Workers use a Mud Dog vacuum excavator by Super Products during a lateral CIPP repair job in one of Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s residential areas.
On a Saturday afternoon in July of 2010, while watching his son’s tennis lesson, Kevin Shafer, executive director of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, had an epiphany.
Mother Nature had been hitting his city hard with three years of heavy rainfall. During that July alone, the area had two back-to-back storms that exceeded a 100-year rain event. According to the National Weather Service, 8.98 inches of rain fell across the 411 square miles of the district’s...
