DWP Staffing Updates Jed Hawes, Compliance Officer Jed Hawes,
Compliance Officer Bill Wallace, Compliance Officer Bill Wallace,
Compliance Officer Christine Blais, Assistant Laboratory
Certification Officer Christine Blais, Assistant Laboratory
Certification Officer Protect Your Source Take Your Samples
Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your
Drinking Water Safe:
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Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
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$200 Million DWSRF Milestone Celebration held on May 5, 2014 in
Gardiner Gardiners 2013 DWSRF tank replacement project pushed total
dollars loaned through DWSRF since 1997 to $200M Protect Your
Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes
& Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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2015 DWSRF 39 project applications were received totaling
requests of $38 Million Draft Primary List prepared with 21
projects with $19 Million of DWSRF Funding. Preparation on the 2015
Intended Use Plan and Final Primary List is expected to completed
in January 2015. Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain
Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your Drinking
Water Safe:
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2015 DWSRF State Match State Match November 2014 Bond
Referendum approved by Voters November 2014 Bond Referendum
approved by Voters $1.8 million total $1.8 million total $1.3
million for 2014 State Match $1.3 million for 2014 State Match
$500,000 for 2015 $500,000 for 2015 Balance of 2015 State Match
Available in June 2015 through the State wholesale liquor contract
Balance of 2015 State Match Available in June 2015 through the
State wholesale liquor contract Protect Your Source Take Your
Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep
Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Grant Opportunities Wellhead Protection Grants Wellhead
Protection Grants Up to $5,000 per project ($10,000 for exceptional
circumstances) Up to $5,000 per project ($10,000 for exceptional
circumstances) Source Water Protection Grants Source Water
Protection Grants Up to $5,000 per project ($10,000 for exceptional
circumstances) Up to $5,000 per project ($10,000 for exceptional
circumstances) Capacity Development Grants Capacity Development
Grants Up to $10,000 ($15,000 for exceptional projects) Up to
$10,000 ($15,000 for exceptional projects) Protect Your Source Take
Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks
Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Grant Opportunities Consolidation Grants Consolidation Grants
Up to $100,000 Up to $100,000 Very Small Water System Compliance
Loan Very Small Water System Compliance Loan Up to $50,000 Up to
$50,000 Sanitary Well Seal Cap Program Sanitary Well Seal Cap
Program Up to $250 Up to $250 Protect Your Source Take Your Samples
Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your
Drinking Water Safe:
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Land Acquisition Loans Purchase or Conserve Source Water
Protection Land Purchase or Conserve Source Water Protection Land
Contact Erika Bonenfant Contact Erika Bonenfant Protect Your Source
Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes &
Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Pace of Spending Unliquidated Obligations (ULOs) Unliquidated
Obligations (ULOs) Congress questioning the need for additional
funding if the current funding isnt being spent Congress
questioning the need for additional funding if the current funding
isnt being spent EPA is asking states to consider ways of moving
money faster EPA is asking states to consider ways of moving money
faster Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your
Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water
Safe:
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DWSRF Needs Survey Every Four years Every Four years 25 Water
Systems 25 Water Systems 2011 Needs Survey Maine has a $1.18
billion funding need over the next 20 years ($59 million per year)
2011 Needs Survey Maine has a $1.18 billion funding need over the
next 20 years ($59 million per year) 2015 Needs Survey starts in
Spring 2015 2015 Needs Survey starts in Spring 2015 Protect Your
Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes
& Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Compliance Topics Protect Your Source Take Your Samples
Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your
Drinking Water Safe:
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Monitoring and Reporting Sample early in the compliance period.
Sample early in the compliance period. Allow for lab analysis time.
Allow for lab analysis time. Analysis results must be submitted by
certified lab by the 10 th day of the following month to avoid a
reporting violation. Analysis results must be submitted by
certified lab by the 10 th day of the following month to avoid a
reporting violation. Monthly Operating Reports submitted by the 10
th of the following month- must be signed by the Designated
Operator unless otherwise approved by the DWP Monthly Operating
Reports submitted by the 10 th of the following month- must be
signed by the Designated Operator unless otherwise approved by the
DWP Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment
Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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NSF/ANSI Standard 61 All materials, products and coatings that
contact drinking water must be certified to meet NSF/ANSI Standard
61 Standard 61 requires compliance with the lead free provisions of
the SDWA Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your
Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water
Safe:
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NSF/ANSI Standard 60 All chemicals must be certified to
Standard 60 All chemicals must be certified to Standard 60 Sanitary
Survey Sanitary Survey Labeling on packaging and/or Labeling on
packaging and/or Delivery and manufacturer paperwork Delivery and
manufacturer paperwork Request to add or change chemicals Request
to add or change chemicals All changes to chemicals must be
approved by the DWP All changes to chemicals must be approved by
the DWP Documentation must include Standard 60 certification
Documentation must include Standard 60 certification Repackaging
on-site Repackaging on-site Protect Your Source Take Your Samples
Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your
Drinking Water Safe:
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Revised Total Coliform Rule Effective April 2016 Effective
April 2016 Non-Acute MCL goes away Non-Acute MCL goes away Requires
Assessments and Corrective Action- Fix and Find Requires
Assessments and Corrective Action- Fix and Find Protect Your Source
Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes &
Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Revised Total Coliform Rule Seasonal Water Systems
Non-Community Systems with less than 12 months of operation
Seasonal Water Systems Non-Community Systems with less than 12
months of operation All or part of the system shuts down All or
part of the system shuts down Annual Start-up plan Annual Start-up
plan Increased Monitoring Frequency - monthly for most seasonal
systems and some community systems Increased Monitoring Frequency -
monthly for most seasonal systems and some community systems
Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment
Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Revised Total Coliform Rule Five the Following Month Five the
Following Month Decreases to Three the Following Month Decreases to
Three the Following Month Rechecks Rechecks Decreases from Four to
Three Decreases from Four to Three Monthly Monitoring No Three the
Following Month Monthly Monitoring No Three the Following Month
Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment
Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Revised Total Coliform Rule Training Opportunities Training
Opportunities Opening for the Season classes Spring 2015 Opening
for the Season classes Spring 2015 Winter/Spring 2015 MRWA
Winter/Spring 2015 MRWA MWUA Utility Sample Site Plan End of March
2015 MWUA Utility Sample Site Plan End of March 2015 Protect Your
Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes
& Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Written SOPs The operator in responsible charge shall ensure
that adequate operational and emergency response procedures are in
place to enable licensed operating personnel to make appropriate
process control system integrity decisions about water quality and
quantity. Nate Saunders presentation at 2:20 Today Public Water
System Owner and Operator Responsibilities Nate Saunders
presentation at 2:20 Today Public Water System Owner and Operator
Responsibilities
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Source Water Protection Protect Your Source Take Your Samples
Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your
Drinking Water Safe:
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Source Water Protection DWP will produce list of community and
NTNC systems with populations of 250 or more that are not
considered to be protected systems. (this means no updated WHPP or
SWPP, or not implementing source water protection activities
identified in plans); DWP will provide maps of protection areas
(included updated maps for river/stream systems);
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Source Water Protection Consultants will be hired to update PSC
list for each PWS; Consultants will work with systems to create or
update SWP plans. This will include creating an implementation
schedule for source water protection activities and continuous plan
updates; Results will put systems in better position to be granted
SOC waivers or reduced monitoring under the RTCR.
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Elk River, WV Lessons Learned Presentation at 2:20 today
Presentation at 2:20 today Mike Abbott, DWP Mike Abbott, DWP Ted
Lavery, EPA Ted Lavery, EPA Mapping River Sources Mapping River
Sources Berwick Table Top Exercise Berwick Table Top Exercise
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Updated DWP Website Protect Your Source Take Your Samples
Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your
Drinking Water Safe:
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~10,000 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) leaked
from 40,000 gallon holding tank into Elk River Water intakes at
Kanawha Valley water treatment plant ~1.5 miles downstream of the
leak Do Not Drink Order issued to 9 counties, as many as 300,000
people
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Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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2008 Alamosa, Colorado: Salmonella contamination of the water
system Estimated 1,300 illnesses (almost 15% of population)
Groundwater sources- not disinfected
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Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Trihalomethanes (THMs) are a group of byproducts formed when
chlorine is used to disinfect water high in organic matter
Orono-Veazie Water District exceeded the federal standard of 80ppb
in 2012
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Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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December 2013: 1,900 gallons of heating oil was spilled during
an oil tank delivery at the Hebron Station School School placed on
Do Not Drink Order during investigation Carbon filters were also
installed as precaution
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Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Break in 20-inch water main flooded streets in Downtown
Portland Boil Water Order issued, affecting ~4,000 homes and
businesses
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Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Maine DWP - "Water Together for Safe Drinking Water" 2000:
Walkerton, Ontario 7 deaths and over 2,300 illnesses Investigation
found: Operators failed to use adequate doses of chlorine, failed
to monitor chlorine residuals daily, and made false entries about
residuals in daily operating records
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Keep Your Drinking Water Safe:
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Questions Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your
Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks Keep Your Drinking Water
Safe: