first-ever removal of plastic trash and other floatable debris from the lowest end of the wastewater ... »
Deep tunnel to get a good cleaning
Jsonline.Com Milwaukee News
Jan 01After 18 years of regular use, MMSD's original tunnel will be cleaned this month for the first time of the lightweight trash that has settled in behind tall, narrowly spaced bars at the tunnel's end more than 300 feet beneath Jones Island. »
OSHA cites Cargill for 23 violations at Milwaukee facility
Milwaukee Business News
Dec 09Cargill Inc. has been cited for 23 "serious" violations and faces fines of more than $145,000 at its Milwaukee ground beef production facility, according to an OSHA press release. Wayzata, Minn.-based Cargill was cited by the Occupational Safety and He... »
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Milwaukee’s Kashubes recreated their Baltic homeland on Jones Island
Examiner Milwaukee Edition Articles
Jan 03Tiny Kaszube’s Park is the only physical trace of a multi-ethnic fishing community that flourished during the late 1800s and early 1900s on Milwaukee’s Jones Island (actually a peninsula located at the mouth of the... »
Kaszube's Park marks an interesting past
OnMilwaukee.com
Nov 23Kaszube's Park on Jones Island is the smallest park in the county, perhaps not even as large as a city lot. It is meant to commemorate the people referred to as Kashubes, immigrants who settled on the island after being forced from northern Poland in t... »