Tri- Counties Medium Plant of the Year and also the State Collection System of the Year ! On top of that , there will be Technical Certification Review classes, we will cover Lab Certification Grades 1 to 4, Collection Certification Grades 1 to 4, Environmental Compliance 1 and 2 , Operations Math/ Operations, Maintenance/ Instrumentation, Safety and Super Group classes. Please come and join us for a fun day of classes, plant tour, vendor exhibits, door prizes, OPS Challenge practice, excellent food and the Best and Worst Hawaiian shirt contest!
Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:00 am – 2:30 pm
City of Simi Valley Water Quality Control Plant
600 W. Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley, CA 93065
See Flyer for more information.
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
(PDF formats)
Photos by Kent McIntosh, LACSD
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
The next P3S committee meeting will be held at 10:00 am on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 in the City of Santa Monica. The meeting location is the City Water Assembly Room at the City Yards – 2500 Michigan Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90404.
Sarah Woodard, Project Manager of the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission/Foundation, will be speaking about the Clean Bay Restaurant Certification Program.
All P3S members and other interested parties are welcome to attend. Remote attendance via conference call and GoToMeeting will be available. Please RSVP to Preeti Ghuman, pghuman@lacsd.org Committee Secretary (562) 908-4288 ext 2904 if you will be attending in person to insure we have enough lunch for everyone. For CWEA members lunch is on the Committee.
Please join us for our next collection systems luncheon to be held on June 23, 2011 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
AQMD Fleet Rules (15 min)
Dean Saito, AQMD
An explanation of AQMD’s Clean Natural Gas vehicle requirements for new municipal equipment operating within the LA Basin as well as recent examples of the waiver process.
Equipment Options and Capabilities (15 min)
Dave Thomas, Haaker
The options available for purchasing CNG vehicles and equipment specifications and capabilities.
Clean Fleet Success Story (30 min panel discussion)
Barry Berggren, City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Sanitation
The panel includes Mr. Berggren and members of the BOS field crew and fleet staff. They’ll describe the challenges CNG equipment poses in the field and for fleet management, along with ways the City of Los Angeles is addressing those challenges.
Please RSVP by June 22nd to:
Cathy Macklin,
RMC Water & Environment
cmacklin@rmcwater.com
(310) 566-6460
Location:
City of Los Angeles
Bureau of Sanitation
Media Center
2714 Media Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90065
See flyer for more information
20th Collections Training Seminar
Summer 2011
Topics & Activities
- Gimmicks and Gadgets Contest (Bring your own ideas to win $$)
- Photo Contest 8×10 color or black & white
(Best Graphics – Collections Related)
- Best Hawaiian Shirt Contest
- 7 Sessions = 7 Contact Points
- Math Training
- Odor Control
- Bypass Pumping
- Regulatory Update
- Collections System Maintenance
Date:
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Time:
7:30 Check-in 8:00 am – 3:30 pm Sessions
Location:
Huntington Beach Public Library
7111 Talbert Avenue
Huntingtong Beach CA, 92648
Cost:
CWEA Member $35.00
Non-Member $60
Exhibitor $200
**Includes Lunch**
**Reserve-a-Seat does not work, you must email, mail, or fax your complete registration form**
Deadline:
7/20/2011
Additional Info:
Ralph Palomares
rpalomares@etwd.com
949-837-7050 x.104
For questions or to reach an officer at this professional society. click here
On March 24, 2011, the State Water Resources Control Board released for public comment draft Waste Discharge Requirements for Sanitary Sewer Systems (SSS WDR). If adopted, the proposed SSS WDR would replace the existing statewide SSO WDR (Order WQ 2006-003.)
Written Comments are due Friday, April 29, 2011 at Noon
A State Water Resources Control Board workshop will be scheduled at a future date, most likely in June.
The proposed revisions represent a major departure from the program that has been successfully implemented under the SSO WDR. The water quality associations and local government associations are drafting comprehensive comments on the proposed SSS WDR. But we also need your help.
Please send a comment letter on behalf of your agency requesting that the State Water Board significantly scale back the proposed SSS WDR and allow the programs and progress begun under the existing SSO WDR to be fully implemented, since many of these programs involve capital improvements that will take time to be put in place.
The Southern Sections Collection Systems Committee presents this year’s Collections Workshop!
March 16 from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm
Rancho California Water District
42135 Winchester Road
Temecula, CA 92590
$45 per person (includes lunch)
Topics Include:
- Basin Maintenace Preparation and Lay-Out
- Confined Spaces
- I&I Inflow and Infiltration
- Large Diameter Cleaning
See flyer for more information!
You’d think that standing in a dank tunnel filled with raw sewage would muck up your holiday spirit. But these London sewermen seem to be having a jolly old time as they remind the city’s inhabitants not to flush turkey fat or baby wipes down the toilet. Singing “only what comes out of you should go into our pipes” to the tune of “Good King Wenceslas,” they make responsible waste disposable seem downright fun.
Thames Water will donate 1p to WaterAid for every hit the film gets on YouTube (up to a maximum of 200,000 views, ending on 31 January 2011) to support the charity’s life-saving work to improve access to safe water and sanitation to the world’s poorest people.
Find out more about the Singing Sewermen and their work at:
http://www.thameswater.co.uk/binit
On November 4th more than 200 CWEA members gathered at the Glendale Auditorium for training classes on collection system issues in Los Angeles County. In addition, 20 exhibitors displayed the latest in sewer system solutions including trucks, machinery, sensors, robots and chemicals.
The SWRCB’s Waste Discharge Requirements from 2006 come with strict reporting requirements so a main focus of the training was reporting compliance. John Hicks, Superintendent of Wastewater Systems for the City of Glendale, took a class of 100+ people through a simulated overflow event in the parking lot and explained the math and science behind making proper overflow estimates as well as meeting the proper SWRCB reporting requirements.
Meanwhile in the management class SWRCB official Jim Fisher explained the Water Board’s online spill reporting system and also covered what officials are looking for during SSMP audits. There are 1,100 active enrollees in the on-line spill reporting system. Half of California’s agencies have completed, certified and implemented a Sewer System Management Plan. Looking closer at the SSO spill data Jim reported 6% of responses had reporting errors, 11% missed all of the reporting requirements and 80% missed some data. A total of 34 reports or 3% correctly submitted all data. Jim reported the current focus for the Water Board is compliance and random audits.
(all presentations from Nov 4th are in LABS Presentation Database)
(Photos by Jim Aanderud, Innerline Engineering)
The Wastewater Maintenance Section in the City of Glendale, Calif., has attacked the root of its sewer problems by letting the guys in the field do their thing.
Plagued by sanitary sewer overflows, most often caused by root intrusion, the section abandoned its program of scheduled line-by-line CCTV monitoring and adopted a “spot check” approach based on field observations from its maintenance crews.
The results have been spectacular. “In early 2005, we were seeing an SSO rate as high as 15 spills per 100 miles of sewer line,” explains John Hicks, wastewater superintendent. “Since summer of 2008, we’re down to an average of about 3.5 spills per 100 miles, and we’ve flat-lined at that rate. In fact, within the last year we’ve gone 100 days without an SSO — not bad for a collection system of this age.”
CWEA’s Certification Preparation Task Force (CPTF) has just released the 2nd edition of the four Collection System Maintenance (CSM) Study Guides. The new study guides have been revised to reflect the new CSM certification tests being rolled-out January 2011. The study guides have expanded descriptions of the new Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) covered on the test and updated practice tests. Study guides are available free to all CWEA members as a searchable electronic PDF book.
Each year CWEA’s Technical Certification Program (TCP) will be revalidating and updating tests for one of the 24 vocations tested. After TCP completes the new KSAs, the CPTF takes the new KSAs and updates the study guides for that vocation. This year, the CPTF reviewed and updated 328 pages of Collection System Maintenance Study Guide content!
The CPTF is now working on updating the CSM Moderator Guides due to be released January 2011. These guides outline the curriculum for study session instructors. If your local section is planning a study session, be sure to get a moderator guide. You can contact Director of Member and Leader Services Chris Lundeen at clundeen@cwea.org or 510-382-7800 x104 for more information about getting a Moderator Guide. As the moderator guides will not be available until January, the CPTF would be happy to bring your study session instructors up to speed on any changes in the meantime. Just let Chris know and he can set-up a meeting or conference call with your instructor and members of the CPTF.
Many Thanks to the Collection System Maintenance Study Guide Update Team!
Certification Prep Task Force Co-Chairs:
Gina Cloutier, Victor Valley WRA
Joanna De Sa, City of Sunnyvale
The Powerpoint presentations from the LABS-SSCSC seminar in Glendale are posted here:
www.labsofcwea.com/databases/presentations/?category=7
SARBS-LABS joint event!
Topics and Activities:
- Basic maintenance procedures
- Networking with other professionals
- Vendor Exhibits
- Regulatory Updates
- SSMP Audits – update by the Orange County WDR Committee
- How to Behave in Public!
- Combination Truck Maintenance
- FOG Inspections
- Many other topics!
Location:
Huntington Beach Public Library
7111 Talbert Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
When:
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
7:30 a.m. Check-In / 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Sessions
One point of emphasis on directions, please enter the Glendale Civic Auditorium from Mountain Street:
Drive on Mountain St.
JUST PAST Verdugo St
On your right hand side is the parking lot
Glendale Auditorium entrance to the lot is under the trees. City of Glendale staff will be on hand to direct you.
That makes the parking lot address for Glendale Civic Auditorium:
1519 E Mountain St, Glendale, CA 91207
>> Click here for flyer and registration form
Thursday Nov. 4th
7:30-3:00 • 4 CEUs
Glendale Civic Auditorium
1401 N Verdugo Rd., Glendale
2-freeway
Exit Mountain St., go down the hill
CROSS Verdugo Road
1 block on right hand side
Enter parking 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!
Nearly 200 people from dozens of Los Angeles agencies are attending including: Long Beach, Torrance, Burbank, Hawthorne, Glendale, Pasadena, Monrovia, Palmdale, Lancaster, IEUA, Simi Valley, LACSD and more! Register for collection systems training today!
$55 CWEA member/$65 non-member
How Does Sewage Treatment Work?
Sewage treatment turns out to be a somewhat less nasty business than you probably thought
By Scott Huler
The guy running the snake down our sewer looks matter-of-fact. Our sewage has been backing up. Right next to the pipe connecting our house to the sewer line running down our street stands a 70-year-old willow oak, and I worry the tree’s roots have found their way, during the droughty past year, into our line. He shrugs: Maybe it’s tree roots, maybe it’s a collapsed pipe, maybe it’s a yo-yo. The snake went in only a dozen feet or so and found a clog, and now the little claw at the end is spinning. Once he pulls it out we’ll know better what’s going on. I leave him to his business, though I cast an annoyed glance at the oak. Sewer pipes fit together simply, with a bell joint, and tiny root hairs find their way to the nutrient-rich flow, then grow larger, eventually growing large enough to shatter the vitreous clay pipe that forms so many service lines or dislodge a joint if the pipes are cast iron. Nobody knows what our pipes, 70 years old, are made of, but I fear we’re about to find out.
