Attend the NHDES Drinking Water Source Protection Conference – May 6

Mark your calendars for NHDES’ 2015 Drinking Water Source Protection Conference on Wednesday, May 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Grappone Conference Center, Concord, NH.  Topics will include a roundtable discussion about private well water, guidance for land conservation and protection, an overview of NHDES’ on-going work to address MtBE, a summary of lessons learned from a 2014 West Virginia spill, studies about contaminants of emerging concern, and sessions that discuss local groundwater and surface water source protection measures.  Registration and a full agenda are available at the American Ground Water Trust’s website http://www.agwt.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=195.  For more information, contact Win Saltmarsh (wsaltmarsh@agwt.org,603-228-5444) at the American Ground Water Trust or Pierce Rigrod (pierce.rigrod@des.nh.gov 603-271-0688) at NHDES.