The St. Francis Public School District won the Green Luminary Award from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District changing its grounds into green-friendly landscaping.The project added native plants, rain gardens and bioswales. All told, the three schools can now manage more than 280,000 gallons of water when it rains, keeping runoff out of Lake Michigan. Previously, stormwater ran across the school parking lots, the schoolyard and city streets, but in freezing temperatures, the iced-over pavement could be hazardous.“We like to manage the water where it falls because that helps us control polluted runoff and lessens the likelihood of sewer overflows,” says
