Will Governor Snyder try to block the diversion of water from Lake Michigan by the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin?
The city wants to build a pipeline to the lake, because of high levels of radium in it’s local water supply. The Great Lakes Compact, composed of the 8 states on the Great Lakes, is due to take up the matter. It has no authority by law to control the water, but can be a powerful force in anything that happens to the water.
Two congress-women— Candice Miller, Republican of Macomb and St. Clair counties, and Debbie Dingell, Democrat of Wayne County, — are teaming up to lobby the compact, and the governor, to oppose the diversion.
The Sierra Club says Jon Allen, the director of the Michigan Office Of The Great Lakes, part of the Snyder administration, is in favor of the water diversion.
The subject will be discussed at the Mackinac Policy Conference.
