More whistleblowers have gone public with allegations of mismanagement against Veolia Water Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District‘s (MMSD) private wastewater plant operator.
Common Ground Southeastern Wisconsin is working with dozens of whistleblowers to bring the allegations to light. On Thursday, Common Ground released a report documenting new allegations from 20 additional whistleblowers, including claims that Veolia is falsifying equipment records and water-quality reports and failing to accurately document how much sewage is being dumped into Lake Michigan.
The whistleblowers, five of whom are publicly attaching their names to allegations, further allege there are unsafe working conditions at the district’s two water-treatment plants — Jones Island and South Shore — that they are running below capacity and operating with minimal oversight.
The new public whistleblowers are all retired or have left the company. They include 18-year treatment plant operator Pam Schultz, former treatment plant operator Jacob Holbert, 17-year powerhouse operator Robert Patterson, former Jones Island machinist Jim Robertson and Robert Blake, a 20-year plant employee who retired in 2015.
Veolia and MMSD have been facing public scrutiny for the operations of the two facilities since April, when Common Ground launched a campaign calling for an audit. The MMSD Commission, an oversight body largely appointed by the mayor of the City of Milwaukee, has since approved funding...
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