NEW Water once again teamed up with the Green Bay Water Utility for its 6th annual World Water Day event on March 20. This year, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) was given the NEW Watershed Champion award for its leadership on the Fox River Cleanup Project, to reduce risk to human health and the environment due to the presence of PCBs in the Lower Fox River.
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NEW Water teamed up with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to help more than 60 Girl Scouts from around Wisconsin earn their "Wonder of Water" badge on November 10, 2018. Activities included learning about the infamous water bear microorganism and watching them swim under microscopes; learning about cleaning water by making water filters; learning about aquatic life in "Who's in your stream? simulating runoff in a community through an enviroscape activity; and creating bracelets representative of the water cycle.
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NEW Water is entering a new era in resource recovery! Our new solids handling facility, Resource Recovery and Electrical Energy, or R2E2 is going online. Public tours are now available, come and check it out!
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NEW Water was pleased to partner with the Green Bay Water Utility for a joint booth at the Green Bay Kids' Day event in June. More than 2,000 children and their families turned out to the water booth to learn about protecting our most valuable resource, water, and to do some "fishing" too!
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NEW Water is participating in a joint study with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Zilber School of Public Health regarding toxins present along the shoreline at Bay Beach. Data indicates the presence of cyanotoxins, which are harmful to humans and animals.
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Best wishes for the Holidays and the coming New Year!
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NEW Water teamed up with the Green Bay Water Utility to help more than 3,000 middle school students learn about our watershed, and careers in water. The Greater Green Bay Chamber of Commerce's annual "Find Your Inspiration" event was held at the KI Center. NEW Water is proud to help address the identified community need to get youth thinking about their future careers.
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NEW Water has donated an innovative piece of farm machinery to Brown County, thanks to a grant from the Fund for Lake Michigan. An InterSeeder dedication ceremony occurred at the historic Deiderich Family Farm.
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That would be NEW Water’s toilet on wheels! Our community partner, the Children’s Museum of Green Bay (Plan Your Visit Here), is currently hosting NEW Water’s educational display in honor of “Fix a Leak Week”.
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NEW Water has been recognized as a Water Resources Utility of the Future Today. Approximately 16,000 water resource recovery facilities operate in the U.S.; NEW Water has received this recognition in its inaugural year.
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