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This week's NEWS
Updates out of AWWA's ACE include TCR progress, climate change and disease, and PPCPs. Now it's WRF... or will that be WateRF? It's no longer AwwaRF, but the agenda is still ambitious. When EPA and DHS say they agree on need to "close the security regulatory gap," water utilities had better get ready. Maybe... the good news is that IST is not likely to be mandated. Want UV? Got UV! New manual will help.
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Federal Updates
- New philosophy drives approach to revised TCR (AWWA Mainstream, June 11)
Commentary: While nothing is yet cast in concrete, AWWA reps reported at ACE last week that the direction the revised rule is heading toward is:"...using total coliforms as an 'indicator of system health, not public health.'" Positive total coliform samples (without accompanying E. Coli positives) would trigger a mandated Level 1 system assessment by the water system.
- AMWA reports on recent NDWAC meeting
State Updates
Flooding
Water Quality Reports
Security
Water Research
AWWA Awards
Follow-Up: Bromate Formation in Open Reservoir
Water Treatment
Arsenic
PPCPs
- Proper disposal of unwanted medicines is focus of meeting of EPA, mid-Atlantic states, and pharmaceutical industry (USEPA News release, June 12)
- Do you say the water is "safe?" AWWA conference panel provides good advice on dealing with risk, uncertainty, research on unknowns (AWWA Mainstream, June 12)
- Portland, OR's "miniscule" findings of PPCPs reported and assessed (Lake Oswego Review, June 12)
Commentary: The news article offers up a couple of interesting ways to describe "not very much," including "the contaminants are being detected at extraordinarily minute levels – levels that bankrupt the imagination," "a very, very, tiny, tiny amount," and "extremely minute quantities." Of course, that doesn't mean the journalists can't also describe the issue as "One of the most unpalatable environmental stories of the year," "hard to swallow," and "Small but dangerous." Actually, the news story is pretty balanced, concluding with: "'The real story here is the advancements in analytical techniques,' lab director Eaton says. 'But that doesn't generate great headlines.'"
Survey on Biological Treatment
- Participation in this less-than-30-minute online Drinking Water Treatment Survey is solicited. The Awwa Research Foundation (AwwaRF) and the Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) want to determine the extent to which biological processes are being used and what technology, regulatory, and customer acceptance issues remain.
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Malcolm Pirnie has been active in
perchlorate issues since discovery of the contaminant in drinking
water in 1997. Since then, we have been a consultant to numerous
water systems, worked with both manufacturers of treatment technologies
and potentially responsible parties (PRPs), and given expert witness
testimony on perchlorate-related matters.