Orono assistant town manager Maria Weinberger has a lot of responsibilities in the town. As the assistant town manager her main function is to provide human resources and labor relation support to town manager Cathy Conlow. Along with her work as the assistant manager she also serves as the area welfare director, the area health coordinator and the Orono representative on the MS4 storm water education program.
The MS4 storm water program is designed to educate members on the community about what they are putting into the water. This program is part of a national mandate called The Clean Water Act.
As part of this program the Orono public works department has stenciled area storm drains to say drains directly to river no dumping.
Parks Hardware is also working in conjunction with the program to help educate people about safe chemicals they can use to treat their lawns.
There has also been a lot of participation each year with the stream cleanup. Where area residents get together and clean up the stream beds and river banks. This year about a hundred residents and town officials got together to clean up the Stillwater River.
Maria talks about how this program is important in teaching people to think before they dispose of their garbage.
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