NEW Watershed Program Launched - NEW Water - The brand of the Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District - 2021 Annual Report - Report - Page 10
NEW Watershed Program Launched
NEW Watershed
Program Launched
In 2021, NEW Water launched
the NEW Watershed Program,
an approach to achieve permit
compliance more cost-effectively,
for greater environmental gain. A
virtual public launch event featured
support from U.S. Senator Tammy
Baldwin, U.S. Representative Mike
Gallagher, Wisconsin Senator
Robert L. Cowles, and Matt
Claucherty from the Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources
(DNR).
The program will be conducted in
Ashwaubenon Creek and Dutchman
Creek (ACDC) watersheds to
improve water quality by reducing
sediment and phosphorus runoff
from entering area waterways. NEW
Water’s NEW Watershed Program
in ACDC is a large-scale, Adaptive
Management Program modeled on
the success of NEW Water’s Silver
Creek Adaptive Management Pilot
Project, that began in 2014.
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