The City of Green Bay received a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant from the EPA to install permeable pavement and bio-retention ponds to provide treatment of storm water prior to discharging to the Bay of Green Bay. Robert E. Lee & Associates worked with the City to design a parking lot for Bay Beach Amusement Park that utilized “green” storm water features. The final project consisted of a 5-acre parking lot that was treated by permeable pavement, with a walking trail connecting the parking lot to the park, which is treated by a series of bio-retention ponds to provide storm water storage and pollutant removal. For the permeable pavement, the final design utilized permeable asphalt pavement, which was found at the time to be the most cost-effective option compared to permeable concrete and permeable pavers.

Advantages of using permeable pavement in this situation included that no additional area outside of the footprint of the parking lot was needed for storm water management. This saved the City roughly 0.25 acres of space that did not need to be allocated to a more traditional storm water management Best Management Practice (BMP) such as a wet detention pond. The perceived safety hazards associated with wet detention ponds near a park and small children were also completely avoided. Permeable pavement was the perfect storm water solution to be used at the amusement park, balancing cost with safety considerations.

This project consisted of the construction of a 10,000 square-foot Cobblestone Hotel. A wet detention pond was constructed to provide storm water management for the development. Robert E. Lee & Associates worked with the developer to develop the site layout and provide detailed civil site plans and a detailed storm water management plan.

Robert E. Lee & Associates worked with the owner to develop the site layout and provide the detailed civil site plans for the Grand Central Station gas station in the City of De Pere. The project consisted of the construction of a gas station, car wash, and associated parking lot. A storm water plan was developed to provide treatment from the pump stations and remainder of the development.

Robert E. Lee & Associates worked with RODAC Development & Construction to layout and design the site for the Gordmans store in the Village of Ashwaubenon. The project consisted of a 50,000 square-foot building and a 4-acre parking lot. Robert E. Lee & Associates developed the detailed civil site plans and worked with the WDNR and Village of Ashwaubenon to obtain all of the necessary permits. A full storm water management plan was also developed by Robert E. Lee & Associates for the project, which included traditional wet detention ponds and an underground detention pond.

Broadway Commons is a multi-family development in the City of Waukesha. The development is made up of nine separate multi-family buildings, totaling 209 residential units. Robert E. Lee & Associates worked directly with the developer and the City to develop multiple preliminary site layouts utilizing different building and parking lot configurations before settling on a final layout. Robert E. Lee & Associates then developed detailed civil engineering plans consisting of detailed site, utility, grading, and erosion control plans. Robert E. Lee & Associates performed all of the necessary pre-development and post-construction storm water calculations necessary to develop the complete storm water management plan required by the WDNR and local municipality. Included in the overall storm water management plan was two wet detention ponds and an infiltration basin. On behalf of the owner, Robert E. Lee & Associates also obtained all of the necessary site development related permits from the WDNR, City of Waukesha, Waukesha County, and the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services.

Robert E. Lee & Associates provided site engineering for the development of a new 258-stall student and staff parking lot and fleet vehicle parking lot at the Green Bay Campus. The project began with development of several alternative designs. Upon NWTC’s selection of a conceptual design, Robert E. Lee & Associates prepared detailed plans and specifications. In addition to the site design, Robert E. Lee & Associates prepared a landscaping plan that featured a variety of trees, shrubs, landscape stone and boulders to separate the fleet vehicles from the student and staff parking. The parking lot design also included power supply stations for mobile class rooms.