Waukesha About To Enter Year Twenty-Six Of Water Compliance Studies
Talk about water and money over the dam...
Same for the money it was spending in 1983 to undermine the validity of the federal radium standard, which has led the city to find, and ponder, a radium-free water supply.
And missed opportunities?
For goodness sakes - - Waukesha could have resolved its radium problem if it had spent between $4 and $6 million on water treatment technology in 1988, according to this Milwaukee Sentinel story.
Fast-forward to the present, where Waukesha is looking at a minimum estimated cost of $164 million to bring in Lake Michigan water to finally comply under the terms of a legal settlement - - its 1980's scheming and fighting having failed - - with the radium standard, and has spent at least $1 million since 2005 on studies and preparation of an application for the diversion that has been on hold at the DNR since May, and about which the DNR is raising a mountain of complex and costly questions.
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And it would still have an unreliable and unsustainable water supply.
By definition, Waukesha's water supply is sustainable. It is Waukesha's unfettered growth that is not, and has not been sustainable. The money spent, and time lost trying to justify an untenable position is appalling. Sadly, in Waukesha, public health seems to take a back seat to private wealth and redundant development.
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