NEW Water’s Resource Recovery and Electrical Energy (R2E2) Project construction has launched! NEW Water is on the path toward resource recovery. The new solids handling facility will harness materials sent to the facility to generate electricity, heat, reduce costs, and create a fertilizer to bring in additional revenue.
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Oneida and Bay Port High Schools have teamed up with NEW Water on the Silver Creek Pilot Project!
As part of the ongoing efforts to reduce phosphorus in our watershed, a Kids’ Monitoring Project has been launched in conjunction with the Silver Creek Pilot Project, thanks to a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant.
Oneida Nation High School and Bay Port High School students recently participated in classroom activities about the Silver Creek project. Students from two biology classes and an environmental science class (approximately 45 students) participated at Oneida HS. At Bay Port HS, students from natural resources management, fish and wildlife, and aquaculture/hydroponics classes (about 95 students) participated in the activities.
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Director Mike Reed was named “NEW Watershed Champion 2015” Friday for ushering in a new generation of water stewards.
Topics: World Water Day
On December 2nd, NEW Water Executive Director Tom Sigmund provided testimony to the US Senate Water and Wildlife Subcommittee on efforts associated with "Innovation and the Utilities of the Future."
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What shouldn't get dumped down the drain? Oil, fats, grease, wipes, dental floss... these items can lead to homeowner backups and clog up equipment at NEW Water.
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Underground utilities are currently being relocated at NEW Water's Green Bay Facility, in preparation for the 2015 construction of the Resource Recovery and Electrical Energy (R2E2) solids handling facility. Pictured above is a 3D rendering of the new solids handling building, which will house the fluid bed incinerator.
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Congratulations Charlie Frisk, the "NEW Watershed Champion" for 2014! This extraordinary educator led students and community efforts to revive Baird Creek, which is quickly becoming one of the Midwest's preeminent urban parks. NEW Water and the Green Bay Water Utility launched the award as part of its first annual World Water Day event. Brown County Executive, Troy Streckenbach, and Green Bay Mayor, Jim Schmitt, also were awarded with certificates of appreciation for their water quality improvement efforts.
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While California's drought rages on, Wisconsin enjoys an abundance of water - but faces a host of water quality impairment challenges, say water experts in Green Bay.
Topics: World Water Day
Green Bay's "Dead Zone" - a swath of oxygen-deprived water - has appeared in the news lately, calling attention to a problem requiring a community-wide solution. NEW Water is already on the case.
For its part, NEW Water is combating the dead zone by implementing "Adaptive Management," (AM) a community-wide approach to reducing phosphorus runoff into waterways.
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