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
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CWEA One Day Specialty Workshop
Biosolids: Energing Your Gas Production. FOG and Food Waste Co-Digestion Workshop
When: January 18, 2012 – Southern California
City of Los Angeles Hyperion WTP
12000 Vista Del Mar
Los Angeles, CA
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For additional information/questions contact Serena Miller at 510-382-7800 x 115 or visit: www.cwea.org/conferences
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
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2011 LABS AWARDS NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!
● All nominations must be received or postmarked by November 16, 2011 ●
Each year LABS, CWEA and WEF present awards to deserving professionals in the water pollution control field. These prestigious awards acknowledge personal achievement and dedication to the profession. Now is the time for you to nominate those deserving individuals with whom you work or associate.
There are so many deserving wastewater professionals – who will you nominate?
1) Download LABS / Hala Titus cover letter. Award submissions must be mailed to:
Black & Veatch Corporation
Attn: Hala Titus
800 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 600
Los Angeles, California 90017
2) Visit www.cwea.org/mlr_member_awards_forms to choose and download your award submission forms.
NOMINEES MAY SELF NOMINATE.
NOMINEES MUST BE MEMBERS OF LABS TO WIN AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.
For more information contact: Hala Titus.
Come join LABS for our annual Past Presidents Event to be held at the Getty Villa located in beautiful Malibu!
When: Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Lunch: 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM – The Founder’s Room
Architectural Tour: 2:00 PM & 2:30 PM
RSVP: Please RSVP to Hala Titus at titush@bv.com by August 19th
COST: $45.00 Members/$55.00 Non-Members/$25.00 Students
Parking: Parking Reservations are under “California Water Environment Association” and each car costs $15 to park.
Directions:
The Getty Villa is located at 17985 Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, California, one mile north of Sunset Boulevard and approximately 25 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. From Los Angeles, take the I-10 (Santa Monica Freeway) west until it turns into Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) going north along the Pacific Ocean. Continue on Route 1 for approximately five miles to the Getty Villa.
Please note that visitors must approach the Getty Villa from the south. Access to the Getty Villa entrance is only from the northbound right-hand lane of Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Turning left across PCH is illegal and any attempt to enter the site via Coastline Drive is not permitted.
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CWEA is proud to announce that Justin Choe of Rancho Palos Verdes High School is the state winner of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize. He received $250 and a trip with his teacher to attend the National Competition in Chicago in June. His winning paper “The efficacy of harnessing and induced magnetic field for the purpose of recycling and reusing Ag-Fe nanoparticles in the wastewater treatment process,” will run in the August Wastewater Professional.
The California Water Environment Association (CWEA) announced the winners of its 2010 awards program at its Annual Conference in Ontario on April 15. Congratulations to these agencies and individuals leading the way in the water environment field!
Established in 1929, CWEA’s awards program has grown to acknowledge outstanding achievement in more than 20 categories honoring exceptional California water environment professionals, collection systems, and treatment plants. Categories include Plant of the Year, Collection System of the Year, Public Education Program of the Year as well as awards of individual professionals in various vocations. The program seeks to recognize outstanding achievements within the water environment field, improve the professional status of all personnel working in the field, and stimulate public awareness of the importance of wastewater treatment to public health and the water environment.
Nominations that advance through CWEA’s 17 local sections’ awards programs are eligible to compete statewide. Congratulations to the more than 150 nominees in the 2010 awards program for their diligent work to keep California’s water clean and workforce strong. Application materials for the 2011 awards cycle will be posted on www.cwea.org/awards in July.
CWEA officers are available to make a presentation to CWEA award recipients at agency board or City Council meetings. Please contact Lola Dvorak, Communication and Membership Manager, at ldvorak@cwea.org or (510) 382-7800 x 114.
CWEA 2010 Awards Winners
Join WEF Past President Jim Clark in welcoming the 2011 CWEA LABS officers with a thoughtful and compelling message to the Water Environment Profession titled “Addressing the Water Challenges Facing Us”.
When: Thursday, April 21 at 6pm
Where: Taix French Restaurant
1911 West Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
RSVP to Wendy Wert (wwert@lacsd.org) with meal preferences by April 14, 2011.
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Beyond Nitrification - the Benefits of Higher SRT Operation
Presenter: Michael Stenstrom Ph.D., P.E., BCEE
2011 CWEA Annual Conference
Engineering and Research Committee/American Academy of Environmental Engineers Breakfast
Friday, April 15, 2011
7:00 AM-8:30 AM
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Michael Strenstrom is a Distinguished Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research and teaching are in
the field of environmental engineering, with an emphasis on biological treatment methods
and applications of mathematical modeling and optimization to environmental engineering
research.
Be sure to sign up for the ERC Breakfast when you register for the annual conference!
CWEA Student and Young Professional Committee presents:
“C” is not for Average; “C” is for Communication - One Day Specialty Workshop
Wednesday, March 23:
Northern California: Walnut Creek
Central California: Fresno
Southern California: Irvine
Discounted Member Rate – $50
Earn up to 4.8 CWEA Contact Hours
Workshop Brochure
Register Online
During this workshop, you will learn:
Build strong communication skills that lead to diverse opportunities and higher productivity
Hear key concepts about communication skills and how they can be effective for you in the workplace and your personal life
Gain valuable tips and examples how to apply new communication skills and achieve the next level of success
Learn from lessons of leaders from all backgrounds, experiences, and career paths
In an effort to keep up with technological and economical times, and to ensure attendees throughout California hear all the great topics the speakers have to share, we will be hosting the conference simultaneously in three locations, one in the North, one in Central California and one in the South.
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!
April 12-15, Ontario
Need: several volunteers for registration desk, room monitoring, info desk, tour chaperones, YP mentors and so on.
Please note you need to register for the day(s) you’re volunteering.
Contact: Debra Bogdanoff, LACSD, AC-11 Co-Chair, dbogdanoff@lacsd.org
Flyer Artist
On-going
Need: Designer comfortable with producing monthly (sometimes 2x) LABS event flyers in a creative, accurate and timely manner. Previous experience is preferred.
Contact: Alec Mackie, JWCE, LABS Director, alecm@jwce.com
Open CWEA Leadership Positions
- Operations and Maintenance Training Committee Vice Chair
- Technical Certification Program (TCP) Executive Committee Vice Chair II
(***Update 1/31/2011 – This position has been filled***)
Contact: Debra Bogdanoff, LACSD, AC-11 Co-Chair, mailto:dbogdanoff@lacsd.org”>dbogdanoff@lacsd.org
Operations & Maintenance Seminar
2011 North and South One Day Seminar
Need: Technical expert to propose/gather speakers and host a 1 day CWEA training seminar on plant ops and maintenance issues.
Contact: Alec Mackie, JWCE, LABS Director, mailto:alecm@jwce.com”>alecm@jwce.com
The 2011 WEF Wastewater Challenge is a national competition that’s both
challenging and fun. This hands-on competition requires teams of students to
build a wastewater treatment system from an assortment of household products
in an effort to protect a sensitive wetland ecosystem from being
contaminated. This event offers students an opportunity to compete and
problem solve with fellow students from schools throughout North America.
Please help share the news of this event to your student chapters.
The competition will take place in Sacramento, California, at the 2011 WEF
Residuals and Biosolids Conference on May 25, 2011, at the Sacramento
Convention Center. To be eligible to compete, your team must submit a Design
Report to the WEF Students and Young Professionals Wastewater Challenge
Sub-Committee, and the top 12 teams will be selected to compete. The
deadline to submit reports for entry is April 1, 2011, at 5 PM PST. There
is a limit of one team per student chapter. The WEF Wastewater Challenge
Guidelines provide complete details on how to participate in this event.
Information is also posted on wef.org under the Public Information/College
Students. A monetary award will be presented to the top two teams. The
Case Scenario below provides a brief look at the challenge at hand.
A. Case Scenario
A 200 acre Biosolids Compost Facility that has 100,000 cubic yards of
composting, curing, and finished compost on site sits next to an earthen
levee and just up-gradient from a sensitive wetland type ecosystem. The
levee is expected to breach and for several hours 5,000 CFS of agricultural
runoff and snow melt will run through the site with the normal runoff
controls getting overloaded. It is expected that most of this now further
contaminated water will reach the site fence line and if not stopped or
successfully treated will devastate the wetland. The Army Corps of Engineers
will be repairing the breach within 12 hours and therefore the solution to
the problem should be considered temporary. The natural slope of the
facility would channel the flow to an area of no more than 100 yards wide at
the fence line.
Your team has been asked to design a system to control and treat the runoff
for solids, nutrients and bacteria before releasing it to the wetland, if
necessary. You are asked to design a system to control and mitigate the
nutrient rich water, and you and your team will be asked to construct and
run the emergency water treatment system component of the overall design at
the competition to demonstrate the system’s removal efficiencies. The
overall design will have to demonstrate the control strategies and removal
efficiencies of your system, in addition to the emergency water treatment
system.
Questions: WEFWastewaterChallenge@wef.org
WEF Staff: Dcrilley@wef.org
| Biosolids: Putting Regulators and Researchers in Touch with YOU… the Practitioner |
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| Tuesday, January 18, 2011 – Whittier Los Angeles County Sanitation District 1955 Workman Mill Rd, Whittier, CA 90601Wednesday, January 19, 2011 – Dublin Dublin Library 200 Civic Plaza, Dublin, CA 94568Register online or send in your registration form Register by January 4, for the Early Registration Member Discounted Rate – $165 Earn up to 7.5 CWEA Contact Hours |
Join CWEA/SARBS Engineering Committee for a workshop geared for engineers, technicians, and other wastewater utility staff seeking a basic background on easements.
When:
December 8, 2010
8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Where:
Irvine Ranch Water District Learning Center
3512 Michelson Drive
Irvine, CA 92612
Cost: $50
See flyer for more information.
Southern Regional Safety Conference 2010
When: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Where: Escondido Performing Arts Center
340 North Escondido Boulevard
Escondido, CA 92025
Click here for more information!
Registration on line link:
http://www.cwea.org/et_attendees_conferences.shtml
1st Place – Gimmicks & Gadgets – The Nocardia Foam Catcher
Larry Lemire, Charles Harris, Marcos Alvarez & Phil Ackman, LACSD
1st Place, Ops Challenge
LA Wrecking Crew
Preeti Ghuman, LACSD P3S Person of the Year
Joseph Petchuk, City of Santa Monica
Public Education Person of the Year
Michael Simpson, City of Los Angeles
Research Achievement
County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, Combining UV & Chlorination for Disinfection of Wastewater Effluents & Recycled Water
Safety, Large Plant
County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
Sludge Trudge
Wendy Wert, LACSD, 1st Place Individual Category
By Alec Mackie, LABS Corporate Director
The City’s Bureau of Engineering has completed design work on a critically needed second sewer force main to manage peak flows from the Venice Pumping Plant to the Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant. The City is ready to start building the $60 million, 2 mile force main but a new court case has stopped the project.
Richard Watts, Brian Peck and Attendee (lt) Trainer Bruce Borders with Attendees in Riverside
By Wendy Wert
Chair
CWEA Training Coordination Committee
In May 2010, the California Water Environment Association (CWEA) presented specialized Electrical and Instrumentation (E&I) training to 160 participants at four locations across the State of California. The seminar was held in: Fresno on Tuesday, May 4, 2010, Eureka on Thursday, May 6, 2010, Riverside on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 and Vacaville on Thursday May 13, 2010. Featured Speaker Bruce Borders of Control Systems West provided training on Electrical Controls and Instrumentation of the type that are typically found at Pump Stations. Record numbers of CWEA attendees were presented with detailed training modules related to the selection of control schemes that optimize operations at sewage and stormwater pump stations. Operators, Maintenance Personnel, Design Engineers, Facility Managers and Supervisors were in attendance at the training sessions. The program was structured to add to the knowledge and skills of station operators and maintenance personnel, as well as provide improved personnel performance, along with financial and safety benefits.
