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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Second Common Ground whistle­blower speaks publicly about MMSD mis­man­agement claims - Spectrum News

MILWAUKEE — Another Common Ground whistleblower is going public against the private company that runs Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s wastewater treatment system.

What You Need To Know

  • Another Common Ground whistleblower is going public against the private company that runs Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s wastewater treatment system

  • Common Ground is a nonprofit community activist group
  • Greg Gryskiewicz said he worked for MMSD for 14 years in various aspects of day-to-day operations of the agency’s wastewater facilities

  • He said Veolia, the company that’s contracted to operate MMSD’s wastewater treatment plants, isn’t doing a good job

Common Ground is a nonprofit community activist group. The group held a news conference Wednesday.

Greg Gryskiewicz said he worked for MMSD for 14 years in various aspects of day-to-day operations, including the agency’s wastewater facilities.

He said Veolia, the company that’s contracted to operate MMSD’s wastewater treatment plants, isn’t doing a good job.

“When you have a facility that’s running under capacity significantly and you go into a rain event, that water cannot be run through that facility, or South Shore,” he said. “Especially South Shore. They ran that facility at one-third to one-fifth the capacity in many rain events that it was designed for.”

Veolia has come under scrutiny in recent weeks. On April 30, Steve Jacquart, a retired MMSD employee and Common Ground’s first whistleblower, came forward...



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