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Water question coming down pipe at 5 Diamonds
SEWRPC: Town must choose whether baseball park is in water supply area
By Sarah Pryor
Freeman Staff
TOWN OF WAUKESHA – Even though the owners want municipal water available in the future, youth baseball complex 5 Diamonds can’t be in the city’s water service area without permission from the Town of Waukesha Board.
Earlier this month, 5 Diamonds’ attorney Steven Tikalsky asked Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission Executive Director Kenneth Yunker to put the park in Waukesha’s water service area as part of the city’s application for Great Lakes water.
“Last year, in their first year of business, more than 150,000 adults and children used this facility. It is expected that the complex will expand in the future, including an indoor facility,” Tikalsky said in the letter. “The owners/operators of this recreational complex cannot be without the availability of municipal water and sewer service in the future.”
The Town Board decided to include only properties north of Highway 59 and east of Highway TT in the service area, meaning that all areas outside those boundaries will eventually be unable to receive water or sewer service from the city, even in cases of contamination, without going through the same expensive and lengthy application process the city has been embroiled in for years. Waukesha is under a federally mandated June 2018 deadline to find and implement a sustainable, radium-compliant water source and has chosen a Lake Michigan diversion as the best option.
The baseball complex is located on the wrong side of Highway 59 to be included in the water service area.
“Because an area cannot be included in the final water service area without the approval of the governing body of the municipality within which that area is located ... SEWRPC cannot unilaterally include the 5 Diamonds property in the water service area,” Yunker said to Tikalsky in a letter dated March 21. “Such an inclusion could be accomplished through a request from the town, supported by the city, or by the city alone if the 5 Diamonds property were annexed into the city prior to finalization of the water supply service area.”
Kelenic has tried to get the park annexed into the city once before but didn’t get enough votes from the Common Council.
Waukesha Water Utility General Manager Dan Duchniak said the utility has tested wells relatively close to the baseball complex and found arsenic, iron and manganese that exceed the recommended limits.
“There’s a water main that runs directly in front of the 5 Diamonds property, but unfortunately they won’t be able to hook up to it if they aren’t part of the water service area,” Duchniak said, adding that the same is true for other town residents whose properties are along parts of Oakdale and Lawnsdale. “If anything were to happen with those wells, the residents would be unable to hook up to that main, even though it’s right there, because they aren’t in the water service area.”
Could litigation be in the future?
“At the end of that day, we have to be in that service area, period,” said 5 Diamonds owner Tom Kelenic. “We’ll have to do whatever possible to be in it, and I think that if 5 Diamonds does take any action, there will be residents and businesses that will join us.”
Common Council to meet Thursday due to elections
WAUKESHA – The Waukesha Common Council will meet Thursday rather than Tuesday because of spring elections next week.
Items on the agenda include a public hearing for the 2013 street tree planting program, and a report on insurance requirements for the Farmers Market.
The Common Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 201 Delafield St.
Here’s what else is happening in Waukesha city government next week:
Police & Fire Commission
5 p.m. Monday,Waukesha Fire Department, 130 W. St. Paul Ave.
• The commission will go into closed session to interview applicants for fire chief.
– Sarah Pryor, Freeman Staff
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Wigderson column wrong about aldermanic race
To the editor: Mr. Wigderson, in Thursday’s column, you had so much wrong about the 11th District aldermanic race that it reflects negatively not only on your veracity, but on my opponent, whom you are trying to help with your endorsement based on untruths. He is the one involved in the investigation into the possible voter fraud in the primary (of which he was absolutely innocent). So why list it? I am not a member of the Waukesha Downtown Business Association, but their financial report is passed out monthly. What has that got to do with your support for my opponent instead of me? Whose website has been “threatened?” Isn’t that a police matter? After saying that all the problems of downtown cannot be laid at my feet, you proceed to list three incidents which have nothing to do with me, but in doing so, you seem to imply my involvement or guilt, somehow.
The Business Improvement District may or may not dissolve. We won’t know until April 6. Your newspaper, to its credit, did not sign on with those trying to dissolve the BID. Meghan’s car tires were never slashed, but her car was keyed.
And I didn’t do it. I always tried to help her.
Mr. Wigderson, you have been sniping at our mayor, at some of the other aldermen, and now you are attacking me. I think you want to run our beautiful city.
If so, why not run for alderman yourself ? But slander by implication should never be the basis for your campaign. The voters are too smart.
Roger Patton
11th district alderman
Wigderson column wrong about aldermanic race
To the editor: Mr. Wigderson, in Thursday’s column, you had so much wrong about the 11th District aldermanic race that it reflects negatively not only on your veracity, but on my opponent, whom you are trying to help with your endorsement based on untruths. He is the one involved in the investigation into the possible voter fraud in the primary (of which he was absolutely innocent). So why list it? I am not a member of the Waukesha Downtown Business Association, but their financial report is passed out monthly. What has that got to do with your support for my opponent instead of me? Whose website has been “threatened?” Isn’t that a police matter? After saying that all the problems of downtown cannot be laid at my feet, you proceed to list three incidents which have nothing to do with me, but in doing so, you seem to imply my involvement or guilt, somehow.
The Business Improvement District may or may not dissolve. We won’t know until April 6. Your newspaper, to its credit, did not sign on with those trying to dissolve the BID. Meghan’s car tires were never slashed, but her car was keyed.
And I didn’t do it. I always tried to help her.
Mr. Wigderson, you have been sniping at our mayor, at some of the other aldermen, and now you are attacking me. I think you want to run our beautiful city.
If so, why not run for alderman yourself ? But slander by implication should never be the basis for your campaign. The voters are too smart.
Roger Patton
11th district alderman
POLICE BLOTTER
Waukesha Police Department
THURSDAY 7:55 a.m. – A caller saw a laptop in a sewer grate in the 2400 block of Saratoga Road.
10:10 a.m. – A caller saw a man in a white car leaning back with his mouth open, possibly sleeping, in the 1100 block of Maitland Drive. He was gone when police arrived.
1:34 p.m. – A man was reportedly drinking out of a bottle of vodka while driving a black Lexus in the 900 block of North Barstow Street.
1:51 p.m. – A man got into a verbal altercation with his grandparents and threw a hammer in the 2100 block of Norton Avenue. He was taken to a group home.
3:41 p.m. – A juvenile was riding a four-wheeler in the roadway at Butler Road and Wolf Drive, and a caller reported that the kid was “screwing around” and not paying attention. He was gone when police arrived.
5:11 p.m. – A caller reported that a tan station wagon kept driving back and forth in the 700 block of Marshall Street, and a cooler was left behind by a construction crew. He said that he found both of those things suspicious.
7:08 p.m. – A caller wanted to file a bail jumping complaint against a man in the 300 block of East Main Street, but the caller was so intoxicated that she couldn’t formulate sentences or provide dates and times for the alleged violations.
9:51 p.m. – One person was arrested after a caller reported a female yelling on the corner of Arcadian Avenue and Pleasant Street.
10:49 p.m. – A man in the 1500 block of Big Bend Road believed someone might be siphoning his gas, and he said he only puts in a few gallons at a time to avoid the gas getting old in the tank. He told police he might be the target of teenagers in the area. Police believed the man may have some type of mental problem.
11:18 p.m. – A caller in the 1400 block of Big Bend Road reported that there was a party in nearby apartment, and a girl was crying and screaming. Police made contact with the apartment residents, who said they got into a heated verbal discussion. The residents were extremely apologetic.
11:53 p.m. – A caller reported smelling marijuana in the hallway of an apartment building in the 300 block of Newhall Avenue. Police determined the smell to be air freshener.
BID UPDATE!
Waukesha Police Department
THURSDAY 7:55 a.m. – A caller saw a laptop in a sewer grate in the 2400 block of Saratoga Road.
10:10 a.m. – A caller saw a man in a white car leaning back with his mouth open, possibly sleeping, in the 1100 block of Maitland Drive. He was gone when police arrived.
1:34 p.m. – A man was reportedly drinking out of a bottle of vodka while driving a black Lexus in the 900 block of North Barstow Street.
1:51 p.m. – A man got into a verbal altercation with his grandparents and threw a hammer in the 2100 block of Norton Avenue. He was taken to a group home.
3:41 p.m. – A juvenile was riding a four-wheeler in the roadway at Butler Road and Wolf Drive, and a caller reported that the kid was “screwing around” and not paying attention. He was gone when police arrived.
5:11 p.m. – A caller reported that a tan station wagon kept driving back and forth in the 700 block of Marshall Street, and a cooler was left behind by a construction crew. He said that he found both of those things suspicious.
7:08 p.m. – A caller wanted to file a bail jumping complaint against a man in the 300 block of East Main Street, but the caller was so intoxicated that she couldn’t formulate sentences or provide dates and times for the alleged violations.
9:51 p.m. – One person was arrested after a caller reported a female yelling on the corner of Arcadian Avenue and Pleasant Street.
10:49 p.m. – A man in the 1500 block of Big Bend Road believed someone might be siphoning his gas, and he said he only puts in a few gallons at a time to avoid the gas getting old in the tank. He told police he might be the target of teenagers in the area. Police believed the man may have some type of mental problem.
11:18 p.m. – A caller in the 1400 block of Big Bend Road reported that there was a party in nearby apartment, and a girl was crying and screaming. Police made contact with the apartment residents, who said they got into a heated verbal discussion. The residents were extremely apologetic.
11:53 p.m. – A caller reported smelling marijuana in the hallway of an apartment building in the 300 block of Newhall Avenue. Police determined the smell to be air freshener.
BID UPDATE!
