Wisconsin Approved Massive Water Diversion for Pleasant Prairie Without Public Notification
Details highlighted in Peter Annin's updated book, The Great Lakes Water Wars
Wisconsin officials in 2010 quietly approved a massive new allotment of water from Lake Michigan to fast-growing Pleasant Prairie in Kenosha County without extensive public reviews required in other Great Lakes water diversions in recent years. The action in the final year of Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration, gave the…