MILWAUKEE - A former Veolia Water employee is accusing the company and its partner, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, of mismanaging Milwaukee-area wastewater treatment plants.
What we know:
Veolia and MMSD deny the allegations, which come as MMSD weighs proposals for a contract that could be worth $700 million.
Greg Gryskiewicz said he spent 14 years climbing the ranks at Veolia Water’s Jones Island treatment plant. 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 up for success.
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"I mean, it's my dream job. I had no reason to leave, honestly," Gryskiewicz said. "You can imagine what it's like operating a facility with your main equipment that screens the wastewater out of commission with no way to bypass it because of engineering problems."
Gryskiewicz is the second whistleblower to come forward publicly as part of nonprofit Common Ground’s latest campaign for change.
He accused Veolia and MMSD of passing the bill for expensive repairs to one another, only for the equipment that helps treat wastewater to go unrepaired. Gryskiewicz said the lack of maintenance contributes to flooding.
The allegations come after another major flooding event and in the middle of negotiations over the next operations contract.
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