[ADEQ Media] Hayes Selected ADEQ's New Acting Community Liaison for Southwest Arizona in Yuma and La Paz Counties

Fri Jun 19 10:17:12 MST 2009

PHOENIX (June 19, 2009) - A long-time community involvement coordinator
for the state Superfund program has been selected Acting Southwest
Arizona Community Liaison for the Arizona Department of Environmental
Quality.

Melissa Hayes begins her new job immediately providing services for ADEQ
in Yuma and La Paz counties. Hayes can be contacted at (520)770-3309 or
1-888-271-9302 or by e-mail at hayes.melissa@azdeq.gov .

In addition to Southwest Arizona, ADEQ has community liaisons located in
St. Johns, to serve Northeast Arizona, and Safford, to serve the
Southeast part of the state. The purpose of the community liaison
program is to place knowledgeable and helpful staff where they can be
closer to the communities they serve and have more frequent contacts
with customers in rural Arizona. They assist those living outside
metropolitan areas on a wide array of environmental issues concerning
air and water quality problems, waste disposal and storage tanks.  

Hayes has been community involvement coordinator for nine years for the
state Superfund program, known as the Water Quality Assurance Revolving
Fund (WQARF), based out of Tucson. Hayes is a 1998 graduate of Northern
Arizona University in Flagstaff with a B.S. in environmental science and
a B.A. in Spanish.

"Melissa has done excellent work in all of her outreach programs for
ADEQ, which involve many community advisory boards," said Patrick J.
Cunningham, ADEQ's acting director. "We know that people living in Yuma
and the border areas of Yuma County along with towns like Parker and
Quartzsite in La Paz County will find Melissa to be helpful,
knowledgeable about ADEQ's environmental programs and a pleasure to work
with."

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