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Video Series Offers a Virtual Tour of Lake Champlain Landscapes and Shares Stewardship Stories
The Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program, in partnership with Peregrine Productions and NEIWPCC, launched a new video series, “Summit to Shore,” celebrating the beauty of the basin and highlighting the efforts in several communities to protect and restore their shared waters. Using the web-based StoryMap as a guide, viewers can digitally explore the landscape…
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Funding Available to Map Oyster Population in the Hudson River
NEIWPCC, in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (NYSDEC) Hudson River Estuary Program, is inviting proposals from qualified consultants to survey American oyster (Crassostrea virginica) distribution in an approximately 10-mile section of the Hudson River Estuary from Piermont Pier to Yonkers, New York. The oyster survey is intended to complement past…
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A Passion for Microbiology: Trainer Nora Lough
By Beth MacBlane On any given day, one can find Nora Lough peering into a microscope studying bacteria and other microorganisms that underpin the wastewater treatment process. “Working in wastewater is the best profession in the entire world,” said Nora Lough, biologist II at the Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC) and a training consultant with NEIWPCC’s…
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Climate Change Impacts on Diadromous Fish Populations in the Northeast
By Devon Case In the diverse aquatic tapestry of the Northeastern U.S., diadromous fish – species that migrate between freshwater and saltwater – play a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance. However, climate change is having a significant impact on these important species, leading to declines in their populations. Connecting Ecosystems: The Role of Sea-Run…
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New Season of Clean Water Podcast Launches on Innovative Approaches to Water Quality Improvement
The third season of the “Clean Water Pod” podcast will focus on stories from across the country that showcase innovative approaches within the Clean Water Act 303(d) Program. For the season’s first episode, host Jeff Berckes spoke with his former colleague, Jason Palmer, a natural resource biologist, about a successful project they worked on together…
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A 25-year Career Teaching Wastewater Operators: Don Kennedy
By Beth MacBlane Over the course of Don Kennedy’s multi-decade career, he enthusiastically taught thousands of operators about industrial wastewater treatment and collection systems throughout the Northeast. Kennedy began working as a wastewater training specialist at NEIWPCC in 1999, leading single and multi-day courses on all aspects of operations and maintenance of treatment facilities. “Despite…
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Reducing Long Island Sound’s Hypoxic Waters
By James Ammerman For decades, the Long Island Sound (LIS), located between New York and Connecticut, has had a chronic problem with bottom water hypoxia, or oxygen depletion, due to nutrient pollution from urban wastewater treatment plants, stormwater, septic systems and fertilizer runoff. These hypoxic waters are unable to sustain life, leading to die-offs of…
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Call for Abstracts: Nonpoint Source Conference
NEIWPCC is now inviting abstracts for the 35th Annual Nonpoint Source (NPS) Conference, to be held April 9-10, 2025 in Freeport, Maine. NEIWPCC is coordinating the conference in partnership with its member states and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Abstract submissions are due on December 15. Submissions are invited from NPS managers at the state, federal,…
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New Funding Expands Water Chestnut Management in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
The Southeast New England Program (SNEP) awarded NEIWPCC a $100,000 grant for habitat restoration efforts in two interstate watersheds. The funding supports continued work on the Community-Based Habitat Restoration: Water Chestnut Management in the Blackstone and Ten Mile Watersheds project, which began in spring 2023. Both the Blackstone and Ten Mile watersheds are located in…
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Call for Abstracts Now Open: North Country Convention
NEIWPCC and Maine’s Joint Environmental Training Coordinating Committee (JETCC) are now inviting abstracts for the North Country Convention, to be held April 2-3, 2025, in Presque Isle, Maine. The two-day educational event and trade show is designed for wastewater and drinking water operators in northern Maine. Abstract submissions are due on November 15. Submissions are…