Lake County (IL) Water Wells Petering Out - Towns Looking To Lake Michigan

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The drilling has begun in Wauconda and another well is being sunk to meet the demand for water. Quenching that thirst may not be as easy in the future, however. That’s why the village is among several Lake County communities looking to Lake Michigan as an alternative.

“It’s a long shot for Wauconda, but at least we wanted to be part of a study to see if the possibility is there,” said Village Administrator Dan Quick. “I don’t know that there’s an advantage but I don’t know our wells will last forever.”

Determining the options is the goal of the Northern Lake County Lake Michigan Water Planning Group, which was formed this summer. With Lake County in the lead, Antioch, Lindenhurst, Lake Villa and Fox Lake, which represent the county’s last growth spurt, are the core members. Wauconda signed on about five weeks ago.

“Northern Lake County now is the next big area to have a need for Lake Michigan water,” said Peter Kolb, the county’s public works director. “We’re going to get sticker shock, I’m sure of it. But everybody who has Lake Michigan water now is so blasted happy.” That would be most of the Chicago area or about 6.8 million residents in northeastern Illinois. But there are issues for communities that don’t have it, particularly those expecting to expand their borders.

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http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=267067

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I use to live the lake country area and this is sad

[papau]

2. inland well water was sulfur heavy in the 40's - GOP leaders would not hook up with

Waukegan and other cities that drew from the lake 'cause they were Democratic bi-racial towns. Heck Waukegan went to fluoride in the public water in the 40's and everyone knows that was a commie plot!

Sorry - but I don't really feel sorry for the area.

I doubt the acid bogs will survive much longer, and the small lakes are already a heavily algae growth scum area by middle of July.

The destruction of the unions in the 50's and later via US Steel closing American Wire and via the US TV industry and electronic companies setting up migrant trailer park towns for legal and illegal uneducated replacement factory workers - plus Sears having its suppliers set up single plant "company unions" run by company officers - heck the teamsters were the only union growing by the 70's - meant the destruction of the lower middle class - to be replaced by the upper lower class that was mostly Spanish (downtown Waukegan is a 3rd world Spanish when I last saw it in the early 90's) plus the bedroom community homes for the low and mid upper class/semi rich folks that park their boats where there once was a real active world wide trading harbor.

It is an example of what happens when government/business is based on GOP "principles"