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Milwaukee
Water Works coverage
Click
here for Secret Armitage & Associates Report
 Booze,
Bombs and Porn at the City Water Works
May
10, 2001
"My first assignment
was underground at Linnwood, flushing out the sludge from large tanks with
a big fire hose. It was a recovery basin that collects spent wash water-the
backwash from the filters. You had to climb down a ladder, about 16 or
18 feet, into a huge, cavernous place about a quarter the size of a football
field. It has a musty smell, but you can smell the chlorine, too. You shiver;
it's real cold. You have to wear warm clothing. We wore a lot of gear,
like yellow rain gear-it had a jacket and bib. I was at the front end of
the hose and I was all of 120 pounds. It was all I could do to hold onto
the hose. I had to wrap it around me. Another person holds the hose behind
to help move it. I turned around to see why it wasn't moving and the other
guy was standing on the hose with his bib down and his hands in his pants
making masturbation gestures. There were about eight of us down there,
and the others were standing around watching and laughing."
Story
New
concerns over employee competence and efficiency at the Milwaukee Water
Works are being raised by former employees and others
May 17, 2001
Superintendent Carrie
Lewis this week says all her employees "are trained in safety" and receive
a "full battery of training on the job," but she could not say whether
they could read warning labels on chemicals or even read the names of chemicals
they worked with. Story
MilwaukeePress.net
posts
secret Water Works investigation on Internet
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Milwaukee
City Attorney Grant F. Langley released about 100 pages of the redacted
report July 25, three months after we demanded access to it under
the state Public Records Act. The report was commissioned with public money
after former Water Works employee Nancy Grider filed a harassment charge
that later became a federal civil rights case. The city settled this spring.
MilwaukeePress.Net is posting the report, censored by the government, on the Internet.
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Introduction
and summary in .pdf format (207 KB)
Interview
with "Employee 1" in .pdf format (890 KB)
Interview
with "Employee 2" in .pdf format (170 KB)
Interview
with "Employee 4" in .pdf format (45 KB)
Interview
with "Employee 10" in .pdf format (32 KB)
Interview
with "Employee 12" in .pdf format (50 KB)
Interview
with "Employee 13" in .pdf format (37 KB)
Interview
with "Employee 20" in .pdf format (51 KB)
Interview
with "Employee 21" in .pdf format (20 KB)
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