The Southeast New England Program (SNEP) awarded NEIWPCC a $262,077 grant for habitat restoration efforts in two interstate watersheds. The project, Community-Based Habitat Restoration: Water Chestnut Management in the Blackstone…
Stacy Thompson, deputy director of the Saco (Maine) Water Resource Recovery Department shares how she unexpectedly entered the clean water industry and what she loves about her career in this…
The 2023 Northeast Aquatic Biologists (NAB) Conference convened for its annual regional event in Plymouth, Massachusetts in February. Participation surpassed pre-pandemic numbers, with 152 attendees from all seven of NEIWPCC…
In the Northeast, winter weather has become associated with one particular pollutant: salt. When snow and ice hit the ground, de-icing salts (comprised of chlorides) are scattered liberally across roads,…
In episode five of the “Clean Water Pod,” podcast host Jeff Berckes digs into his favorite four-letter word: TMDL, or Total Maximum Daily Load. Part equation and part plan, a…
First found in the St. Clair River in Michigan in 1990, the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) took five years to colonize all five Great Lakes. With the highly invasive fish…
Episode 4 of the Clean Water Pod Jokingly called the “naughty list” by some water professionals, the Clean Water Act Section 303(d)’s list of impaired waters helps to define the…
The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) recently launched a website dedicated to simplifying the lake’s phosphorus reduction plan. The site — Clean Water Commitment — takes a unique approach to…
Water quality monitoring is foundational to assessing our nation’s waterways and gauging progress, making it essential to achieving the Clean Water Act. Taking a deeper dive into this crucial –…
This past October, students, scientists, and industry professionals traveled to Albany, New York to kick off the 11th U.S. Symposium on Harmful Algae. The six-day conference operated under the theme…