Regional Municipal Environmental Services

Communities throughout northeast Wisconsin are expected to face increasingly stringent regulations related to wastewater discharges to receiving waters. As for GBMSD, these regulations may impose significant facility upgrade requirements and challenge the technical expertise of facility operators. These emerging challenges, however, may also afford new opportunities to realize economies of scale in service delivery and more fully leverage the technical expertise at GBMSD.

This strategic investment option contemplates GBMSD's provision of wastewater treatment and collection services to other municipalities in the region beyond its existing service area. These services would be tailored to respond to individual community goals and objectives. Whereas some communities may elect to have GBMSD assume responsibility for operation and maintenance of their facilities, others may seek to have GMSD provide technicians support relate to specific processes or regulatory requirements. Situations similar to the De Pere system integration may enable communities to obtain value for existing system assets and relief from future service delivery obligations. Perhaps most importantly, GBMSD's strategic investment seeks to establish partnerships with regional municipalities to promote economical and efficient delivery of environmental services.

Implementation and Update

GBMSD has initiated implementation of components of its strategic investment portfolio. The following describes what has been accomplished to date:

• Working as part of the Brown County Waste Transformation initiative to identify regional solids and agricultural waste management options
• Identified potential municipal service offerings