Committee Members of Maine’s Joint Environmental Training Coordinating Committee (JETCC) are leaders in the water and wastewater industries in the state. Meeting quarterly, the 11 members can serve up to two three-year terms to provide training guidance and insights and assist in developing action plans.
JETCC Committee Members include the commissioner or designee of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Department of Health and Human Services Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Other members appointed by the DEP commissioner include representatives of MeWEA, industrial wastewater treatment facilities, Maine Municipal Association (MMA), DEP Bureau of Water Quality, NEIWPCC, and an at-large representative from the water or wastewater profession.
Jonathan Helstrom
Chair
Caribou Utilities District
Yarissa Ortiz-Vidal, PhD
Vice-Chair
Rockland Pollution Control Dept.
Judy Bruenjes
Secretary
Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water Quality Management
Christopher Cline
Yarmouth Wastewater Treatment Plant
Jeff McBurnie
Casella Resource Solutions
Dustin Price
Portland Water District
Alex Pugh
Division of Environmental Health, Maine CDC
Department of Health & Human Services
Subsurface Wastewater
Jeff Saucier
McCain Foods USA
Christina Stringer
Director of Wastewater and Onsite Programs, NEIWPCC
Gregg Wood
Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water Quality Management
Past Service Recognition
Previous JETCC committee members are recognized for their outstanding contributions during their tenure on the committee.
2024 Recipient
Travis Jones, Olver Associates
Travis has had a long tenure of contributions to JETCC and its mission of training in the state of Maine. Travis was a member of the Committee for seven and a half years and acted as the chair of our committee from 2019 until May of this year, when he termed out. Over this time, he provided leadership through the challenges that the organization faced transitioning to fully remote trainings during the pandemic and then navigating the return to in-person trainings as the public health threat waned.
He graduated from one of the first JETCC Management Candidate School classes in 2010 and has contributed to JETCC classes directly as an instructor and helping pull others into instruction roles since then.
Past Recipients
2023
- Mark Holt, Livermore Falls and Jay Sewer Depts.
- Amanda Smith, Bangor Wastewater Treatment Plant
2022
- Christopher Enman, Sappi Fine Paper
2021
- Andrew Seiler, General Dynamics
2019
- Leonard Blanchette, Brunswick Sewer District