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Bill's formative years spent around Ithaca's lakes, streams and
waterfalls established in him an abiding love of all things water.
Bill graduated with a BS from Cornell's School of Civil & Environmental
Engineering in 1987 and spent the next 12 years working with the
Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water in Philadelphia,
PA. Through his work with EPA, he gained experience in public water
supply and wellhead protection, aquifer remediation, and watershed
management. Bill assisted in the development of statewide and coastal
non-point source management programs under the Federal Clean Water
Act for several Mid-Atlantic States. Bill's experience at EPA, and
subsequently experiences in the not-for-profit sector, have lead
him to believe that truly meaningful community involvement is critical
to the success of any resource management effort. That involvement
is dependent, in turn, on well-conceived educational efforts that
are sensitive to the culture, needs and priorities of local communities.
Bill is presently program manager and chair of the Cayuga Lake Floating
Classroom Project Committee of the IO, and in that capacity serves
as a liaison to the Network.
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