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Who Needs BP When You've Got Tom Barrett? Submitted by Michael Brickman on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 11:39am In 2004, when Tom Barrett was running for mayor, he promised to stop dumping sewage into Lake Michigan: "Barrett said he would like to curtail the practice of 'blending' partly treated sewage flows with fully treated flows" Now, more than six years later, Tom Barrett is still dumping sewage into Lake Michigan BILLIONS of gallons at a time. As Widgerson and others have noted, Barrett's dump during the recent Milwaukee flood was, by volume, many times worse than the BP oil spill. In...

Sewage spills after storm defy cleanup; officials look for ways to avoid repeats By MARIE ROHDEmrohde@journalsentinel.com Posted: May 12, 2004 Whitefish Bay - Lynne Belcher was strolling along the beach at Big Bay Park Wednesday morning when she spotted a huge slick of what she described as a field of feces, just 20 feet from the shoreline. Recent Coverage 5/11/04: Sewers overflow to waterways A small crowd had joined her on the beach, she said, and all had the same thought: "I knew right away it was that stuff that was dumped up in Bayside," Belcher said, referring to the...