Spring 2013 - Alabama`s Water Environment Association

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THE
The official
magazine of
Alabama’s Water
Environment Association
VOLUME 34 • NO. 2 • S PR ING 2013
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AWEA • 600 29th Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
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FEATURES
Spotlight on Daphne Utilities_______________________________ 17
2013 Conference Update _______________________________ 21
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UPDATE:
WATER
POLICY IN
ALABAMA
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Numeric Nutrient Criteria:
What Could It Mean for Alabama Utilities? _________________ 35
Fairhope Wins ‘Best Tasting’ Water Award _________________ 40
DEPARTMENTS
President’s Message
6
Board of Directors
8
Member Update
10
Annual Sponsors
14
Industry News
42
Reach our Advertisers
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AWEA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Lennette S. West
Energy Technical
Services, LLC.
VICE-PRESIDENT
Rob Coleman
Carter & VerPlanck, Inc.
PAST-PRESIDENT/
DELEGATE
Matt Dunn
City of Auburn
EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY
Kimberly Polifka
The Cassady
Company, Inc.
TREASURER
Brian Shannon
Garver, LLC
PWOD
Michael Sims
MAWSS
SECRETARY
Patrick Wootton
Nixon Energy
Solutions
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President’s MESSAGE
Lennette
Sheffield West
AWEA President
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAITH AND TRUST
What a year! I do not
even know where to begin
First, I have to start by saying
THANK YOU to everyone. It has been
such an honorable and humbling
experience to serve as AWEA
President this past year. There are so
many great people in this organization
that volunteer their time and talents
to make this all happen and to make
my job easier. I have to give a big
thanks to Kim Polifka, our executive
secretary. Without her, things would
not move as smoothly as they do. She
is always there to help and answer any
questions. Her wealth of knowledge
about AWEA is priceless. I would
also like to thank Rob Coleman,
our Vice-President. He has the
great responsibility of the annual
conference this year and has done
a great job planning it. The rest of the
Board has also been there to lend me
their support—many thanks to you all.
To the members of AWEA, thank
you for your faith and trust in allowing
me to serve in this role. There are
so many of you that have been an
integral part of AWEA for so long.
Your knowledge and leadership has
I have to start by saying THANK YOU to everyone. It has
been such an honorable and humbling experience to
serve as AWEA President this past year.
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inspired me. Although I will be still part
of the Board, acting as Past President,
I hope to take with me some of your
integrity and willingness to stay very
active and give back to AWEA for many
years to come. I know I will see many
of you at the conference or at other
meetings and I hope to thank you in
person. But, with others, I may not have
that opportunity. To all of you, thank you.
It is so wonderful to be a part of
such a great organization. When you
watch the news or talk with others in
our profession outside of Alabama,
you realize that we have it pretty good
here in our state. I have been blessed
with the ability to travel to other parts
of this country and other countries.
And I have seen and experienced
some wonderful places. But I have
always said that I love coming home to
Alabama. From the mountainous far
north to the beautiful Gulf Coast, we
have the best of all worlds. Our natural
resources of water, air, and land make
Alabama one of the most beautiful
places to live and work. And because
of this, it is our responsibility to be good
stewards of what we have been given.
By being active in AWEA or other similar
organizations, you take steps towards
that stewardship. Staying informed of
current issues like the Alabama Water
Agencies Working Group and others
helps make you a more informed
steward. And the old saying “knowledge
is power” really starts to take meaning.
One of my goals when I became
President of AWEA was to grow
membership. I wanted to do this by
making AWEA membership invaluable.
I want our members to expand their
knowledge with education opportunities
like our annual conference and with
good information provided through
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our newsletters and website. I also
wanted to grow by reaching out to our
younger members. Efforts were made
at local universities to resurrect student
chapters. This effort has not reached
great strides, but progress has been
made. AWEA has also reinstated the
scholarship programs to provide
fi nancial assistance to students
studying in environmental fi elds. A
Student and Young Professionals
Social will be held during this year’s
conference to offer a networking
opportunity to this segment of our
membership. If you or someone
you know can benefi t from these
opportunities, please contact any
Board member.
Finally, my dad always told me to
leave things better than you found
them. Though, AWEA was in great
shape when I ‘found’ it, I truly hope
that I have been successful in making
Thank you again for a wonderful year.
I know AWEA has made me a lot better now than
when it found me. And it has all been from our great
members. I hope our paths continue to cross and you
are all blessed with opportunities and the bounties we
have in Alabama.
progress for AWEA. This organization
has been fortunate to have some
wonderful past presidents that have
paved the way for us. I hope I can be
in that group and that I have given
something back to AWEA that will make
it just a little bit better.
Thank you again for a wonderful
year. I know AWEA has made me a lot
better now than when it found me. And
it has all been from our great members.
I hope our paths continue to cross and
you are all blessed with opportunities
and the bounties we have in Alabama.
Make your plans now to attend
our annual conference in April. I wish
you safe travels on your way to enjoy
our conference in one of Alabama’s
greatest locations. As always, if there
is anything I can do for you, please do
not hesitate to contact me. I can be
reached at Energy Technical Services
by email ([email protected])
or by phone at 205-657-1867. x
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BOARD OF Directors
AWEA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Lennette S. West
Energy Technical Services, LLC
13331 Highway 69 N
Northport, AL 35475
Phone: 205-657-1867
[email protected]
I may be at the head of this team, but I have
such a great group of team members that
make this job easy.”
- Lennette S. West, President
Vice-President
Rob Coleman
Carter & VerPlanck, Inc.
Post Office Box 661316
Birmingham, AL 35266
Phone: 205-821-2511
[email protected]
Secretary
Patrick Wootton
Nixon Energy Solutions
1440 Lakes Pkwy Ste 600
Lawrenceville GA 30043
Phone: 404-387-2517
[email protected]
PWOD
Michael Sims
MAWSS
Mobile, AL 36652
Phone: 251-694-3100
[email protected]
Past-President / Delegate
Matt Dunn
City of Auburn
1501 West Samford Avenue
Auburn, AL 36830
Phone: 334-703-8945
[email protected]
Treasurer
Brian Shannon
Garver, LLC
Phone: 205-966-5340
[email protected]
Executive Secretary
Kimberly Polifka
The Cassady Company, Inc.
600 29th Avenue
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Phone: 205-349-0067
[email protected]
2013 AWEA Board Meeting Dates
All board meetings are open to any AWEA
member. What better way to stay informed about
what’s happening at YOUR AWEA? If you wish to attend
or call in, please contact any Board Member.
Date
March 14, 2013
April 7 – 10, 2013
Time
10:00 AM
Meeting
Board Meeting
2013 Annual Conference
STAY INVOLVED, BE INFORMED!
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Member UPDATE
“Ask not what AWEA can do for you, but what you can do for AWEA”
Get involved!
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AWEA is a non-profit organization that solely depends on volunteers to run it. Committees are open to any member and I know the
committee chairpersons would love to have more members involved. Please look over the following areas and see if something
interests you. Some members even serve on more than one committee. What a wonderful way to get involved and give back to an
organization that helps keep you informed and educated. If you are still not sure, please contact any of the chairs and ask. This is your
organization, be a part of it!
AWEA committees work with you and for you
Annual Conference
Plans the Annual Conference, which consists of the technical program, social functions, exhibits, and other activities.
Chairperson: Rob Coleman
[email protected]
205-821-2511
Awards
Selects recipients of the Industrial Plant
Awards, university student scholarships,
and other Member Association awards.
Chairperson: Grady Parsons
[email protected]
205-790-4026
Collection Systems
Provides information concerning collection
system operation, management, and regulatory issues to the membership including
information on technical issues relating
to assessment, rehabilitation, repairs and
routine maintenance of sanitary, combined
and storm sewer systems.
Chairperson: Jimmy Stewart
[email protected]
334-750-3208
Government Affairs
Keeps the Board of Directors informed of
impending federal, state, and local legislation that may be introduced, or that is being
actively considered, in the various legislative bodies that could have an effect on the
water quality industry.
Chairperson: Scott Cummings
[email protected]
678-530-4221
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Industrial
Identifies issues/programs affecting
industrial wastewater treatment and
determines training needs and establishes training sessions.
Chairperson: Randy Abston
[email protected]
251-246-8282
Laboratory/Treatment
Initiates and promotes the development of
programs and services for environmental
laboratory personnel.
Chairperson: Lennette Sheffield West
[email protected]
205-657-1867
Membership
Promotes the retainment of existing
members and encourages eligible nonmembers to join the Association.
Chairperson: Kimberly Polifka
[email protected]
205-349-0067
Publications
Develops general rules and procedures
for publications of the Association and
coordinates production of THE WAVE.
Chairperson: Brian Shannon
[email protected]
205-966-5340
Sponsorship
Coordinates and oversees the solicitation
of annual sponsors to support programs
and activities of the organization.
Chairperson: Rob Coleman
[email protected]
205-821-2511
Wastewater Treatment
Identifies issues and programs affecting
wastewater treatment, determines
training needs, established training
sessions and encourages PWO
participation in the Association.
Chairperson: Tim Patton
[email protected]
251-342-1070
Water Resources
Provides information to membership
to enhance the understanding
and application of water resource
management through technical and
educational activities.
Chairperson: Matt Dunn
[email protected]
334-703-8945
Website
Monitors the AWEA website and activities
related to the maintenance of the site.
Chairperson: Patrick Wootton
[email protected]
404-387-2517 x
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Member UPDATE
MAWSS DIRECTOR TO RETIRE
M
W. Malcolm Steeves
obile Area Water & Sewer
System (MAWSS) Director
W. Malcolm Steeves has
announced plans to retire in May 2013.
Mr. Steeves will be recognized for his
service as a life member of the Water
Environment Federation during the
2013 AWEA Annual Conference. He has
encouraged the employees of MAWSS
to participate in the AWEA as officers
and speakers at numerous AWEA
annual conferences over the years. He
served as Chair of the Alabama Water
Resources Commission from 2011 to
2012. He also served on the Board of
Directors of Alabama’s Clean Water
Partnership from 2007 until 2012. He
worked for MAWSS as a consultant from
1984 until he came to the organization
as Assistant Director in 1994. He was
selected as Director in 1999. Working
with twenty-five different MAWSS
Board members, he has steadily
guided the organization’s performance
improvements for almost three
decades, focusing on healthy drinking
water, environmental protection, and low
service rates.
Embracing the latest technology and
equipment for the MAWSS workforce,
Steeves supports the business practice
of collecting accurate data, making
informed improvement decisions and
working effectively. During his tenure,
MAWSS’ wastewater collection system
and treatment plants underwent
significant upgrades and emerged from
a federal consent decree to receive
numerous national and state awards
for environmental stewardship. MAWSS
serves more than 88,000 customers
in the Mobile County area and employs
more than 380 employees. Other areas
of focus included resource protection,
regional concerns, and employee
development.
Prior to coming to Alabama,
Steeves had extensive experience
as a private consulting engineer for
government and commercial interests in
the fields of water, wastewater, and solid
waste in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
He is a graduate of the University of
Florida’s Civil Engineering program,
where he also obtained a Master of
Environmental Engineering.
AWEA congratulates Mr. Steeves
on his retirement and thanks him for his
involvement in AWEA & WEF and lifetime
commitment to serving water and
wastewater customers and improving
our environment. x
Contributed by Barbara Shaw, MAWSS
Public Affairs Manager
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Daphne Utilities’ Water Reclamation Facility is surrounded by residential and commercial developments.
SPOTLIGHT ON
Daphne Utilities
… For this issue, AWEA is spotlighting the Daphne Utilities Wastewater Collection System
and Water Reclamation Facility’s operational staff.
D
aphne Utilities is the water,
wastewater, and natural gas utility
provider for approximately 25,000
customers in the city of Daphne and the
surrounding communities of Spanish
Fort, Belforest, Montrose, and Fairhope.
The Water Reclamation Facility is
permitted for 4.17 MGD with an average
daily flow of 3 million gallons. However,
recent treatment facility upgrades
provide the Utility the extra capacity to
handle wet weather flows up to 9 million
gallons. When Daphne Utilities began
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planning for these upgrades, it kept its
company slogan in mind: “Good enough
isn’t good enough for us.”
This approach to running Daphne
Utilities was implemented by General
Manager, Rob McElroy, when he took
over management of the Utility in 2005.
McElroy says the phrase, “good enough
for government work” bothered him
his entire life because it communicates
waste and inefficiency. It was a phrase
he promised his employees from the
beginning would not be tolerated. ”Never
settling for good enough” may be the rule
at Daphne Utilities today, but in its past,
this was hardly the case.
In the 1990s, this “good enough”
mentality led the City of Daphne to have
one of the state’s worst environmental
records with sanitary sewer overflows a
common occurrence. These overflows
cost time, money, and were harmful to the
Utility’s reputation. This poor reputation
nearly caused Wastewater Manager,
Jim Caudle, to decline the job offer to
join the team at Daphne Utilities in 2006.
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However, upon hearing McElroy speak
of his philosophy during the interview,
Caudle decided it matched his own
personal high standards and those
he would set for his treatment and
collections system staff. This “never
settle for good enough” philosophy has
enabled Daphne Utilities to become
an award-winning utility that sets
the standard by which other utilities
are measured, as evidenced by its
recognition by the EPA and ADEM for
its outstanding work practices and
environmental record.
This way of doing business is
constantly tested, however. As part of
an in-depth review of its Wastewater
Treatment processes, Daphne Utilities
calculated that biological loading had
risen to 90% of the facility’s original
design. The easy, cheap, and shortterm solution would have been to
simply replace the equipment they
had with slightly larger equipment of
The Main Control Center for Daphne Utilities’ Water Reclamation Facility
This building houses office space, laboratory, operator control room, and the sludge drying
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the same type. (“That’s the way we’ve
always done it.”) Instead, Daphne
Utilities designed and implemented an
entirely new process train beginning
with an innovative headworks upgrade
project. This project included the
typical mechanical coarse and fi ne
screening equipment along with a
dewatering screw press for solids
removal. However, following favorable
results from a pilot study, an innovative
fi ne-screen belt fi lter was installed at
the headworks. This state-of-the-art
fi lter screen manufactured by Salsnes
has reduced biological loading into the
facility by 40%, expanding treatment
capacity at a fraction of the cost of
building new treatment components.
Also, during this review, Daphne
Utilities addressed its sludge handling
facilities. As one of the fi rst utilities in the
state to create a Class-A biosolids from
its sludge, Daphne was committed to
continuing this practice, even after the
original gas-fi red dryer failed. Again,
the simple answer would have been to
settle for replacing the old dryer with
a newer model of the same design,
but Caudle and his team sought other
options. By looking outside the utility
industry, he found a solution in the
Burch Biowave dryer. This equipment
uses microwaves to dry the sludge
and achieve the necessary pathogen
destruction to meet EPA Class-A
standards. This same equipment is
also used in the ready-to-eat food
industry for making pre-cooked
bacon and Baked Lays® potato chips!
Using microwaves to drive water out
of the sludge is an energy effi cient
solution and the “green technology”
component made Daphne Utilities
eligible for more than $2 million in state
and federal grants for the installation.
The fi nal piece of the treatment
facility upgrade centers on providing
adequate aeration for the activated
sludge process. Daphne Utilities, after
extensive energy auditing, determined
its existing five positive displacement
blowers were costing a fortune in
energy costs and repair. Some of
these blowers had been in place since
the original expansion of the facility in
the 1980s. Additionally, the location of
the blowers was within 100 yards of a
residential development and neighbors
often complained of the noise. Caudle,
again seeking innovative solutions,
tested several turbo-style blowers
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before settling on the Neuros Turbo
blowers for the upgrade and retrofi t.
This style blower is much more energy
effi cient than positive displacement
blowers and, when up to full speed,
so quiet one can have a normal
conversation standing right next to
it! Due to the energy effi ciency of
these blowers – three blowers provide
the same amount of aeration as the
previous five – Daphne Utilities was
once again eligible for grant funding
from the state of Alabama for their
installation.
Wastewater Collection Supervisor,
Woodrow Maye, is also on board with
never settling for “good enough.”
Under his direction, Daphne Utilities
has completed the installation of a
comprehensive SCADA package
on 72 out of the 76 lift stations in the
collection system. Maye doesn’t just
use this SCADA to alert him and his
crew of problems. The data collected
from each lift station contains fl ow
rates, pump starts, pump run times and
numerous other parameters which are
monitored daily in order to determine
whether and when predictive or
preventative maintenance may be
required. Maye also oversees an
inclusive plan for cleaning and videoing
all lines in the collection system to
ensure proper operation and minimize
the occurrence of sewer backups
due to roots and grease blockages.
By working closely together, Jim
Caudle, Woodrow Maye and the rest
of the team at Daphne Utilities have
dramatically improved the operations
of the entire wastewater treatment
system and are poised to bring even
more advances into play moving
forward.
Many utilities just fi x what breaks
and replace what become obsolete
with more of the same. This is a “good
enough” way of thinking whose time
should be over. Daphne Utilities thinks
differently and its new upgrades
and state-of-the-art innovations
are evidence of this. The result is an
operation the entire community can
be proud of. It takes a team effort and,
with everyone involved, from General
Manager Rob McElroy, Operations
Manager, Danny Lyndall, and the rest
of the team on board, the future looks
bright for award-winning programs.
Daphne Utilities will never settle for
“good enough.” Should you? x
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Huber Screw Presses for Dewatering
These low energy-use (5hp) motors turn slowly, squeezing the water out of the sludge until we
achieve approximately 23% cake solids.
Energy efficient Neuros Blower Installation
Headworks installation, including the belt filter screening system to reduce biological loading by 40%.
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2013
Conference and Technical Program | April 7-10, 2013
Rob Coleman, P.E, AWEA Vice President, Annual Conference Chair
2013 Annual
Conference Update
With just a few weeks left, we are down the backstretch and
headed to the finish line. The finish line being our Annual AWEA
Conference at Perdido Beach Resort located in Orange Beach,
Alabama, with an estimated time of arrival being April 7-10, 2013.
Even as articles are written for this issue of The Wave, Board
Members, Committee Chairs, and volunteers are putting the final
touches on what is shaping up to be another great conference.
I would like extend a ‘thank you’ to everyone working to make this
a successful conference. Throughout this issue of The Wave you
will find updates on the activities that make up the conference.
Please do not hesitate to contact me or any other Board member
should you have any questions or suggestions.
Technical Agenda
The technical Agenda has been set. Each year we try to cover
a variety of topics that fall in line with AWEA’s membership
constituency. This year is no different as we have technical
presentations covering industrial issues, water resources
(storm water), utility management, professional development,
wastewater operations, laboratory updates, pretreatment, and
collection system issues. Many thanks to all who responded to
the Call for Papers. If your abstract did not get selected, please
keep us in mind for next year.
WEF Representative & Keynote Speaker
We are pleased to have Mr. Scott Trotter joining us to offer
updates on the activities of the Water Environment Federation.
We are also please to have Mr. Bennett Bearden, General
Counsel at the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA), as our
Keynote Speaker on Monday morning.
Exhibit Hall
The Exhibit Hall is filling up as we speak. The layout remains the
same as last year following the positive response from Exhibitors.
We have scheduled a strolling lunch in the Exhibit Hall for Monday
& Tuesday as well as all breaks from the technical sessions.
Sunday Golf Tournament
The conference gets kicked off with the annual Golf
Tournament at Glenlakes Golf Club in Foley, Alabama. Just a
short distance from the Perdido Beach Resort, Glenlakes has
hosted our tournament for the last seven years and has always
provided great service to our golfers as well as a wonderful
venue. I encourage you to sign up and bring a friend.
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Sunday Night Social
After an afternoon of relaxing, golf, or driving into town, come
to the kick-off social that officially opens the Exhibit Hall and
meet some of the vendors represented this year. This event will
feature light hors devours and beverages for those attending.
There may even be a surprise prize drawing or two!
Monday Fun Run/Walk
After Monday’s technical session program, join us in the
northeast parking lot of the Perdido Beach Resort. This is a
chance for runners/walkers and non-runners/non-walkers
to have some fun and take a leisurely stroll over the Perdido
bridge (let’s hope!). But remember, do not bring your watch as
you will be trying to predict your own finish time. You will also be
challenged to either continue the course at the halfway mark or
keep walking to the Flora-Bama.
Tuesday Finale
The Tuesday finale includes a wonderful seafood buffet dinner
followed by a live DJ combined with the ever popular ‘Casino
Night.’ This should be a good time for attendees and their families.
As your Conference Chairman, I hope that you find some benefit
to attending this year’s Conference. With the excellent vendor
participation and various technical presentations available to
you, I think that you will benefit greatly. The proposed agenda
and registration are included in this issue of The Wave. Rates
for registering prior to April 5 are discounted. Also, the standard
room rate of $154/night at the Perdido Beach Resort is good
until Wednesday, March 6, 2013. I encourage you to get
registered today! x
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2013
AWEA Sponsorship
AWEA is a non-profit, educational, and technical
organization, which has been dedicated to
preserving, protecting, and managing Alabama’s
waters since 1979.
AWEA supports a number of programs and activities, including
our annual state-wide technical conference, an informative
quarterly newsletter for members and water environmental
professionals, maintaining a website to communicate useful
information to our membership (www.awea-al.com), awards for
outstanding professional achievements and service, support for
student chapters at three universities, scholarships for students,
and much needed research on policy and technologies
through the Water Environment Research Foundation.
As a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization, a large part of our
success is due to financial contributions from our membership
and others. If you have not already done so, please consider
sponsoring AWEA in 2013. A list of benefits for contributors is
shown below.
Benefits
AWEA continues to enhance service to our members by
providing additional training opportunities and improving
communications through our website and a quarterly
newsletter. Because AWEA is a non-profit technical and
educational organization, we depend on the contributions
from others to support the organization’s efforts. We hope that
you will consider assisting us in improving the service to our
members by contributing in one of these categories:
Platinum - $2,000
• recognition of sponsorship on AWEA website
• conference golf tournament sponsorship and recognition
• plaque to display at your business
• recognition as a sponsor at the conference, in conference
program, in the quarterly newsletter, on the website, and at
AWEA sponsored training events.
Gold - $1,000
• plaque to display at your business
Silver - $500
• framed certificate to display at your business
Bronze - $250
• certificate to display at your business
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Ops Challenge
Returning to
A short version of WEF’s Operations Challenge will be held at the
AWEA conference on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Two sections have
been chosen to be included this year—Laboratory and Process
Control. Teams of two persons can compete in one or both events.
Two person teams must be employees of municipal treatment
plants or private companies providing services to municipal plants.
The Laboratory event will cover the technique and analysis
of pH on a known sample. The Hach Company has graciously
agreed to provide the reagents and meters for the challenge.
Teams will compete in analyzing a sample for pH using the
correct method and following all documentation required.
The Process Control event will follow the format used at
WEFTEC. There will be a series of multiple choice questions, short
math, and operational type scenarios that have questions. Both
team members will work together to complete the challenge.
Upon registering, teams will receive a copy of all requirements.
This will be a timed event. Winners will receive a certifi cate and
other prizes. For more information contact Lennette West at
[email protected].
Golf Tournament
Are you a scratch golfer? Are you a hacker like
most of us? Are you someone who wants to
come out and enjoy a great day of friends and
fellowship on the golf course? Do you just want
to start off the AWEA Conference with a bang?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, AWEA would like
to invite you to play in the 2013 AWEA Annual Golf Tournament.
This year’s tournament will be held on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at the
Glenlakes Golf Club located in Foley, Alabama, only a short drive
away from the Perdido Beach Resort.
Glenlakes Golf Club, widely regarded as one of the Gulf Coast’s
premier golf facilities and the area’s best value, features 27 holes of
unforgettable golf. The 18-hole links-style Vista/Dunes course and
the 9-hole resort-style Lakes course provide a golf experience
second to none. Players of all abilities will discover spectacular golf.
There will be great prizes for multiple golfers. Lunch will be
served and refreshments provided on the course for your
enjoyment. Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third
place, longest drive, and closest to the pin. A prize will also
be awarded to the team who finishes in dead last. So, sign
up! Everyone truly has a chance to win. This year there will also
be a side game going on during the tournament. This year’s trivia
game has yet to be decided, but you can be assured it will be
better than ever with an outstanding prize for the winners.
Be sure to sign up for the tournament when you register for
the conference. Any questions can be directed to Brian Shannon
at [email protected].
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
12:00 noon
Registration
Shotgun Start
Cost per player: $80 (includes green fees, cart, practice/range balls, lunch and refreshments during play)
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2013
AWEA Student
Scholarships Offered
Exhibitor Information
AWEA has established two scholarships available for the
2013-2014 academic year. These scholarships have been
set up to help promote more awareness with students of the
issues and concerns dealing with all aspects of the water
environment, especially here in Alabama.
The Research Presentation Scholarship ($1,500.00) will
be awarded to a full-time undergraduate or graduate student
from an Alabama institute. The Poster Scholarship ($1,000.00)
will be awarded to a full-time undergraduate student from an
Alabama institute. Criteria for application can be found at
www.awea-al.com.
Students must be majoring in engineering, environmental
science, chemistry, biology, or some other related field of
study. Their research or poster should reflect an interest in
water quality control, environmental protection, hazardous
waste management, or other environmental issue dealing
with water, wastewater, or industrial processes.
Exhibitor Registration
Notes & General Information
Note: No booth space will be assigned without completed /
signed Hold Harmless Clause.
Booth Assignments: Booth spaces will be assigned firstcome, first-serve basis, based on the date of receipt of this
form, Hold Harmless Clause, and payment in full. No spaces
will be held based on verbal or written reservations without
full payment in advance. Booth space layout is shown on
page 4. Consideration will be given for your booth space
preference; however, regardless of your request, AWEA
reserves the right to assign your booth space as necessary
to accommodate all vendors.
Equipment Provided: Booth spaces will be either 10’
wide x 8’ deep or 8’ wide x 8’ deep (depending on your paid
choice), available on a first come basis, and will include one (1)
6’ draped table, one (1) chair, and one (1) wastebasket. A company sign will not be provided. Gulf Coast Audio Visual (GCAV)
will mail packets to all vendors who in turn can request any
special needs such as electrical hookups, signs, extra chairs,
etc. for an additional cost - paid to GCAV direct. Coordinate
any special equipment needs with GCAV at (800) 722-2057.
Exhibitor Exposure: ALL breaks & lunches (Monday
& Tuesday) are scheduled for the Exhibit Hall to maximize
vendor contact with the conference attendees. Refreshments
will be served in the Exhibit Hall. In addition, the Sunday
evening Meet & Greet function will be held in the Exhibit Area.
Exhibit Hall Entertainment: In an effort to get attendees
into the Exhibit Hall area and keep them there as long as
possible, exhibitor door prizes will be awarded in the Exhibit Hall.
Exhibitor Door Prize: Each Exhibitor is encouraged to
provide a door prize. It will be the Exhibitor’s responsibility to
give away their door prize; however, AWEA will assist in the
drawing as needed.
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AWEA has seventy-five (75) booth spaces available in the downstairs exhibit hall. Preferences will be handed on a first come / first
serve basis. Consideration will be given for your booth space preference; however, regardless of your request, AWEA reserves the
right to assign your booth space as necessary to accommodate all
vendors. Booth space layout is shown below. Registration is available online at http://www.awea-al.com/become-an-exhibitor.php.
Exhibit space is limited, so reserve your booth early to ensure
your firm’s representation at the conference, which is attended
by over 350 water pollution control professionals from around
the southeast. Hospitality sponsors are always welcome and will
certainly receive recognition.
While attending the conference and enjoying Orange Beach,
please stay at the Perdido Beach Resort. This will greatly help in
curtailing future cost increases since room usage helps offset the
cost of the use of the facilities such as the exhibit hall.
Thank you for participating with us at AWEA and we look
forward to seeing you at Alabama’s beautiful beaches in April.
Brent Robinson, Exhibit Chairman - [email protected]
Cancellation Policy: A 75% refund of the registration amount
will be made only if written notification of the same is received by
March 15, 2013. A 50% refund will be made if written notification
is received by March 31st, AND only if the canceled space can
be resold. No refunds will be made if cancellations are received
after April 1st. Refunds will be issued after the conference has
concluded, in accordance with the above.
Set-up and Tear Down Policy: Vendor display set-up times
will be Sunday, April 7th 2013 from 8:00am - 4:00pm. There is a
Meet & Greet function scheduled in the Exhibit Hall on Sunday
evening, April 7, 2013, so we ask that all vendors have their booths
set up by 4:00 pm.
BOOTHS MUST REMAIN IN PLACE AND SET UP UNTIL 2:00pm ON
TUESDAY, APRIL 9th 2013 – NO EXCEPTIONS, PLEASE.
Shipping/Dryage: An outside exposition service company
has been retained to handle all freight shipments for displays,
etc. Hand-carried items may be brought in to the Exhibit Hall by
vendors, but heavy/bulky items that require motor freight shipment
and/or special handling must be routed through this company. A
direct mailer with information and rates for these services will be
provided. Please coordinate shipments directly with this company.
The AWEA will not provide shipping/handling services.
Heavy Equipment: The location of the exhibit area will make
it difficult for heavy equipment (tractors, etc.) to be effectively
displayed. Vendors may contact Gulf Coast Audio Video, (800)
722-2057 to discuss heavy equipment displays, but space for this
equipment, if available, will be extremely limited.
Space is still available. For more information, contact:
Brent Robinson, AWEA Conference Exhibits Chairman
Jim House & Associates, Inc.
24312 Highway 98, Fairhope, AL 37532
Email: [email protected] (800) 919-7867
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SUNDAY, APRIL 7TH
8:00 - 4:00
Exhibit Hall Set Up
9:00 - 5:00
Registration Desk Open
9:00 - 11:45
Golf Tournament Registration, Practice, Putting Competition and Lunch
12:00
Golf Tournament - Glenlakes Golf Club (Shotgun Start)
5:00 - 7:00
Reception - Exhibit Hall
MONDAY, APRIL 8TH
7:30 - 4:00
8:00 - 8:30
Kick-Off Coffee - Exhibit Hall
8:30 - 8:40
Opening Session Breakfast - Ballroom D & E
8:40 - 8:50
Invocation and Welcome - Lennette West, President
8:50 - 9:00
Welcome from Orange Beach - Honorable Tony Kennon, Mayor
9:00 - 9:15
Water Environment Federation (WEF) Update - Scott Trotter, Board of Trustees
9:15 - 9:30
ADEM Update - Glenda Dean, ADEM
9:30 - 10:00
Keynote Address - Bennett L. Bearden, J.D, L.L.M., J.S.D. - Chair, Alabama Water Agencies Working Group, General Counsel
10:00 - 10:30 Awards and Recognition
11:00 - 1:00
Strolling Lunch - Exhibit Hall
12:30 - 1:00
Committee Meetings
1:00 - 4:10
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Ballroom C
Utility Management
Strategies
1:00-1:30
1:30-2:00
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
Ballroom E
Sandcastle I
Laboratory
Management
Operator Training
A Great Utility Operation
Proper Techniques for Measuring pH,
Isn’t a “Mission Impossible” Dissolved Oxygen, and Total Residual
Chlorine in Wastewater
Peter Strimple
Severn Trent
Rob McElroy
Environmental Services
Daphne Utilities
Pump Training
(1:00 pm - 1:40 pm)
Presented by:
Jim House and Associates
Amir Zafar, Jurek Patoczka
Hatch Mott MacDonald
EPA’s Method Update Rule 2012
Nathan Levy
A&E Testing
Ron Latimer
Hazen and Sawyer
Series UF/NF Membrane
Design Meets Objectives For
The New Big Spring Water
Treatment Plant
Kevin Mullins
Garver
Method Update Rule - How Does It Affect
My Laboratory?
Operation and Maintenance of
Off-Line Wastewater Storage
Facilities: Lessons Learned from
KUB’s First Six Years of Operation
Craig Parker
Gresham, Smith and Partners
Presented by:
Aqua Products
System Management/
Operations
Microbiological
and Filamentous Analysis
The Complications of Planning,
Design and Construction for
Hurricane Prone Coastal Treatment
Facilities - A Case Study of the
Bayou La Batre WWTF
Wheeler Crook, Tony Reid
Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood
Process Control Training
(2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
The Evaluation of Cloth Media
Filtration as Pretreatment to
Ultrafiltration in Wastewater
Applications
Dave Holland
Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc
Process Control Training
(3:30 pm - 4:00 pm)
Suzanne Lindblom
Mobile Area Water
and Sewer System
Johnnie Wilson
EBS
3:00-3:30
Networking Break - Exhibit Hall (Door Prize Drawings)
3:30-4:00
Control Systems
Technological
Advancement: Addressing
Control System
Obsolescence While
Planning for the Future
David Foster
MR Systems, Inc
Controlling Aeration with
Ammonium Sensors
Bob Dabkowski
Hach Company
4:00-5:00
AWEA Young Professionals Involvement Reception - Pool Bar
5:00
5K Fun Run / Walk - Meet at PBR North Parking Lot
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Use of Modeling for Optimal
Design of Activated Sludge
Process
Implementing EMS to
Improve Operational
Performance and Energy
Management for Dallas
Water Utilities
Christopher Haney
Gresham, Smith and Partners
Calvin Cassady
The Cassady Company
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Process Optimization at the F
Wayne Hill WRC
1:40 - 1:50 BREAK
Chemical Feed Training
(1:50 pm - 2:30 pm)
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James Dean
Presented by:
James Dean
TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH
7:30-8:30
Breakfast - Exhibit Hall
7:30-4:00
8:20-11:40
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
8:20-8:50
8:50-9:20
9:20-9:50
Ballroom C
Ballroom D
Ballroom E
Sandcastle I
Nutrient Management
Wastewater Conveyance
Storm Water/Water Quality
ADEM Topic Update
TBD
Alabama Department of
Environmental Management
Optimizing Operation and Life Cycle Cost
of Master Pump Station #1
Michael Beedie & Dan Keck
Jason Garz
City of Fort Walton Beach &
Upgrading from Secondary
Effluent to Enhanced
Biological Nutrient Removal
Kurt Pfeffer & Sondra Lee
Hazen and Sawyer
City of Tallahassee
Gravity Sewer Project in Perdido
Beach Overcomes Obstacles with HDD
Installation Methodology
Eric Lyons/Robert Tatum
Gator Boring & Trenching, Inc./Underground Solutions, Inc.
The Verdict Is In……You Need
More Clarifiers
Comprehensive, Integrated
Storm Water Control in a
Critical Watershed
Jurek Patoczka
Robert Taylor
Hazen and Sawyer
Upgrading “Donut”
Plants to Meet Nutrient
Removal Limits Using IFAS
Technology
Overview of Jefferson County’s Asset
Management Program
Planning for the Future While
Optimizing Efficiency at City of
Auburn’s H.C. Morgan WPCF
Design and Construction of a
Step Pool Storm Conveyance
(SPSC) System for a Tributary
to Joe’s Branch in Spanish
Fort, Alabama
Emery Baya & Wade Burcham
Thompson Engineering
ADEM Topic Update
Tony Freed
I Kruger
9:20-9:50
Stephen King & Daniel White
Hazen and Sawyer
Jefferson County Environmental Services
Department
Advanced Nutrient Removal If I Had This to Do over…...A 12-Step
Program to Successfully Measure Sewer
in a Protected Watershed
Rehabilitation
Steve Jones
Garver
Kevin Enfinger, Patrick Stevens
& Peter Keefe
10:20-11:00
Networking Break - Exhibit Hall (Door Prize Drawings)
11:00-11:30
Biological Nutrient Removal Applying Asset Management Strategies
to Operations and Capital Investment
Planning
Greg Ryland
Scott Cummings
CDG Engineers and
CH2M HILL
Associates
11:30-1:00
Strolling Lunch - Exhibit Hall (Door Prize Drawings)
1:00-3:30
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
1:00-1:30
2:00-2:30
The Squeeze is On for
Nutrient Control and
Management of Wet Weather
Mark Boner
Ryan Spanton
WWETCO, LLC
WesTech Engineering
Tied Concrete Block Matting
Keys to Clarifier Optimization
Indirect Potable Reuse
- A Reality Check
Dennis Brown
CedarChem, LLC
Craig Ferguson
Brown and Caldwell
John Slupecki
Motz Enterprises, Inc
Ballroom C
Ballroom D
Ballroom E
Sandcastle I
Wastewater Conveyance II
Student/Young Professionals
Storm Water Management
Studies in Areas Undergoing
Reconstruction Following the
Tornado that Hit Tuscaloosa, AL
Biological Dredging
- Increasing Lagoon
Detention Time
Redahegn Sileshi
The University of Alabama
Chip Bettle
Absolute Aeration
Capacity Management Operations
and Maintenance (CMOM) from an
Engineering, Municipal, and Legal
Perspective (Part 2)
Barney Fullington,
Billy Mayes, & Adam Sowatzka
Barge, Waggoner, Sumner, & Cannon
Dothan Utilities
Matt McMullin
Merchant Underground, LLC Baker Donelson
Full-Scale Up-Flo Filter Field
Verification Test
Archaea: A Green
Technology for Wastewater
Biosolids Management
No-Dig Injection System
using Specialized Resins
Set Up Ballroom
for Laboratory Challenge
The New Wastewater
Collection System:
Challenges Caused by
Modern Trash
Capacity Management Operations and
Maintenance (CMOM) from an Engineering,
Municipal, and Legal Perspective (Part 1)
Barney Fullington, Billy Mayes
& Adam Sowatzka
Barge, Waggoner, Sumner, & Cannon
Dothan Utilities
Baker Donelson
Lateral Connection Sealing
- Biggest Bang for
Rehabilitation Buck?
Don Barnhart
Pipeline Renewal
Technologies
Using SSES Pilot Projects to Develop
Long-Term SSES Strategies
Michael Beedie
David Stejskal
City of Fort Walton Beach
CH2M HILL
2:30-3:00
6:00
Matt Dunn & Nick Freeman
City of Auburn
CH2M HILL
Wastewater Conveyance I
Robert Domkowski
Xylem, Inc. - Flygt
1:30-2:00
TBD
Alabama Department of Environmental Management
The Ecology Behind
the Pollution: Threats
to Alabama’s Coastal
Waterways
Justin Edwards
Goodwyn, Mills, and Cawood
Yezhao Cai
Steve Owens
& Michael Gerardi
Archaea Solutions, Inc
Ops Challenge
Process Control Questions
Sandcastle I
Ops Challenge
Laboratory Challenge Sponsored
by Hach
Ballroom E
Banquet and Casino Night - Ballroom D
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10TH
8:30-10:30
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Annual Conference Exhibitor Registration Form
Register online! Go to www.awea-al.com/annual-conference.php
To register by check, please complete and return this form with the completed Hold Harmless Clause and a check payable to AWEA
Conference. Mail to Brent Robinson, 24312 Highway 98, Fairhope, AL 36532 • (800) 919-7867 • [email protected]
Name
Company
Mailing Address
City
State
Telephone
Fax
Zip
Email
Number Of Booths Requested
Space Preferences (List Three): 1st Choice
2nd Choice
3rd Choice
Registration Cost
Exhibit cost per 8x8 space:
$700.00 x ______ (# of spaces, 1 registration per space)
$
$750.00 x ______ (# of spaces, 1 registration per space)
$
$800.00 (1 available, 1 registration per space)
$
$1000.00 (1 available, 1 registration per space)
$
Additional Exhibitor Registrations: $175.00 x ______
$
Golf Tournament Registrations:
$
$80.00 x ______ players
Golf Tournament Hole Sponsorship: $150.00 x ______ holes
$
Extra Tickets:
Sunday Reception:
$40.00 x ______ guests
$
Monday Keynote Breakfast:
$35.00 x ______ guests
$
Tuesday Night Social:
$50.00 x ______ guests
$
$2,000, $1,000, $500 or $250
$
AWEA Sponsorship -
Total Amount Enclosed $
One full conference registration is included with each booth space.
Additional registrants may be purchased as outlined above.
Names for registration:
Hold harmless clause
Exhibitor assumes entire responsibility and hereby agrees to protect, indemnify, defend, and save Alabama’s Water Environment Association, their
employees, volunteers, and agents harmless against all claims, losses and damages to persons or property, government charges or fines and
attorney’s fees arising out of or caused by Exhibitor’s installation, removal,maintenance, occupancy, or use of the exhibition premises or any part
thereof.
In addition, Exhibitor acknowledges that Alabama’s Water Environment Association does not maintain insurance covering the Exhibitor’s property, and
that it is the sole responsibility of the Exhibitor to obtain business interruption and property damage insurance covering such losses by Exhibitor.
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Authorized Exhibitor Representative
Exhibitor Company Name
Title
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AWEA Welcomes
our 2013 WEF Trustee Scott Trotter
Scott Trotter, P.E., BCEE is a member of the 20122013 Board of Trustees for the Water Environment
Federation (WEF), an international organization of water
quality professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Va.
Scott is one of the founding principals of Trotter and
Associates, Inc., a municipal engineering firm founded
in 1999 and located in St. Charles, Illinois. As President of the firm,
Scott has overall responsibility for the civil and environmental projects
completed by the firm. While he has a completed a wide range of
engineering projects, Scott’s expertise is in the planning, design and
construction of water and wastewater treatment systems. Scott has
over twenty years experience working on a variety of wastewater
infrastructure projects including facility planning, collection system
management, pump station rehabilitation, and treatment facility
improvements. His experience with public water supply projects
includes ground water supply, storage, a variety of treatment
processes and distribution system analysis.
A WEF member since 1993, Scott has served as the Local
Arrangements Committee (LAC) Chair for WEFTEC 1994 and the
LAC Co-Chair for WEFTECs 1997, 2002 and 2008. Scott has been
an active member in both the Central States Water Environment
Association (CSWEA) and Illinois Water Environment Association
(IWEA). Scott has served in several leadership roles on the local level
including CSWEA’s technical program committee member (20012002) and chair (2003), as well as the CSWEA and the Illinois WEA
WEFTEC reception chairman from 1997-2010. Scott is the Co-founder
of the University of Illinois Student Chapter and has been the CSWEA
and IWEA liaison to that organization since 2005. Scott has served
on the CSWEA Executive Board (from 2004 through 2010). He was
President of CSWEA in 2006 and recently completed his term in
the WEF House of Delegates(2008 -2010). His other professional
affiliations include the Kane County Water Association, American
Water Works Association, American Public Works Association, and
the Illinois Association of Water Pollution Control Operators.
Scott has been published in the September 2002 issue of WEF’s
flagship publication, Water Environment & Technology (WE&T) and
is the recipient of the 1999 Young Engineer Achievement Award
from the University of Illinois as well as the WEF Achievement Award
for Outstanding Service in 1997 and 2002 and the WEF Arthur
Sidney Bedell Award recipient in 2010.
Scott is a registered professional engineer in the state of Illinois
and received his certification in water/wastewater engineering from
the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He received a
B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1989.
Keynote Speaker: Bennett Bearden
Bennett Bearden’s legal, political and negotiating
experiences have placed him squarely in the center
of one of Alabama’s most important natural resources
issues: water policy. Bennett is General Counsel for
the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) and in this
capacity he serves as Special Counsel on Water
Law and Policy for the Office of the State Geologist and chief legal
advisor for GSA’s Water Team. In April 2012, Governor Robert
Bentley appointed Bennett chair of the Alabama Water Agencies
Working Group, the task force charged with developing policy
options for a comprehensive water management plan for the State.
As chair, he has provided the AWAWG with constructive resolution
of emerging challenges at the intersection of water policy and law,
emphasizing strategic counseling, crisis management, creative
dispute resolution and enhanced relations with stakeholders and
community groups.
Bennett received B.S. in Geology and M.S. (geology) degrees
from the University of Alabama. He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.)
degree from Birmingham School of Law (ranked no. one academically in his class) and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Com-
mercial and Corporate Law (with honors) from the University of
London. Bennett also has a post-graduate Certificate in Watershed
Management from the University of British Columbia. He earned his
doctorate (J.S.D. degree, legal education’s counterpart to the Ph.D.)
in water law and policy at McGeorge School of Law, University of
the Pacific, in Sacramento, California, where he was the recipient of
the 2008 Slater Water Law Award. Bennett is a member of the Alabama State Bar, the Washington DC Bar and is admitted to the Roll
of Solicitors in England and Wales. He is a member of the American
Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) Water Resources Committee, the Executive Committee
of the Environmental Section of the Alabama State Bar, the Alabama
Section of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), the
Organizing Committee of the Alabama Water Resources Conference and the International Water Association (IWA). Bennett was an
Adjunct Professor at Birmingham School of Law where he taught
water law, environmental law, contracts, equity and trial advocacy.
He also taught water resources management, law and policy at the
University of Alabama. His work has been published in Water Policy,
the official journal of the World Water Council.
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The annual Fun Run (or as those of us in the wastewater industry
sometimes call it, the John-A-Thon) is scheduled for after the close
of the technical sessions. Those who are interested in participating
should meet in the northeast parking lot of the Perdido before starting
their trek over Perdido Pass.
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Contibutor: Lynn Sisk, Alabama Department of Environmental Management
Background
Wastewater providers across the
country are faced with the pending
development of numeric nutrient
criteria (NNC) for all waters – including
not only lakes but streams, rivers,
wetlands, and estuaries. These new
standards are being driven by the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
and concerns over the existing water
quality issues associated with nutrient
enrichment and the increasing potential
for additional problems if nutrient
loadings are not reduced.
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In the March 2011 memorandum
entitled Working in Partnership with
States to Address Phosphorus
and Nitrogen Pollution through Use
of a Framework for State Nutrient
Reductions, EPA stresses the
importance of collaborating with states
to achieve “near-term reductions in
nutrient loadings”. The memorandum
outlines an 8-step framework for
managing nitrogen and phosphorus
load reductions and follows up on the
recommendations provided in the
August 2009 report entitled, An Urgent
Call to Action, prepared by the EPA
Nutrient Innovations Task Group, which
is comprised of senior state and EPA
water quality and drinking water offi cials
and managers.
The memorandum speculates
that as the population continues to
grow in the United States, nitrogen
and phosphorus pollution from urban
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NUMERIC NUTRIENT CRITERIA: What Could It Mean for Alabama Utilities?
The memorandum cites the following
elements to justify this prediction:
• 50% of streams have medium to high
levels of nitrogen and phosphorus
• 78% of assessed coastal waters
exhibit eutrophication
• Nitrate drinking water violations have
doubled in 8 years
• Algae blooms are steadily on the rise
• Nitrates exceed background concentrations in 64% of shallow monitoring
wells in agricultural and urban areas,
and exceeded EPA’s Maximum Contaminant Levels in 7% of sampled
domestic wells (USGS, 2010)
To address these issues, EPA
developed a list of 8 recommend elements for States to use in managing
nitrogen and phosphorus. The steps are:
1. Prioritize watershed on a statewide
basis for nitrogen and phosphorus
loading reductions.
2. Set watershed load reduction
goal based upon best available
information.
3. Ensure effectiveness of point source
permits in targeted/priority subwatersheds for:
a. Municipal and industrial
wastewater treatment facilities
b. Concentrated animal feeding
operations, and
c. Urban stormwater sources.
4. Develop watershed-scale plans to
target the most effective practices
and innovative approaches for
agricultural areas.
5. Identify how states can use state,
county and local government tools
to assure reductions in nitrogen and
phosphorus loads from developed
communities.
6. Develop and utilize recommended
accountability and verification
measures.
7. Bi-annual reporting of load reductions
and environmental impacts of each
management activity in targeted
watersheds and annual reporting of
implementation activities.
8. Develop a work plan and schedule for
numeric criteria development.
Alabama is making progress in working toward these steps in an effort to
reduce nutrients in accordance with
EPA’s National Nutrient Strategy. The
Alabama Department of Environmental
Management (ADEM) has developed
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a Nutrient Criteria Implementation Plan,
which is serving as a roadmap for the
development of numeric criteria for surface waters. This plan divides waters of
the State into four categories; 1) lakes
and reservoirs, 2) rivers and streams, 3)
estuarine and coastal marine waters, and
4) wetlands.
ADEM’s Rivers and Streams Monitoring Program samples each of the State’s
reservoirs at no less than once every two
years and routinely monitors reservoirs
for total phosphorus, nitrogen, Secchi
depth, and Chlorophyll a. The data collected is being used for a long-term
trend analysis to identity increasing and
decreasing trends. ADEM has developed
numeric criteria for Chloroplyll a for 37
of Alabama’s 41 publically assessable
reservoirs and anticipates completing
proposed criteria for the remaining 4 reservoirs by the end of 2014.
ADEM routinely monitors rivers and
lakes to determine water quality throughout the algal growing season and to
provide data that can be used to develop
nutrient criteria. For water bodies in the
State that are determined to be impaired
by nutrient enrichment, a total maximum
daily load (TMDL) is prepared. For facilities discharging treated wastewater in
these water bodies, ADEM’s Municipal
and Industrial Permitting Branch incorporates nutrient limits in permits.
In addition to these efforts, ADEM
partnered with Auburn University to
create a Nutrient Criteria Framework
for wadeable streams. Part of this effort
was examining the cause and effect
relationships between aquatic life uses
and nutrient concentrations. This Framework and the information gathered in
the course of developing it will be used
to develop nutrient criteria for wadeable
streams in Alabama starting with the Tallapoosa River Basin. ADEM also is in the
process of calibrating a hydrodynamic
water quality model for the Weeks Bay
watershed. Data from a 10-month study,
which was completed in 2011 in cooperation with several partners, will be used
for this effort to provide more insight on
the interaction between nutrient loading
and coastal water bodies.
Options for meeting increasingly
stringent nutrient criteria
Before utility managers panic about the
implications of the pending NNC, they
should consider the options. While the
new requirements are likely to lead to
revised effluent nutrient limitations, utilities may have alternatives that could be
more cost effective than simply assuming that expensive facility improvements
are required. Consider the following
approaches, first listed then described
more fully below.
• Conduct a Regulatory Review – Start
by evaluating the potential NNC for
your watershed and/or receiving
stream, your existing effluent nutrient
limits, and assess the potential
impacts on your facility.
• Conduct a Wastewater Treatment
Evaluation – Determine whether your
facility can meet the potential effluent
limits with limited operational changes
and improvements or minor facility
modifications.
• Evaluate Watershed-based Nutrient
Control Options – In many watersheds
the primary source of nutrients may
be non-point sources from either
urban or agricultural land uses or
both. Reducing these non-point
source loadings may be more
cost effective than major facility
improvements.
Historical data evaluation
As many utility managers have learned
through previous National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permitting activities, completing your
own due diligence and providing the
appropriate supporting data are often
critical to successful permitting of wastewater treatment and effluent discharge.
Many utilities have been monitoring their
effluent and downstream water quality
conditions for years. As part of a longterm data collection program, ADEM
has included a requirement to report
nutrient parameters on most treatment
plant discharge monitoring reports. This
information may be extremely useful in
evaluating the potential for meeting the
pending in-stream standards at your
current effluent nutrient limitations. On
the contrary, the lack of data leaves the
utility vulnerable to scrambling to assess
these conditions and plan appropriately
when pending new limitations are being
considered.
Wastewater
treatment evaluation
If, based on a review of waterbody
specific data, effluent data, and the
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pending standards, you determine
that reductions in your effluent nutrient
concentrations are imminent, then
an evaluation of existing treatment
processes and operations should be
your next step. The historical plant
performance data and pending nutrient
criteria should be reviewed to identify the
quantitative differences in nitrogen and
phosphorus levels. These differences will
help guide the evaluation of what level of
treatment upgrades might be required.
Understanding the trade-offs between
solutions that increase operational costs
and infrastructure investment, which
requires upfront capital dollars, is an
important component of the evaluation.
For attaining total phosphorus
limits, a range of options are available;
converting existing system to biological
nutrient removal (BNR) (TP limit =
<1mg/L), including metal salt addition
for chemically enhanced primary and/
or secondary clarification (TP=0.3 –
1mg/L), and addition of filters or tertiary
polishing (TP < 0.3 mg/L). These process
modifications are just a few of the
available approaches to attain any new
TP limit. For meeting a Total Nitrogen
(TN) limit, additional approaches may be
required; BNR (TN limit = 10mg/L), BNR
with supplemental carbon addition/
denitrification filters (TN limit = 3 – 5mg/L),
and activated carbons (TN limit < 3mg/L).
In addition to these operational and
process modifications, effluent enduse evaluations should be performed
to capture reuse opportunities. Utilizing
wastewater effluent for non-potable
reuse consumption (irrigation, etc.) at its
current nutrient levels, can save on plant
operating cost with the implementation
of final effluent polishing. This approach
essentially polishes only the remaining
volume to the high nutrient limits, which
can reduce overall treatment facility
improvement and operating costs.
NNC implementing mechanisms,
such as Total Maximum Daily Load
(TMDL) allocations and NPDES permits
will be expected to defi ne “default”
actions that would ordinarily be taken
by individual dischargers and other
categories of sources to comply, such
as upgrading a wastewater treatment
plant to a certain level, or installing
a certain type or number of best
management practices.
Water quality credit trading
describes situations where at least
one party subject to a pollutant control
or reduction requirement meets its
responsibilities by implementing an
alternative to the default action, often
involving actions taken at another
location(s) and with another party(ies),
to provide equal or better environmental
results than the default action would
have provided at a reduced cost.
Most of the existing trading initiatives
and operating programs have been
established to meet one or more of the
following three objectives:
Cost-effectiveness – Trading can
make compliance more cost-effective.
Credits can be less expensive than
on-site compliance options and/or credit
purchases let parties optimize sizing and
scheduling of their projects.
Watershed-based strategies
for nutrient management
In many watersheds across the state,
more innovative measures are likely to
be needed to meet the pending NNC.
For example, where NPDES permittees
have found economic constraints and/
or technology limitations to meeting their
stricter nutrient criteria on-site, many
have looked at water quality credit trading
as a cooperative, market-based way to
achieve compliance more cost-effectively.
Various combinations of sources
have partnered to create cost effective
water quality trading opportunities
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described below.
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Targeting improvements – Trading
can encourage pollutant reductions
in priority locations where they might
not otherwise occur, and can create
incentives for desirable projects that
might not otherwise be economical.
Speeding results – Trading can help
produce water quality improvements
on a faster time schedule than without
trading when the credit projects have a
shorter permitting and/or construction
schedule and/or when they require less
financial investment.
Point-point credit trading –
Wastewater treatment plants in
Connecticut, North Carolina (Neuse and
Tar Pamlico River Basins), and Virginia
trade nitrogen credits to meet collective
watershed-based loading caps.
Point-non-point credit trading –
Municipal wastewater treatment plants
in Idaho, North Carolina, Ohio, and
Oregon can purchase nutrient credits,
and in Oregon’s case temperature
credits, under different arrangements,
including directly from landowners, from
a state program, from a conservancy
district, and from a local soil and water
conservation district.
Non-point-non-point credit
trading – Local governments and
other stakeholders in watersheds
in North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Texas are developing frameworks that
would support nutrient and sediment
credit trading to support compliance
with storm water ordinances for new
development.
Trading is generally authorized in
one or more ways, such as in a TMDL
implementation plan and/or NPDES
permits—including watershed permits
and general permits that consolidate
requirements for multiple dischargers
into one permit to facilitate trading.
Other documents and agreements may
also support the program by providing
policies, rules, and technical guidance.
It is important to note that water
quality credit trading can take many
forms depending on the watershed,
pollutant sources, and stakeholders.
Many times, it is the local dischargers
and key watershed stakeholders that
collaborate, under existing regulatory
frameworks, to develop a localized
strategy that works best for the parties
involved.
The use attainability
analysis option
Realistically, many wastewater
treatment facilities in Alabama
will require improvements, over
time, to meet the future demands
for wastewater treatment while
meeting the anticipated NNC. The
costs associated with these capital
improvements and the associated
long term operations cannot be
taken lightly. Treatment technologies
have evolved and the options for
nutrient removal can be complicated.
Depending on whether the nutrient
limits are for phosphorus, nitrogen, or
both, the alternatives will vary. Matching
the treatment technologies with the
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attainable limits will provide a reliable
approach to assessing wastewater
facility improvements. An evaluation
of potential technologies may include
natural treatment systems (constructed
wetlands), chemical/physical processes,
biological and biochemical (CEPT,
supplemental carbon, etc.), step feed
systems, fi lters, membrane bioreactors,
integrated fi xed fi lm activated sludge, or
side stream treatment.
One fi nal option that utilities have in
addressing the pending NNC is a use
attainability analysis (UAA). UAAs are
allowed under the CWA and are defi ned
as “a structured scientifi c assessment of
factors affecting the attainment of a use
which may include physical, chemical,
biological, and economic factors.” The
goal of a UAA is to make sure that the
designated uses and water quality
criteria accurately refl ect scientifi c reality
and to ensure that fi nancial resources
produce the greatest environmental
benefi t. A UAA is applicable when the
designated use is not being met due to:
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1. Natural (background) concentrations,
or
2. Natural, ephemeral, intermittent, or low
flow conditions, or
3. Human caused conditions that cannot
be remedied or would cause more
harm to fix, or
4. Dams, diversions, hydro-modifications
where not feasible to remedy, or
5. Physical conditions (poor habitat), or
6. Controls would cause substantial and
widespread economic and social
impact.
These six criteria for applicability leave
open the opportunity for a number of
streams in Alabama to be considered for
a UAA. It should be noted, however, that
this approach has not been widely used
around the country and would require
significant supporting documentation
on existing watershed conditions and/
or economic impacts. Despite these
considerations, the UAA approach will
likely have to be considered in some
circumstances where it is just not feasible
to meet the pending NNC. The National
Association of Clean Water Agencies
(NACWA) and the Water Environmental
Research Foundation (WERF) developed
a handbook on understanding UAA’s in
2005 (Collaborative Water Quality Solutions:
Exploring Use Attainability Analyses). This
document provides a practical roadmap
for stakeholders trying to determine if a
UAA is the right approach (http://www.
werf.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Use_
Attainability_Analysis).
What is the answer?
So back to the question – What will NNC
mean for Alabama Utilities? The answer
will depend on watershed conditions,
existing and future effluent limits, nutrient
sources, willingness to collaborate with
other sources, and the technology and age
of facilities. At a minimum, the pending NNC
will require local utilities to look at a more
integrated approach to nutrient management combining both point and-non point
source strategies for nutrient reductions.
While most utilities do not have the authority to address non-point source reductions in their watersheds (typically driven
by local government ordinance and land
use policies) it will be in their best interests
(economically) to collaborate with local
stakeholders to come up with the most
cost effective approaches to meeting nutrient reductions. x
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PHOTOS AND ARTICLES WANTED!
Alabama’s Water Environment Association is seeking
articles and photos for use on its website and in its
publications. Spotlight your facility or project. Send
us your photos. Photos do not have to be taken by a
professional photographer; however, they must be
submitted on a CD or emailed as a high resolution
JPEG or TIFF file. (High resolution files are necessary for
print quality purposes.) Articles should include photos
with descriptions as well as photographer’s name and
contact information. Email submissions to kpolifka@
thecassadyco.com or mail CD submissions to:
AWEA
600 29th Avenue
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
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Ownership/Use Rights:
Photographers retain the copyright to their photographs. By submitting images to the Alabama Water Environment Association
(AWEA), photographers agree to have their photograph(s) displayed within any AWEA publication (digital or print) as well as the
AWEA website without any fee or other form of compensation.
Where possible, photos will be credited to the photographer listed
on the entry form. In the event that ownership of any photograph
submitted to AWEA is contested in any manner, AWEA retains the
discretion to discontinue use of the photograph.
All articles submitted will have to be approved by the
publication review board. Please refrain from sending
promotional or sales oriented material as it will likely be denied.
Articles should focus on projects, facilities or individuals, not
products or services. x
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Fairhope wins
‘Best Tasting’
Water Award
Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012
Draw a big glass of tap water from a faucet in Fairhope and
know that you are drinking water officially declared “best
tasting” from samples supplied by communities all over Alabama and Mississippi.
Dan McCrory, Fairhope’s Water Superintendent, picked
up Fairhope’s “Best Tasting Water Award” at the annual
meeting of the Alabama/Mississippi Section of the American
Water Works Association, a regional division of a national
organization. The meeting was held October 14-16 in Mobile.
“I’ve been chasing an award like this for several years
through a different state-wide organization the city belongs
to, but we’ve never won that one. When this event came
up, I decided to try it, even though it was a larger group, so
there was more competition,” McCrory said. “Needless to
say, I was pleased for Fairhope’s water to be selected best
tasting. I know it tastes great, but it was a nice surprise to
win the award.”
To enter, McCrory presented two one-gallon containers
of chilled Fairhope tap water. “The water samples were
coded so that the judges didn’t know where the water came
from. They tasted each and ranked the water samples
on color, clarity, and taste. Then compiled the results, and
Fairhope’s water won.”
McCrory says he plans to take Fairhope’s winning
water to the national level next year and take samples to
the American Water Works Association conference in
Denver. “We have a good, pure source of groundwater
that we work hard to protect. Our crews constantly
strive to maintain our water quality to standards that
exceed requirements by ADEM (Alabama Department of
Environmental Management) and the EPA (Environmental
Protection Agency). I think we have a good chance of
winning at the national level.”
For more information on the award or Fairhope’s water
department call 928-8003. x
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WATER PUTS AMERICA TO WORK CAMPAIGN
By Amanda Waters, WEF
The Water Puts
America to Work
campaign is a
partnership of the
American Public
Works Association,
American Water,
American Water
Works Association,
Associated General Contractors of America, Association
of Metropolitan Water Agencies, Arcadis, Black & Veatch,
CH2M Hill, GE Power & Water, National Association of
Clean Water Agencies, National Association of Water
Companies, United Water, Veolia Water, Water Environment
Federation (WEF), Xylem Inc. and over 30 WEF Member
Associations representing more than 30,000 members.
Investment in water and wastewater leverages enormous
benefi ts for our national and local economies. In order to
achieve sustainable solutions to the growing gap between
infrastructure needs and available funding, our political
leaders must fi rst understand the connection between safe,
reliable, resilient infrastructure, our economy and our quality
of life; they must also be made aware of what is at stake
and the consequences of inaction. This campaign is not
advocating for any one solution or legislative proposal. This
is not a partisan issue – it is an American issue and we need
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renewed political will, leadership and cooperation to fi nd the
right solutions.
We are currently reaching out to new and existing
members of Congress and particularly the Appropriations
and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. We are
successfully harnessing the power of social media to amplify
our voice and reach a much broader audience. For example,
during the three presidential debates alone, the campaign
generated over 179,000 twitter impressions. The campaign
is also using traditional media outlets to convey our message
– Op-Ed articles have been placed in newspapers across the
country. The campaign is now focusing on getting coverage by
major national television, radio, and print media outlets.
As a result of this campaign, the 2012 Republican and
Democratic National Platforms included water infrastructure
investment language and reference the positive impact on
job creation, economic growth, and health. See the GOP
Platform, We Believe in America (page 1 and 5), and the
Democratic Platform, Moving America Forward (pages
40-41, 34, and 49). The campaign used these platform
commitments to advocate to put America back to work by
making water a top priority.
Unfortunately, it often takes a disaster to remind the
public, the media and our elected offi cials that we rely on our
infrastructure systems when extreme weather events occur.
Water infrastructure has become very visible in the aftermath
of Hurricane Sandy. It is crucial that we seize this opportunity
to connect the dots by participating in the dialogue and raising
awareness of the indisputable link between water investment
and the economy and the importance of resilient systems to
meet the challenges of today and the future.
This campaign has gained considerable momentum and
we are energized and excited about what we might achieve
by working together. There is no fi nancial commitment to
join the campaign. We ask only that you help us advocate
and raise awareness that Water Puts America to Work:
Investment in Water infrastructure Creates Jobs,
Drives Innovation, and Safeguards Public Health.
Please visit the campaign website www.waterforjobs.org for
additional information and feel free to contact me with any
questions. x
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WATER POLICY IN ALABAMA
By Lance R. LeFleur, Director, Alabama Department of Environmental Management
History of the water policy debate
The debate over water use policy in the State of Alabama
heated up in 1989 following the catastrophic droughts of
the 1980’s. Governor Guy Hunt created the Alabama Water
Resources Study Commission to address the question of
whether a water use policy was needed. The special study
commission generated a wide-ranging report, “WATER FOR
A QUALITY OF LIFE,” advocating for comprehensive water
policy. Of the more than 100 recommendations included in
the report, about one fourth were actually implemented and
that was accomplished largely by passage of the Alabama
Water Resources Act in 1993, which stopped well short of
creating comprehensive water policy. It has now been more
than 20 years since the debate over water use policy began
and much is yet to be resolved.
Unlike the situation with water quality, there is no federal
mandate for any state to regulate the quantity of water used.
Because there is no federal mandate to regulate water use
or to create and implement water use policy, it falls to each
individual state to address water use on its own initiative and
in a manner consistent with the particular needs of that state.
Any statewide water policy would need to consider both
the amount or quantity of water resources available in the
State and the amount or quantity of water used in the State.
Such a policy would address if and how water use in Alabama
is to be regulated.
Opposing views
Some of the reasons cited in support of the need for
comprehensive water use policy include: increasing
demand for fi nite water resources; federal initiatives that
may preempt the State if the State does not act; vagaries of
the common law system currently in place related to water
use and ownership; and, new and existing industries’ need
for predictability if water is necessary in their operation. It is
argued that the reasons cited today existed in 1989 and have
only become more urgent with the passing of time.
Conversely, it has been asserted that, with the exception of
infrequent localized water shortages occasioned by drought,
Alabama is blessed with ample water resources to meet all
its current needs. It is also contended that any effort to further
regulate water use would merely be regulation for the sake of
regulation based on speculation and not hard data.
If the question were asked “Does Alabama need to
regulate water use today?” there would likely be sizable
groups coming down on both the “yes” and the “no” side
of the question. If, however, the question were asked “Will
Alabama need to regulate water use sometime in the next
30 years?” there would no doubt be a substantial majority
answering “yes”.
in the conversation about how to construct a responsible
water use policy that takes into consideration the needs of all
stakeholders who have an interest in this important resource.
Indeed, there are many groups in Alabama, including
agriculture, industry, transportation, the environmental
community, utilities, municipalities and, recreational users
that have a legitimate interest in water use policy. Because
there are so many diverse groups interested in water policy,
it is not only a technical process, but a political and social one
as well.
If Alabama is to successfully deal with the issue of water
policy, several things must happen. First, there must be
some consensus on whether to regulate the quantity of
water used in Alabama. While there is general consensus
that water quality needs to be regulated, there is not yet
consensus on the approach to regulating water quantity,
partly because the State lacks some key data needed to
determine water availability and use. Second, there must be
ample opportunity for all potential stakeholders to be heard.
Third, if legislation is to be adopted, there must be a holistic
approach that will refl ect compromises by opposing interest
groups on individual issues in order to get a comprehensive
program in place.
The AWAWG has started the process by identifying
critical issues such as data collection, inter-basin transfers,
riparian common law, in-stream fl ows, and many others. The
AWAWG’s “Water Management Issues in Alabama” report is
available on two websites; www.adem.state.al.us (under the
“News” tab) and www.adeca.alabama.gov/AWAWG or from
any AWAWG member agency.
The AWAWG has also solicited input from potential
stakeholders through a free form invitation to comment
on the issues. All comments received, in many cases
comments on multiple issues from a single stakeholder,
are to be presented in an unedited form for review by the
Governor’s Offi ce, the Joint Legislative Committee on Water
Policy, stakeholders, and the general public. The comments
will be available to all interested parties in the near future at
the websites shown above.
The path forward
The Alabama Water Agencies Working Group (AWAWG)
was formed by Governor Bentley to move the State forward
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Using the “Water Management Issues in Alabama” report,
the stakeholder comments, and background from the Joint
Legislative Committee on Water Policy, the AWAWG will be
working with the Governor’s Offi ce to identify policy options
that the Governor and the Legislature can utilize in determining
what should be considered in developing policy and legislation.
The process is ongoing, however, and one thing that is
already apparent from the comment letters is that, fi rst and
foremost, water use policy must be based on sound science
and this requires data that we currently do not have. Additional
data gathering, presentation, and interpretation requires both
time and funding. To this end, the AWAWG is working closely
with policymakers to secure funding that will lead to enhanced
data and, ultimately, more informed water use policy. x
AUTHOR BIO
Lance R. LeFleur, Director
Alabama Department of Environmental Management
Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1463
334-271-7710
On May 1, 2010 Mr. Lance LeFleur began serving as the
Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management. On that date he was required to organize and
assume leadership responsibility for twelve State agencies
charged with responding to the BP oil spill.
Mr. LeFleur has more than thirty years of managerial
experience, with twenty-five of those years spent leading
two businesses dedicated to environmental improvement.
As a former business owner, Mr. LeFleur understands the
importance of environmental regulations and the role those
regulations play in protecting environmental resources.
In addition, his business experiences have afforded him
opportunities to successfully work with diverse stakeholder
groups to resolve difficult issues.
Mr. LeFleur holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from
the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MBA in management/
finance from Southern Methodist University and completed
the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Business. His education
includes extensive training in the fields of chemistry, physics,
and mathematics which allows him to understand the
importance of a strong professional staff that utilizes a
sciencebased decision making process.
Consistent with the guidance provided by the Alabama
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GROUPS COLLABORATE
TO SHAPE THE UTILITY OF THE FUTURE
Washington, D.C., January 13, 2013 — The National Association
of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), the Water Environment
Research Foundation (WERF), and the Water Environment
Federation (WEF) have jointly released a pioneering document
that defines the evolving environmental, economic, and social
roles that clean water utilities are playing in their communities
(http://www.uswateralliance.org/tag/wef/).
As outlined in Water Resources Utility of the Future ... Blueprint
for Action, this new “Water Resources Utility of the Future”
(UOTF) will transform the way traditional wastewater utilities
view themselves and manage their operations. The document
explores how traditional publicly owned treatment works have
mastered their core wastewater treatment function and are now
redefining themselves as resource recovery agencies and vital
community enterprises.
The blueprint opens the door to re-imagining the Clean Water
Act in the wake of unprecedented progress and evolution over
the 40 years since the Act’s passage.
“This Blueprint will help us realize a sustainable future that
minimizes waste, maximizes resources, protects the ratepayer,
improves the community, and embraces innovation in an
unprecedented manner,” said NACWA Executive Director Ken
Kirk. “It also will help ensure that UOTF issues are front and center
as the 113th Congress and incoming Administration develop their
environmental priorities.”
“Today’s utilities are reclaiming and reusing water, extracting and
finding commercial uses for nutrients and other products, becoming more efficient energy users and renewable energy producers,
and using green infrastructure to manage stormwater and to
improve the quality of life,” said WEF Executive Director Jeff Eger.
“They are essential to thriving, sustainable communities.”
Each of the three organizations will use the Blueprint to advance
the priorities that fall within their area of expertise. These include
advocacy, technical input, outreach/communications, scientific
research, data collection and media relations.
Wherever possible, however, the three organizations will continue to work collaboratively on shared objectives. In addition, it is
hoped that the entire clean water community will adopt the objectives outlined in the Blueprint and participate in moving toward its
goals as well.
“Wastewater agencies are facing both unprecedented challenges and new opportunities to meet these challenges,” said WERF
Executive Director Glenn Reinhardt. “This Blueprint will help propel
the discussion about the evolving utility and where we need to go.” x
WEF & NACWA APPLAUD STATE OF THE UNION
FOR FOCUS ON INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE,
RESILIENCY TO CLIMATE CHANGE
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In his State of the Union Address on
February 12, 2013 President Obama focused on the role of
infrastructure to a healthy economy and identified climate
change and resiliency as national priorities, all of which paves
the way for a renewed focus on the value of water and water
infrastructure according to the Water Environment Federation
(WEF) and the National Association of Clean Water Agencies
(NACWA).
WEF and NACWA are heartened by the President’s
emphasis on economic recovery and climate change. Water
considerations are essential to progress in both areas, and
the organizations are encouraged by the potential to advance
and improve the nation’s water programs. As seen in the
devastating aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, clean and safe
water infrastructure is now squarely a key component of any
national effort to address the impacts of climate change and
ensure the resiliency of our communities going forward.
The recently released Water Resources Utility of the
Future…Blueprint for Action coauthored by WEF, NACWA,
and the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF)
calls for a Utility of the Future that recovers valuable resources
from the treatment process, is a partner in local economic
development, and a member of the watershed community
seeking to deliver maximum environmental benefits at the
least cost to the ratepayer. Fully supportive of the transition to
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clean, renewable energy and climate change-related initiatives,
the Utility of the Future reclaims and reuses water, extracts
and finds commercial uses for nutrients, captures waste heat
and latent energy in biosolids and liquid streams, generates
renewable energy, and uses green infrastructure to manage
stormwater. WEF and NACWA also share a position on climate
change that underscores the clear need to create sustainable,
resilient water facilities that can meet and withstand the
impacts of extreme wet weather events.
Beyond the challenges of climate change and renewable
energy, rebuilding America’s aging water infrastructure would
be a well-suited component of the President’s ‘Fix It First’
program, proposed last night to put Americans to work on the
most urgent repairs.
Both in terms of jobs created and public health protection,
water infrastructure repair cannot be overlooked as the nation
moves to rebuild its economy. Additionally, the President’s
focus on manufacturing, innovation and jobs translates to the
need to drive innovative solutions in water to create jobs and
ensure a sustainable environment.
WEF and NACWA look forward to working with the
President and Congress to help rebuild the economy and
create a better, safer, and more resilient America through
sound investment in, and innovative approaches to, national
water programs. x
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