Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is about as far as you can go in EPA’s mid-Atlantic Region. But it was worth every mile of travel to help communities in Appalachia find ways to pay for badly needed water and wastewater infrastructure. The EPA Water Finance Forum was all it was intended to be — and so much more.The forum held in mid-June was designed as a peer-to-peer type of transfer with panels of local presenters sharing information about funding opportunities, innovative solutions and success stories.I was anxious to meet the many people I had spoken to and corresponded with over the prior four months while planning for the
