Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network

Rehrig Pacific Company bringing the planting muscle!

Long-time partners, Rehrig Pacific Company helped Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network plant more than 300 native plants at Gitzlaff Park's wetland restoration project today.

Plants were generously supplied by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Monarch Watch. Microsoft and Fund for Lake Michigan keep our mission moving so projects like these get done.

We are so grateful for volunteers from Rehrig who show up, work hard, and are just great people!

It's a small, but mighty wetland...

Since 90% of the wetlands in the Pike River watershed are gone or altered, every new acre restored makes a difference. With grants from the Fund for Lake Michigan, Great Lakes Commission, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Microsoft, and the Enroth Foundation, this new wetland scrape is still holding stormwater runoff from more than 10 days ago.

Holding, processing and infiltrating stormwater pollutants and agricultural runoff before they impact the Pike River downstream was the vision. Today, even after just six months, the new wetland at Neumiller Woods in Somers is working.

The one-acre wetland is now holding about 600,000 gallons of additional stormwater... and maybe as many tadpoles. Thanks to the Village of Somers for believing in the project. Today, it's a reality.

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