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

• 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 >

Hosts:
City of Los Angeles,
Department of Public Works,
Bureau of Sanitation

See flyer for more information

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.

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

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

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.

Please use this as an opportunity to tell your agency’s story.  Let the State Water Resources Control Board know about the funding and staff resources that have been invested in your collection system, the programs you have implemented (FOG, Spill Response, Cleaning, etc.) or improved under the SSO WDR, and how the number/ volume of SSOs entering surface waters has been reduced as a result.

Some key points you may wish to include in your letter with regard to the problems with the SSS WDR as proposed:

• The SSS WDR would move away from the approach developed by the Stakeholder SSO Guidance Committee in 2005-2006, which focused on reporting of SSOs and reducing SSOs with the potential to affect water quality or public health, to a very prescriptive and onerous order that seeks to dictate decisions regarding the way local sewer system programs are managed and implemented.
• Compliance with the revised SSS WDR would require far greater staff and resources for permit enrollees, at a time when public agency budgets are shrinking. Furthermore, it is unclear how the additional information that must be generated will be used by the Water Boards or that the efforts required under the revised permit will produce corresponding environmental or public health benefits.
• The SSS WDR would expand liability for SSOs by including all spills to surface water as prohibited SSOs subject to enforcement, instead of only those reaching a “water of the United States.”
• The proposed SSS WDR would transform the existing enforcement discretion language, which expresses a clear statement of the State Water Board’s intent regarding enforcement priorities and responses, into a purely advisory provision, which individual regional boards are free to follow or ignore as they choose.
• The SSS WDR is overly focused on private sewer laterals (“PSL”), requiring reporting of PSL spills by enrollees who have no authority over the privately owned laterals and requiring detailed information regarding local lateral programs.
• The SSS WDR would include a new prohibition on the use of chlorine during spill cleanups, including any potential chlorine residual in potable water, thus making it very difficult to wash down and fully clean up and disinfect SSOs on roads and gutters, and in storm drains or ditches.

Some key points you may wish to include in your letter with regard to the positive aspects of the SSS WDR as proposed:

• Revisions to streamline spill notification points of contact
• Modifying applicability criteria to include a flow threshold (>25K gallons on any single day) and a pipe mileage threshold (>1 mile)
• Expanding coverage of the SSS WDRs to private collection systems meeting the pipe mileage and proposed flow threshold.
• Clarifying that SSOs to land are not the focus of the SSS WDR 

Though not part of the State Water Board staff proposal, the State Water Board is also seeking comment on whether to adopt a “hybrid” two-tiered approach to regulation of sanitary sewer systems. We urge you to oppose this alternative. 

Under the two-tiered WDRs and NPDES permit: (1) enrollees who have had at least one SSO that has reached waters of the United States would be required to seek coverage under the NPDES permit; (2) enrollees who have never had any SSO that has reached waters of the United States would be required to seek coverage only under the WDRs; and (3) when an Enrollee covered under the WDRs reports an SSO that has reached waters of the United States, the Enrollee would be required to switch coverage from the WDRs to the NPDES permit. The NPDES permit (as does the SSO WDR) would include a prohibition against all SSOs to waters of the United States.  

As the SSS WDR does not authorize any SSOs to waters of the United States, there is no need for an NPDES permit.

The result of such a change would be to subject local public agencies to additional citizen group lawsuits and higher administrative penalties with absolutely no demonstration that this would improve water quality or reduce SSOs. 

This alternative would also require additional Water Board staff resources to track and implement the different permit tiers.

The proposed SSS WDR, staff report and related documents are posted on the State Water Board website
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/sso/review_update.shtml

Your comment letter should be addressed as follows:
Jeanine Townsend
Clerk to the Board
State Water Resources Control Board
1001 I Street, 24th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814.

Comment letters may be submitted to the Clerk to the Board via commentletters@waterboards.ca.gov or by fax at (916) 341-5620.  Please indicate in the subject line: “Comment Letter – SSS WDRs Review & Update.”

For more information, please contact: gchesler@centralsan.dst.ca.us Gail Chesler, Tri-TAC* Water Committee Co-Chair, T:  925/229-7294.

 * Tri-TAC is a Technical Advisory Committee representing three California associations: League of California Cities, California Association of Sanitation Agencies and the California Water Environment Association.

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!