Milwaukee Aldermen Want DNR Hearing in Their City on Waukesha Water Request

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has concluded its three preliminary hearings as it begins its intensive review of Waukesha’s application to divert Lake Michigan water past the Subcontinental Divide and to return the water to the lake, but some Milwaukee aldermen are not happy that the hearings were not held in Milwaukee.

A Milwaukee Common Council news release from Alderman Michael Murphy states that because the water is proposed to pipe wastewater to Underwood Creek and then to the Menomonee River to the Lake Michigan harbor.

“Where’s the public hearing for Milwaukee? Milwaukee residents also deserve a public hearing because they too have a right to know how the diversion and effluent via the Menomonee River will impact them in terms of water quality and possible flooding issues,” Murphy said in the news release.

Public hearings were held and . Reactions to the Lake Michigan plan were varied at each hearing.

Murphy was joined by Alderman Robert Bauman in Milwaukee in criticizing the DNR for not holding a hearing in Milwaukee.

To see the entire news release, look at the document to the left of this article.