Salt storage facilities in the Port of Milwaukee, WI are in the path of a proposed re-engineering of I-794 and the Hoan bridge in the Milwaukee harbor. Reconstruction or replacement of the bridge and its associated roads must begin before serious deterioration of the bridge in 2013. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today that the Milwaukee Area Association of Commerce has petitioned Gov. Jim Doyle to get the process underway, arguing that the decision requires a lot of pre-planning and community consultation. The fear has been that state agencies might have pre-conceived notions of the changes -- and that those changes would injure current uses of the Port. Milwaukee imports about 1 million tons of salt annually.