Environmental protection and traffic flow could emerge as conflicting priorities with a wetland in the way of a Waukesha bypass.
"They really need the highway to go in," said David Bahl, plant manager at Weldall Mfg. Inc. and a member of the planning group. "But my first concern is doing it without destroying the wetlands."
The project does not have a proposed route, but a conceptual plan from Waukesha County showed the highway passing through the Pebble Creek wetland at the southern end of the study area. Planning panel member Joe Banske said he refuses to sacrifice wetland protection for a road.
A bypass built near Pebble Creek could harm the town of Waukesha's water quality and quantity, said Banske, a town resident and organizer for Bypass the Bypass and Save our Town.
"I'm going to stand very strongly on the absolute protection of the shallow aquifer and the ability for it to regenerate," he said, "because it is the only one that supplies the town, because without it, the town is in great peril.
"That may sound dramatic, but without it, where does the town go for water?"
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