MILWAUKEE - A former Veolia Water employee described working conditions at both of Milwaukee's wastewater plants as unethical, wrong and wasteful in a new report released Tuesday.
What they're saying:
Greg Gryskiewicz, the same whistleblower who held a news conference with the nonprofit Common Ground last week, described unsustainable conditions, like control rooms infested with mice at the Jones Island Water Reclamation Plant.
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Gryskiewicz put his thoughts and first-hand accounts in a 37-page report, accusing Veolia Water of either not fixing or not properly repairing equipment that helps filter wastewater, leading to equipment failures. He also said the company tampered with work orders to make it seem like plants were in better shape than they were.
"MMSD would often bring in brand new equipment, and it would be installed incorrectly or inferior equipment to begin with," he said at last week's news conference. "They would replace equipment that was 20 years old, that was still barely working, with something that would last six to eight months. Then, it became a game of who's gonna pay for that."
The backstory:
The former employee-turned-whistleblower said he spent 14 years climbing the ranks at the Jones Island facility. He said he left two weeks into his machinist apprenticeship because he could not keep working in an environment he said did not set employees...
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