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At a heated debate Monday in Chicago, the ini- tiative, a group of 127 com- munities from the United States and Canada sur- rounding the Great Lakes, argued that Waukesha's water application doesn't take into account all other alternatives. Attorneys representing the group and the city argued to the Great Lakes Compact Council with state- ments lasting 45 minutes apiece about why or why not Waukesha should be able to follow through on its already-approved diversion application. Racine Mayor John Dickert said Tuesday that he believes the biggest issue for the mayors from the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence is the straw that "allows a bit of an open floodgate for a lot of straws going into Lake Michigan. "You see what's happening out West when people use water too fast and it's not replenished," Dickert said. "The Great Lakes only replenish at 1 percent per year, so if you start having a bunch of straws stuck on the Great Lakes and they're bringing that water without any return flow whatsoever, then we're going to have a major, catastrophic problem with our Great Lakes." Last summer, delegates representing the eight gov- ernors from the Great Lakes states unanimously approved Waukesha's plan to divert water from Lake Michigan to use for drinking water. The approval made the city the first outside of the Great Lakes Basin that will receive lake water under the Great Lakes Compact. The approval ended a 14- year journey for the city to obtain water from the lake because its current supply is contaminated with radium. Racine mayor's addi- tional concerns Dickert said allowing Waukesha to divert 8.1 mil- lion gallons of water per day from the lake would harm his city. He added that the return flow from the water would greatly impact one of the staple waterways. "Lake Michigan drains out on to North Beach, which is the fabric of our society and the DNA of Racine," Dickert said. "People swim in the (Root) river, the beach is rated as one of the best beaches in the world and what they're saying is, 'We're paying no attention to those two issues that are going to affect peo- ple downstream.'" But Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly and Waukesha Water Utility General Manager Dan Duchniak said that is far from the case, which is why the group last summer voted 8-0 to approve the application. "What they're arguing is, 'You guys made a bad deci- sion, you should make it a different decision," Reilly said. "These concerns from the mayor of Racine were put forth in comments and the governors took all this into account and all came to the conclusion that we'd be improving the Root River," Duchniak said. Duchniak: Have 'thoroughly vetted' other options Dickert accused Duchniak of not exploring all available options regarding alterna- tives. "With all the new technol- ogy that has evolved over the last couple of years, I think that the people of Waukesha deserve the right for Dan to look into all the options that are available to them," he said. "The fact that the pipe alone, I believe is costing about $80 million. I think it would be behooven to spend that time looking at whether there are cheaper, more viable long-term sus- tainable solutions to this project. "I think to be fair to the people of Waukesha, I think Post file photo Doug Seymour, left, Oak Creek director of community development, dis- cusses the city's customer service approach in a welcome center within the new municipal building. Listening are Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly, center, and Waukesha City Administrator Kevin Lahner, right. Group of mayors wants Waukesha's water application denied Say diversion doesn't take other options into account

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