The presentation by David Haug, LACSD Senior Engineer, will provide an overview on the progression of the Districts’ Clearwater Program and focus on the technical aspects of the four tunnel alternatives being evaluated in the EIR/EIS.
$40 members, $45 non-members, $20 students
When:
Thursday, February 23, 2012
6PM Mixer | 7PM Dinner
Where:
Proud Bird
11022 Aviation Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 670-3093
RSVP by 2/16 with
meal choice to:
alecm@jwce.com
Or call 714-428-4614
See flyer for more information
Mistakes can be made when reporting biosolids reuse or disposal. These mistakes can range from incorrect entries to misunderstanding the reporting requirements. This seminar will present an overview of the current regulatory compliance aspects for biosolids tracking, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements.
Tracking requirements will describe the responsibilities associated with several biosolids management practices, such as land application, composting, and disposal. Monitoring requirements for various biosolids management practices will be discussed, including sampling and analytical methods, frequency, and holding times.$10 members, $15 non-members, $5 students
When:
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
11am – 2pm
Where:
Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
Conference Rooms E & F
1955 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, CA
Lunch: deli sandwichs, chips, cookies and sodas
RSVP: alecm@jwce.com by 1/27 please
See flyer for more information
CWEA One-Day Specialty Workshop
Biosolids: Energizing Your Gas Production.
FOG and Food Waste Co-Digestion Workshop
Get the latest information you need to know about
co-digesting FOG and food waste from suppliers to
operators. This workshop will provide information
about the state of the regulations, availability and
competition for FOG and food waste, operational
experiences, and considerations that can be
incorporated into new designs.
Who Should Attend:
Operators, practitioners, and managers practicing in
the wastewater, and resource recovery industries
throughout California.
Approved for CWEA Contact Hours:
- Environmental Compliance Inspector (ECI)
- Laboratory Analyst (LAB)
- Operator (OP)
- Biosolids Land Application Management (BLAM)
Earn up to 8.9 CWEA Contact Hours
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
City of LA Hyperion WTP
12000 Vista Del Mar
Playa del Rey, CA 90293
See flyer for more information
Please join us for a roaring 1920s themed awards banquet aboard the Queen Mary on Saturday Jan 21st, where we will honor our industry’s best and have a lot of fun too!
When:
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Drinks: 6 p.m.
Dinner: 7 p.m.
Where:
Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth Dining Room
1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach
Pay at the door cash/check: $50 CWEA members or $60 non-members
Parking $12
RSVP by Jan 13
See flyer for more information
FOG clogs sewers and costs sewer customers additional money. Every day, large amounts are illegally washed into sewers mainly from food preparation establishments (usually through kitchen sinks and floor drains) that do not have adequate grease control measures in place. FOG attaches to the inner lining of the private plumbing system on your property, as well as the public sewer system in city streets.
Tons of trash normally swept to the ocean by the Los Angeles River should be captured by thousands of trash screens that have been installed beneath nearly every storm drain in the lower reaches of the river. The project is believed to be the largest debris-capturing effort in the nation and marks the most aggressive attack yet on river trash in the Los Angeles region. The project spans 16 cities and is expected to keep 840,000 pounds of debris — the equivalent of about 450 Volkswagen Beetles — from reaching the ocean each year, according to the Gateway Authority, a coalition of cities and public water agencies in southeastern L.A. County.
The biggest winner from the project is Long Beach, where workers routinely have to scoop floating islands of plastic bottles, grocery bags and other debris flowing from dozens of communities upstream before it litters the city’s coastline. In August 2010, crews began installing the stainless-steel, full-capture trash devices inside nearly 12,000 catch basins. The simple mesh contraptions sit just below the drains where water from city streets flows into the storm-water system and can catch debris as small as a cigarette butt.
Another 5,400 drains in the most-littered areas also were outfitted with street-level retractable screens as a second layer of defense.
***Sorry, this event is SOLD OUT..***
Established in 2002 by Elon Musk , the founder of PayPal and the Zip2 Corporation, SpaceX has already developed two brand new launch vehicles, established an impressive launch manifest, and been awarded COTS funding by NASA to demonstrate delivery and return of cargo to the Space Station.
SpaceX is privately developing the Dragon crew and cargo capsule and the Falcon family of rockets from the ground up, including main and upper stage engines, the cryogenic tank structure, avionics, guidance & control software and ground support equipment. Sign-up to tour this amazing new facility in Hawthorne and learn more about the next generation of space travel.
$30 CWEA members; $35 non-members; $15 students
Notes: ITAR Security regulations allow only US citizens to take the tour; please bring ID; closed toe shoes. RSVP today – tour limited to 40 people.
Dinner
Buffet dinner at Nat’s Airport Ballroom next door, including choice of chicken, beef, veggies and carrot cake for dessert.
RSVP
RSVP by 11/8 please:
alecm@jwce.com
or call Alec Mackie
(714) 428-4614
See flyer for more information
(ALEXANDRIA, Va.) — The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) recognized the City of Los Angeles with its Award for Excellence in Innovation on Tuesday afternoon for the Bureau of Sanitation’s Terminal Island Renewable Energy (TIRE) project. TIRE has offered numerous environmental solutions and a successful diversified biosolids management program while potentially saving millions of dollars annually since the facility began operating in 2008.
This new WERF award recognizes organizations that have made improvements to wastewater and stormwater collection, storage or treatment operations, facilities, or processes by applying WERF research. The City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works is one of two organizations to receive the award in its inaugural year.
The TIRE project is the nation’s first full-scale demonstration project of an innovative technology to convert biosolids into clean energy by deep-well placement and geothermal biodegradation. “The Bureau of Sanitation is honored to have been selected by the Water Environment Research Foundation for this award. The Terminal Island Renewable Energy project improves air quality and reduces greenhouse gases by using wastewater treatment byproducts as a renewable resource in an innovative and environmentally safe manner,” said Bureau of Sanitation Director Enrique C. Zaldivar.
Placing biosolids in deep subsurface formations using state-of-the art technology further protects groundwater as opposed to land application. TIRE also reduces truck traffic and associated exhaust emissions, pollutants, odors, and dust by 520,000 miles per year. There is a reduction in land application of biosolids in an exposed environment of 54,750 tons per year. Also, there is elimination from the atmosphere of 84 tons of NOX and 13 tons of carbon monoxide (CO) per year. Currently, WERF is working with the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation and others to identify other parts of the country where this work can be replicated.
A team of WERF volunteers, who themselves are some of the most recognized individuals in the water quality industry, selected the award recipients from a field of many well-qualified organizations. “We encourage those applicants who did not receive this year’s award to re-apply next year, emphasizing the progress they have made in their implementation efforts,” states Selection Committee Chair and WERF Board Member Joseph Zuback of Global Water Advisors, Inc.
Additional information on this award can be found at www.werf.org or www.lacity.org.
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Time: 7:00 am to 3:00 pm
Location: Phoenix Club – 1340 S. Sanderson Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92806
Topics:
- Storm Water Prevention
- Emergency Preparedness
- Hazardous Materials-RCRA
- Arc Flash NFPA 70E
- Fall Protection
- OSHA Inspections
- And more!
- Traffic Control Certification Offered!
For additional information, or to register visit our website: www.cwea.org/conferences
For sponsorship or exhibiting information please contact:
Tray Hall
Municipal Maintenance Equipment
(916) 505.6497
See flyer for more information
The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) invites new test sites for the research project Transforming our Cities: High Performance Green Infrastructure.
Recent advances in information technology infrastructure as well as hardware systems and software solutions are providing the foundation for a future of ubiquitous, digitally-connected, green infrastructure. Intelligent management of such infrastructure will change the way we understand and control our urban environments and impact natural systems.
The availability of a new breed of robust, extremely low cost, highly functional, internet accessible, programmable logic controller systems coupled with the ease of wired and wireless communications are making onsite real-time and dynamic controls viable options for both new construction as well as retrofits with green infrastructure based stormwater systems.
The total costs for design, equipment, and installation of the active components for demonstrations will be partially subsidized with in-kind contributions from WERF and the project team. Typical costs for an installation are $20-25K. However, under this research project the costs for participating test sites will be in the range of $10-15K resulting in significant savings to participants. Actual costs will depend on site specific conditions. The costs do not include the cost of implementing the BMP itself (e.g. cistern, green roof, bioretention, etc.).
In many cases, retrofitting an existing BMP may be the most effective approach. In addition to the improving the effectiveness of the BMP and saving cost on implementation, other benefits to test site participants include gaining experience with high performance green infrastructure, learning efficient ways to meet stormwater regulations and requirements, identifying new approaches for stormwater reuse, and taking part in a significant research study to help transform the infrastructure of cities and towns.
To learn more about or to express interest in participating as a test site in this targeted collaborative research (TCR) project, contact Senior Program Director Jeff Moeller at jmoeller@werf.org or 571-384-2104 by Oct 31, 2011.
New – the venue is Hyperion’s beautiful, new Environmental Learning Center.
New – Jim Fisher and either Russell Norman or Victor Lopez of the SWRCB WDR have confirmed they will attend
New speaker - Adel Hagekhalil, City of Los Angeles, Wastewater Collection Systems Operations Watershed Protection Assistant Director
• Meet local collection system managers; local vendors; and collection system professionals
• SWRCB update – Jim Fisher (confirmed), Russell Norman or Victor Lopez (confirmed)
• LARWQCB update – Hugh Marley
• Four tracks of training including collection systems certification, maintenance and management seminars.
• Hosts: City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation
Register by mail – hurry seminar may sell-out.
$40 CWEA member
$50 non-member
Nov 3, 2011, 7:30-3:30
Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant
12000 Vista Del Mar
Los Angeles, CA 90293
(see flyer for detailed parking info)
Sample classes:
• SWRCB update – Jim Fisher (confirmed), Russell Norman, Victor Lopez
• Regulatory updates con’t – Hugh Marley, LARWQB
• Evolving your maintenance program
• Sewer system success - Adel Hagekhalil, City of Los Angeles
• Collection systems safety
• Sewer bypassing class – Anthony Gaddie, Rain for Rent
• Quality assurance and sewer cleaning – Robert Potter, City of Los Angeles
• Submersible pump maintenance – Randy Cowden, ITT FLygt
• VFD maintenance – Art Yee, Industrial Technical Services
• Overflow class including volume estimates – Duane Johnson, SSCSC
• Collection Systems Math Class – Pettit/Lopez (be sure to bring your CS study guide)
• Plant Maintenance Math – Bernard Rogers, City of Los Angeles (be sure to bring your PM study guide)
• Hyperion Treatment Plant Tour
Questions?
Attendees or volunteers: Alec Mackie, LABS alecm@jwce.com, (714) 428-4614
Volunteer speakers/trainers: Michael Flores, LABS MFlores@rmcwater.com
Exhibitors: Jim Aanderud, SSCSC, jaanderud@AOL.com
Click here for the event flyer >
CWEA plant maintenance math review; submersible pump maintenance; VFD maintenance tips and tricks.
PLC controller maintenance and troubleshooting;
Plus great buffet lunch and door prizes!
Hosts:
City of Los Angeles,
Department of Public Works,
Bureau of Sanitation
See flyer for more information
Los Angeles County is likely to appeal to the Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied a rehearing of Natural Resources Defense Council, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, et al. on July 13. The landmark appellate ruling, made in March, stated that cities with municipal separate storm sewer (MS4) permits are strictly liable for all stormwater runoff pollution at their monitoring stations, regardless of whether the pollutant originated outside the MS4 system. Even if the municipality is working to address known violations—an iterative process—penalties may be incurred.
The lawsuit was brought against the county because the county’s flood control district exceeded the pollutant limits of its MS4 permit. However, the county claims that upstream neighbors are responsible for some of the pollutant loads. There are concerns that this ruling could lead to litigation between municipalities regarding who is responsible for stormwater pollutants.
When: Sunday, October 16, 2011
Time: 8:30 am to Noon
Location: Bikes and Hikes
8743 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90046
Cost: $75 for riders with bike & helmet
$100 for riders renting a bike & helmet
Join your WEFTEC friends as we pedal to raise awareness and funds to support Water For People. In the three years, we have raised over $10,000. We are able to raise money by the generosity of our sponsors who pay to have their logo printed on the back of our event T-Shirt.
A great ride is planned for 2011. We will start at Bikes and Hikes in West Hollywood and pedal through Bel Aire and Beverly Hills. We’ll ride 10 miles through jaw dropping neighborhood as we pass many celebrity homes, take in the sights and scents of world class gardens, and ride along the infamous Sunset Boulevard. During the ride, we’ll park our bikes and take a foot tour of Rodeo Drive and Greystone Mansion. For the serious cyclists, a hammerhead option along Mulholland Drive in the Santa Monica Mountains will be offered. All rides will be guided by professional tour guides from Bikes and Hikes LA (www.bikesandhikesla.com).
All participants will be provided with a multi-speed, fully suspended hybrid bicycle, vest, helmet and fluids. We will receive a colorful T-Shirt with the logo of our sponsors on the back of the T-Shirt. Registration will close on September 30 or when we reach 75 riders.
Participants should wear comfortable shirts and pants. Closed-toed shoes are required. Remember to bring sunscreen. Depending upon the weather, a light wind breaker may be needed. We will be arranging transportation from downtown LA to the bicycle shop and return. We will provide details of the transportation later.
After you have registered, George Patrick will contact you by email to obtain your T-Shirt size, your bike preference and other specific information. If you have questions, please contact George Patrick by email (georgepatrickatl@bellsouth.net) or 404/434-2149. If your company is interested in sponsoring the ride, please contact George Patrick.
See flyer for more information.
Please join Water For People for a “party with a purpose” at WEFTEC 2011. Enjoy great music by Luke Reynolds of the band Guster, cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres. All proceeds from this event will go to support Water For People’s important work helping to bring sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene education solutions to Everyone — every family, every school, and every clinic — in the developing countries where we work.
Monday, October 17, 2011
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
The Conga Room at L.A. Live
Tickets: $45 in advance, or $50 at the door.
Buy tickets here!
Click here for more information and to see our additional sponsors.
For more information on sponsorships or tickets sales, please contact Aaron Carlson at acarlson@waterforpeople.org
LONG BEACH — Laundry day has taken on a whole new meaning in Long Beach as the city unveiled its latest water conservation project Tuesday – Laundry to Landscape.
According to city officials, the program will allow residents to conserve resources by using water from their washing machines, also known as graywater, for backyard irrigation systems for trees, shrubs and gardens.
In March, the City Council approved the program, which was co-sponsored by council members James Johnson, Patrick O’Donnell and Suja Lowenthal.
“Today, Long Beach leads the way by being one of the first cities to test this innovative way to conserve scarce water,” said Johnson. “By reusing water on site, graywater has the potential to both save water and money for Long Beach residents.
Planning on taking CWEA’s Environmental Compliance Inspector Exam? Then join Kent McIntosh (Industrial Waste Inspector II for Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts and LABS TCP Chairman) at the Los Coyotes WRP in Cerritos for a review covering the exam topics. If interested, please email Kent as soon as possible, and more detailed information will be provided.
Date: Friday, September 9, 2011
Time: 4 to 8 pm
Location: Los Coyotes WRP – 16515 Piuma Ave, Cerritos, CA 90703 (upstairs Maintenance Building lunch room)
RSVP: Email Kent McIntosh at kmcintosh@lacsd.org (as soon as possible)
The American Academy of Environmental Engineers is dedicated to excellence in the practice of environmental engineering to ensure the public health safety and welfare. In Southern California a key component of the practice focuses on meeting the challenge of securing future water supplies. Historically, water purchased from outside the region, such as from the Colorado River and the State Water Project provided a reliable source. However, reduction in imported water supplies, combined with recurring droughts and population growth, clearly indicate that demand for water will overwhelm supply unless new sources are are identified.
OCWD and OCSD A Pioneering Partnership. After evaluating numerous supply options, OCWD and OCSD entered into a pioneering partnership which focused their efforts on an advanced water purification project know as the Groundwater Replenishment (GWR) System. Join General Managers, Mike Markus and Jim Herberg as they discuss the progress of the GWR System on ensuring a reliable, high-quality water supply for north and central Orange County; the financial impacts of deferring the immediate need for another ocean outfall pipe for wastewater; the diversification of local water supplies; and long-term quality improvements to the groundwater basin.
Mike Markus is the General Manager for the Orange County Water District (OCWD). OCWD provides reliable, high quality groundwater to 20 cities (2.3 million customers) using environmentally sustainable practices.
Jim Herberg is the Assistant General Manager for the Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD). OCSD collects, treats and or reclaims the wastewater generated by 2.5 million people about 230 MGD of wastewater.
Program: 5 PM Tour of GWRS
6 PM Networking
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Presentations
8:30 Adjourn
Cost: $40
Dinner includes: Sesame Almond Chicken w/Brandied Cherry Sauce, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Grilled Vegetable Medley, Baby Mixed Greens Salad w/feta cheese and berries, Rolls & Butters and Asst. Cookies, Brownies & Dipped Strawberries
RSVP by September 15, 2011
Preferred method send check payable to: “LACSD-AAEE event” attn: Sylvia Williams 1955 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, CA 90601
LACSD Employees: Send Employee #, BU#, and UID# for direct payment via Professional Development funds.
*Contact Denice Guerrero via email dguerrero@lacsd.org if you have questions, need help with registration, or wish to join the Academy
See flyer for more information
The City of Malibu is recruiting! It is a two-year inspection, and focused education/outreach position. See link below for more information.
General Description: Under general direction of the Senior Environmental Programs Coordinator, perform various technical work related to developing and implementing a Clean Water education and public outreach strategy leading to urban runoff reduction and pollution prevention in the Area of Special Biological Significance (ASBS). Will work mainly in the field, with time spent in City Hall as necessary. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, water quality monitoring and data collection, communications, reporting and other duties associated with watershed management along the coast.
Full-time, independent contractor position (minimum two-year commitment).
Application deadline: Friday, September 2, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
Coastal Preservation Specialist
Brent Haddad studies water in a place where water is often in short supply: California.
Haddad is a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. About 14 years ago, he became very interested in the issue of water reuse.
At the time, a number of California’s local water agencies were proposing a different approach to the state’s perennial water problems. They wanted to build plants that would clean local wastewater — aka sewage water — and after that cleaning, make it available as drinking water. But, says Haddad, these proposals were consistently shot down by an unwilling public.
“The public wasn’t really examining the science involved,” Haddad says. “They were just saying no.” This infuriated the water engineers, who thought the public’s response was fundamentally irrational, Haddad says.
“That’s what I would hear at these water agency meetings,” Haddad says, “these very frustrated water engineers saying, ‘My public is irrational! They are irrational! They simply won’t listen!’ ”
