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The Providence Journal
Copyright 2002
Sunday, May 26, 2002
LOCAL NEWS
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Pinault named leader of sewerage group
Paul Pinault, executive director of the Narragansett Bay
Commission, was elected last week as president of the Association of
Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies, a group representing more than 270
major public treatment systems across the country.
In his new position, Pinault said he will continue lobbying
Congress for increased federal financing for important wastewater
infrastructure projects, such as the Bay Commission's $550-million
combined sewer overflow project that recently got under way.
Pinault represented the federal Environmental Protection Agency
overseeing reconstruction of Providence's Fields Point Treatment
plant before going to work for the Bay Commission in 1982.
He became executive director in 1991. Four years later, the
system was selected by the EPA as the best operated and maintained
large treatment system in the country.
Pinault was named engineer of the year in 1995 by the Rhode
Island Society of Professional Engineers.
"Paul is the most capable and effective executive I've ever had
the pleasure to work with," said Vincent J. Mesolella, the
commission's chairman. "The NBC would not have achieved the success
it now enjoys without him."