DNR approves Racine's application to divert Lake Michigan water for Foxconn
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued approval on April 25 allowing the city of Racine to divert an annual average of 7 million gallons a day of water from Lake Michigan for its customers in Mount Pleasant. Most of the water would be used in the Foxconn Technology project. Foxconn is preparing to build a plant to produce liquid crystal flat-screen panels.
Racine requested 7 million gallons per day withdrawal from Lake Michigan for the village of Mount Pleasant, which straddles the divide between the Lake Michigan basin and Mississippi River basin.
The DNR, in a news release, said, "This withdrawal would still put the Racine water utility under its existing withdrawal capacity and below its 1995 average day water sales number as cited in its application."
The approval allows the Racine Water Utility to extend public water service to the 8 percent of the village that is in the Mississippi River basin, "partially including the Foxconn facility site," according to the DNR statement.
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