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riversedge

(73,164 posts) Sun Sep 9, 2018, 07:03 PM Sep 2018

Torrent of stormwater spills from Foxconn construction site after heavy weekend rains

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Torrent of stormwater spills from Foxconn construction site after heavy weekend rains

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2018/09/05/storm-water-spills-foxconn-construction-site-after-weekend-rains/1204012002/

Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 5:09 p.m. CT Sept. 5, 2018 | Updated 7:55 a.m. CT Sept. 6, 2018

Stormwater rushed from the construction site of Foxconn Technology Group in Mount Pleasant this week after a deluge pummeled many areas of southern Wisconsin in recent days.

A video taken by a resident on Monday afternoon shows rain pooled in low-lying areas and surging off the Foxconn property in Racine County near Highway H and KR and into a ditch that flows to the Pike River...................................................

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Torrent of stormwater spills from Foxconn construction site after heavy weekend rains (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2018 OP

More of Walkers Lake Front Property. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #1

That didn't need all that so-called 'topsoil' just sitting around, anyway htuttle Sep 2018 #2

That area... The Conductor Sep 2018 #3

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. More of Walkers Lake Front Property.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Sep 9, 2018, 07:10 PM

Sep 2018

Or is that swamp property.

htuttle

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2. That didn't need all that so-called 'topsoil' just sitting around, anyway

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Sep 9, 2018, 08:05 PM

Sep 2018

That's how they roll in the People's Republic.

The Conductor

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3. That area...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 05:34 AM

Sep 2018

I grew up only a couple of miles from there, and still live in the area, having passed there only last night. What makes me think there is something really wrong here is that they specifically chose the ONLY spot in all of Racine County east of I-94 that drains into the Mississippi River system, rather than Lake Michigan. That is weird. A quarter mile east or north and that would not have been so.

The other strange thing is "revamping all of the roads, because of the huge truck traffic." The plant was promised to be a monster huge place - now vastly reduced in both size and employment, but still costing the same! But even the original proposal would not have shipped more than 10,000 little LCD screens a day. So why the huge roads, when Amazon's distribution center just two miles south and also next to the same higway ships a million packages a day? The roads around Amazon were not redone at all!

Fox Conn is more like just a con game.

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