Just a reminder that Scott Walker's intentionally degraded and special-interest managed 'chamber of commerce mentality' Department of Natural Resources is still reviewing several environmentally-sensitive and politically-influenced high-profile proposals.
Now that the election is over, and DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp can devote full-time to her day job and clean up missed deadlines and other reporting issues, I'd expect some movement on these controversial plans, though potential litigation as well as input from local officials and the US Army Corps of Engineers means that DNR decisions are not necessarily final right now:
* An upscale, privately-owned eighteen hole golf course proposed by the Kohler Co. on a 247-acre water, dune and Native American artifact-rich wooded nature preserve adjoining Kohler Andrae State Park south of Sheboygan. The plan includes some intrusion into the park.
* A 26,000-hog feeding and manure producing operation within smelling distance of Lake Superior in NE Wisconsin proposed by a major Iowa pork provider.
* An expansion of the Golden Sands Dairy cattle feeding and manure producing operation in Juneau and Wood Counties.
All of these proposals will have impacts on ground and surface water supply levels and quality - - a statewide health and equity matter so significant that the US Environmental Protection Agency just paid a record-schekcing visit to the DNR after citizen and organizations' complaints catalogued the Walker administration's studious dismissal of state water obligations under federal clean law.
A public session this week in Eau Claire on these matters may lead do either remedial federal actions or state promises to do a better job.
Now that the election is over, and DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp can devote full-time to her day job and clean up missed deadlines and other reporting issues, I'd expect some movement on these controversial plans, though potential litigation as well as input from local officials and the US Army Corps of Engineers means that DNR decisions are not necessarily final right now:
* An upscale, privately-owned eighteen hole golf course proposed by the Kohler Co. on a 247-acre water, dune and Native American artifact-rich wooded nature preserve adjoining Kohler Andrae State Park south of Sheboygan. The plan includes some intrusion into the park.
* A 26,000-hog feeding and manure producing operation within smelling distance of Lake Superior in NE Wisconsin proposed by a major Iowa pork provider.
* An expansion of the Golden Sands Dairy cattle feeding and manure producing operation in Juneau and Wood Counties.
All of these proposals will have impacts on ground and surface water supply levels and quality - - a statewide health and equity matter so significant that the US Environmental Protection Agency just paid a record-schekcing visit to the DNR after citizen and organizations' complaints catalogued the Walker administration's studious dismissal of state water obligations under federal clean law.
A public session this week in Eau Claire on these matters may lead do either remedial federal actions or state promises to do a better job.
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