New England
Interstate
Water Pollution
Control
Commission
650 Suffolk Street
Suite 410
Lowell, MA 01854
Tel: 978-323-7929
Fax: 978-323-7919
[email protected]
www.neiwpcc.org
Susy King
Director of Water Quality Programs
A NEIWPCC employee since 2003, Susy was named
director of NEIWPCC’s Water Quality Division in 2011.
She works on initiatives related to water quality standards,
total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), nutrients, mercury,
monitoring and assessment, and wetlands. Managing these
programs involves overseeing staff, facilitating discussions,
and coordinating projects. Susy is actively involved with
the five-state/EPA workgroup tasked with revising the Long
Island Sound TMDL, an effort to reduce nitrogen inputs to
the Sound in order to meet dissolved oxygen criteria. She
also directly manages NEIWPCC’s partnerships with the Hudson River Estuary Program
and Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, and oversees staff managing
partnerships with the Interstate Environmental Commission, Long Island Sound Study,
New York-New Jersey Harbor and Estuary Program, and Peconic Estuary Program.
Prior to becoming director of NEIWPCC’s water quality programs, Susy served as
an environmental analyst in the Water Quality Division (2004-2011) and watershed
manager (2011). She was responsible for coordinating national, regional, and state policies
and programs pertaining to water quality standards, nutrient criteria, TMDLs, mercury,
and aquatic nuisance species. This included coordinating NEIWPCC’s water quality
standards, nutrient criteria, TMDL, and mercury-fish workgroups as well as serving on
the Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel.
Susy’s many accomplishments at NEIWPCC include being the primary author of the
Northeast Regional Mercury TMDL, a seven-state plan to reduce atmospheric deposition
of mercury. She also worked with NEIWPCC’s member states on a Clean Water Section
319(g) Petition and Management Conference as a tool to implement the mercury TMDL
and address water quality impairments due to atmospheric deposition of mercury. In
2009, EPA New England presented Susy with a prestigious Environmental Merit Award
for her work on the Northeast Regional Mercury TMDL.
Education:
M.E.M., Water and Air Resources, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
B.A., Environmental Studies and Chemistry, Middlebury College
Affiliations:
Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA)
Environmental Council of States’ (ECOS) Quicksilver Caucus