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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
Affordable Wastewater Solutions for
Small and Rural Communities
NEHA / NOWRA/ SORA 2011
An Historic Conference
Priority of Code over Community
After all the:
research and reporting
technical sessions
training and site visits
demonstration projects and
the advisory updates
Finally comes the sociology and economics.
Imperative:
“The challenge is not that of managing water resources as important as that might be. Rather it is that of ‘managing ourselves’.”
“It is necessary to work over, under, around and through the political boundaries that appear to constrain watershed perspective.”
G. Tracy Mehan
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
NEHA on Climate Change (2007)
Affects of climate change are local
Advocate sustainable economic/social development
Integrate community planning/public health
Lead programatic efforts to promote sustainable and profitable business practices
ADVOCATE INTEGRATE LEAD
Asynchronous relationships drive costs
Codes are responsible to their missions
Communities are responsible for compliance
Codes have authority without responsibility
Communities responsibility without authority
Community
Has budgetary limits
Needs prudent economies of scale
Needs blended compliance options
Flexible just in time solutions
Collaboration and integration
Watershed /water resource focus
Codes integrated for efficiency
and economy
Authority
Does not restrain costs
Dictates scale
Dictates option
Long Term Planning
Command and Control
Pollution control focus
Codes segregate standards
The Dislocation Between Responsibility and AuthorityDislocation between Responsibility
and Authority drives cost
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
Asynchronous relationships drive costs
Watershed: context sensitive collaborative
Codes: prescriptive and command+ control
Watershed is enabling policy initiative
Codes are policing programmatic structures
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NPDES is now more powerful that the
legislation that created it.
Asynchronous relationships
Codes are not integrated
Onsite is soils based
NPDES is point source or pipe based
Onsite has no method to aggregate
NPDES has sewer ordinances
Onsite is just in time
Central sewer is planned and takes forever
When
•Responsibility is separate from Authority•Codes are not structured to Collaborate•Codes are not integrated•Watershed is policy / not programmatic, not legislated and not i:nstitutionallystructured:
How do we make effective Advocate Integrate Lead
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
Affordable Wastewater Solutions
Principles for affordability:
Knowing how policy effects citizensPrudent economies of scaleNegotiating public / private partnershipsCollaborate –Do not litigate.Negotiate for sustainable futures
Observations Knowing how policy effects citizens
OnsiteClustered
•Home value $350,000 $350,000
•Market decline -15% ($ 52,000) ($ 52,000)
•Market value $298,000 $298,000
•Septic repair (capital loss) ($ 30,000)
•Distributed sewer +10% $ 29800
•Net value $ 268,000 $ 327,800
Difference $59,800/ home
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Costs of unintended consequences
growth caps and phasing schedules •the prohibition of irregularly shaped lots •wetland regulations •septic-system regulations. •subdivision rules •cluster provisions•conditional zoning provisions •age-restricted zoning
from the work of Edward Glaeser
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
ObservationKnowing how policy effects citizens
High Strength Wastewater
Flow 3500 gpd
BOD 1000 mg/l
TSS 300 mg/l
TKN 90 mg/l
Avg field life < 5 years
ROI for treatment 1 yr
ObservationsClustering for prudent economies of scale
24 Septic tanks $60,0001 6000 gallon tank $12.000Difference $48,000
Quarterly O and M24 effluent points $28,800 annual per home $ 1200
Monthly O and M1 effluent pipe $4320annual cluster $180
ObservationClustering for prudent economies of scale
Distributed sewer
Infrastructure built by private sector
given to
public sector
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
ObservationCollaborate - Do Not litigate
Mediation through mission
Assess, Advise, Assure
To end litigation
and Reduce costs
ObservationNegotiate for sustainable solutions
An irony that created an industry
Bob Rubin’s five pillars
Innovative /alternative technologies
Natural systems science
Guidance documents
Alternative plan
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
5 pillars of sustainability
Reliable Technology for environmental results
Competent, trained certified operators
Competent management entities -public/private
Enabling legislation
Public support for distributed infrastructure
Bob Rubin
A PORTFOLIO OF COLLECTION TREATMENT
AND DISPOSAL TECHNOLOGIES
Distributed Wastewater Managementis an industry
A portfolio of technologies.Science of Soils and Natural systemsEPA demonstration projectsEPA guidance documentsWERF market illustrations
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
Planning as if communities matter
ICMA Professionals worry about
Water quality and supplyCommunity preservation Economic developmentRevenue
Water, Nutrient, Carbon foot printing
Assess Advise Assure
AssessUsing sewer ordinances
To cluster for economies of scaleTo eliminate property restrictionsTo pay for upgrade over timeTo affordably improve O and M
Proposing a uniform codeMeeting watershed standardsDoing something Historic
Assess
The tyranny of unintended consequences
Responsibility without authority is at least abuse - if not tyranny.
A sustainable future must be built on trust and collaboration.
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
Advise
The formation of constituencies such as ICMA, Associations of Cities and Counties and the Conference of Mayors to:
Propose legislation to create WaterResource Management Districts to institutionalize the principles of the watershed agenda.
Assure:
Legislators do their jobs
Place the Integrity of Environmental Health
in the service of realizing
The Watershed Agenda
Imperative:
“The challenge is not that of managing water resources as important as that might be. Rather it is that of ‘managing ourselves’.”
“It is necessary to work over, under, around and through the political boundaries that appear to constrain watershed perspective.”
G. Tracy Mehan
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2011 NEHA AECOWS1104 - Affordable Wastewater Solutions for Small and Rural Communities
Advise legislation for Water resource management districts
• Enabling not policing institutions
• Collaborative in intent
• Able to negotiate for a triple bottom line
• Establish a performance based uniform
integrated code for wastewater
collection, treatment, and disposal
under 150,000 gallons per day
Questions?
Craig Lindell
chlindell@aquapoint.com
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