Residents With Water Contamination Plan To Pressure Village
For years, a number of Caledonia and Oak Creek residents living near the We Energies Oak Creek plant have received water from the energy company because the area has high levels of chemicals. They plan to petition the Village to bring municipal water to t
About 50 residents attended an informal neighborhood meeting about their wells being contaminated with chemicals like boron, benzene and molybdenum at the East Side Community Cente Wednesday night. Mostly the meeting focused on how residents could use reverse osmosis to treat their drinking water. But the group also discussed the status of several isotope testing studies currently being done by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and what steps they planned to take to remedy the situation. Caledonia and Oak Creek residents living near the We Energies coal plant have been receiving water from the energy company since 2009 because the area has had high levels of chemicals for years and a ground water study was due from the …
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1:52 am on Monday, November 26, 2012
This is interesting. Where is the city of OC going to get the money to provide city water to the needy residents? The 2002 Mitigation Agreement allocates payment of 2.25 million a year to OC for construction impact on residents. They also receive a big chuck of money in the form of Shared Utility Revenue. The two amounts total nearly seven million annually. Unfortunately, OC did not grant the … more ›