Waukesha sets 4 public meetings on bid for Lake Michigan water

[hue]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/waukesha-sets-4-public-meetings-on-bid-for-lake-michigan-water-b99127807z1-229237321.html

The City of Waukesha has scheduled four public meetings in November to discuss its revised request to purchase Lake Michigan water.

The city is asking Wisconsin and the other seven Great Lakes states to approve a proposed diversion of up to an average of 10.1 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan.

The dates and locations are:

■Nov. 7: Carroll University Center for Graduate Studies auditorium, 2140 Davidson Road, Waukesha.

■Nov. 13: Oak Creek Community Center, 8580 S. Howell Ave., Oak Creek.

■Nov. 14: Racine Campus Conference Center, Great Lakes Room, Gateway Technical College, 1001 S. Main St., Racine.

■Nov. 18: Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, rooms 109, 119 and 129, 1240 N. 10th St., Milwaukee.

Each meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. and open with an information presentation. The public will be invited to ask questions of utility staff and consultants. Participants can submit written comments on the proposal that will be forwarded to the state Department of Natural Resources.

If the eight states approve the request, Waukesha has negotiated a water purchase deal with Oak Creek.

Waukesha plans to return 100% of the volume of water, as treated wastewater, to the Root River at Franklin. The river empties into Lake Michigan at the harbor in Racine.

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Will these meetings be above board?

I have heard many stories of normal procedures in Waukesha going down the drain during election time, why would this be any different.

[Viking12]

5. Fortunately, they have little to no role in the final decision

Waukesha has to beg others for water. I oppose diverting the water anywhere on principle. I oppose diverting water to Waukesha out of spite.

[pansypoo53219]

2. cheap GOP county doesn't wanna pay to clean their own water.

[postulater]

3. Sell them Milwaukee's treated water.

That should be clean enough for them.

[ewagner]

4. Remember Lee Dreyfus?

He once said he'd sell "outsiders" all the Lake Michigan water they wanted.....as long as we added enough "barley and hops" to it.

I took that to mean "hell no"...one of the few things I liked about Gov Dreyfus.