DNR Waukesha Website Lists No Final Diversion Submission

I see no notice or update on the DNR's Waukesha diversion planning web page indicating receipt of the city's long-delayed Lake Michigan water diversion application draft.

After plan changes and incomplete submissions since the spring of 2010, Waukesha had indicated things were to be tied up at the of last month:

Work on the request should be wrapped up by the end of September, Duchniak said. 

Waukesha already is two months behind a timeline for review of the application and design and construction of a new water supply that Duchniak announced in June of this year. At that time, he said the application would be completed by July 8.

Maybe the deadline was met and the DNR is slow to post it. We'll see.

The end of September did bring the rumored retirement of long-time Waukesha Water Utility President Dan Warren.

Things have moved so slowly on the application front that Warren is leaving before the application's drafting was completed, let alone before more months or years of state and Great Lakes regional reviews and potential major rewrites will follow.

The estimated price tag for the diversion rose during his tenure as Commission veteran and President to $183 from $87 million, or 135%.