Thursday Nov. 4th
7:30-3:30 • 4 CEUs
Glendale Civic Auditorium
1401 N Verdugo Rd., Glendale
Enter lot from Mountain Street.
Free parking! Vacuum trucks welcome.
LA’s meeting for collection systems workers, managers and superintendents – and anyone else who loves to talk wastewater collections! Featuring Jim Fischer SSO Office, SWRCB on SSMP audits and what the State is looking for. Hands-on training includes: truck safety, rodders, cleaning nozzles and more. Compliance case studies, live overflow simulation, SSO responses & SSMPs. Vendor training, great BBQ lunch and lots of great door prizes!
$55 CWEA member/$65 non-member
Click here for event flyer and registration form (event might sell out). Exhibitor booths welcome.
Here is the entire presentation in PDF format as requested…
City of LA Venice VDFM LABS (PDF), Sean Zahedi, PE, Project Manager
LABS Director
Dinner meeting attendees, on the right is Hala Titus, Black & Veatch, center, Adel Hagekhail, City of Los Angeles
Navigating Through the Storm – Setting a Course to Clean Water!
CWEA P3S Conference – Pretreatment, Pollution Prevention and Stormwater Treatment
March 1-3, 2010
Long Beach Hilton
Sign-up forms:
Sponsored by:
MWD (administrative sponsor); TetraTech (food and breaks); and our session sponsors: Malcolm Pirnie; MWH; Larry Walker Associates; Stormwater Solutions Magazine; and JWC Environmental
For exhibitor or sponsorship information please contact co-chairs Greg Kent (stormwater) or Alec Mackie (Ww).
Conference Contacts:
Chair – Michael Simpson
City of Los Angeles
michael.simpson@lacity.org
Programs Chair – Preeti Ghuman
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
pghuman@lacsd.org
Conference Brochure – Joe Petchuk
City of Santa Monica
Joe.Petchuk@SMGOV.NET
Exhibitors and Sponsors Co-Chairs
Greg Kent
BioClean Environmental Services
Alec Mackie
JWC Environmental
alecm@jwce.com
Tel: 714-428-4614
CWEA Contacts
Marci Chase
Senior Meeting Planner
mchase@cwea.org
Julie Taylor, CAE
Dir. Education and Training
jtaylor@cwea.org
Recycled Water: What Goes Around… Comes Around
Attendees for this one-day workshop will gain a better understanding of recycled water issues and trends, upcoming regulations in California, and key factors for successful implementation of water recycling programs.
Northern California:
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Bay Café Clubhouse and Restaurant
1875 Embarcadero Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Paul Friedlander, Carollo Engineers, Moderator
Southern California:
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
1955 Workman Mill Rd
Whittier, CA 90601
Phil Ackman, LACSD, Moderator
Featured speakers:
- Fran Spivy-Weber, SWQCB
- Heather Collins, CDPH
- Andrew Salveson, Carollo Engineers
- Rich Nagel, West Basin MWD
- Shivaji Deshmukh, OCWD
- George Tchobanoglous, UC Davis
Earn up to 6.2 CWEA and/or Calif. Dept of Health Contact Hours!
City of Los Angeles and Santa Monica low flow diversion projects (low flow stormwater is sent to wastewater treatment plants for clean-up) (credit: City of LA)
The California State Water Resources Control Board released a list of projects receiving stimulus funds. The stimulus funding is almost all gone and projects have been selected – now it’s time to kick construction into high-gear and get to work!
THE SWRCB is in charge of selecting wastewater/stormwater projects for Federal Stimulus funding after California received $280-million for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. The stimulus funds were approved by the and President in February as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Projects must start digging or be under contract by February 17, 2010. The SWRCB estimates hundreds of jobs will be created by these projects. The ARRA funding is a mix of stimulus dollars and regularly allocated Clean Water Start Revolving Fund dollars – the SWRCB has simply lumped the projects together under a “Stimulus Projects” heading.
Los Angeles County projects announced so far:
- City of Los Angeles – Santa Monica Bay Low Flow Diversions Upgrades – $4,340,000
- City of Long Beach – Colorado Lagoon Beaches Restoration – $3,200,000
- City of Long Beach – LA River VSS Unit – $583,000
- City of Hermosa Beach – Hermosa Strand Infiltration Trench – $950,850
- City of Redondo Beach – Sapphaire Storm Drain Low Flow Diversion – $200,000
- City of Los Angeles – Mar Vista Recreation Center Stormwater Treatment Retrofit – $1,766,568
- Water Replenishment District (Lakewood) - Vander Lans Advanced Water Treatment Facility Expansion – $478,750 Bureau of Reclamation grant
- Central Basin Municipal Water District (Commerce) - Southeast Water Reliability Project Phase 1 (expanded use of recycled water) – $5,600,000 B of R grant
- Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District – City of Industry new water recycling facility – $4,850,000 B of R grant
- Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District – Rosemead recycled water expansion project – $750,000 B of R grant
- Long Beach Water Dept. – Desalination Research and Development Project – $3,006,005 – B of R grant
- City of Malibu – Paradise Cove Stormwater Treatment System - $816,276
- Greater Los Angeles County Integrated Regional Water Mgmt Authority - Catch basin inserts in several Los Angeles cities - $10,000,000
- City of Los Angeles – Terminal Island Renewable Energy (T.I.R.E.) deep well biosolids injection/energy recovery project - $4,800,000 DOE grant – New!
- City of Redondo Beach – Alta Vista Diversion and Reuse Project - $2,200,000 - New!
- City of Hermosa Beach – Pier Avenue Improvments – $1,265,000 - New!
- Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation - Ballona Creek Rain Gardens Project - $1,889,6692 - New!
Ofelia Rubio, P.E. Civil Engineer, Los Angeles
From the City Department of Public Works…
Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering Civil Engineer, Ofelia Rubio, P.E., received a “Professional Achievement” award from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). The organization has given awards in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) awards category for the last 21 years to the best and brightest in the Hispanic community.
“We are not surprised by this honor. Ofelia has distinguished herself as a top performer within the Bureau of Engineering and is very deserving of this award. In her many leadership roles, including serving as Liaison to the Board of Public Works and Los Angeles City Council and working on our Proposition K Program: LA for Kids, she has always gone above and beyond. We are very proud of her achievements,” said Gary Lee Moore, City Engineer.
Award winners will be honored at the HENAAC Awards Show Gala on October 9, 2009 at the Long Beach Terrace Theatre at 7:00 p.m.
Rubio has enjoyed a stellar career with the City of Los Angeles for 10 years. She is currently managing the effort to restore thousands of miles of the City’s secondary sewer system (pipes smaller than 16-inches in diameter) to prevent spills and protect natural resources. She and her staff of seven engineering associates oversee construction crews renewing sewers across the city.
Speakers Tim Haug, Deputy City Engineer for Los Angeles and Rich Atwater General Manager of the Inland Empire Utilities Agency.
By Wendy Wert
LABS Director
CWEA Chair, Training Coordination
On September 24, 2009 the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) hosted a dinner and networking seminar at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). Participants were enlightened, inspired, and entertained. The “Sustainable Wastewater Operations” topic drew attendees from a broad spectrum of the environmental profession, including: professors, researchers, managers, practitioners, technicians, advocates, manufacturers, vendors and students. The evening began with a stimulating networking session on the breezeway of LMU’s University Center. Participants then dined in the MacIntosh Room where they engaged in discussions of resource recovery alternatives from individual experiences. In addition to the sponsored students, two LMU engineering classes joined attendees in the Ahmanson Auditorium for the presentation portion of the event.
“Can I Have Your Attention Please?” Part II: Getting Your Message to the Public.” This full day workshop will provide those in public education, public relations, government affairs, tour guides and management the resources they need to develop and produce proficient quality marketing materials to get their message across. Speakers include LACSD’s very own Basil Hewitt and Joe Haworth.
The one-day session will be hosted at the Metropolitan Water District’s downtown LA facility on Thursday, Oct. 29th. CWEA members can register at the discounted rate of $160! Earn up to 6.3 contact hours.
The City's dedicated and award winning sewer cleaning crews are one of the reasons for the outstanding performance this year.
The City reached an important milestone this year, recently announcing they achieved a record performance for their 6,500 miles of wastewater pipelines with the lowest number of wastewater overflows this decade. The City’s Bureau of Sanitation provides wastewater collection and treatment for over 4 million people and 100,000 businesses within the 600 square mile LA basin.
Officials point to four key Bureau programs:
- Fats, oil and grease (FOG) control programs
- Focused tree root control program
- Improved sewer planning and renewal
- More sewers inspected, more cleaned and more of those ancient sewer lines are being upgraded or replaced
From Bureau Director Enrique C. Zaldivar…
“These numbers show that the Bureau of Sanitation has taken an aggressive approach in developing and executing programs to reduce SSOs. I am very proud of our wastewater conveyance and collections staff and crew. Rain or shine, day or night, our committed staff is in the community, keeping the pipes flowing. These excellent results demonstrate the City’s continued commitment to the protection of public health and the environment.”
And praise from environmental organizations…
“My congratulations to the Bureau for consistently designing, constructing and maintaining the sewerage infrastructure that protects our communities and our coast; the 77% reduction in spills is a wonderful accomplishment,” said Tom Ford, Executive Director, Santa Monica Baykeeper
