Student & Alumni Profiles
Steven Spayd, PG, MPH '04, Doctoral Candidate
Steven Spayd, MPH '04, had been working at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) as a hydrogeologist for more than 15 years when he volunteered his own private well for a water quality study back in 1999. As an expert in ground water pollution, his detective work had helped to solve a multitude of water supply contamination problems throughout the state. But Spayd was surprised when his own well's arsenic levels tested the highest the DEP had ever seen. A naturally occurring, colorless, odorless, and tasteless toxic element, arsenic is now known to be found in well water in the Piedmont geographic section of New Jersey (encompassing Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Union, Somerset, and parts of Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris, Middlesex and Passaic counties).
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