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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