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RCAC’S Marko receives national award for collaborative leadership
Chris Marko, RCAC rural development specialist, was presented with the prestigious Ron Shaffer Award from the National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP) at the Partners for Rural America (PRA) meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 8. The award recognizes Marko’s work in bringing people with diverse interests together to improve rural programs and policy at the state and national levels. Read more >>
RCAC’S Morales first woman to chair national water council
Olga Morales, RCAC rural development specialist, has been reappointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) for another three-year term. Morales will serve as the council chair this term. She is the first woman to chair the NDWAC since its inception in 1976. Read more >>
Operator awarded for years of dedicated service
Michael “Max” Baay was awarded the Operator’s Meritorious Service Award at the Long Beach CA/NV American Water Works Association (AWWA) conference in March. Baay is the water system operator for two community public water systems on the Santa Ysabel Reservation, located in the San Diego Mountains. Read more >>
Bake sales and more buy Arizona community a new sewer system
From Rural Matters, 2011, Issue 3
An outpouring of state and federal funding coupled with assistance from Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), the Western RCAP, has one small Arizona community on the road to realizing its goal of improving a failing sewer system. Read how Colonia residents are successful in their battle to find solutions to chronic sewage problems >>
Does an old EPA fracking study provide proof of contamination?
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica
For years the drilling industry has steadfastly insisted that there has never been a proven case in which fracking has led to contamination of drinking water. Read ProPublica’s report on the 1987 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fracking studies in addition to EPA’s response >>
EPA announces green jobs training for South Tucson
Local graduates to clean up contaminated city sites
In South Tucson, Arizona, the EPA awarded a $300,000 grant to the city for environmental workforce development and job training to recruit, train and place unemployed, predominantly low-income residents in jobs to clean up polluted areas. Read more on the training program goals and benefits >>
$112 million deal may send San Francisco trash to Wheatland
By Will Kane, Chronicle staff writer, SFGate.com
San Franciscan trash could soon be headed to faraway Yuba County [California] after the board of supervisors Tuesday [July 26] approved a controversial $112 million contract to send city refuse to the rural area. Read about the prospect of five million tons of trash being transported by train to the outskirts of Wheatland >>
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