The four-year Riverwalk and Wildlife Viewing Pier project undertaken by the City of De Pere, Wisconsin, included renovating the unoccupied locktender house and adding public restrooms. The De Pere Lock and Dam are listed in the State Register and National Register of Historic Places.The house, built on a narrow dike called Government Island, had no septic system. To the east, the lock’s canal separated the building from Voyageur Park on the mainland and the sanitary sewer 50 feet away in a major thoroughfare. The Lower Fox River flowed past the west side of the island and over the dam.The only
