SEWRPC Water Plan Has 3/16 Comment Deadline

Just a few days left, then hold your peace:

Monday, March 16th is the closing date for comments to be received on recommendations created by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission that support a Lake Michigan water diversion to the City of Waukesha, along with related proposals.

Here is the website through which you can send a comment.

Waukesha does not need SEWRPC's blessing recommendation to receive a diversion. That process involves a review and approval by all the eight Great Lakes states, but having SEWRPC's proposal moving forward certainly helps Waukesha say its position and probable formal application has merit.

Notably missing from the SEWRPC plan - - and remember, this was a three-year regional effort written by a seven-county public agency - - is an analysis of the impact of a diversion on the region's housing patterns, job development, transportation spending, air quality and overall economic growth.

SEWRPC's Environmental Justice Task Force asked SEWRPC to delay the water plan's evaluation until so-called socio-economic analyses could be added, but the agency balked at the request.