Rising in the ranks as an engineer and designer of clean-water plants, Tom Sigmund, P.E., likely never dreamed that someday he’d be dealing with soil conservation practices on farms.
But today that’s part of his job as executive director of NEW Water, the clean-water utility serving Green Bay and 14 other Wisconsin communities in a 285-square-mile service area. Sigmund, winner of a 2018 William D. Hatfield Award for excellence in plant operations from the Central States Water Environment Association, has led NEW Water’s transition to a focus on resource recovery and on a watershed approach to reducing phosphorus inputs to the
