CWEA TCP Environmental Compliance Inspector Exam Grades 1-4
When: Wednesday July 14, 2010 from 4-7 pm
Where: Los Coyotes WRP (upstairs in the lunchroom of the Maintenance Building); 16515 Piuma Av; Cerritos, CA 90703
All aspects of all four grades of the Environmental Compliance Inspector Exam will be reviewed; special emphasis on math problems. No fee or formal sign-up is required however an email to Bill Garrett is highly recommended.
Bill Garrett
Supervising IW Inspector
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
(562) 908-4288 extension 2907
LADWP Applauds its Customers
February Marks Lowest Recorded Water Use in 32 Years
February 2010 Marks 31 Consecutive Months of Reduced Water Use and Hit
a Water Conservation Milestone for the City of Los Angeles
In the ninth month of mandatory water conservation in the City of Los Angeles, customers from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) reached 1979 water use levels, making February 2010 the lowest recorded February water use in 32 years.
Link to the full Press Release
LABS is pleased to welcome WIKA Instrument Corp. as one of our new corporate sponsors.
WIKA Instrument Corporation (WIKA) manufactures a complete line of pressure and temperature instrumentation engineered for the water/wastewater industry. WIKA products are solutions for measuring and monitoring filtration, line pressure, water levels, pumps and controls. For over 60 years, WIKA Instrument Corporation (WIKA) has continued to globally advance pressure gauge, sensor and temperature instrumentation technology and applications.
NASA has gotten their high-tech water reuse system going. Space station astronauts took a ceremonial drink yesterday to the delight of mission control…
“We are happy to have this water work through the system and we’re looking forward to working it through our systems and doing it all over again,” said flight engineer Michael Barratt.
What a great testimonial for water reuse!
- Patrick
Several dozen non-profits are coming together in Downtown LA to sponsor a march for clean water starting at 9:00am in Los Angeles State Historic Park and ending at Rio De Los Angeles State Historic Park.
The event is sponsored by the LA Department of Water & Power; Jewish Community Foundation of LA; The Nature Conservancy; Water Replenishment District of Southern California; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; City Councilman Ed Reyes and President Eric Garcetti; State Assemblymember Kevin DeLeon; and State Senator Alex Padilla.
Reuters reports on water issues facing Las Vegas and Los Angeles…
Nowhere is the sense of crisis more visible than on the outskirts of Las Vegas at Lake Mead, the nation’s largest manmade reservoir. A principal source of water for Southern California, the lake has dipped to half its capacity, leaving an ominous, white “bathtub ring” that grows thicker each year.
After the jump, Reuters also provided some interesting facts about water in the west and the world…
The LA Times Food section discussed fats, oils and grease on Wednesday – describing the long and complex path new restaurant owners must follow in order to receive approval from the City of LA’s building, planning, health and sanitation bureaus.
Restaurants are required to install and maintain large grease separators to prevent the material from entering the collection system. The Bureau of Sanitation requirement has been incredibly successful – sewer overflows blamed on grease clogs dropped from 300 per year to less than 20.
City Council President Eric Garcetti wants to streamline the process:
In response to what Garcetti described as a particularly out-of-hand battle in 2006 between a tiny bakery in Echo Park and the city… the councilman began pushing an initiative called “12-2,” which aims to downsize the number of agencies a new business has to interact with from 12 to two. Business owners will be able to file initial paperwork online and avoid wandering the confusing maze of agency reps in the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety’s headquarters.
This could be our third year of drought and as our warm and sunny SoCal winter demonstrates – the outlook is grim. According to the AP, Federal and State water planners met last week in Reno to discuss the outlook and determined year-to-date the rainfall totals, snow pack and water content of that snow are all far below average.
Farmers in some areas are not planting crops out of fear there won’t be enough irrigation water.
“Quarter sections of almonds may be dead by the end of the year. It’s one of the grimmest water situations we’ve ever faced,” said Bill Diedrich, an almond grower in Fresno County, and the fourth-generation of his California farm family.
The LABS Young Professionals group is going on a tour of the Hyperion wastewater treatment plant. Operated by the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation Hyperion is the City’s oldest and largest treatment plant, operating since 1894 with a capacity of 450 MGD.
Who are the Young Professionals? A Young Professional (YP) is any member or prospective member that considers themselves to be relatively new in the any of the stormwater, water, or wastewater industries. They can be less than 35 years of age, have less than 10 years of experience, or simply be young at heart. YPs can include students, plant operators, engineers, lab analysts, maintenance workers, etc.
Cal State Northridge is hosting an evening seminar called “The Legacy of Endocrine Disruptors: Should I be Worried?”
Speakers include Dr. Kristina A. Thayer, staff scientist in the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR); Dr. Susan Nagel, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health and a member of the Endocrine Disruptors Group at the University of Missouri; and Dr. Elaine Francis, the National Program Director for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Pesticides and Toxics Research Program.
The symposium begins at 4 PM and ends at 10:00 PM. The location is the Northridge Center Complex in the University Student Union. General admission is $75. If you register early or are an active member of the CSUN Alumni Association the admission fee is $60. Students are admitted free, but must register on-line. Parking is $5.00. Light refreshments will be served.
Flyer
Early registration website www.csunalumni.com.
