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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…
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NEIWPCC hosts National State Revolving Fund Workshop for First Time
NEIWPCC, in collaboration with member states and the U.S. EPA, held the National State Revolving Fund (SRF) Workshop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in July. The workshop covered programmatic, financial, and technical aspects of SRFs. Session topics included environmental justice, PFAS, climate resilience and energy efficiency, nonpoint source management, and the 2022 Clean Watersheds Needs Survey.…
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Two Webinar Series Provide 303(d) Professional Training
NEIWPCC will continue the National 303(d)/TMDL Webinar Series under the rebranded name of “Restoring Our Impaired Waters National 303(d) Webinar Series.” The EPA-funded webinar series launched in 2016 to provide training and technical assistance to 303(d) program personnel from states, tribes, territories, and the EPA. The series aims to build stakeholder capacity to respond to…
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Achieving Water Quality Standards Through Collaboration and Problem-Solving
NEIWPCC Commissioner Pete LaFlamme Shares His Perspectives From protecting Lake Champlain to managing biosolids: In this new video, commissioner Pete LaFlamme praises NEIWPCC staff for their collaborative efforts across the Northeast region to improve water quality. LaFlamme, director of the Watershed Management Division at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, speaks of the many invaluable…
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NEIWPCC Launches Clean Water Success Story Project
Fifty years after the passage of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) – and many successes later – a new EPA-funded grant will focus on sharing these accomplishments. NEIWPCC will collect and produce stories highlighting program achievements covering a diverse array of CWA Section 303(d): Impaired Waters and Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) topics. The…
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Meeting Challenges in Modernizing the Clean Water Act
By Heather Radcliffe October 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and 35 years since its last major amendments. While there is much to celebrate — undeniably, significant progress in water quality has been made since 1972 — it is time to move forward from boasting that our rivers no longer…