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Water Headlines for September 24, 2007Benjamin H. Grumbles Water Headlines is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water. In This Week’s Water Headlines:
World Water Monitoring Day
On September 18, 2007, in Alexandria, Virginia, Assistant Administrator for Water Benjamin H. Grumbles joined participants in the kickoff event for World Water Monitoring Day. The event, sponsored by the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association, is an international outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world. World Water Monitoring Day is held annually between September 18 and October 18, the anniversary of the 1972 Clean Water Act. About 90 elementary and middle school students participated in hands-on testing of the Potomac River and visited a variety of educational exhibits from partner organizations including the EPA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Smithsonian Institution, the Girl Scouts, and others. For more information, visit http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org EPA Launches New Wastewater Web site for Small CommunitiesOn September 19, EPA launched a new Website to help small communities achieve and maintain sustainable wastewater services. This new site provides information about grants, funding resources, technical assistance and training. A variety of tools is also available on this website to help small communities plan, design, build, and maintain their wastewater infrastructure. Visit the Wastewater in Small Communities website: http://www.epa.gov/owm/mab/smcomm/index.htm. Follow-up N-Steps Webcast to be held Friday, September 28
There was a lot of interest in the last Nutrient Scientific Technical Exchange Partnership & Support (N-STEPS) Webcast regarding conditional probability analysis and how it might be applied. As a result, on Friday, September 28 from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, a follow-up Webcast Conditional Probability Revisited and Applied, and Aquatic Life Use Endpoints for Nutrient Criteria Development will be presented to review the technique and provide more examples of how it might be relevant for deriving criteria. The N-Steps center is a “One Stop Shop” for National, Regional, and Local nutrient criteria development. You can register for this Webcast at http://n-steps.tetratech-ffx.com/NTSChome.cfm If you are unable to access the N-STEPS site, you can also register directly through ON24, the third party Webcast provider. For more information, or to access that website, please contact Kristen Pavlik, 410-356-8993 or Kristen.Pavlik@tetratech.com Wastewater Operator Training ProgramThe Wastewater Operator Training Program was implemented in 1982 under section 104(g) (1) of the Clean Water Act. The program provides approximately one million dollars annually to improve compliance at small publicly-owned wastewater treatment plants with a discharge of less than five million gallons per day. Nationally, 46 States or training centers receive the funding and are able to assist, on average, about 700 facilities a year to either satisfy the NPDES compliance or improve performance. In the 2006 calendar year, the program assisted 659 small facilities and prevented 4.3 million pounds of pollutants from entering the surface water. For more information on this program, please call Gajindar Singh at (202) 564-0634 or email at singh.gajindar@epa.gov. 2007 STORE/WQX Conference to be held in Austin, TexasOn November 27-29, EPA's STORET Team will host the 2007 STORET/WQX Users Conference in Austin, Texas. This conference will be a great opportunity for water quality data managers, program experts, and information technology (IT) specialists to meet together and share information about STORET and the new Water Quality Exchange (WQX) framework. Water quality data management and program specialists of all kinds are invited to attend, including representatives from States, Tribes, Interstate Commissions, watershed organizations, academia, and organizations that are concerned with beach monitoring and health. For more information, visit the conference website at http://www.epa.gov/storet/2007conf.html. Subscribe to Water HeadlinesPlease forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA’s Office of Water. To subscribe to the Water Headlines listserve: Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: In the body of the message write: Subscribe Water Headlines first name last name (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe Water Headlines Robert Jones)
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