Description
This bimonthly roundup features highlights of the hottest news storiesof recent months as reported in WATERWEEK, AWWA’s weekly newsletterto member utilities. Topics covered include: draft voluntary consensus guidelines addressing the physical security of both water andwastewater systems were released in December, having been developedjointly over the past three years by AWWA, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and theWater Environment Federation, the downloadable guidelines detail key actions that each type ofutility can take to protect its facility from intentional attacks, and cover the design,construction, operation, and maintenance of both new and existing systems of all sizes; some 4,000 community and nontransient-noncommunity water systems will have toconduct a year’s worth of monitoring for up to 25 unregulated contaminants under afinal rule published January 4 to implement U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) second round of unregulatedcontaminant monitoring; requirements in USEPA’s final Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule(LT2ESWTR) for unfiltered systems to treat source waters for Cryptosporidium and tocover finished water reservoirs or treat their effluent for crypto are illegal and should bevacated, argued Portland, Oregon, officials in a brief filed in December with the US Court ofAppeals for the District of Columbia; desalination of seawater and brackish water and rainwater harvesting are among thestrategies being pursued as the state of Texas plans to locate the additional 8.8 mil acre-ftof water it will need annually by the year 2060, according to a comprehensive state planissued in November 2006; USEPA recently finalized plans to partner with states and some Native American tribesto conduct a first-ever nationwide survey of the quality and ecological and recreationalcondition of more than 900 lakes and reservoirs; a federal court ruled that three South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) pump stations which backpumppolluted drainage waters into Lake Okeechobee for flood control and water supply purposes willrequire Clean Water Act (CWA) discharge permits; states that implement the CWA discharge permit program would get extra federal fundsfor other CWA activities if they recover certain percentages of permit program costs fromuser fees, under a rule proposed in December 2006 by USEPA; under legislation that reached the White House inDecember, the Bureau of Reclamation received itsrequested administrative structure for reviewing, approving, and constructing rural water projects, and establishes a formal process for authorizing and funding rural projects that fordecades have been separately approved by Congress on a project-by-project basis withlittle input by the bureau; AWWA has developed resources intended to help water utilities understand USEPA’srulemaking effort to determine whether to regulate discharges of treatment residualsunder the CWA; and, a new USEPA specification for high-efficiency toilets thatpromises to save billions of gallons of water annually has beendeveloped under the agency’s nascent WaterSense programto promote water-efficient technologies, the specification isfor toilets that use less than 1.3 gpf, including single- anddual-flush tank units and flushometer and electrohydraulictypes.
Product Details
- Edition:
- Vol. 99 – No. 5
- Published:
- 05/01/2007
- Number of Pages:
- 13
- File Size:
- 1 file , 100 KB
- Note:
- This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus
