Meet the District’s leadership team
Under the direction of the Executive Director, the team provides leadership and strategic oversight for District staff and operations to help ensure the organization fulfills its mission to protect public health and the environment. Our District leadership also works directly with the Commission on guidance for the organization.
Eric Dundee | Alan Grooms | Jen Hurlebaus | Bill Walker | Amanda Wegner
Eric Dundee
Executive Director
Executive Director Eric Dundee leads the District in providing efficient wastewater treatment and environmental protection. Reporting to the District Commission, Eric directs the execution of the strategic plan, sets goals, creates administrative guidelines and oversees operations.
Prior to becoming Executive Director, Eric held roles as District Principal Engineer and as the Director of Wastewater Operations and Reliability. Before the District, Eric worked as a principal engineer with the City of Madison Public Works Department – Engineering Division. His other past experience is in municipal engineering as a consultant engineer providing planning, design, and construction services.
Eric graduated with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He holds a professional engineering license along with his Envision Sustainability Professional designation. He is active in the American Public Works Association as a Wisconsin chapter executive committee member and serves on multiple state and national committees.
Eric joined the District in 2017.
Alan Grooms
Director of Operations and Maintenance
Alan Grooms oversees the District’s collection systems and treatment facilities. He is responsible for the operation and maintenance of critical public infrastructure, including asset management and reliability programs, environmental monitoring, regulatory compliance and watershed protection initiatives.
Alan brings more than 30 years of experience in water and wastewater treatment, system planning and design, construction and day‑to‑day operations to the District. He served as the District’s Operations Manager and Process and Research Engineer before being named Director of Operations and Maintenance.
Alan is a U.S. Navy veteran and served more than four years as a surface warfare‑qualified division officer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in civil (environmental) engineering from Iowa State University. He is a licensed professional engineer, an advanced wastewater operator and an Envision Sustainability Professional. He also completed the Wisconsin Certified Public Manager program and is actively involved in the Water Environment Federation, where he serves on the executive board of the Central States Water Environment Association.
Alan joined the District in 2009.
Jennifer Hurlebaus
Director of Planning and Engineering
Jennifer Hurlebaus brings over 20 years of experience to the Director of Planning and Engineering role after leading the District’s inflow and infiltration reduction program, guiding collection system condition assessment work and working within both the Engineering and the Planning departments. Her expertise helps the District strive for continuous improvement and efficiency.
Prior to the District, Jen worked as a water resources engineer at two different consulting firms. She holds a professional engineering license, a wastewater operator certification in collection systems and an Envision Sustainability Professional designation. She is active in the American Society of Civil Engineers and serves on Wisconsin’s Collection System Committee for the Water Environment Federation / Central States Water Environment Association.
Jen has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in geological engineering and in geology and geophysics. She has numerous publications and presentations under her belt, including features in the American Public Works Association’s APWA Reporter and the Report Card for Wisconsin’s Infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Jen joined the District in 2016.
William Walker
Director of Business Administration
William Walker has had a long career in public service, beginning as a policy and budget analyst with the Wisconsin Department of Administration, where he focused on state-level issues in water, utility regulation and agriculture. He has worked as a budget director for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and later for the Wisconsin Director of State Courts Office. In between, he worked as a regulatory economist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Bill has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in environmental economics from Michigan State University.
As the Director of Business Administration, his responsibilities include overseeing the Finance, Human Resources and IT departments; setting division plans and goals; managing services of outside legal counsel; and participating in the District Executive Management Team.
Bill joined the District in 2016.
Amanda Wegner
Communications & Public Affairs Manager
Amanda Wegner brings about 25 years of experience in marketing and communications to the District. From her start in her hometown newsroom in high school, she has held a number of roles across the private, nonprofit and public sectors and ran a communications consulting business.
She spent seven years leading communications at Clean Wisconsin, an environmental nonprofit dedicated to clean water, clean energy and climate change advocacy. Prior to the District, she led digital marketing efforts at Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Amanda has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed her MBA at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Amanda joined the District in 2019.
