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MEETING
TOPIC:
Environmental
Sustainability: Categorizing Risk from Fire
Suppression Products on the Local Environment
Water providers
have dealt with the conflicting goals of fire
protection and water quality in their distribution
and storage systems since the beginning, but what
about the act of firefighting itself? Many aquifers
on the Cape and SE Mass have relatively shallow,
porous overburden leaving them vulnerable to
contamination under a number of scenarios including
fire response. VIPER is designed to include the
critical but until now absent source protection
element into incident response by associating street
addresses with aquifer protection and incorporating
this into the incident response. This topic has
generated significant interest and is guaranteed to
get you thinking.
SPEAKERS:
Chief
Michael “Mickey” Walker (Yarmouth
FD)
holds a Bachelors degree in Fire Science Cum Laude
from Southern Illinois University and a Masters in
Public Administration in Government with Distinction
from the Keller Graduate School of Management. He is
a Certified Fire Officer II, Fire Instructor II,
Hazardous Materials Technician, Fire Apparatus
Engineer, Nationally Register Paramedic. He has
advanced training in Chemical, Biological and
Nuclear terrorism, attended advance emergency
medical training for terrorism at Texas A&M
University. Terrorism Bomb training at the Energetic
Materials Training and Research Center at New Mexico
Tech. Chief Walker has earned the Humanitarian
Service Medal, 2 Navy Achievement Medals and 3
letters of commendation. He is a Navy Master
Training Specialist, Fire Fighting Instructor and
Damage Control Assistant.
Gabrielle
Belfit (Tighe & Bond) is a senior
environmental scientist with Tighe & Bond, Inc.
Belfit has more than 30 years of experience in
environmental planning and permitting, municipal
bylaw development, grant writing and management,
community outreach and planning assistance for water
supply, wastewater, low-impact stormwater design and
water quality issues. She worked for the Cape Cod
Commission as a hydrologist and water resources
planner for 28 years before joining Tighe & Bond.
Ms. Belfit has a bachelor of science in
environmental science/aquatic biology from the
University of South Florida, and a master of science
in hydrology from the University of New Hampshire.
She is a member of the Groundwater Guardian National
Council, Barnstable County Coastal Resources
Advisory Council, and the Sandwich Citizens Outreach
Team for Wastewater Planning.
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