WOW! 2024 Willow Creek Basin Cleaning Makes an Impact

Did you know? 

The Willow creek stormwater treatment device collects and stores sediment from roadways to prevent it from entering Lake Mendota. Every spring, City of Madison Engineering Operations team works round the clock to pump down the water from the structure and then uses heavy equipment to remove the accumulated debris. The debris is hauled off-site to dewater. Once the material is dry, it is then hauled to the Dane County Landfill for use as daily cover. 

This year’s effort involved 14 employees who worked 215 hours of labor over a 48-hour period using 13 pieces of equipment – end loaders, dump trucks, skid steers, and pumps – to remove and transport approximately 300 CY of debris. 

Great job to our teams who clean these to help keep all of this material out of our water ways!