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Article: WAUKESHA SHOULDN'T USE LAKE MICHIGAN WATER.(EDITORIAL)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- September 17, 2005
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Byline: James Rowen
More and more Wisconsin officials are using erasers and magic when crafting environmental policy.
For example, a townhouse developer mistakenly built some buildings in an officially designated environmental corridor along Lake Michigan in St. Francis. So the Department of Natural Resources, which had a role in the blunder, asked the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission to make the encroachment disappear -- by redrawing corridor boundaries.
The planning commission correctly turned the DNR down flat.
The city of Waukesha, having drawn down its underground water supply through decades of unchecked ...