World Water Day was March 22, and Earth Day is around the corner! Looking for ways to love the earth, and to help protect our waterways? Joining a Fox River cleanup and building a rain garden are two examples of what you can do.
World Water Day was March 22, and Earth Day is around the corner! Looking for ways to love the earth, and to help protect our waterways? Joining a Fox River cleanup and building a rain garden are two examples of what you can do.
NEW Water once again teamed up with the Green Bay Water Utility for a World Water Day celebration, and this year awarded Green Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Director Mike Reed with the NEW Watershed Champion Award. The celebration included singing kindergartners!
NEW Water has lauded numerous local industries with Silver and Gold Awards for achieving 100% wastewater permit compliance, and for helping to prevent pollution from our waterways!
NEW Water held a quarterly "What's New at NEW Water" update on March 5th, which included an update on the new solids handling facility, Resource Recovery and Electrical Energy (R2E2).
To meet new phosphorus regulations, NEW Water has embarked on Adaptive Management as a more cost effective means to achieving environmental permit compliance. NEW Water's pilot project in Silver Creek has been awarded $1.6 million from the Environmental Protection Agency, and $240,000 from Ducks Unlimited and the Fox River Natural Resources Trustee Council