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FWIW, the allowance of 7 million gallons/day from Lake Michigan is apparently a "0.07 percent increase in the total surface water withdrawals from Lake Michigan
by danso 8y ago
FWIW, the allowance of 7 million gallons/day from Lake Michigan is apparently a "0.07 percent increase in the total surface water withdrawals from Lake Michigan", according to the state's Dept. of Natural Resources:
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/25/dnr-approves-diverting-lake-michigan-water-wisconsins-foxconn-plant/551542002/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/25/dnr-...
- strange_quark 8y agoSure, but it violates the compact. The compact only allows use of the water inside the basin. What's going on here is the factory is going to use water from Racine (which is on the lake) and therefore allowed to draw the water even though the factory itself is outside the basin.