HAGUE, A. Bartlett
Bart Hague (1927-2023) Of Waterford, ME and previously of Newton, MA, was a lifelong leader in conservation and environmental protection. In his over four decades of public service, Bart helped implement the Clean Water Act under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Boston, plan the National Trails System and mitigate environmental impacts of the interstate highway system and served as President of nonprofits Newton Conservators and Maine Lakes.
Although Bart began his career in Washington, DC, in 1967, he moved to the EPA’s New England office in Boston to be closer to his beloved family home in Waterford. A major highlight of Bart’s career was his involvement in the Boston Harbor cleanup, which included dramatic improvements in wastewater treatment, preventing the flow of raw sewage into the harbor and an investment in the sewage treatment plant at Deer Island, an effort that still reaps benefits for Boston’s Harbor, beaches and citizens, its beaches and its citizens. Always serving in the communities in which he lived, Bart was President of the Newton Conservators in Massachusetts. While at EPA, where he worked on developing Newton’s trail system and was critical to preserving open space and public access to the Newton Commonwealth Golf Course. After he retired from EPA in 1996, he dedicated his ensuing decades in retirement to working on environmental issues in Maine.
After he retired from EPA in 1996, Bart and his wife placed their 475 acres in conservation easement. Bart earned degrees from Yale University and the University of Michigan. He is survived by his wife and intellectual partner of 61 years, Mary Ann Conner Hague (Whitehead); and three children, son, Art Hague and daughter-in-law, Shivaun Pryor; daughter, Beth Hague and son-in-law, Libo Liu; and daughter, Mary Hague Yearl; and by three grandchildren, Joe and Athena Yearl and Nathaniel Liu. No public service is planned. In lieu of flowers, Bart and his family request donations be made to the Natural Resources Council of Maine, www.nrcm.org Maine Lakes, https://lakes.me or the American Friends Service Committee, https:// afsc.org/