MMSD On The Right Track: Methane Pipeline Perking Along

A committee of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage Commission Monday moved along the plan to pipe methane captured from the Muskego landfill to the MMSD's Milorganite production operation in Milwaukee.

Replacing more-costly natural gas with methane in the Milorganite operation will save millions of tax and ratepayer dollars a year, beginning in 2011, assuming the full Commission green-lights the plan later this month.

Quite the clean-air/clean-water/recycling-and-dollar-saving/regional cooperation winning hand, wouldn't you say?

The MMSD has made great strides in recent years establishing itself as a regional environmental and resource preservation agency, from shoreline and wetlands' restoration, to flood control, to improved outreach, to comprehensive, true regional planning that has, at times, made the Southeastern Regional Planning Commission look hapless.

A lot of people in these parts ought to tip their caps to the MMSD and go find a new government scapegoat to gripe about.