Lake Hopatcong Employee Honored by EPA

Lake Hopatcong Commission administrator Donna Macalle-Holly recently received an Environmental Protection Agency 2012 Environmental Quality award.

Macalle-Holly was one of 10 honored "for their achievements in protecting public health and the environment," according to an EPA release.

"Change that will create a healthier and more sustainable future begins with people like those the EPA is honoring [April 27],” Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck said in a release. "They give of themselves and set a high bar in their actions to protect public health and the environment."

Read below for why Macalle-Holly got the award, according to the EPA.

As an employee of the Lake Hopatcong Commission, Donna Macalle-Holly works closely with four surrounding towns to implement stormwater management projects that reduce the amount of phosphorus entering Lake Hopatcong. Donna worked diligently on the Commission’s lake-friendly fertilizer program, developing an educational webpage and creating slogans for signs that were widely distributed in the community. Recently, she worked on an outreach initiative to educate the public on the threat of a new invasive species, the water chestnut. Donna is a regular contributor to local newspapers on the protection of Lake Hopatcong.