A second whistleblower stepped forward Thursday, alleging mismanagement by Veolia, the company hired by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to run the region’s two wastewater treatment plants.
Standing with Lake Michigan to his back and Jones Island to his left, Milwaukee native Greg Gryskiewicz said he worked at the plant 14 years.
“And I started off, believe it or not, as a security guard, and I moved up from there into maintenance,” he said.
Ultimately, Gryskiewicz worked his way up to his dream job, “I was chosen as one of three people to become a machinist,” he said.
But early in 2024, just two weeks into that coveted position, Gryskiewicz said he felt compelled to leave for ethical reasons.
“I was unhappy with a lot of the way they treated equipment and employees,” he said.
Gryskiewicz said equipment was chronically not properly maintained, and that impairs the plants’ ability to properly treat wastewater.
“We had weekly meetings where we talked about the same broken equipment for years and it became like a comedy show," he said. "I hate to say it, but after a certain point of saying ‘Hey I’m going into a rain event, I have half of the screening equipment that this facility should have, and we have no way to bypass it. And if you put too much flow though this place it’s going to flood into the streets.’ And you say that to managers and they already know. And that’s it. There’s nothing that’s going to be done."
Gryskiewicz said working under those conditions...
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