Multi-state coalition joins challenge to Foxconn's Lake Michigan diversion

A four-state arm representing scores of non-partisan League of Women Voters chapters joins other groups objecting to Wisconsin's hurriedly-approved plan to divert Lake Michigan water
 
to suit one business' needs. 

This is a significant expansion of the effort to force the Great Lakes governors to preserve Great Lakes water, ensure waste water treatment and breathe life into the eight-state, ten-year-old, but now-undermined Great Lakes Compact. 

“Today, the League of Women Voters-Lake Michigan Region joins the appeal of the proposed Foxconn water diversion from Lake Michigan. The proposed diversion is based on a mistaken interpretation by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources of the Great Lakes Compact and undermines the very important protections the Compact contains. The withdrawal of Lake Michigan water outside of the watershed basin for solely commercial purposes is impermissible. Additionally, the quantity and quality of water proposed to be returned to the basin has the potential to harm the great resource that is Lake Michigan,” said Krista Grimm, President of the League of Women Voters-Lake Michigan Region.

The League of Women Voters-Lake Michigan Region is an inter-league organization consisting of over 48 local League chapters in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan as well as their respective state Leagues. The LWV-LMR is a non-partisan grass-roots advocacy and education organization with a mission to protect and promote the environmental quality of Lake Michigan and the Lake Michigan basin.

Here is a complete archive of blog posts about the Foxconn project, and one post focusing on the diversion issue.