Episode 189: Kristin Schultheis, on working across the watershed

About this episode

Kristin Schultheis discusses her work as a senior project planner at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, focusing on watershed management and its challenges in urban and rural areas.

Kristin Schultheis is a senior project planner at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. And that likely conjures images of urban areas, working across the biggest city in Wisconsin. And that would be accurate. But Schultheis’ work encompasses a much larger area than the city proper with challenges and opportunities that extend into the surrounding rural areas and even active farmland. In episode 189 of ASCE Plot Points, Schultheis talks with guest hosts Brianne Duncan and Wendy Cohen of the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute’s Environmental Health and Water Quality Committee.

People in this episode

Hosts: Brianne Duncan, Wendy Cohen

Guest: Kristin Schultheis

Topics covered

• watershed management
• urban planning
• environmental health
• water quality
• rural challenges

Keywords

• watershed
• urban planning
• environmental health
• water quality
• Milwaukee
• rural areas
• sewerage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

Places: Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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