Great Lakes; Tinkering a Good Compact to Death; Approve This Agreement. It's Way Too Late in the Game to Tinker with It. And Doing so Would Ensure There Will Be No Compact at All or That It Is Further Delayed.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › March 02, 2008

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At a panel discussion hosted by the Waukesha Chamber of Commerce and moderated by a member of the Journal Sentinel Editorial Board Thursday morning, the four panelists all agreed on at least three things:

The Great Lakes are at a crossroads. There is a real threat of harm to the lakes from thirsty communities outside the natural basin of the lakes. And the Wisconsin Legislature needs to approve strong implementing legislation for the Great Lakes compact signed by the governors of the Great Lakes states more than two years ago in Milwaukee.

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Great Lakes; Tinkering a Good Compact to Death; Approve This Agreement. It's Way Too Late in the Game to Tinker with It. And Doing so Would Ensure There Will Be No Compact at All or That It Is Further Delayed.

The panelists -- Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas; Waukesha Mayor Larry Nelson; Peter McAvoy, vice president of environmental health, Sixteenth Street Community Health Center; and Matt Moroney, executive director of the Metropolitan Builders Association -- disagreed over some o...

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