(photos by Nicole You, E2 Consulting Engineers Inc.)
Join LABS Students and Young Professional
Holiday Party!
When: December 8, 2011 (Thursday) from 6 to 8:30 pm!
Where: Lucky Strikes
800 W. Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Cost: $5 – Includes Happy Hour Food, one non-alcoholic drink and free bowling!
Parking: $5 – 2 hours without validation
RSVP: Nicole (nicole.you@lacity.org)
See flyer for more info!
(photos by Alec Mackie, JWCE)
When: Sunday, October 16, 2011
Time: 8:30 am to Noon
Location: Bikes and Hikes
8743 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90046
Cost: $75 for riders with bike & helmet
$100 for riders renting a bike & helmet
Join your WEFTEC friends as we pedal to raise awareness and funds to support Water For People. In the three years, we have raised over $10,000. We are able to raise money by the generosity of our sponsors who pay to have their logo printed on the back of our event T-Shirt.
A great ride is planned for 2011. We will start at Bikes and Hikes in West Hollywood and pedal through Bel Aire and Beverly Hills. We’ll ride 10 miles through jaw dropping neighborhood as we pass many celebrity homes, take in the sights and scents of world class gardens, and ride along the infamous Sunset Boulevard. During the ride, we’ll park our bikes and take a foot tour of Rodeo Drive and Greystone Mansion. For the serious cyclists, a hammerhead option along Mulholland Drive in the Santa Monica Mountains will be offered. All rides will be guided by professional tour guides from Bikes and Hikes LA (www.bikesandhikesla.com).
All participants will be provided with a multi-speed, fully suspended hybrid bicycle, vest, helmet and fluids. We will receive a colorful T-Shirt with the logo of our sponsors on the back of the T-Shirt. Registration will close on September 30 or when we reach 75 riders.
Participants should wear comfortable shirts and pants. Closed-toed shoes are required. Remember to bring sunscreen. Depending upon the weather, a light wind breaker may be needed. We will be arranging transportation from downtown LA to the bicycle shop and return. We will provide details of the transportation later.
After you have registered, George Patrick will contact you by email to obtain your T-Shirt size, your bike preference and other specific information. If you have questions, please contact George Patrick by email (georgepatrickatl@bellsouth.net) or 404/434-2149. If your company is interested in sponsoring the ride, please contact George Patrick.
See flyer for more information.
Please join Water For People for a “party with a purpose” at WEFTEC 2011. Enjoy great music by Luke Reynolds of the band Guster, cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres. All proceeds from this event will go to support Water For People’s important work helping to bring sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene education solutions to Everyone — every family, every school, and every clinic — in the developing countries where we work.
Monday, October 17, 2011
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
The Conga Room at L.A. Live
Tickets: $45 in advance, or $50 at the door.
Buy tickets here!
Click here for more information and to see our additional sponsors.
For more information on sponsorships or tickets sales, please contact Aaron Carlson at acarlson@waterforpeople.org
Please join us to visit the Burbank Water Reclamation Plant (BWRP), where BWRP and LABS SYPC (California Water Environment Association Los Angeles Basin Section Students & Young Professional Committee) are hosting a facility tour introducing City of Burbank’s full scale wastewater treatment and reclamation processes.
BWRP is a tertiary wastewater treatment plant that currently treats 9 million gallons of sewage per day (MGD). The BWRP was built in 1966 to meet the wastewater and sewer needs of the growing residential population and expanding commercial industries located in the City of Burbank. Originally built to treat 6 MGD, the City upgraded the BWRP to the current 9 MGD in 1971. The plant was upgraded in 2000 to ensure that its meets new stringent regulations raising the quality of the cleaned wastewater it discharges after the treatment process. The plant was upgraded again in 2002 to remove ammonia from the wastewater.
Time: September 27, Tuesday 8:30-10am
Venue: 740 North Lake Street, Burbank CA
RSVP: nicole.you@lacity.org
Parking: On Lake Street, entrance of the plant is at Lake & Chestnut
Cost: Free!
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.
Photographs by Amanda Schmidt, RMC
We would like to congratulate you on your professional and technical career and now we need your assistance in inspiring the next generation of technology leaders. We need accomplished people such as yourself to volunteer to do a hands –on experiment or demonstration with middle school students at the upcoming Tech Day , Saturday May 14 at the Galen Center. This event exposes students to science and technology in a fun way and hopefully after this happening the student may want to pursue a STEM related career. Successful experiments in the past have been tinfoil boats, electric cars, pop-up rockets, pencil catapult, super conductivity demonstration and DNA with Strawberry . This is not the complete list, many more experiments have been performed.
Details on Event:
Date: Saturday May 14
Location: Galen Center, 3400 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, California 90089-2360
Parking: Free @ Lot X, McCarthy Way and Figueroa St
Time: 9:30am- 1:30Pm
Attendance: We expect 150 kids.
Please contact Michael Simpson michael.simpson@lacity.org if you have any questions.
Job Summary: Develops and administers water protection, commercial wastewater pretreatment and pollution prevention programs related to storm drain and sewer systems. Plans, directs, and coordinates the implementation of policies and programs impacting wastewater and urban runoff. Supervises assigned staff.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Public or Business Administration, Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, or a closely related field, and four (4) years of recent, paid and progressively responsible environmental compliance program experience, preferably in a wastewater pretreatment program or water protection program or similar pollution prevention program. At least two years of the recent, paid work experience must have included supervisory responsibilities. Additional recent, related work experience may substitute for the educational requirement on a year for year basis. (Successful completion of 30 semester or 45 quarter units is equal to one year of the additional work experience.) Licenses and Certificates:& nbsp; Possession of a valid Class C driver license. An Environmental Compliance Inspector Grade III Certificate issued from the California Water Environment Association (CWEA) must be obtained within one year from date of hire.
Apply By: 5:30 p.m., March 24, 2011.
For complete details and how to apply visit: www.smgov.net/hr
Phone: (310) 458-8697.
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.
CWEA LABS Student and Young Professionals Committee
is proud to invite you to our first tour of 2011!
Join other students and young professionals as we tour Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant (TIWRP) on March 29th.
TIWRP has won the 2009 LABS award of Plant of the year!
Location: Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant
455 Ferry Street
San Pedro, 90731
When: Tuesday, March 29 from 10:30am to 1 pm – Lunch is included!
RSVP with Nicole You (Nicole.You@lacity.org) by Friday March 18
Please join us – bring your friends, family, co-workers, for fun including: live entertainment, behind the scenes water treatment tours, iPad raffle, silent auction, beach resort trip offers, food, drinks, networking and more!
Water For People Spring Mixer and Tour Benefit
When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Where: Long Beach Aquarium
100 Aquarium Way
Long Beach, CA 90802
Why: Join us and help raise money to provide clean water and sanitation to those in need.
See flyer to purchase tickets and to find out more information
- And, if you’d like to still help our fabulous hard working planning committee, OR can lend assistance the evening of the event, please email Uzid@westbasin.org for more info one how we need your help.
- You can also help by donating items for the raffle or auction – we will take un-used new holiday gifts; gift cards better donated; or solicit your company to donate an item or gift card for tax benefits. Donation receipts can be given!
We have been asked by LABS member Michael Simpson of the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles African American Engineers Association (AAEA) to support a fantastic outreach program for students.
When: Saturday, May 14, 2011
Where: City of Los Angeles facility near USC (send email for more info)
Why: To help 250 high school students and young adults to discover the importance of engineering and the terrific job opportunities available in our industry.
The theme this year is the water-energy nexus. That’s us!
LABS will sponsor this important outreach event. We encourage your company to get involved and help inspire these young people to become professional engineers and scientists – maybe even to work in the clean water industry.
Michael is looking for two types of support:
1. Corporate volunteers to man outreach tables featuring interactive, hands-on science based activities with the students. For example using a 2-liter bottle to make a water filter. Explain your job, your company and the importance of engineering.
2. Sponsors to cover food, giveaways and prizes.
Whatever you can do to help, LABS and Michael would greatly appreciate it. Please contact him at michael.simpson@lacity.org
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
ET 240 Solid Waste Management Applications course being offered this spring semester.
The course is Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:00pm to 10:00pm, and it will be taught by the supervisors from the LA County Sanitation Districts solid waste department.
Your instructors will also take you on field trips to the various solid waste sites. The class received great reviews last Spring. Please try to pre-register, but if you are having difficulty adding the class, please feel free contact me at (562) 463-7501 or skatnik@riohondo.edu
ET 240: This course is designed to provide individuals, who are working in or seek employment in the solid waste management field, with an overview of the solid waste industry and its components. Emphasis is placed on the various aspects of integrated waste management including: waste prevention, recycling, composting, incineration, landfilling, environmental sampling and monitoring, facility siting and permitting, and compliance with environmental, health and safety regulations.
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
LABS of CWEA regretfully reports that the Coca-Cola Bottling Company has postponed its plant tour. LABS will inform you of the tour status when more information is available.
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.
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.
