Projects

Pewaukee River debris clean-up.

Pewaukee River Partnership projects range from watershed restoration, river cleanup, river recreational access site construction, and support for educational publications.

Improvements to the river include riverbank restoration, channel modifications, and river cleanup. Members of the Partnership have worked at locations such as the Pewaukee Lake outflow, Pewaukee Village Park, and Simmons Woods to improve the Pewaukee River.   

The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC) has compiled data on the Pewaukee River watershed for a River Protection Plan which was been initiated by the Pewaukee River Partnership.  This Protection Plan highlights problem areas of the river, indicate water quality, and other habitat conditions.  It serves as a reference material for local municipalities within and surrounding the Pewaukee River watershed.  

The Pewaukee River Partnership participates in community festivals such as the Clean Water Festival in the Village of Pewaukee. The Lake Country Clean Water Festival is an opportunity to educate people of all ages about the need to promote awareness for the Lake Country watersheds. Volunteers educate individuals interested in learning more about the Partnership’s past and current projects and on how they can make similar efforts at home.

River equipment for the kids.

There are ten Water Action Volunteer sites monitored by Partnership members within the Pewaukee River watershed.  Participating monitors note changes in water quality within the watershed.

The Pewaukee River Partnership makes an annual donations to the Water Resource Fund. The Water Resource Fund provides students in the Pewaukee Public School System opportunities to learn more about the Pewaukee River.  All donations to the WRF supply students with bus transportation to the river, hip waders, boats, nets, and other equipment needed for surveying and exploring the Pewaukee River.  An annual donation is made so that young people in the community have the supplies they need to continue the school’s River Keeper Program.

The Pewaukee River Partnership has worked on several boardwalks, one in Simmons Woods, another in the Village Park. Pewaukee River signs have been installed along road-river intersections identifying the Pewaukee River.

The Pewaukee River Partnership built a parking area and canoe launch pier on Riverside Drive that serves as a safe, public access site to the Pewaukee River.  The PRP has been given permission to install another pier off Oakton Avenue in the Village of Pewaukee and completed this project in October 2014.

Blue Heron rookery viewed from the Simmons Woods boardwalk.

Canoe launch was installed at Koepp Park on Oakton Avenue

Riverside Drive canoe access site.

A recent project by The River Partnership to manage the flow of the river just upstream from the bridge.

Holes are drilled into logs to insert pegs to anchor the logs in the river bottom.

The logs being placed and secured into the river.

The flow is being directed to the left of the logs.

Recent project at the outfall.

Periodically, rocks that are thrown into the river need to be returned to the shoreline. Pewaukee River Partnership members got the job done on a sunny Saturday morning in April. The workers are using specially made rock removal equipment.