Close

Author: James Plummer

  • National Tanks Conference Draws 600 Attendees

    National Tanks Conference Draws 600 Attendees

    There were many new faces at the National Tanks Conference in Pittsburgh this September. Like many other industries, the field of underground storage tank regulation and leak prevention has seen significant staff turnover in the last few years. As industry veterans have retired, they’ve left the role of networking, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration with their counterparts…

    Read More

  • Clean Water Association Honors NEIWPCC Director’s Leadership

    Clean Water Association Honors NEIWPCC Director’s Leadership

    The Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA) honored Richard Friesner, NEIWPCC’s director of Water Quality Programs, with an Emerging Leaders Award at its recent annual meeting held in Memphis, Tennessee. The award recognized Friesner’s “notable leadership on or contributions to the work of an ACWA committee, task force, and/or workgroup, and show demonstrated potential for…

    Read More

  • National Tanks Program Has Cleaned Up 90% of Petroleum Releases

    National Tanks Program Has Cleaned Up 90% of Petroleum Releases

    EPA Thanks Partners For Achieving Milestone in Latest Issue of “L.U.S.T.Line” More than 500,000 petroleum releases from underground storage tanks (UST) have been cleaned up since the establishment of the national UST program over 30 years ago. According to Mark Barolo, acting director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Underground Storage Tanks, this…

    Read More

  • NEIWPCC Staff Recognized for Leadership in Water Industry

    Susan Sullivan, NEIWPCC executive director, and Jen Lichtensteiger, environmental analyst, received recognition last month as part of the New England Water Environment Association’s 2021-22 Awards Program. NEWEA’s Awards Program annually presents awards honoring members for outstanding water industry work in a variety of categories, including safety, engineering, operations, public education, public relations, management, collection systems,…

    Read More

  • NEIWPCC Turns 75 and Honors 50 Years of the Clean Water Act

    Executive Director Invites Partners to Celebrate NEIWPCC has two “watershed” moments to celebrate in 2022. This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the passage of the federal Clean Water Act of 1972, the landmark environmental legislation that has, to this day, defined how United States water resources are protected and restored. It will also…

    Read More

  • Assessing Nitrogen Removal Retrofits

    Assessing Nitrogen Removal Retrofits

    In 2013, NEIWPCC commissioned a study funded by the Long Island Sound Study to assess the feasibility of low-cost nitrogen removal retrofits to wastewater treatment plants in the upper Long Island Sound (LIS) watershed. The study, completed by JJ Environmental, LLC in 2015, presented a suite of cost-efficient retrofit and process modification recommendations for 21…

    Read More

  • Regional Initiative Addresses Salt Pollution

    Keeping highways and other paved areas clear of ice and snow is taking a toll on the region’s waters. NEIWPCC is launching a new collaborative to help our member states address chloride contamination in drinking water and surface water, which is caused primarily by application of salt to roads, parking lots, and sidewalks. Household and…

    Read More

  • Interactive Map Explores Rhode Island Salt Ponds

    Interactive Map Explores Rhode Island Salt Ponds

    The landscape along Rhode Island’s south coast is carved up by salt ponds, each one a unique environment. A new, online resource tells the story of these ponds and the organization that protects them. The Narragansett Bay Estuary Program partnered with the Salt Pond Coalition to create a StoryMap—an interactive, online medium that integrates detailed…

    Read More

  • Water Quality Standards across the Northeast

    Updated Resource Compiles, Compares Water Regulations in the Region NEIWPCC recently completed a major update to our water quality standards matrix, designed to make it easy to compare how the states in the Northeast regulate different water quality parameters. The matrix includes criteria for thirty water quality parameters— that is, pollutants or characteristics—that some or…

    Read More

  • Youth Program Expands to Lawrence, Mass.

    Eight Lawrence and Lowell high-schoolers are getting closely acquainted with wastewater treatment this summer. In Lowell, four teens are shadowing operators, lab technicians, and other employees at the Lowell Regional Wastewater Utility. They also complete maintenance tasks like weeding or hosing down settling tanks. In Lawrence the students split their time between the Greater Lawrence…

    Read More