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August 1 seminar
Topic: Protecting Water Quality Through Urban-Rural
Partnerships: Lessons from the New York City
Watershed Protection Program
Date: Friday, August 1
When: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Where: Lower level board room at the MN Pollution
Control Agency (MPCA), 520 Lafayette Road, St.
Paul
Speaker: Mr. Al Appleton, former Commissioner of NY
City's Dept. of Environmental Protection
and Director of the city water and sewar
system. As commission from 1990 through
1993, Mr. Appleton was the principal
architect of the comprehnsive watershed
protection partnership between the City and
the communities and residents of the
Catskill/Delaware watershed complex, which
is the source of the City's drinking
water. The Catskill/Delaware watershed
complex is the largest surface water supply
system in the world, servicing more than 9
million water users.
Sponsors: MN Pollution Control Agency, Water Quality
Divsion; The Metropolotin Council
Environmental Services Division;
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
(IATP)
For more information contact IATP: 612/870-0453