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Wisconsin farm irrigation well approvals slower than mines
A well driller says Wisconsin farmers are not treated equally by state officials reviewing high-capacity well permits.
Brent La Brie is President of Kramer Well Drilling in Weyerhauser, Wisconsin. He tells Brownfield the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is noticeably slower at processing high capacity well permits for farmers. “A sand mine operation seems to be that three-month range, 90-days. Farmers, the ones that we’ve seen have been at least five, six, seven months… sometimes longer if there’s any type of a little discrepancy on the application at all.”
LaBrie says the wells he drills for farmers are no different than wells for sand mines.
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