Casco Baykeeper

Joe Payne

Casco Baykeeper Friends of Casco Bay  43 Slocum Drive  South Portland, Maine 04106 United States of America 207.799.8574 jpayne@cascobay.org http://www.cascobay.org

Region North Atlantic

Improving and protecting the environmental health of Casco Bay

Recent Accomplishments

--Participated in the Maine-based 2010 Spill of National Significance simulation exercise as the only non-profit organization invited into the command structure, and three weeks later, helped Waterkeeper colleagues confront a real Spill of National Significance in the Gulf of Mexico.
--Is raising awareness that 18 years of water quality monitoring by his organization shows that Casco Bay in Maine is experiencing the same increase in acidity as the rest of the world’s oceans.
--Campaigned to persuade the Portland City Council to approve a $61 million bond to speed up the City’s removal of combined sewer overflows, to reduce discharge of 1.8 billion gallons of combined raw sewage and rainwater runoff annually.
--Engineered first No Discharge Area nomination in Maine for Casco Bay; now most of Maine coast has applied to EPA for federal designation where no vessel sewage may be released.