Pipe dream: What happens in the sewer systems underneath Marquette’s campus?

Pipe dream: What happens in the sewer systems underneath Marquette’s campus?

For cars driving through Marquette’s campus, the continuous humming of tires rolling over the road is sometimes interrupted by the “thump” of hitting a manhole cover, briefly altering the university’s soundscape. Those covers, though rusted over and opaque, are a window into the labyrinth of pipes and mains that run underneath Marquette and the city it calls home. Marquette accounts for a stretch of less than 100 acres within Milwaukee. However,…