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The City of Waukesha Water Utility has sent the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources materials the DNR asked for last year to repair deficiencies in the city’s application for a Lake Michigan diversion, according to a Waukesha Water Utility news release.

I have not seen the full documentation, though the utility says the extensive information it sent to the DNR will be posted by the end of the week on the water utility’s website.

The news release rand supporting materials – - see below – - affirms the application’s belief that the Lake Michigan option is the cheapest and best for the environment.

[The full document to be provided later is about 1,000 pages. Here is a link to a pdf of a summary of what the utility says it has sent to the DNR. Whether it addresses all 49 DNR questions referenced in a December 3nd letter to Waukesha Council president Paul Yberra on the DNR website, here) is unknown, though last week Waukesha indicated that there is at least one major item not yet resolved - - whether the Town of Waukesha remains in the application's new water service map. That issue is central to how much water the City wants to divert, and where it might be sent.]

Interesting elements at first glance:

* An agreement has been reached with the City of Brookfield to discharge treated diverted water from Waukesha for a return to Lake Michigan on Brookfield land near Underwood Creek.

* An increased commitment to water conservation, though I do not know it that reduces the amount of diverted water sought. The application seeks an average daily draw of 10.9 million gallons to a maximum of 18,5 million gallons daily.

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