April 2026 - NEW Water was featured in the Water Environment & Technology magazine, about "No Fumbles on the Flush: How Green Bay's NEW Water handled the 2025 NFL Draft," see experts below.
In the smallest U.S. town represented by a National Football League (NFL) team, star quarterback Jordan Love and cheese curds are always trending topics. Flushing toilets and wastewater treatment are, decidedly, not.
When the news broke that Green Bay, Wisconsin, would host the NFL draft in 2025, the team at NEW Water — the brand of the Green Bay (Wisconsin) Metropolitan Sewerage District — began working on a gameplan.
NEW Water owns and operates two wastewater facilities as well as sanitary sewer conveyance infrastructure that together serve approximately 240,000 people within a 740-km2 (285-mi2) area. Research from SportsImpacts (St. Louis) estimates that more than 360,000 people attended the 2025 NFL draft.
"Since we didn’t have a playbook on what to expect, we leveraged our partnerships in the clean water industry to learn from others’ experiences," said Pat Wescott, director of operations for NEW Water. "We are grateful to our colleagues for sharing their time and expertise."
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