NEW Water News

June 2025 - NEW Water was featured on WBAY, highlighting the Downtown Interceptors Renewal Project. The segment focused on infrastructure improvements to nearly century-old pipes, which are being renewed to extend their lifespan and maintain reliable service to the community.
The WBAY story is found below. To see the story on WBAY, please visit: Pipes being repaired in Green Bay may impact downtown businesses   |   wbay.com >>

June 2025 - NEW Water was featured in the Press Times, highlighting the construction that will be starting on the Downtown Interceptors Renewal Project in downtown Green Bay to replace aging infrastructure, see article below. To read their full publication, please visit: NEW Water replaces sewer infrastructure dating to FDR era   |   gopresstimes.com >>

June 2025 - NEW Water was featured in the Green Bay Press Gazette, regarding NEW Water's Downtown Interceptors Renewal Project, see story below. 
To read their full publication, please visit: $29 million sewer project underway, will affect east-side Green Bay roads, trails, sidewalks   |   greenbaypressgazette.com >> 

Insight on Business featured NEW Water’s incoming Executive Director, Nathan Qualls, in the “Get to Know” column.

The Insight on Business story is found below. To read their full publication, please visit: November 2024 News & Noteworthy | News & Noteworthy | insightonbusiness.com >>

July 2024 - NEW Water was featured on WFRV's “Sustainably Speaking” segment, highlighting the two long-term water quality monitoring stations, which bring some data collection parameters to (near) real-time and post them online for the public to utilize.

The NEW Business Review featured an article on NEW Water highlighting the importance of protecting Wisconsin’s precious waterways – for the best interest for our economy, our health, and our way of life.

Tilth Agronomy Talk Radio featured NEW Water to discuss its watershed efforts, as well as its mission, services, and the “half-time flush” phenomenon of home football games.

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Article by: Building Wisconsin TV

Join host Stuart Keith as we catch up with the members of Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 400 in this episode of Building Wisconsin TV to take a closer look at the plumbing in waste water treatment plants. We’ll meet up with Local 400 Business Manager Doug Dokey to start the show and then head to the Heart of the Valley Waste Water Treatment Plant in Kaukauna, WI to meet District Director Brian Helminger along with Local 400 Plumbers Dave Poppe and Tyler Zeh from August Winter & Sons. We’ll then head a little north to Green Bay to visit the NEW Water treatment facility and meet up with Director of Operations Pat Wescott and then catch up with Local 400 Plumber Matt Heus from J.F. Ahern to learn about a technology being used in existing structures called Laser Scanning.

NEW Water was in the news as a partner on the new S.H.E.D. (SHED) facility.

On November 15, representatives from the Oneida Nation, Outagamie County, Fox Wolf Watershed Alliance, and NEW Water gathered as partners to celebrate a ribbon cutting event of the Soil Health Education and Demonstration (SHED) facility. This 30-acre site serves as a central hub which includes a large shed to house innovative pieces of specialized equipment for farmers to try out, along with numerous demonstration plots. The partnership and facility are intended to encourage more sustainable agricultural practices such as continuous cover to improve soil structure, increase infiltration, minimize runoff and soil erosion, and sequester more carbon.

October 2023 - Spectrum News featured our partnership with UWGB’s Student Monitoring Program, to help educate area youth about the importance of work in the watershed, to protect our most valuable resource, water.