There are many podcasts available on broad climate change problems and general policy prescriptions, but this limited series podcast focuses specifically and locally on the vulnerability, planning, and adaptation projects that City of Newburyport officials are pursuing to make the City’s critical sewer and water public infrastructure more resilient to climate change.

Newburyport Climate Change Adaption

Getting ready for climate change in a small city, one project at a time – host Geordie Vining has a conversation with Newburyport Mayor Donna Holaday about the future of climate change adaptation and resilience for the community.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER: All opinions expressed by the Program Participants are solely their current opinions and do not reflect the opinions of NCM Hub, PortMedia, and WJOP 96.3 FM

Making Newburyport More Resilient, One Project at a Time: A Conversation with the Mayor

We should keep our drinking water clean in Newburyport, right?  What are we doing right now to adapt our public water supply to climate change?  Host Geordie Vining talks with Water Treatment Superintendent Tom Cusick about the City’s plans to make the public drinking water reservoirs more resilient to storm surge and sea level rise in the coming years.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER: All opinions expressed by the Program Participants are solely their current opinions and do not reflect the opinions of NCM Hub, PortMedia, and WJOP 96.3 FM

Making Newburyport’s Public Drinking Water Supply More Resilient to Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise

We should keep raw sewage from spilling into Newburyport’s streets and the Merrimack River, right?  What are we doing right now to adapt the City’s wastewater treatment plant (WWTF) to climate change?  Host Geordie Vining talks with City Engineer Jon-Eric White and Chief Operator Chris Pratt about the City’s efforts to make the WWTF along the Merrimack River more resilient to storm surge and sea level rise.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER: All opinions expressed by the Program Participants are solely their current opinions and do not reflect the opinions of NCM Hub, PortMedia, and WJOP 96.3 FM