Daylighting Underwood Creek

Informational Session presented by Village Trustee John Schindler

Thursday, February 8, 2024, 7:00 pm

13885 Watertown Plank Road

Many Elm Grove residents shop downtown in our quaint Village center without realizing that there is a creek under the parking lot! Water can do amazing things, but it does not like to be contained. Nature allows water to flow smoothly and always to the lowest spot. The lowest spot in Elm Grove is our Village center.

Those living in Elm Grove in 1997 and 1998 may remember the extraordinary damage caused by 100-year and 300-year floods. After those catastrophic events, the Village pursued a major multi-year flood mitigation project. In 2005, the Wisconsin DNR advised that the existing box culvert that Underwood Creek flows through in the downtown area would not be permitted for repair if structural failure were to occur.