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WELCOME TO P4!
Last Updated: 2006-01-19 00:00:00

P4 provides services to wastewater treatment utilities, biosolids/residuals management contractors, regulatory agencies, and others.

For more information, assistance, and referrals, contact P4 at ned.beecher@nebiosolids.org or 603-323-7654.

Our services include: - Training in Public Outreach & Participation - Unique Outreach & Participation Plans - Creating and Facilitating Diverse Stakeholder Groups - Building Organization Capacity and Skills - Enhancing an NBP EMS with P4 for Elements 6 & 9 - Work With Experts in Risk Communications and Consensus Building.

Why P4?

Water quality professionals and researchers have developed technical systems for treating and managing sewage sludges and other organic residuals. Lagging behind are public understanding and trust.

Increasingly, biosolids and residuals programs—and the managers who run them—are facing uncomfortable and difficult public outrage. Costly setbacks to public utilities and the communities they serve can be unpredictable and significant. With the public’s increasing interest in programs that may affect them, effective public participation planning and practice is crucial.

How can we help your residuals management program?

Considerable social science research provides understanding about how the public learns about and understands environmental and technological programs like biosolids recycling and how communications and public participation can improve biosolids / residuals programs and enhance public trust.

Armed with this knowledge, we will learn about your program and, with your input, create and help implement a plan that will:

- Help management recognize the importance of outreach and participation and commit to it

- Choose effective tools for engaging stakeholders

- Help your organization build and practice public participation and communication skills

- De-escalate situations where public outrage is impeding biosolids / residuals management.

WHO WE ARE -
Last Updated: 2006-01-19 00:00:00

Ned Beecher, M.S. (Resource Management & Administration)

Executive Director, New England Biosolids & Residuals Association, with experience managing biosolids, outreach & participation programs for NEBRA, on a Committee developing audit protocols for the National Biosolids Partnership Environmental Management System (EMS) program, as Principal Investigator for WERF projects on biosolids public perception and “Public Partnering Protocols for Research,” and as a teacher and writer. Mr. Beecher’s participation in Biosolids P4 Consulting is through NEBRA and helps support NEBRA.

Nora Goldstein, Independent Contractor

As Exec. Editor, BioCycle The JG Press, Inc., Ms. Goldstein has over 25 years experience as a BioCycle writer & editor covering biosolids recycling, including public participation, outreach strategies, and surveys of biosolids recycling practices. She has a nationwide network of biosolids contacts and has worked as a subcontractor for Water Environment Research Foundation projects, including the National Manual of Good Practices for Biosolids, public perception research, and development of “Public Partnering Protocols for Research;” She also served as an advisor on committees for National Biosolids Partnership Environmental Management System (EMS) program.

Additional associates with expertise and experience in communications, conflict resolution, and on-the-ground biosolids outreach and participation are called in as needed to meet your specific project needs.