The cost of the proposed Great Lakes diversion has more than doubled to $344 million - - and that's not including consulting, legal, fund-raising and other expenses - - and today a brace of GOP state legislators urged the diversion's plan's approval, as the Freeman reported:
And the public cost of the proposed new Milwaukee Bucks arena Walker signed into law today is about $400 million.
These are fiscal conservatives?
WAUKESHA — Several Wisconsin state representatives, including four from Waukesha County, on Tuesday signed a letter to the Department of Natural Resources supporting the city of Waukesha’s Lake Michigan water application...
The signees include Adam Neylon, R-Pewaukee, Scott Allen, R-Waukesha, Chris Kapenga, RDelafield, Jessie Rodriguez, R-Franklin, Ken Skowronski, R-Franklin, and Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin.The letter is also CCd to Gov. Scott Walker.
And the public cost of the proposed new Milwaukee Bucks arena Walker signed into law today is about $400 million.
These are fiscal conservatives?
Easy to spend big when it's someone else's money.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the $334 million includes the $55,000 Waukesha already paid in fines for violating its radium compliance deadline. Since the late 1980s, when Waukesha was first informed it would have to clean up excessive radium in the public water supply, the city has sued and fought its way to the U.S. Supreme Court NOT to comply with the EPA's order. Meanwhile, an entire generation of Waukesha children has been born, grew up, and had families of their own. What price will they pay in health and peace of mind? What price will their children pay for generations to come for these expensive pipes and pumps dreams that is the collective frenzy of Waukesha "leaders"?
ReplyDeleteAll signatories of this letter are wet-behind-the ears pipsqueaks, none of whom were elected at the time of passage of the Great Lakes Compact, or even at the start of Waukesha's application process, with the exception of "Old Mama" Mary Lazich. Lazich, as I recall, was so dead-set against the Great Lakes Compact that she engaged dubious legal support from Colorado, California and Michigan to denounce the Compact from afar. Her unesteemed opinion now should be taken with the healthy dose of bitter grapes it deserves.
ReplyDeleteWHAT A HYPOCRITE!!!
ReplyDeleteRead what the Waukesha Water Utility Manager wrote as an editorial in the J/S and the Waukesha Freeman:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/for-opponents-of-waukesha-politics-trumps-environmental-protection-b99546014z1-319660011.html
And of all the listed Republicans that signed the letter, Lazich, Neylon, Kapenga, Rodriguez, Skowronski, and Allen, only one, Allen, lives in the Waukesha Water Utility service area and would pay one penny toward the cost of this project. In fact, most live in a community that would make money off Waukesha because they would sell the water they get for free from Lake Michigan. So they personally profit from reduced utility bills.
I hope the residents of Franklin wake up to the fact that Waukesha will be dumping their "treated" sewage into an area of Franklin that is subject to frequent floods. The floods are so frequent that the highway authorities have installed permanent swinging steel gates across Oakwood Rd. at 60th St. and 76th St. so that the road can be closed quickly when it is covered with 3 or 4 feet of water, which frequently happens.
ReplyDeleteRoot River, which Waukesha plans to use for its "after" water, runs through a pristine county park (Root River Parkway) and those creek-size beds are not very wide.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Root+River+Parkway/@42.9596328,-87.9893869,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x880512edfce528f9:0x30c3941d59b544fa
Take a tour of the parkway. That creek runs along an actual road where the parkway abuts Whitnall Park.