Green Bay, suburbs end water talks By Ray Barrington News-Chronicle As plans continue for a suburban pipeline to Manitowoc, talks with Green Bay apparently have ended. Central Brown County Water Authority president Roy Simonson said Wednesday a scheduled meeting he had planned with Green Bay Water Commission president Tim Nixon fell through when it became clear each side didn't want to talk about what the other wanted to talk about. "I saw in the paper that he wasn't interested in talking about future proposals after we get our pipeline in," Simonson said. So he called Nixon and asked what he wanted to talk about, which turned out to be another pitch for the suburbs to buy from Green Bay. Since Simonson wasn't interested in following that line of discussion, they agreed not to meet. "We still hope that when we get our pipeline in, the opportunity will be there for mutual cooperation for emergency services," Simonson said. Meanwhile, the suburbs and Manitowoc are near an agreement to start pilot testing of membrane filtration systems at the Manitowoc plant. Manitowoc already uses a membrane system, but the suburbs, who will run their own filtration system in extra space at Manitowoc's treatment plant, are testing two other systems. Joe Linssens of Ledgeview, who chairs the CBCWA's Technical Committee, said the testing could begin by mid-April. The CBCWA also heard from Hobart, which is concerned about possible conflicts with Howard. Hobart has pulled out of the CBCWA, citing its small size and lack of a complete water system. It wants to work with Hobart as a supplier of an emergency connection for its northern well. Hobart also expressed concern that the CBCWA system, which has to run through Hobart to get to Howard, might run along County FF, which is scheduled for reconstruction this summer along with a sewer interceptor line. Hobart is concerned the road might have to be torn up again. Linssens said he does not expect the water line to go along that road.