Advisory Board

SE-TAC works with a multi-state Advisory Board to help accomplish its goals in an eleven state region. Comprised of representatives from state drinking water primacy agencies, state rural water associations, and other technical assistance provider organizations, the SE-TAC Advisory

Board is:

A forum to annually refine and translate EPA’s national small public water system priorities into SE-TAC’s project priorities and provide guidance in developing the SE-TAC’s regional Request for Proposals;
A network to help broadly distribute the SE-TAC’s RFP throughout the Southeast; and,
A panel of on the ground experts to evaluate grant proposals based on their direct knowledge of the priority challenges facing the southeastern United States’ small public water systems.

Representatives from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas participate on the SE-TAC Advisory Board because the issues facing small public water systems in these states provide a cross section of common needs and priorities throughout the eleven-state region.

The 15-member advisory board has three voting members from each state, with each state’s seats allocated as follows:

One state rural water association or equivalent organization representative;
One representative from the state’s

Department of Health or similar state agency with primacy or significant jurisdiction over safe drinking water programs; and,

One technical assistance provider,

(for example, a Rural Community Assistance Partnership, state section of the American Water Works Association, or similar organization active in assisting small community water systems in that state).

The regional competitive grants program is SE-TAC’s main focus. Selected projects are intended to address regional small public water system priority issues identified by SE-TAC’s Advisory Board. Organizations represented on the Advisory Board may submit proposals in response to the RFP. Board members may not evaluate their own proposals nor proposals from other organizations within their state.

In its first three funding cycles, SE-TAC worked closely with the Advisory Board, to fund small, non-competitive demonstration projects at university-based Water Resources Research Institutes/Centers in the five advisory board states. These projects were intended to help introduce the SE-TAC by supporting applied projects that addressed priority needs in each advisory board member’s state, under the leadership of the state’s Water Resources Research Institute.

Alabama

Mark Bohlin (2000–Present) Read Bio (PDF) Society of Water Professionals
Alabama Chapter
102 Pennbrooke Loop
Foley, AL 36535
Phone: (251) 987-5816
FAX: (251) 987-5836
pbwater@gulftel.com

Dennis Harrison (2005–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Alabama Department of Environmental
Management Drinking Water Branch
P.O. Box 301463
Montgomery, AL 36130-1463
Phone: (334) 271-7774
FAX: (334) 279-3051
ddh@aadem.state.al.us

Kathy Horne (2000–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Alabama Rural Water Association
2576 Bell Road
Montgomery, AL 36117
Phone: (334) 396-5511
FAX: (334) 396-7090
arwa@alruralwater.com

Louisiana

Don Broussard (2006–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Water Operations Manager
Lafayette (LA) Utilities System
200 North Buchanan Street
Lafayette, LA 70501
337-291-5901 Office
337-291-5918 FAX
dbroussard@lus.org

Patrick Credeur (2000–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Louisiana Rural Water Association
P.O. Box 180
Kinder, LA 70648
Phone: (337) 738-2896
FAX: (337) 738-5620
larwa@centurytel.net

Glenn T. Cambre (2006 - Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
Office of Public Health
P.O.Box 4489
Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4489
Phone: 225-342-7249
Fax: 225-342-1570
gcambre@dhh.la.gov

Mississippi

Keith Allen (2005–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Mississippi State Department of Health
Division of Water Supply
P. O. Box 1700
Jackson, MS 39215-1700
Phone: (601) 576-7518
FAX: (601) 576-7822
kallen@msdh.state.ms.us

Tom Johnson (2000–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Community Resource Group
1564 Soul Chapel Road
Lauderdale, MS 39335
Phone: (479) 445-3734
FAX: (601) 379-8833
crgmantj@aol.com

Kirby Mayfield (2000–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Mississippi Rural Water Association
5400 North Midway Road
Raymond, MS 39154
Phone: (601) 857-2433
FAX: (601) 857-2434
msrwa@jam.rr.com

North Carolina

Brad Boris (2003–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) North Carolina Section American Water Works Association
638 Old Neal Road
Marion, NC 28752
Phone: (828) 271-6103
FAX: (828) 350-0067
bboris@ashevillenc.gov

Debbie Maner (2004–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) North Carolina Rural Water Association
P.O. Box 540
Welcome, NC 27374
Phone: (919) 812-5500
FAX: (336) 731-8589 ncrwadm@aol.com

Lee Spencer (2001–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Public Water Supply Section
585 Waughtown Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27107
Phone: (336) 771-5070
FAX: (336) 771-4631
lee.spencer@ncmail.net

Texas

Tom Duck (2000–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Texas Rural Water Association
1616 Rio Grande
Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 472-8591
FAX: (512) 472-5186
duck@trwa.org

Doug Holcomb (2000–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Texas Natural Resource Conservation
Commission
Public Drinking Water
P.O. Box 13087
Austin, TX 78711
Phone: (512) 239-6947
FAX: (512) 239-6050
dholcomb@tnrcc.state.tx.us

Mike Howe (2005–Present)
Read Bio (PDF) Texas Section
American Water Works Association
P.O. Box 80150
Austin, TX 78708
Phone: (512) 238-9292
FAX: (512) 238-0496
mikehowe@tawwa.org