What's New!
Phase III Self-Assessment Checklist Updated!
If you are submitting a Phase III self-assessment report, please submit the updated Checklist with your report. The updates provide guidance for utilities undergoing major renovations. If you have questions, please contact Bill Lauer, Partnership Program Manager at blauer@awwa.org.
Partnership Conference in 2010 in Pennsylvania!
Mark your calendars! Planning has begun for a Partnership conference October 18 - 20, 2010 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Technical presentations will help utilities optimize water treatment plants and distribution systems. Operations personnel, including supervisors, managers, operators, and engineers will benefit from the program. Look for more information to come.
Aurora Water Receives Phase IV Award!
Aurora Water (Colorado) is only the sixth utility in the nation to receive the Phase IV Excellence in Water Treatment Award. The Partnership congratulates Aurora Water's Wemlinger Water Treatment Plant staff for achieving the highest level of plant performance that can be achieved in the four-phased Partnership program, and signifies optimized plant performance. Only five other water utilities in the nation have reached this performance level. The utility will be recognized at the AWWA Annual Conference in San Diego in June.
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Gary Zimmerman (left photo - center) presents Wemlinger Water Treatment Plant staff with the Phase IV Award at the Aurora City Council Meeting on November 24, 2008. The utility will also be recognized at the AWWA Annual Conference in San Diego in June.
AwwaRF Distribution System Optimization Project
A project is underway to develop criteria to define excellence in distribution system operation. The criteria will be the foundation of an optimization program for distribution systems using similar approaches to the treatment plant optimization program for the Partnership. A workshop is now scheduled for May 2009 to focus on the criteria and develop tracking software. The project began in November 2007 and is scheduled to be complete late 2009. If you have any questions, please contact Frank Blaha, AwwaRF Project Manager, at fblaha@awwarf.org. Look for more updates soon.
Partnership Newsletter Goes Electronic!
The Partnership newsletter has a new look. We hope you like the new and improved newsletter. If you didn't receive a copy, you can download it now. We welcome your comments and suggestions and hope you find the newsletter valuable. September 2008 Newsletter
Luncheon at 2008 AWWA Annual Conference in Atlanta
During the AWWA Annual Conference in Atlanta in June, 2008, Partnership award winning utilities were honored at a luncheon hosted by the Partnership and the Utility Quality Programs. Over 100 guests attended the event!
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Jim Fay, Partnership for Safe Water Steering Committee Chair(left); Cynthia Daugherty, USEPA Director, Office of Ground Water & Drinking Water; and Gary Zimmerman, AWWA Executive Director, welcomed guests to the luncheon.
Self-Assessment Template
A Self-Assessment Template has been developed by PA DEP to assist utilities in completing their Phase III self-assessments.
Online Course Provides CEUs for Operators . . .
This online training course through the AWWA Online Institute titled "Optimizing Performance Using Turbidity Data", has been approved by many states for CEUs granted upon participants' successfully completing the course. For a current list of states that have approved CEUs, check with the AWWA Online Institute's Web site at www.awwa.org/learnonline.
Operators from participating Partnership plants should find taking this course familiar, as the course content closely follows the procedures used in the Partnership's Phase III self-assessment. The cost for operators from participating Partnership for Safe Water plants is only $25 (regular member price is $60, non-member price is $90).
