"We have a radium contamination problem within the water source for the city," Waukesha officials said.

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The Waukesha Water Utility is seeking contractors to bid on the first stages of a $286 million project to build a pipeline and other infrastructure needed to supply the city with water from Lake Michigan.

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Waukesha officials are facing opposition to their plan to pipe in drinking water from Lake Michigan.

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The Waukesha Water Utility Commission has selected a program manager for the city’s move to make Lake Michigan its main water supply — an undertaking that is expected to take five years and cost $206 million.

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There is no new information to support a request for a new hearing on the approval of Waukesha’s request to borrow water from the Great Lakes and then return it.

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An organization representing mayors of more than 120 cities in the Great Lakes region is challenging a decision to let Waukesha, Wisconsin, draw water from Lake Michigan.

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Waukesha officials have tapped an accounting firm to monitor the construction cost of a $207 million project to build a pipeline that would let the city use Lake Michigan as a source of fresh water.

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A suburban Milwaukee city won a hard-fought battle Tuesday to draw its drinking water from Lake Michigan in the first test of a compact designed to safeguard the Great Lakes region's abundant but vulnerable fresh water supply.

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A Wisconsin city's unprecedented request to draw its water supply from Lake Michigan has met some late opposition from U.S. and Canadian mayors within the Great Lakes basin.

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Waukesha’s proposal to borrow and return Lake Michigan water has undergone an intensive review, demonstrating a regional commitment to uphold the legal requirements of the Great Lakes Compact.

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