2022 ANNUAL MEETING

WDNR Office
1027 West St. Paul Avenue
Milwaukee, WI
September 14 - 15, 2022

DAY 1
12 PM* CHECK-IN Wisconsin DNR
1 PM
Dan Breneman, MPCA
Virtual option Welcome and Opening Remarks
Karen Keil, USACE ERDC
begins
1:10 PM Welcome to Milwaukee Wisconsin DNR
Putting the GL Ports in Perspective; A Value to the Adam Tindall-Schlict, Port of
1:20 PM
Nation Milwaukee
Agency updates – Dredging, Dredged Material
Management, and related projects

States State agency representatives (one

• Illinois slide each)
• Indiana
• Michigan
• Minnesota
2:00 PM • New York
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Wisconsin

USEPA GLNPO USEPA GLNPO

USACE Great Lakes districts, ERDC

USACE /ERDC

3:45 PM Great Lakes Small Harbors Committee update Tom Crane, Great Lakes Commission
4:00 PM
Virtual option BREAK
ends
Committee meetings
• Technical committee meeting in Rm 107
Brainstorming: How to systematically increase beneficial use?
What are the hurdles to BU that can be overcome? What
4:15 PM systematic needs/activities can be identified for future action? All participants
How do environmental windows impact BU and what about other
lakes besides Lake Michigan? (update from Tom Crane)
• Outreach committee meeting in Rm 105
Opportunities and needs for outreach. State agency POCs.
Optional: Informal Social Gathering 2200 W Mt Vernon Ave
5:30 PM
City Lights Brewing Milwaukee WI 53233
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 2022 ANNUAL MEETING
WDNR Office
1027 West St. Paul Avenue
Milwaukee, WI
September 14 - 15, 2022

DAY 2
8:30* AM
Reconvene GLDT Meeting Dan Breneman, MPCA
Virtual option
Day 1 Recap and Housekeeping Karen Keil, USACE ERDC
begins
8:40 AM Committee Reports Committee Organizers
FY22 Navigation Budget and forecast for FY23,
9:15 AM Marie Strum, USACE Detroit
IIJA/DRSAA updates
Jase Ousley, HQ USACE
9:45 AM Update on WRDA 2020 and the USACE BU Goals
Kate Skelton, HQ USACE
ERDC nearshore nourishment research project
10:15 AM Chuck Theiling, USACE ERDC
update
10:45 AM BREAK
Dredged material management after the dredging Moderator: Heather Williams (EPA
restrictions BUI has been removed from AOCs GLNPO)

11:00 AM Case studies (current / former AOCs): Panelists:

Fox and/or Menominee Rivers, WI Jim Killian (WDNR)
Ashtabula and/or Black Rivers, OH Vanessa Steigerwald-Dick (Ohio EPA)
Buffalo River, NY David Clarke (NYSDEC)
Dan Breneman
11:45 AM Wrap up
Karen Keil
12:00 PM
Lunch break
Virtual option
(payment accepted for pre-ordered box lunches)
ends
USEPA
Milwaukee Metro Sewage District
Introduction to the Milwaukee Area of Concern (MMSD)
12:45 PM
and other area projects Port of Milwaukee
WDNR
WE Energies
1:30 PM Break

Leave for field trip – water tour of Milwaukee area

2 PM
projects

5 PM Return from field trip

Adjourn
*All times in Central