Waukesha Water Documents, Legal Opinion Posted
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources notes on its Waukesha water diversion web page the receipt of records from the City of Waukesha about its Lake Michigan diversion application.
You can access those records here, including legal advice the City received about a recent court ruling giving the DNR broad groundwater regulatory powers under the Lake Beulah case. that could have an impact on Waukesha's long-range water strategy and supplies.
Click on the link entitled Letter to Secretary Frank from Common Council President Ybarra dated July 27, 2010.
The City of Waukeshs water utility also has posted on its website the July 27th presentation its general manager gave at the Council meeting last month where the Council reaffirmed its support for the Lake Michigan application.
3 comments:
Yes, the presentation (to Waukesha's Common Council on July 27) is not the diversion application itself, but it was the document and information upon which the CC decided to resubmit the actual diversion application. So it's fair to comment on it.
PP 2 -5: A love letter to CH2MHill, with a few kisses blown to Ruekert and Mielke, Geosyntec and others on p. 8. (Really? 18% of the presentation devoted to credentialling the paid consultants?)
PP 16, 20, 25 and 26: Entire page illegible on website, even with enlargement.
PP 23, 25: Partially illegible.
P 27: Does not show existing city boundaries nor detail how much land and population to be added, nor how likely/unlikely projections are to be realized. Yet "need" is based on this.
P 21: Impacts not defined.
P 28: It must be leap year, because a big leap was made to arrive at this conclusion from the scanty "proof" that proceeded it. If this is all that was added to the City's application, it is doomed to fail, as the first one did.
Shame on the City for wasting the taxpayers' money and the DNR's time on this fluff.
I think Waukesha still will be submitting additional detail to the DNR, as requested, and then the DNR review may begin.
It's still a big, steaming pile of . . . . incompleteness.
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