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RCAP staff member featured in magazine article

Posted Mon, 2010/01/11 - 4:03pm by RCAP

John Rauch, a staff member of WSOS Community Action Commission, the Great Lakes RCAP, is featured in an article in the Fall 2009 issue of On Tap, a publication of the National Environmental Services Center (NESC). NESC is a close collaborator of RCAP on some projects.

EPA seeks applications for environmental community grants

Posted Tue, 2009/12/29 - 4:22pm by RCAP

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making $2 million available in 2010 to reduce pollution at the local level through the Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program. CARE is a community-based program that works with county and local governments, tribes, nonprofit organizations and universities to help the public understand and reduce toxic risks from numerous sources.

EPA seeks comments on document for small public water systems

Posted Wed, 2009/12/16 - 4:15pm by RCAP

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted for public comment a draft of "Control and Mitigation of Drinking Water Losses in Distribution Systems," a guidance document intended to assist small public water systems in control of losses of drinking water in water distribution systems.