Root-Pike WIN is a grassroots collaborative that currently administers three programs that are designed to meet its mission to preserve, promote, and protect land and water resources in the Root-Pike Watershed.

• Watershed-based Grant program that funds projects up to $10,000. Click on this link to learn more about the program and view projects we have funded in the past. You can download a grant application form below. Grants are awarded once ayear in April. The next deadline for submitting a grant is February 1, 2011.
• Rain Garden Initiative that provides workshops on how to build a rain garden to reduce polluted storm water runoff. Click on this link to learn more about the program and view garden sites we have funded in the past. You can sign-up for a free workshop and download a rain garden grant application below.
• Keep Our Waters Clean project, funded by 17 municipalities and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, that provides information and education to the public improving water quality in southeastern Wisconsin. Click on this link to learn more about the program, its member municipalities and current activities.
• Root River Inventory project (newly funded) that will feature an interactive web-based map depicting studies and restoration activites recently completed, underway or planned for the Root River corridor.