Mayor Jeff Scrima is demanding that water utility staff highlight all changes made in a city application for a Great Lakes water supply between the time the Common Council approved the plan on April 8 and when it was submitted to state environmental officials six weeks later ...
Asian carp, the latest invasive threat has made its way to Chicago via canals leading to the Mississippi River. In the past, most invasives arrived by way of the man-made St. Lawrence Seaway that links the Atlantic Ocean with the Great lakes ...
Waukesha -- Mayor Larry Nelson has canceled a Dec. 8 public hearing and special Common Council meeting on the city's proposed switch to Lake Michigan water.The meeting will be rescheduled in early January to give city staff more time to complete a draft application, officials said.Waukesha intends to seek the approval of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and each of the governors of the seven other Great Lakes states to buy Lake Michigan water ...
Waukesha's pursuit of Lake Michigan water does not have to wait until state rules are adopted implementing a Great Lakes protection compact, state Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank says in a letter to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett ...