Walker's Republicans Attack, Plunder our Supply of Drinking Water.....
Bill Davis, the head of the Wisconsin Sierra Club-John Muir Chapter, said ”We put a lot of investment in the ’70s, and ’80s, early ’90s into infrastructure and then, I think, kind of had this sigh of relief. It’s like, ‘Ah, we’re done, we don’t have to pay attention to it anymore.’ And that’s just not the way it works,” Davis said. “All systems need to be maintained and they also need to be updated based on growth of population and land use.”
A 2017 infrastructure report card by the American Society of Civil Engineers suggests Wisconsin will have $1 billion in drinking water infrastructure needs and more than $6 billion in wastewater infrastructure needs in the next 20 years.
Since October, Wisconsin has approved requests from businesses for a billion gallons per month in new groundwater withdrawals from locations where the state’s own experts warned that higher pumping levels could be expected to harm vulnerable lakes, streams and drinking water supplies.
The increase was added by revising dozens of permits for high-capacity wells after regulations were relaxed in June at the urging of business groups and Republicans who control state government.
Meanwhile, the state Assembly is poised for a final vote on removing yet another layer of groundwater protection next month by ending the limited environmental reviews still allowed for certain existing wells.
Three-quarters of the wells are owned by farms in the Central Sands region where heavy pumping has been closely linked to dwindling — and in some cases dried up — surface water.
The DNR had been imposing pumping limits based on its reading of state law and court rulings that included a 2011 case in which the state Supreme Court said the agency must consider the cumulative impact of high-capacity wells on water, which the state is constitutionally bound to protect for the benefit of the public.
Industry groups chafed at pumping limits, and said the DNR was overstepping its authority. In 2016, a committee of GOP legislators led by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, asked Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel to issue a formal opinion on well regulation. Schimel said the DNR had overstepped the authority, and the agency stopped making well permitting decisions based on environmental impact of all wells in an area.
Now permits are decided based on the affect of wells on the well owner’s property, without regard to how much is being withdrawn by surrounding wells.
A former liberal radio talk host who likes to ask the “follow-up question” at Democurmudgeon.blogspot.com
Source: http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2017/04/walkers-republicans-attack-plunder-our.html
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LOL democratic party of wisconsin…you mean those 200 soclists in Madison who took the semester off to cry about the election?
Useless idiot ALERT! Democurmudgeon seems to be overrun with them. You might want to cover your eyes while reading this article and avoid seeing how deep the scars from this author’s programming lobotomy go.