National kudos for Executive Director
NEW Water Executive Director Tom Sigmund was presented with the President’s Award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) in April.
NEW Water has won a “Business Friends of Education” award, the only clean water utility in the State of Wisconsin to be bestowed this honor. The Green Bay Area Public School District nominated NEW Water, applauding its Youth Apprenticeship Program and educational outreach.
NEW Water Executive Director Tom Sigmund was presented with the President’s Award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) in April.
NEW Water congratulates all businesses that were in compliance with wastewater discharge standards for 2012! Under State Statutes, NEW Water issues permits to Significant Industrial Users for environmental regulation compliance.
Construction is expected to begin in late spring of 2014 with relocation of the primary electrical feed substation and medium voltage underground electrical cables. After that work is completed, construction of the remaining facilities will begin in late 2014, with completion in early 2018.
NEW Water’s Director of Environmental Programs, Bill Hafs, has been named a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Great Lakes Advisory Board.
After serving on the Commission for 25 years, Professor Daniel J. Alesch retired in December. In gratitude for his dedicated service, NEW Water has named its Training Center after him.
NEW Water held a workshop in April as part of the 2013 Wisconsin Lakes Partnership Convention, which was attended by nature conservationists from across the state, and arranged by the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
The Resource Recovery and Electrical Energy (R2E2) project continues along in its design phase; the R2E2 Stakeholder Committee met on May 14 to get an update, and will reconvene in September.