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Balancing the Practical and Sustainable MARCH 2021 BALANCING THE PRACTICAL AND SUSTAINABLE GUIDANCE FOR COMPLICATED REGULATORY, FINANCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS March 2021 | TABLE OF CONTENTS HOW EFFICIENT IS YOUR @WaterOnline 101 Gibraltar Road, Suite 100 Horsham, PA 19044 Editor’s Insight PH: (215) 675-1800 AERATION PROCESS? FX: (814) 899-5587 Email: [email protected] 4 Pride And Joy: Water Leadership Defined Website: www.wateronline.com CHIEF EDITOR Kevin Westerling (215) 675-1800 ext. 120 Articles [email protected] PUBLISHER Travis Kennedy (215) 675-1800 ext. 122 6 Let’s Work Together To Fix [email protected] Regulatory Guidance ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Patrick Gallagher (215) 675-1800 ext. 129 [email protected] PRODUCT MANAGER 8 How The New Lead And Copper Bill King (215) 675-1800 ext. 100 Rule Could Impact You [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Karen White (814) 897-9000 ext. 316 11 Reuse To The Rescue: Recycling [email protected] Municipal And Industrial Wastewater PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Lynn Netkowicz For A Sustainable Future (814) 897-9000 ext. 205 [email protected] CREATIVE DIRECTOR William Pompilii 14 The Menace Of Biofilm (215) 675-1800 ext. 145 And How We Can Tackle It [email protected] PRODUCTION MANAGER Susan Day (215) 675-1800 ext. 101 18 Why Business Could (And Should) [email protected] DIRECTOR OF AUDIENCE Utilize Green Roofs To Become More DEVELOPMENT Martin Zapolski Resilient (814) 897-9000 ext. 337 LET’S TALK [email protected] 20 Trending In Wastewater Treatment: DIRECTOR OF Tom McCurdy, Director of Environmental Sales ONLINE DEVELOPMENT Industrial Vacuum Evaporation Art Glenn [email protected] +1 610 656 1683 [email protected] Systems Real efficiency means operating the consumption profiles in wastewater treatment plants with precision. 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Water Online ...................................................................................................................................................17 LET’S TALK! We’ll be happy to advise you! Copyright © 2021, VertMarkets, Inc. www.aerzen.com/en-us wateronline.com n Water Innovations 3 Untitled-1 1 1/4/2019 11:29:46 AM EDITOR’S LETTER MULTI-PARAMETER By Kevin Westerling MONITOR/CONTROLLER™ Chief Editor, [email protected] Pride And Joy: Water Leadership Defined espite overseeing our most precious resource, mandates for reduced consumption reduced revenue for many water professionals often go unnoticed, and hence systems, infrastructure does not stop aging, but the investments unappreciated. To that end, it’s my pleasure to highlight must be made after additional degradation, often resulting in higher the efforts, accomplishments, and insights of industry overall costs to the operation. Individuals need to understand that Dleaders such as Joy Eldredge, chair of the California-Nevada Section paying their water bill needs to be among their highest priorities. of the American Water Works Association. CA-NV AWWA represents an area and utility presence larger You are also deputy utilities director at the city of than most countries. The spate of issues is large as well, both Napa, in the heart of California’s Wine Country. What in number and scope — and that was before the pandemic hit. unique challenges are posed by your environment and The repercussions of COVID have forced difficult operational user base, and how are they addressed? decisions, and sometimes concessions, yet the goal of sustainably The city of Napa has had its share of disasters in the last seven achieving the highest level of water quality and customer service years, including a 6.0 earthquake in 2014, the Atlas and Patrick remains the same. Joy Eldredge embodies this goal, and her service Fires in 2017, public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) of the energy to others is evident even beyond her professional duties. Read on grid starting in 2018, and the recent Hennessey Lightening Unit to learn about, and from, her experience. Complex and Glass Fires in 2020. We are well-versed in emergency response and I encourage others to plan ahead for emergencies. You were passed the gavel at CA-NV AWWA’s 2020 One of the most important actions is to sign up for CALWARN, Annual Fall Conference, which was held virtually in the California Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network [or October. Can you describe your role and how COVID your state’s equivalent], which provides a structure and contractual has affected it? mechanism for mutual aid from other agencies. The value is that As Section Chair, I work with the chairs (vice chair, chair elect, the other agencies operate and maintain systems, so they are already and vice chair elect) as well as the Executive Committee to trained and have the materials and equipment necessary to provide set the course and the priorities for the year. The Executive immediate and effective assistance. Director and 12 other staff work with the volunteers to serve our members. Admirably, you served in the Peace Corps in Kenya, The biggest change for the section was canceling our annual East Africa, from 1995-1998. Did that experience help spring conference, which was very unfortunate. We had robust inform or influence your views on water? If so, how? plans for a 100th anniversary celebration at Disneyland, which I spent three years building small concrete tanks for rainwater always draws a large crowd. We changed the format of our harvesting from roof catchment systems. It was very basic annual fall conference to be entirely virtual. By all accounts construction using locally available materials and purchased it was successful, and I am very proud of section staff, our ad concrete. It was the ultimate in hands-on construction, and I hoc committee, and our members that ensured a successful realized I learned more about concrete than I did in my 300-level event. Our upcoming Operator Symposium [March 23-24] college courses. Spending time in a very remote part of the world will also be virtual, and we hope for similar results. [Visit where people are in a situation of subsistence living reinforced the www.ca-nv-awwa.org for details.] importance of water and that it is a vital resource. Americans often take for granted the amount of work that goes What has COVID wrought in terms of day-to-day into ensuring their clean, safe tap water is available every day and operations for your sector and the industry at large? reliable in times of natural disasters. When you carry every gallon The State Water Resources Control Board has recently published of water you use with a bucket, you will value it much more than survey results that indicate there is over $600 million in outstanding when you simply turn on the faucet and it appears. bills directly related to drinking water systems that customers have not paid since the start of the COVID pandemic. This is a huge But perhaps not as taken for granted as it once was. Hopefully, impact to the industry and, as we know, water systems are already the pandemic has taught America and the world about the value ® challenged with sufficient funding to maintain and replace aging of water and water services. Thank you to Joy and all our water infrastructure. Similar to the recent drought when associated professionals out there. 4 wateronline.com n Water Innovations Untitled-1 1 4/15/2020 10:54:30 AM Let’s Work UTILITYMANAGEMENT Together To Industries typically want to abide by Fix Regulatory regulations and know their importance, Guidance but they must be given clear and practical guidance on how to do so. Responsible parties all want clean water and to abide by the rules that secure it, but what if the rules do more harm than good? With a recent Supreme Court decision on wastewater discharges and a change of program. After reviewing the draft guidance, NGWA issued but also can have negative impacts on our environment. comments to the EPA indicating that it came up short on many Industries typically want to abide by regulations and know their presidential administrations as the backdrop, this technical aspects that would have made the document a usable importance, but they must be given clear and practical guidance op-ed from the National Ground Water Association and practical resource for its users. NGWA has also reviewed the on how to do so. This issue, though, cannot fall solely on the addresses the conundrum. final guidance issued by the EPA and finds it also comes up short EPA or other regulatory bodies. Our industries should be taking and does not meet the objective of “guidance” on how to meet the more proactive, inclusive roles in working with the EPA to aid requirements laid out by the SCOTUS decision. them in crafting
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