{"id":35285,"date":"2025-09-22T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=35285"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:35:14","slug":"wgme-interviews-macrae-on-water-quality-issues-at-willard-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2025\/09\/22\/wgme-interviews-macrae-on-water-quality-issues-at-willard-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"WGME interviews MacRae on water quality issues at Willard Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jean MacRae, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/concerns-rise-over-human-waste-contamination-at-willard-beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WGME<\/a> (Channel 13 in Portland) about the environmental impact of ongoing water quality issues at Willard Beach in South Portland. \u201cWildlife are a little more at risk than humans,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean MacRae, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, spoke with WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) about the environmental impact of ongoing water quality issues at Willard Beach in South Portland. \u201cWildlife are a little more at risk than humans,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35288,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35285\/revisions\/35288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}