Interesting story from yesterday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
"Sampling reports from the Milwaukee sewerage district were cooked "to disguise the true level of human waste entering Lake Michigan," according to an anonymous complaint that's prompted a review by state regulators as well as a series of internal investigations."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep04/259626.asp
You wonder how often this goes on around the Lakes.
A friend in the Milwaukee area writes:
"There was a great deal of clandestine dumping going on last May. Some guy in one of the northeast suburbs videotaped a huge raw sewage bloom in the lake. It looked like MMSD was trying to sneak some sewage into the lake and got caught.
"Anytime government contracts in with private providers for environmental services, there's bound to be cheating going on. Private contractors have a profit motive to hide numbers and cook books, or this case, sewage. I just hope there's a full and fair investigation. This is a serious allegation."
Posted by Dave at September 17, 2004 01:12 PM