Lake Michigan Archives | Marek Landscaping https://mareklandscaping.com/project_tag/lake-michigan/ Stewardship | Design | Contracting Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:50:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://mareklandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/favicon.png Lake Michigan Archives | Marek Landscaping https://mareklandscaping.com/project_tag/lake-michigan/ 32 32 Atwater Park Lake Michigan Bluff & Dune Stabilization https://mareklandscaping.com/project/atwater-park-lake-michigan-bluff-dune-stabilization/ https://mareklandscaping.com/project/atwater-park-lake-michigan-bluff-dune-stabilization/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:32:08 +0000 http://marek.dev/?post_type=portfolio&p=4108 The project is located on the Lake Michigan shoreline and serves as a main public beach in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area. The project addressed actively eroding areas, re-establishing a pedestrian walkway/service drive from the top of the bluff to the beach, stormwater infiltration measures, and creating a biostabilized dune area at the bluff/beach interface. We...

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]]> The project is located on the Lake Michigan shoreline and serves as a main public beach in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area. The project addressed actively eroding areas, re-establishing a pedestrian walkway/service drive from the top of the bluff to the beach, stormwater infiltration measures, and creating a biostabilized dune area at the bluff/beach interface. We were involved with designing a newly developed steep slope restoration technique that uses a compost based bio-engineered matrix with close to 50 species of native plant grasses, sedges, and forbs. This has shown excellent initial stability, weed resistance, and early native plant germination.

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