?: Grasslyn Manor
In 2023 and 2024, WaterMarks listened to neighbors of this chronically flooded Milwaukee neighborhood. Residents have banded together to “Build the Ark” to find new collective solutions to managing water and keeping their basements dry.
Bernice Marshall
"Spring is stressful. When it rains, it's like nervous and everything. Especially when you're replacing water heaters, furnaces, things that you can't replace.... When I see the sky clouding up, I get nervous."
Ron Fancher
“Two years ago we had a sump pump put in.... It's constantly got water. This thing goes off 24/7.”
Bill Van Haren
“The building is built on top of at least two of the springs and there's another one under the parking lot.”
Cheryl Wendt
“QUOTE.”
Excell Moore
“QUOTE.”
Roosevelt Ford
“QUOTE.”
Owen Ffrench
“QUOTE.”
Mike Duer
“QUOTE.”
Sheryl Fancher
Percy Burt
“God has smiled on me. He has set me free. Oh, God has smiled on me.He has been good to me.”
Brenda Moore
“You try and spray and go on but there's always something. I don't even come down here except to get my clothes.”
Lenester Thompson
“Pick up the paper. Watch for vandalism. Keep it clean like your house. Take care of it like you own it. It’s your area. You live in it. You gotta take care of it.”
Dora Packer
“Water is central to all facets of life—all parts of life. Everything that we know that exists on the face of the Earth is because of water.”
Eric Moore
“God has smiled on me. He has set me free. Oh, God has smiled on me.He has been good to me.”
Fatima Robinson
“Everybody’s going to come together as one, I think.”
Bryan Young
“They knew they had a flood problem over there way back when they built the dumb place and then they watered all that water into those fields. Well now it's all asphalt..”