Project Awards & Documents
Project Awards
The Bee Branch Project has received the following awards:
- Engineering Excellence Award for the W. 32nd Street Detention Basin, American Society of Engineering Companies, 2010
- Engineering Excellence Award for the Lower Bee Branch Creek, American Society of Engineering Companies, 2013
- Outstanding Achievement, 2017 City Livability Awards Program, U.S. Conference of Mayors - June 2017
- Best Public Improvement Award for Design, Dubuque Mainstreet – September 2017
- 2017 Community Sustainability Award, International City/County Management Association - August 2017
- 2017 Project of the Year, Iowa Floodplain and Stormwater Management Association (IFSMA) - October 2017
- Excellence and Innovation in Clean Water Infrastructure, 2017 PISCES Program, U.S. EPA - November 2017
- Excellence in Concrete, Iowa Ready Mixed Concrete Association - November 2017
- 2017 Judge's Choice Best Development Award, 1000 Friends of Iowa - January 2018
- 2017 Water Project of the Year, American Infrastructure Magazine - February 2018
- 2018 Eddy Award in Design, River Action - April 2018
- 2018 James Lee Witt Award for Excellence in Floodplain Management, Association of State Floodplain Managers – June 2018
- 2018 Environmental Planning, Iowa Chapter of the American Planning Association – October 2018
- 2018 Project of the Year Award, Iowa Chapter of the American Public Works Association – October 2018
- 2019 Grand Prize Award & Grand Conceptor Award, Iowa Chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies - May 2019
- 2019 National Recognition Award (Engineering Excellence), American Council of Engineering Companies - May 2019
- Excellence on the Waterfront 2021 Honor Award - October 2021
- 2024 Engineering Excellence Best of State, American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin - February 2024
- 2024 Special Projects Grand Place Award, American Council of Engineering Companies of Iowa - February 2024
Featured Articles
The Bee Branch Project has been featured in the following publications:
- Scientific America, After the Deluge, December 2011
- American Rivers, Daylighting Report, Daylighting Streams: Breathing Life into Urban Streams and Communities, July 2013
- Governing the State and Localities, Facing Climate Change, Cities Embrace Resiliency, September 2014
- Revitalization News, Dubuque, Iowa’s Impressive Story of Sustained Revitalization, July 2015
- The Atlantic, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall, November 2015
- U.S. News & World Report, Floating Islands, August 2017
- Omaha World-Herald, Plastic bottles create ‘floating ecosystem’ in Iowa's Bee Branch Creek, August 2017
- San Francisco Chronicle, City in Iowa to use man-made islands to clean creek, August 2017
- SmartBrief, Iowa city deploys floating islands to trap sediment, August 2017
- SeattlePI, City in Iowa to use man-made islands to clean creek, August 2017
- Washington Times, City in Iowa to use man-made islands to clean creek, August 2017
- Lehigh County Authority (PA), Islands in the stream are making it clean, October 2017
- Municipal Sewer & Water, Converting Storm Sewer to Creek Helps City Fight Chronic Flooding, November 2017
- Aspire Magazine - The Concrete Bridge Magazine Winter 2017, Rhomberg Avenue Bridge, Dubuque Iowa
- The ICAP Update, ICAP Members Recognized by 1000 Friends of Iowa, First Quarter 2018
- Eddy Magazine, Dubuque's Influential Design Model, February/March/April 2018
- American City and County, Stormwater's New Look, June 2018
- APWA Reporter, Tackling Climate Change: Using resilience planning to thrive, January 2019
- Landscape Architect, Creek Restoration Enhances Ecosystem, January 2021
- Alliance for a Sustainable Future, Creative Utilization of Funding Sources for Comprehensive Flood Mitigation, January 2022
- International Erosion Control Association, Floating Islands in Dubuque's Bee Branch Creek, October 2024
Bee Branch Project Newsletter
- Vol 1. Issue 1, August 2015
- Vol 2. Issue 1, March 2016
- Vol 2. Issue 2, October 2016
- Vol 3. Issue 1, May 2017
- Vol 3. Issue 2, December 2017
- Vol 4. Issue 1, June 2018
- Vol 4. Issue 2, January 2019
- Vol 5. Issue 1 December 2019
- Vol 6. Issue 1, December 2020
- Vol 7. Issue 1, December 2021
- Vol 8. Issue 1, January 2023