Planning for Sustainability: Effective Wastewater Management Strategies for Communities, 10 Legislative Update, 8 Take a Chance on Me: Hiring Veterans, 14 Remembering Dick Otis, 16 4 2 7 . o N t i m r e P H N , r e t s e h c n a SUMMER 2021 M D I A P e g a t s o P . S . U D T S T R S R P 2 TM Passive Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems ADVERTISER INDEX Combined Treatment and Dispersal Skimmer • Treats and disperses Tabs Ridges wastewater in the same footprint. • No electricity, replacement media or maintenance required. Geotextile • Flexible configurations for sloped or curved sites. Bio-Accelerator® Plastic Fiber Mat P E I presbyenvironmental.com • [email protected] • (800) 473-5298 Presby Environmental, Inc. An Infiltrator Water Technologies Company INSIDE THIS ISSUE 3 A Note From The President ...................... 4 NOWRA Board of Directors ...................... 5 State Affiliate News .................................. 6 Legislative Update .................................... 8 Corporate Members ................................. 9 Feature: Planning for Sustainability ........ 10 Take a Chance on Me: Hiring Veterans ... 14 Tribute to Dick Otis ................................. 16 Executive Director’s Message ................. 20 Industry News ......................................... 22 Thank you to Eric Casey .......................... 23 ADVERTISER INDEX Presby Environmental ..........................................2 Jet, Inc. ..............................................................15 Salcor ...................................................................5 Polylok ...............................................................19 WaterColor Management ....................................7 Infiltrator Water Technologies ...........................21 American Manufacturing Company, Inc. ..............9 BioMicrobics, Inc ................................................23 Geoflow, Inc .......................................................11 Eljen Corporation ...............................................24 Roth Global Plastics, Inc .....................................13 PUBLISHED FOR THE NATIONAL ONSITE WASTEWATER RECYCLING ASSOCIATION National Onsite Wastewater For Advertising Inquiries: Recycling Association Editor/Publisher: Amy Wobbema Thomas Groves, Executive Director (701) 947-2417 P.O. 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We lost one of those indus- to normal, I am already looking try leaders, Dick Otis, this spring. forward to our annual Onsite SALCOR: SAFE WATER As many of you know, I live in Mega-Conference in October. Minnesota, where I am proud to Online meeting fatigue is real, Sara Heger, President say Dick was born and got his and I know many of us miss the creased grant funding for low to THAT’S UV CLEAN! undergraduate degree at the comradery of theM iAnJteOrRa cKtEioYSns Media Filter Installatimonoderate income households to University of Minnesota. Dick and that just are not tPhroep esar imnseta llvaitriotun aolf- the taresastimste nint t rtahine c roemppaoinre anntsd is reespselnatciael t-o SINCE 1997, 3G UNITS HAVE DISINFECTED I got to know each other through ly. In the meantimmee,d iiaf fiyltoeurs wneorekding effecmtiveenlyt aonfd seeffipciteinct lsy yosvteer ma l oancgr loifes ss pan. 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