Environmental Concerns: Air and Water

WNC Regional Air Quality Agency, 49 Mount Carmel Road

(Mount Carmel Road intersects New Leicester Hwy. 3 miles from Patton Ave at a traffic light, Ingles on corner)

(park across the street in the Erwin Hills Seventh Day Adventist Church lot)

September 27, 2000

"It is extremely powerful for people to learn from their own experience of failure"
-Ronald Heifetz

8:30        Coffee and Muffins

8:45         Welcome and Overview of WNC Regional Air Quality Agency
               Bob Camby, director

9:00         Understanding the History of Air Quality Issues in Western North Carolina
                Rick Maas, director and professor, Environmental Studies Program, UNCA

10:00       Break

  10:15      The French Broad River Voluntary Buffer Partnership
               Bill Eaker, director of environmental programs, Land of Sky Regional Council

11:15        Waterways, Greenways and RiverLink Bus Tour and Lunch
                Karen Cragnolin (LA 7), executive director, RiverLink

1:30         Bus Trip to Mills River Water Treatment Plant
               Stephanie Burney, Asheville Water Resources Department
               Laurie Brocal, Asheville Water Resources Department

3:00                Return to WNC Regional Air Quality Agency

Suggested Activities:

     NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way (Grounds daily 8-9, Visitor Center

M-S, Greenhouse   8-4 M-F; buildings also open 2nd and 4th Sundays 1:30-4:30)

WNC Nature Center

Botanical Gardens at UNCA

French Broad River Park

W.T. Weaver Blvd. Greenway