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  • Source Water Collaborative Learning Exchange Webinar Series: Conservation Grant Funding & Drinking Water Utilities: Partnering for Success

    Learning Exchange Webinar Series

    “Conservation Funding & Drinking Water Utilities: Partnering for Success”

    Identifying and securing a source of funding and the right partners is often the biggest challenge to implementing source water protection. This webinar will showcase efforts of drinking water utilities and conservation groups who are partnering with farming operations and landowners to protect their water supplies through the US Department of Agriculture’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).

    This webinar was broadcast on Thursday, January 11th, 2018

    Moderator
    Adam Carpenter, Environmental and Policy Manager American Water Works Association (AWWA)

    Speakers:
    Jimmy Bramblett, Deputy Chief of Programs, US Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

    Tariq Baloch, Water Utility Plant Manager, Cedar Rapids, IA

    Sandi Formica, Executive Director, Watershed Conservation Resource Center

     

  • ASDWA CWA-SDWA Webinar: Leveraging CWA 319 and SDWA Programs for Surface and Ground Water Quality Planning

    ASDWA CWA-SDWA Webinar: Leveraging CWA 319 and SDWA Programs for Surface and Ground Water Quality Planning 

    Date:  Tuesday, November 7, 2017
    Time:  1:00pm – 2:30pm (eastern), 12:00pm – 1:30pm (central), 10:00am – 11:30am (pacific)

    Slide Deck: Combined Webinar Presentations

    Purpose:  The purpose of the webinar is to build on the efforts of ASDWA, the Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA), the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC), and EPA to share and promote Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act (CWA-SDWA) coordination activities across state and EPA water programs.

    Audience:  State, interstate, tribal, and federal water programs, water utilities, technical assistance providers, and anyone else who would like to participate.

    Objective:  Learn how the Nebraska and Nevada state water programs coordinated with EPA and local communities to leverage the CWA 319 non-point source (NPS) program for surface and groundwater quality protection planning in drinking water supply areas.

    Agenda

    • Nebraska: Ryan Chapman with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, and Heather Duncan with the EPA Region 7, will present how they have partnered over the course of several years to address source water and drinking water protection issues impacted by non-point source pollution. After documenting the drinking water protection priorities in the Nebraska’s Non-point Source Management Plan, the state has undertaken planning and restoration efforts in four communities, including the Bazile Groundwater Management Area, Waverly, Auburn, and Fairbury. This presentation will share the status of those planning efforts and describe the 319 documentation process that supports the state’s accomplishments.
    • Nevada: Kim Borgzinner, with the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) Bureau of Safe Drinking Water’s Integrated Source Water Protection Program (ISWPP), and Birgit Henson with the NDEP Bureau of Water Quality Planning’s Nonpoint Source Branch, will share how they coordinated and kick started a joint source water protection and watershed management planning effort. This effort aligned with the goals outlined in Nevada’s 2015 Nonpoint Source Management Plan and resulted in working with the ISWPP contractor to develop a stakeholder group and initiate a comprehensive regional watershed plan that includes source water components in Washoe County and the Truckee River Watershed.

    Presenters

    Ryan Chapman is the Water Quality Assessment Section Supervisor with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.  He has been with the Department since 2009 and served as the Wellhead Protection Program Coordinator for 5 years. He also works with several of the Section 319 Non-Point Source grants that the Department awards annually. Ryan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources from the University of Nebraska Lincoln, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Iowa State University.

     

     

    Heather Duncan is the EPA Region 7 liaison to Nebraska’s nonpoint source/319 program. Heather has been with EPA Region 7 since 2006. Prior to working in water quality programs, Heather spent time with EPA Region 7’s pesticides program and was the co-chair of Region 7’s Agriculture Team. She’s an Iowa farm girl by upbringing and a graduate of Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Service and Administration in Agriculture – Agricultural Meteorology.

     

     

    Kim Borgzinner is the Source Water Coordinator for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection. She has been managing the State’s Integrated Source Water Protection Program for the past 10 years and has worked successfully with many communities in Nevada to develop and implement comprehensive countywide source water protection plans. Prior to working for NDEP, Kim worked in private consulting on projects related to public water system capacity building. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada Reno.

     

     

    Birgit Henson is the Non-point Source Branch Supervisor managing the Clean Water Act 319 Program at the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection. She has over twenty years of experience in the water quality field. Birgit previously worked for Nevada’s Underground Injection Control Program where she was responsible for permitting discharges to groundwater, and also worked for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and Basin Management Unit. She has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Natural Resource Management and Engineering from the University of Connecticut and is a Certified Public Manager.

  • ASDWA CWA-SDWA Webinar: Creative Uses of Clean Water Funding for Drinking Water Benefits

    ASDWA CWA-SDWA Webinar:  Creative Uses of Clean Water Funding for Drinking Water Benefits

    Date:  Tuesday, August 29, 2017
    Time:  1:00 to 2:30pm (eastern), 10:00 to 11:30am (pacific)

    Slide Deck: ASDWA CWA-SDWA Webinar – August 29 2017

    Purpose:  The purpose of the webinar is to build on the efforts of ASDWA, ACWA, GWPC, and EPA to share and promote Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act (CWA-SDWA) coordination activities across state and EPA water programs.

    Audience:  State, interstate, tribal, and federal water programs, water utilities, technical assistance providers, and anyone else who would like to participate.

    Objective:  Learn how the Virginia and Washington Drinking Water Programs collaborated with their state Clean Water Programs and other partners to creatively use some non-traditional funding routes to benefit their drinking water utilities, including one very small and disadvantaged water system.

    Agenda

    • Virginia: Jeff Wells, with the Office of Drinking Water (in the Virginia Department of Health) will present, “Clean Water Enforcement Funds:  Waterworks Case Study Projects.”  His presentation will share how they worked with the Department of Environmental Quality and a variety of partners to use funding made available from Clean Water Act enforcement settlements to:
      • Implement infrastructure improvements in the very small Timber Ridge community; and
      • Undertake a water quality study to further investigate and identify the cause of taste and odor issues in drinking water drawn from the Dan River, and algae formation.
    • Washington: Corina Hayes, with the Office of Drinking Water (in the Washington State Department of Health) and Bill Trueman, with the Skagit Public Utilities District, will present, “Purchasing Land in a Drinking Water Watershed Using Clean Water Act SRF Funding.”  Their presentation will share how they worked with the Department of Ecology to acquire Clean Water Act SRF funding for purchasing land in a portion of the watershed to protect the drinking water supply from the stresses of timber harvesting.

    Presenters

    Jeff Wells is the Field Director for the Office of Drinking Water in the Virginia Department of Health, Danville Field Office. He has over 24 years of experience with environmental compliance and has worked with VDH in various capacities for the last 14 years.  His Office covers a 22-county region in south central Virginia and regulates over 450 waterworks.  Services provided include inspections, technical services, monitoring compliance, enforcement and engineering services for the regulated systems.  Jeff is a registered Professional Engineer and holds a BS in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University and a MS in Civil Engineering from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte.

    Corina Hayes is the Source Water Protection Program Manager in the Office of Drinking Water for the Washington State Department of Health. She provides regulatory oversite of the source water protection program through training and technical assistance. She also provides utilities with the necessary assistance to address source water protection issues, for both water quality and quantity, and provides funding for protection activities. Prior to her current position, Corina worked as a regional planner for the Office of Drinking Water and a planner for Thurston County. Corina received a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources from Oregon State University.

    Bill Trueman is the Environmental Services Coordinator for the Skagit Public Utilities District. He is involved with regulatory compliance and permitting, source water protection, and water rights. Recent projects have included a comprehensive updating of the District’s Watershed Management Plan and upgrades to surface water diversion facilities. Prior to joining Skagit PUD, Bill worked in industrial forest management and with civil construction contractors. Bill received a Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources from the University of Washington and enjoys the outdoors with his family and their horses.

  • Source Water Collaborative Learning Exchange Webinar Series: Linking Source Water Protection and Emergency Preparedness and Response

    THIS MONTH’S TOPIC:

    LINKING SOURCE WATER PROTECTION AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE

    TUESDAY, JUNE 6TH, 2017
    2PM-3PM EDT

    REGISTER NOW!

    FEATURING:

    Alan Roberson, Executive Director, Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA)
    Greg Prelewicz, Fairfax Water
    Steve Beiber, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG)

    This webinar will leverage the case study from the spill on the Potomac River (in Virginia) in November 2016 to provide recommendations for a variety of participants including water utilities, and federal, state, and local governments. During the webinar, participants will:

    • Learn how to link source water protection and emergency preparedness and response
    • Learn what worked and what didn’t work during/after the spill
    • How lessons learned can improve planning for emergency preparedness and response

    The source water for most of Metropolitan Washington DC was put at risk by a spill on the Potomac River in late 2016. The water systems responded aggressively to this spill in order to provide continuity of operations but the emergency response by other governmental entities was not optimal from the water systems’ perspective. Past source water mapping, as well ongoing source water monitoring, provided useful and timely data that was used in decision-making by the impacted water systems. Additional emergency preparedness work has been started as a result of the lessons learned from the response to this spill.

    Alan Roberson (Source Water Collaborative Steering Committee Co-Chair) will provide some opening remarks, and Greg Prelewicz (Fairfax Water) and Steve Beiber (MWCOG) will provide a presentation about the Potomac River spill incident and lessons learned, and answer audience questions.

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    This is the sixth webinar in the Source Water Collaborative Learning Exchange Webinar Series. The Learning Exchange is an information sharing platform for source water protection advocates to discuss current challenges, share success stories, and transfer knowledge to bolster source water protection efforts across the country.

    After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

    SPEAKER PROFILES

    ALAN ROBERSON is the Executive Director of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA). ASDWA’s members (the state drinking water agencies) are co- regulators with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mr. Roberson has over 27 years of experience in the development of drinking water policy and federal drinking water regulations. He and his staff work closely with EPA and the state and territorial drinking water agencies in the development and implementation of federal drinking water regulations. Mr. Roberson coordinates with his members to establish the policy direction on all federal water regulatory and security and preparedness issues, as well as manage the finances and strategic planning for ASDWA.

    GREG PRELEWICZ serves as Manager of Planning for Fairfax Water, Virginia’s largest water utility, where he oversees a staff of employees in system planning and development, source water planning and protection, site plan review, and GIS and mapping services. Greg has 20 years of experience in various water resources, environmental, and civil engineering areas, having worked the past 14 years at Fairfax Water. Greg arrived at Fairfax Water during the planning and discussion stage of the Potomac Drinking Water Source Protection Partnership (DWSPP) formation. He has been an active participant in the Potomac DWSPP and in Fairfax Water’s other source water protection activities since 2003.

    STEVE BEIBER has over 25 years of experience in water quality management, environmental regulation, critical infrastructure protection, and public policy. Presently, he is responsible for managing COG’s regional Anacostia Restoration Partnership, water security programs, energy security programs, critical infrastructure protection, drought management and response, urban stream restoration, green infrastructure, and other related environmental programs for local governments and utilities in the Washington, DC area. Previously Mr. Bieber was Chief of Watershed Planning and Outreach for the Maryland Department of the Environment. Mr. Bieber also has extensive experience working with international groups on watershed management and water security issues. Sanitation Commission.

  • How to Implement and Fund a State Water Loss Control Program: A Georgia Case Study – February 2015

    How to Implement and Fund a State Water Loss Control Program: A Georgia Case Study – February 2015. View the presentations and an audio/video recording of this webinar, which showcases Georgia’s Water Loss Management Program that stemmed from a 2010 law establishing a statewide requirement for water systems (with populations above 3,300) to conduct and submit an annual AWWA Water Audit.

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