***Note change of date. Please re-send your RSVP***
Join LABS and Senior Attorney David Beckman for a discussion of triple bottom line solutions that address regional stormwater from an inclusive perspective. Attendees will be challenged to consider rainfall as a potential local resource in Los Angeles’ arid, urban environment. David will highlight a report on which NRDC and the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara collaborated that may contribute local water supply benefits through specific control of runoff with tie-in’s to green infrastructure.
When: Thursday, September 24, 2010
11:30 am – mixer
12:00 pm – lunch
12:30 pm – presentation
Where: World Cafe
2820 Main Street,
Santa Monica, CA
Cost: CWEA Members – $30
Non-Members – $40
See event flyer for more details
On August 19, the LABS Young Professionals Committee hosted a tour of the San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant (SJC-WRP), owned and operated by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County.
***Update: New! Buy 3, get 1 free registration!***
P&ID 101 – An engineering bootcamp to help you with reading, designing and understanding process & instrumentation diagrams.
Wednesday, Sept. 29th
11:00am – 3:00pm
Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
Conference Rooms E & F
1955 Workman Mill Road, Whittier
Please check in with Security in the main lobby.
$50 CWEA members, $60 non, $25 students/retired. 3 CWEA contact hours. Pay at the door cash or checks, sorry NO credit cards or purchase orders.
Register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/79Z6VY9
Training Summary
Pick-up the critical skills necessary to understand P&ID documents in our increasingly high-tech and automated industry. Participants will acquire skills needed to differentiate between the interconnection of process equipment and the instrumentation used to control the process. Modules in the seminar are designed to allow participants to learn how to read and interpret the standard set of symbols used in processes instrumentation drawings and their applications in process system design.
Instructor: Joe Chapman
Joe Chapman of Los Angeles Trade Tech frequently teaches on P&ID topics.
Audience:
Environmental engineers, technicians, operators, mechanics, environmental compliance inspectors and vendors.
See flyer for more information!
LABS has posted a new set of videos on CWEA’s YouTube site. The hour-long six-part series is a recording of its April dinner meeting, which featured Sam Espinoza from the LA Sanitation Districts of LA County speaking about wastewater collection system operation and maintenance.
Comment on this post and let us know what you think. Does your workplace allow access to YouTube? Are the videos useful for information sharing? Want to provide footage of your events or tours of your facility?
FILLMORE – Never has the Santa Clara River been filtered so vigorously, so urgently and at such great cost to tiny towns as it has in the last two years.
At least three brand-new, state-of-the-art water treatment plants, recycling plants and one pump house have been built or are in the planning stage along the river between the Santa Clarita Valley and the Pacific Ocean.
High energy-efficient plants in Santa Paula, Fillmore and Piru all started purifying water along the Santa Clara River within the last couple of months.
What motivated each tiny town to spend millions of dollars on infrastructure when each community, like the rest of America, struggles to rebound from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression?
Check out Heal the Bay’s mockumentary narrated by Jeremy Irons, on the plastic bag’s adventures as it travels to the great garbage patch in the Pacific.
Summer Cruise
LA & Long Beach Harbor • Saturday Aug. 28 • 4 – 7:30pm
Join LABS for an incredible cruise through Long Beach & Los Angeles Harbors with your host Past President Hala Titus. The three hour tour takes you to interesting corners of the harbor while we enjoy a BBQ buffet, prizes and cash bar. Cost: $50 members / $55 non-members (***8/16/10 new reduced rate***).
Menu: BBQ Buffet: Steak Kabobs, Swordfish Steaks & Chicken; Skewered Vegetables; Vegetables & Dip; Rice; Caesar Salad; Mini Cheese Cakes; Unlimited White Wine, Soft Drinks & Coffee. See Flyer for more information!
RSVP:
RSVP by August 20th!
titush@bv.com
email preferred
or phone Hala Titus
213-312-3330
Location:
Spirit Cruise Lines
Dock 9, Long Beach
Shoreline Village
429 Shoreline Village Dr.
Long Beach CA 90802
$8+/- parking w/validation
The new leader of Southern California Association of Publically Owned Treatment Works (SCAP) is LABS member Enrique Zaldivar, PE, Director of the Bureau of Sanitation for the City of Los Angeles.
July 27, 2010
By Daniel Strain and Mark Shwartz
Within the sludge of wastewater treatment plants is an invisible world teeming with microbes. Here, diverse species of bacteria convert solid and liquid wastes into gases, some of which contribute to global warming.
Now two Stanford University engineers are developing a new sewage treatment process that would actually increase the production of two greenhouse gases – nitrous oxide (aka, “laughing gas”) and methane – and use the gases to power the treatment plant.
Water, along with plastic bags and other trash, rushes head-on into a metal stormdrain gate that will soon be installed in 16 cities upstream along the Los Angeles River. Credit: Long Beach Post
About 12,000 metal gates will be installed at the opening of stormdrains in sixteen cities that empty into the Los Angeles River, as a measure to reduce pollution that accumulates in the river and ultimately, the Pacific Ocean and the coast of Long Beach.
