https://www.wuwm.com/environment/2024-03-04/a-stretch-of-honey-creek-may-be-the-next-milwaukee-area-waterway-to-ditch-the-concrete

About a mile of Honey Creek in Milwaukee and Wauwatosa is scheduled to be the next local waterway to have its concrete streambed ripped out and replaced with a more natural channel.

A coalition of government agencies is promising the roughly $15 million project will reduce the risk of flooding, look better, and bring improved habitat for fish and other species.

But humans have some questions.

Marty Weigel now lives in West Allis but grew up in Wauwatosa, not far from Honey Creek. He says he has pleasant memories of the waterway.

“It was where we played after school, unstructured playtime. Playing in the woods with our friends, family, you know, it was part of what we did growing up," Weigel says.