{"id":7698,"date":"2016-09-15T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T19:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcdev3.com\/mwra\/mwra-identifies-fy17-priorities-and-challenges\/"},"modified":"2016-09-15T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T19:52:22","slug":"mwra-identifies-fy17-priorities-and-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/mwra-identifies-fy17-priorities-and-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"MWRA Identifies FY17 Priorities and Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;14&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>At the kick-off Advisory Board meeting in Lexington, MWRA Executive Director Fred Laskey outlined what he saw as the&nbsp;MWRA&#8217;s biggest priorities and challenges for this fiscal year. He presented a <a href=\"http:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-15-FY17-Challenges.pdf\"> PowerPoint<\/a> discussing, among other issues:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current drought in Massachusetts, and the current level&nbsp;of the Quabbin reservoir<\/li>\n<li>An update on MWRA&#8217;s initiatives to &#8220;Get The Lead Out&#8221; of local water systems<\/li>\n<li>The major decisions that need to be made about redundancy for the Metropolitan Water Tunnel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;14&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"view fancybox-pdf\" title=\"2016-09-14 MWRA Board Pack\" href=\"http:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-15-FY17-Challenges.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3630 noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3631 thumb-of-pdf\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray;\" src=\"http:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-15-FY17-Challenges-Thumbnail.png\" alt=\"thumbnail of powerpoint\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drought, getting lead out of drinking water, and more in MWRA&#8217;s kickoff presentation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}