Anna Clark (author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy) asks Why should Wisconsin drain Lake Michigan for Foxconn?: The Great Lakes — five inland seas holding one-fifth of all the fresh water on Earth — are vast, but they are not limitless. So it is alarming that Wisconsin intends to send…
WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Development, Environment, Local Government, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Waste Hauling Into Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • 7 Comments
Post 75 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. A few years (and seventy-five posts) ago, I began consideration of a local proposal to haul waste into Whitewater.…
Water, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Update on Waukesha’s Water
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Post 74 in a series. Three weeks ago, I wrote about Waukesha’s need for water from the Great Lakes, due significantly because some of that community’s wells had become contaminated with radium. See, Waukesha’s Water. A prosperous area thereby finds itself a supplicant for water supplies from the Great Lakes, because part of her own supply has become…
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Door County
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Post 73 in a series. The Wisconsin Center for Investigate Journalism has an ongoing series about the condition of Wisconsin’s water supply, with three main topics, one of which is entitled, Failure at the Faucet. I’ve mentioned the full series before. See, Water Watch Wisconsin. Reading that series – the work of many journalists over many months, is…
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The Context of It All
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Environment, Health, Water, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Waukesha’s Water
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Post 71 in a series. Waukesha is a large suburban city, of about seventy-thousand, in a prosperous suburban county, of about four-hundred thousand. By ordinary estimation, the residents of the city and county should have no difficulties with basic utilities and infrastructure. And yet, Waukesha has a water supply problem: Waukesha does not have an…
Environment, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
The State of Phosphorus Now
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Post 70 in a series. Phosphorus may be used as a fertilizer, but that use comes at a price. A community, especially a farming community, that uses phosphorus for fertilizer faces the problem of what to do with that element when large quantities spread through the environment. Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel, in a story…
Development, Waste Digesters, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Development
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Post 69 in a series. Two weeks ago, I posted a simple question about Whitewater’s former Hawthorn Mellody milk plant: “If there had been no milk processing plant in Whitewater, would the city have constructed digester capacity as large as it now has, for importing waste into the city from other locations?” That’s seemingly a…
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The View from 30,000 Feet
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Post 67 in a series. For today, a simple question about waste importation into Whitewater: 301. If there had been no milk processing plant in Whitewater, would the city have constructed digester capacity as large as it now has, for importing waste into the city from other locations? That is, in cases like these, would…
WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Volume for Payback (Isn’t So Simple After All)
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
Post 66 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. I posted yesterday about remarks from December on the supposed volume for payback of a waste-receiving station with today’s…
WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Volume for Payback
by JOHN ADAMS • • 7 Comments
Post 65 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. Today’s question begin is Number 298. All the questions in this series may be found in the Question Bin.…
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Rockford, Illinois
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Post 64 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. Today’s questions begin with Number 296. All the questions in this series may be found in the Question Bin.…
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September to December 2015
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Post 63 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. On 9.17.15, Whitewater’s City Manager, Cameron Clapper, gave brief remarks in support of waste hauling into Whitewater. See, Text of…
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Hawking Fallacies at a Price of Over a Million
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Post 62 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. In the 12.15.15 meeting at which the Donhoue firm advocated note merely wastewater upgrades but waste importation into Whitewater,…