Sea Grant receives $840,000 from NOAA to protect Lake Michigan coastal communities

A three-year, multi-faceted project to protect Lake Michigan shoreline homes, beaches and harbors is receiving $840,000 from the federal government to partner with four coastal communities, including Kenosha and Racine counties.

Wisconsin Sea Grant on Thursday announced the grant was awarded, in part, due to the organization’s extensive series of public meetings last summer that brought local officials from Milwaukee and Ozaukee counties together with Lake Michigan-area homeowners to learn about the rising lake levels, state research officials said in a release Thursday...