NEW Water News

The 2020 Industrial Achievement Award Winners

NEW Water congratulates the following businesses for receiving the Silver, Gold, and Platinum Awards in recognition of consecutive years of full compliance with wastewater discharge standards and requirements for 2020.

Start Your Spring Cleaning with Household Hazardous Waste

Each year over two million potential poisonings are reported nationwide, with nearly 90% of these occurring inside the home. With spring cleaning season fast approaching, local agencies and Brown County Resource Recovery want you to know about the proper disposal of common household hazardous materials during National Poison Prevention Week, March 21-27.

NEW Water "breaks tradition" and honors Nancy Quirk of Green Bay Water with NEW Watershed Champion Award

Green Bay Water Utility was first in the nation to remove lead service lines

(GREEN BAY – March 22) The 8th annual NEW Watershed Champion ceremony has broken tradition.

Nancy Quirk, P.E., General Manager of the Green Bay Water Utility, was honored in a surprise virtual call by Tom Sigmund, Executive Director of NEW Water, and Kathryn Hasselblad, President of the NEW Water Commission, and Commissioner for Green Bay Water Utility. For the past seven years, the two utilities have jointly given this award to a community member for their efforts to improve area waters.

Inaugural Wisconsin Water Week to feature “Brave Blue World” film followed by discussion “Wicked Water Challenges in Wisconsin”

NEW Water participating in panel discussion following film, moderated by Water Environment Federation President Lynn Broaddus.

As part of the inaugural Wisconsin Water Week, the documentary “Brave Blue World” will be shown, which highlights global advancements in water, and features commentary from leading scientists, engineers, as well as actor Matt Damon, co-founder of Water.org. The film will be followed by a panel discussion called “Wicked Water Challenges in Wisconsin,” hosted by Lynn Broaddus, President of the Water Environment Federation.

(Washington, D.C.) –Winners of the 2021 National Environmental Achievement Awards (NEAA) have been notified of their achievement. This annual awards program is presented to NACWA member public clean water utilities that have made outstanding contributions to environmental protection, their communities, ratepayers, and the water sector.

To address this emerging contaminant, NEW Water will be looking to partner with area industries and stakeholders in the future. “NEW Water supports pollution prevention initiatives to protect our most valuable resource, water,” said Tom Sigmund, Executive Director of NEW Water. “By partnering to minimize PFAS at its sources, we can better serve our community by finding cost-effective solutions to protect the environment and public health.”

Green Bay's NBC-26 featured NEW Water’s #LoveYourWatershed initiative, highlighting the importance of doing your part to care for area waters. See the story here.

WBAY featured NEW Water's 'out of sight' essential workers in the news, highlighting the unseen workers protecting our most valuable resource, water.

Waste Into Fuel: A Water Infrastructure Success in Green Bay

Story re-posted from Healing Our Waters Website.

Communities across the Great Lakes are struggling with aging drinking and waste water infrastructure that is vital to providing safe drinking water, and nonstop wastewater treatment services that protect public health.

Thanks to federally funded programs such as the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF), communities that struggle with aging water infrastructure can get low-interest or no-interest loans and even loan forgiveness to upgrade these systems and protect communities and habitats over the long term.

NBC-26 featured NEW Water’s #LoveYourWatershed initiative is in the news this week, highlighting the importance of doing your part to care for area waters.