tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post5976804630474692205..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Walker, Waukesha Water Utility Deserve PR Hogwash AwardJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-88154246391804953182014-08-08T13:02:56.784-05:002014-08-08T13:02:56.784-05:00A wonderful summary. Thanks, Jim.
A wonderful summary. Thanks, Jim.<br />Greg Walz-Chojnackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15251635379639144572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-14357916975357132292014-08-07T15:26:27.082-05:002014-08-07T15:26:27.082-05:00This has nothing to do with Walker. I have lived ...This has nothing to do with Walker. I have lived in Milwaukee and Waukesha. Milwaukee is blessed to have fantastic water. Neither community should abuse it, both have very serious water issues that need attention as well as many other communities that take our abundance of fresh water for granted. Spend a day at Discovery World in Milwaukee to begin to understand. As a Waukesha resident, this water diversion shouldn't happen and Milwaukee needs to understand it isn't their lake to abuse either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-4958854920762357682014-08-07T14:46:28.807-05:002014-08-07T14:46:28.807-05:00That was a really solid article on an issue that h...That was a really solid article on an issue that has been, at best, goofy. <br /><br />@christopher logan, <br /><br />Define "safe." Your question, while extremely fair, isn't as simple of a question as you'd think. I could speak for days on the topic, water treatment is what I do, but I guess I'd answer it another way: <br /><br />Would I let my 11-month old niece drink Waukesha water completely unfiltered? No. Absolutely not. <br /><br />BUT, that's not Waukesha-only and that's not because of radium--of note, a functional water softener removes radium so that's a non-factor for most people anyway. <br /><br />Municipalities are governed by the National Primary Drinking Water Guidelines. It's basically "lacking immediate risk." So Toledo's toxic algae waste--not safe. There are 20-30 boil alerts in my feed reader every morning nationally, typically from cracked mains or systems losing pressure--not safe. These are immediate risks. I don't want my niece drinking toxic algae waste. <br /><br />But what about chlorine? Disinfection byproducts? Pharmaceuticals? Petroleum derivatives? "Safe" is a loaded word. A lot of that is left to the choice of the consumer under the Secondary Drinking Water Guidelines under the Safe Water Drinking Act.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07792860928511123756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-36044061093945920472014-08-07T14:10:56.967-05:002014-08-07T14:10:56.967-05:00Again, James, thanks for keeping everyone reminded...Again, James, thanks for keeping everyone reminded of all the polluted water history that has flowed under the bridge on this issue. . . . and continuing to hold Waukesha and Walker accountable. <br /><br />The bottom line is this: Waukesha has not made its case nor has it built a case because there isn't one to be made. Waukesha doesn't need the amount of LM water for which it has asked, it hasn't justified why the amount it needs can't be met by other, local and far less expensive sources, and most importantly, hasn't met the basic standards of the GL Compact, including that community seeking water outside its own basin must have a need that can be met ONLY by a LM diversion, not, as Waukesha continues to say, its PREFERRED alternative, nor as the rabid business community out there continues to whine: "We need that water to grow!" <br /><br />A reasonable person just might conclude that Waukesha hasn't made its case because it cannot.<br /><br />In the meantime, it continues to drag its citizens, ratepayers and genuinely concerned parents such as Christopher Logan through a morass of lawsuits, 3000-page applications, public misinformation meetings, open records and open meetings violations, waves of consultants, multiple DNR "reviews", Washington D.C. lobbyists, and gobs upon gobs of money paid to consultants and PR services to the tune of $13,000- $10,000 PER MONTH for the last seven years. What a colossal waste of time and taxpayer resources [i.e., money]. All to feed the egos of Duchniak, Warren, Nelson and now Reilly, and to fatten the pocketbooks of engineers, consultants, lawyers, and PR hucksters.<br /><br />It is way past its (own) deadlines** because it's delayed, waited, held the application, only to come up with some repackaged version of the same old lousy s**t. Talk about your lipstick on a pig.<br /><br />**of course this hasn't kept the prevaricators at the WWU and City of Waukesha from blaming everyone and anything else for the "delays".Boxernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-11879597631237484792014-08-07T13:25:13.256-05:002014-08-07T13:25:13.256-05:00That's a good question Christopher. The city c...That's a good question Christopher. The city could have installed radium filters on all the deep aquifer wells and been in compliance with all EPA and DNR requirements. <br /><br />Since we all now know that the utility misstated vital claims about the level of the deep aquifer in the 2010 to advance the application for a Lake Michigan diversion exception, what can we trust as accurate and truthful?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-74835195890390433572014-08-07T11:23:56.600-05:002014-08-07T11:23:56.600-05:00Thank you for this article. This whole issue is a ...Thank you for this article. This whole issue is a complete and total mess. I live in Waukesha, and since I moved in 3 years ago, I have not found, nor has anyone been able to answer one simple question: Is my water safe for my 5 year old to drink? I am beginning to think it is time to move away, as I am worried I am hurting my daughter with the water. Any recommendations????clogan98https://www.blogger.com/profile/07467583179653251724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-52371693822908945922014-08-07T06:34:30.965-05:002014-08-07T06:34:30.965-05:00Best-article-ever on the subject.
Everyone else a...Best-article-ever on the subject.<br /><br />Everyone else associated with this issue in Waukesha has abandoned ship except Captain Dan at the whelm.<br /><br />I bet the $5000 application fee didn't get very far. Would Waukesha keep the application going if they had to pay the state as well as their consultants to keep the application going forward? <br /><br />Republicans run on campaign platforms to lower taxes. This is one area of low hanging fruit and who could argue the hypocrisy?<br /> <br />That begs the question: How much taxpayer money has the state of Wisconsin spent on Waukesha's over 4 year old application and how much more money is it willing to keep spending? That's a worthy question in this election year. It's very highly unlikely this project will ever see the light of day and the DNR chief, Cathy Steep, needs to stop wasting DNR resources. <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com