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Article: REPORT FAULTS SEWERAGE DISTRICT NORQUIST: FINDINGS `POLITICAL'.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
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- September 8, 2003
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has wasted public money and failed to prevent pollution from being dumped into Lake Michigan, a new report contends.
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute's report, prepared for release today, calls for an overhaul of the district to make it more accountable but offers no specific recommendation on how to reshape it.
Appointees of Milwaukee's mayor make up a majority of the 11-member commission that oversees the sewerage district.
Mayor John Norquist dismissed the report as "a politically motivated effort to restart the sewer wars."
He referred to an unsuccessful effort by ...