Regional cooperation? Haven't heard much about that lately to our west, and there's fresh evidence that proximity does not neighborliness make.
It seems that the City of Waukesha's endlessly-controversial-and-oft-delayed plan for a Lake Michigan diversion
and wastewater return via the Root River toRacine's harbor 'Waukesha's toilet' has created new grassroots opponents - - in New Berlin.
It seems residents there unhappily discovered that a park in their city is where Waukesha intends to build a water pumping station.
It seems that the City of Waukesha's endlessly-controversial-and-oft-delayed plan for a Lake Michigan diversion
and wastewater return via the Root River to
It seems residents there unhappily discovered that a park in their city is where Waukesha intends to build a water pumping station.
The site was actually chosen by Waukesha County, which owns Minooka Park and ultimately approved the city's pumping station plan there, as did the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
But New Berlin residents living along the project area have argued that the city and county made a bad choice, both from their perspective as residents and in not choosing an alternative location on land Waukesha already owns.Reminds me of the way the DNR helped bully the Town of Waukesha to get with the City of Waukesha's plan:
The DNR gives the Town 30 days to decide if it is in or out of the City of Waukesha's Lake Michigan diversion plan under the rules of the Great Lakes Compact.As part of a years-long City of Waukesha-first regional narrative:
A key component of the City of Waukesha's draft Lake Michigan diversion application - - the map for where the water could be distributed had included the Town of Waukesha - - which was not consulted about the map.And more about that map, here. And here.