PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — A biennial conference for water district leaders will take place Wednesday and Thursday, April 24 and 25, at Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle.
Every two years since 1990, the Joint Environmental Training Coordinating Committee and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission have presented the North Country Conference in Presque Isle. This year the organizations are partnering with Maine Water Environment Association and the Maine Water Utilities Association (MWUA) to sponsor the event.
The conference will feature displays of new technology and products by 32 vendors and over 30 educational seminars for approximately 180 attendees, who represent utility districts throughout central and northern Maine as well as industry leaders and officials from state and federal agencies.
Gerald D. Reid, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, will be the keynote speaker for Wednesday’s luncheon.
Reid served in the Maine Attorney General’s Office for 24 years, including as chief of the office’s Natural Resources Division for the preceding 12 years. The focus of his practice in the Attorney General’s Office was enforcement and appellate work under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Maine’s hazardous waste and land use statutes. He also worked extensively on issues arising under the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act.
For more information on this conference, contact Nick Archer, regional director at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s Northern Maine Regional Office, at (207) 764-0477 or Nick.D.Archer@Maine.Gov.
