ecoletter S UMMER 2011 ISSUE The Sun Rises On Another Tri-Conference CHESAPEAKE A Publication of the Water and Waste Operators Association of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, and the Chesapeake Water Environment Association WWO A 2 Summer 2011 • Ecoletter PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CWEA President WWOA President —Craig Murray —Rose Marie Cline-Lowe Gratitude: a feeling of being t is difficult to believe that my thankful to somebody for doing Itenure as your President is something coming to an end. Both person - ally and professionally, it has ard to believe that this is my been a year of ups and downs, Hlast Ecoletter message as but, having said that, I am President of the CWEA. But as pleased with the progress this they say, time flies when you are having fun. And I Association has made during the past 12 months. really have had fun, quite a bit of it. That fun has been As I stated in my remarks when I took over as Pres - derived from two things—a great feeling of community ident, I wanted to focus the work of the association to with the rest of the CWEA leadership and a very real serve the membership—the water and wastewater sense of accomplishment for the work that the CWEA operators and superintendents. Towards that end, the has completed this year. Association has revitalized several existing programs, One key accomplishment that we would like to such as the WWOA Awards program, the Short Course share is that the CWEA and WWOA have recently Scholarships and, with an eye towards future opera - agreed to engage an outside publisher (Craig Kelman tors, the high school Science Fair Awards. & Associates) to assist with the Ecoletter. In fact, this Additionally, this year for the first time, the Main will be the last Ecoletter with this familiar blue hue. Body of your Association is sponsoring four mem - While we will all likely have moments of nostalgia from bers—one from each section—to attend the Tri-Associ - time to time (some more than others) I have no doubt ation Conference in Ocean City. One member will be that we will all quickly grow to love the vivid colors and selected by random drawing from each section. feel of the new Ecoletter . We all need to remember that Few people realize that the water that exists on the it has been the content of the Ecoletter that has made earth is all that there will ever be. That’s all we get. Fewer it so successful all these years. The commitment to people still recognize and understand the role that water Ecoletter content will not change. Thank you to the Ad and wastewater operators play in protecting that Hoc committee, led by Ted Debota and Ann Baugher, resource by providing safe drinking water and safely for spearheading this significant effort. treating wastewater. Perhaps the fates will continue to My last president’s message put out a request for consign us to remain in the background, with our only volunteers to help with the Ecoletter and I am very reward being our own satisfaction in a job well done. It is grateful for the responses. Special thanks to Joan Fer - my hope, however, that this Association will continue to nandez and Kristi Perri who have agreed to take on work against the fates and publicly recognize the efforts leadership roles for the CWEA on the Ecoletter . Lastly, of our members in this quality undertaking. but certainly not least, I would like to recognize and So, in closing, our year together began with a great thank Cynthia Lane for her tenure as editor—espe - Tri-Conference in 2010 and will end at yet another cially the last few months when she has been fulfilling tremendous conference. I want to thank all the mem - this role from her new home in Denver. We could not bers of the Executive Board for their service over this have done it without you. past year. I would also like to thank the Boards of the On my previous three Ecoletter messages I started four Sections for their support. Most of all, I would like with the definitions of three words—participate, share to thank you, the membership, for your continued serv - and volunteer. The CWEA has always been strong on ice to the betterment of our world community. these subjects, but I would like to think we’ve raised the bar a little this year. It is through our organization partic - gized group of volunteers ready participate. We will also ipating, sharing and volunteering that this progress hap - have a president, Ted Debota, who has shared a clear pens. I have no doubt that our next year will be a vision for where this organization can go and has the productive one. We have great momentum and an ener - drive to move us there. Exciting times indeed. Summer 2011 • Ecoletter 3 ecoletter CALENDAR OF EVENTS Autumn 20 11 Co-Editors Floyd B. Johnson, P.E. Cynthia A. Lane, P.E. NASSCO Pipeline Assessment & Certification Box 175A-1 Regulatory Engineer Program (PACP) Training Course Paw Paw, WV 25434 American Water Works Association August 29 - 30 202-379-6085 1300 Eye Street NW, Suite 701W Presented by the Collection System Committee [email protected] Washington, DC 20005 Contact Kraig Moodie W / 202-628-8303 Tri-Association Conference [email protected] August 30 - September 2 Roland Powell Convention Center, Ocean City, Maryland Advertising Manager Ann L. Baugher Collection Systems/Stormwater Seminar CWEA Administrator November 15 1001 Lily Springs Road MITAGS Glenville, PA 17329-9502 W / (717) 965-1382 H / (717) 646-1088 F / (717) 634-2740 www.wwo a-cwea.org [email protected] Staff Pearl Laufer Charles C. Reichert TO ALL MEMBERS: Laufer and Associates City of Balt Dept of Public Works When completing membership renewals, 6252 Kind Rain Court Utility Engineering Section make sure all information is correct and current . Columbia, MD 21045 305 Abel Wolman Munic. Bldg. We use WMBA (WEF Membership By Acces s) H / 410-997-0694 Baltimore, MD 21202 for membership information. If there is an C / 443-812-9658 W / 410-396-5315 [email protected] F / 410-545-3649 e-mail address, please include it. [email protected] Peter J. H. Thomson, P.E. Chip Wood, P.E. Black & Veatch Water & Sewage Systems CHANGE OF ADDRESS 18310 Montgomery Village Ave. 16 Bittersweet Dr. Gaithersburg, MD 20879 Hagerstown, MD 21740 Please forward your change of W / 301-921-8239 W / 301-733-0849 address and membership number to the F / 301-921-2868 F / 301-733-4438 appropriate organization: [email protected] [email protected] WWOA Secretary CWEA Secretary Janet Owens Carlos Espinosa DCWASA KCI 202-787-4197 410-316-7858 Printed on Recycled Paper [email protected] [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS President’s Message ....................................................3 Our Other Bay ......................................................18 –21 Editor’s Corner ..............................................................5 Tri-Association Conference ..................................24 –36 Registration and Hotel Information ..................24 –25 Meeting the Challenge of Achieving Bay Area Stormwater Requirements ................................8–11 Conference Highlights ....................................26 –29 Sessions Schedule ..........................................29 –36 Asset Management Seminar ................................14 –15 4 Summer 2011 • Ecoletter EDITOR’S CORNER e have important staff news. CWEA Administra - •••••• Wtor Ann Baugher has become our Advertising Manager. The business side of The Ecoletter had Cumberland, Maryland is also doing its part. On June fallen into arrears and she agreed to step in and help. 22nd they dedicated the new ENR upgrade to their 15 Thanks to her efforts and the cooperation of our faith - mgd plant. This $37 million upgrade received $27 mil - ful advertisers, our publication is already on firmer lion from the Bay Restoration Fund, $6 million from footing. If you have been an advertiser and have not Federal stimulus money and $4 million from the Mary - paid for past ads we ask your understanding in paying land Water Quality Revolving Loan Fund. The plant for ads that we ran for you. On a sadder note, Co-edi - will meet 3 mg/l Total N and .3 mg/l Total P. tor Cynthia Lane will be leaving us. She has moved out to Denver to work at AWWA headquarters. Show - •••••• ing her dedication to The Ecoletter , she has agreed to The Wilderness Warrior—Theodore Roosevelt and the stay on until her successor has taken over. Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley is an over 900 page book (it’s very difficult to write a short book about •••••• him) that shows what the great man did for his country. All told he set aside over 234 million acres, many times Last issue we reported that Pennsylvania DEP had by executive order over a foot dragging congress, for taken away violation notices from inspectors of natural posterity. When birds were slaughtered for the big busi - gas drilling. Thankfully that order has been rescinded ness of stylish hats, he created the first national bird and the inspectors can once again cite operators for refuge and in the process helped to eliminate the sense - misdeeds. On top of that the DEP has fined gas driller less commerce. He went on to create 54 bird refuges, 4 Chesapeake Energy over a million dollars for a fire game preserves, 18 national monuments, 6 national that injured three workers and for contaminating 16 parks and created or enlarged 150 national forests. After wells. It’s good to see the Pennsylvania Department of he set aside land that would become Olympic National Environmental Protection taking environmental pro - Park, the largest of the four North American elk sub - tection more seriously. species that roam there, was named Roosevelt Elk.