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Home My WebLink About02-08-2016 Legislative Meeting Agenda Orange County Sanitation District r + ""'r+,, Monday, February 8, 2016 Regular Meeting of the '` 8:00 A.M. LEGISLATIVE AND PUBLIC Administration Building AFFAIRS COMMITTEE Conference Room A& B 10844 Ellis Avenue Fountain Valley, CA rxt c+"" (714) 593-7433 AGENDA PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: DECLARATION OF QUORUM: PUBLIC COMMENTS: If you wish to address the Committee on any item, please complete a Speaker's Form(located at the table at the back of the room) and submit it to the Clerk of the Board or notify the Clerk of the Board the item number on which you wish to speak.. Speakers will be recognized by the Chairman and are requested to limit comments to three minutes. REPORTS: The Committee Chair and the General Manager may present verbal reports on miscellaneous matters of general interest to the Committee Members. These reports are for information only and require no action by the Committee. CONSENT CALENDAR: Consent Calendar Items are considered to be routine and will be enacted, by the Board of Directors, after one motion, without discussion. Any items withdrawn from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion will be considered in the regular order of business. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES (Clerk of the Board) RECOMMENDATION: Approve minutes for the Committee meeting held on December 14, 2015. NON-CONSENT CALENDAR: None. INFORMATION ITEMS: 2. PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE (Jennifer Cabral) 3. LEGISLATIVE UPDATE (Rebecca Long) 02/0a/16 Legislative and Public Affairs Committee Page 1 of 2 OTHER BUSINESS AND COMMUNICATIONS OR SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA ITEMS, IF ANY: ADJOURNMENT: The next Legislative and Public Affairs Committee meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 14, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Accommodations for the Disabled: Meeting Rooms are wheelchair accessible. If you require any special disability related accommodations, please contact the Orange County Sanitation District Clerk of the Board's office at (714)593-7433 at least 72 hours prior to the scheduled meeting. Requests must specify the nature of the disability and the type of accommodation requested. Agenda Postina: In accordance with the requirements of California Government Code Section 54954.2, this agenda has been posted outside the main gate of the Sanitation District's Administration Building located at 10844 Ellis Avenue, Fountain Valley, California, and on the Sanitation District's website at www.ocsd.com, not less than 72 hours prior to the meeting date and time above. All public records relating to each agenda item, including any public records distributed less than 72 hours prior to the meeting to all,or a majority of the Board of Directors,are available for public inspection in the office of the Clerk of the Board. NOTICE TO DIRECTORS: To place items on the agenda for the Committee Meeting, items must be submitted to the Clerk of the Board 14 days before the meeting. Kelly A.Lore Clerk of the Board (714)593-7433 Klomaocsd.com For any questions on the agenda, Committee members may contact staff at: General Manager James D. Herberg (714) 593-7300 iherberofa ocsd.com Assistant General Manager Bob Ghirelli (714) 593-7400 ruhirelli(olocsd.com Principal Public Affairs Specialist Jennifer Cabral (714) 593-7581 icabml(doad.com Senior Public Affairs Specialist Rebecca Long (714) 593-7444 rlong(Wocsd.com 02/08/16 Legislative and Public Affairs Committee Page 2 of 2 ITEM NO. 1 MINUTES OF THE LEGISLATIVE AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE Orange County Sanitation District Monday, December 14, 2015, at 8:00 a.m. A regular meeting of the Legislative and Public Affairs Committee was called to order by Vice-Chair Sebourn on Monday, December 14, 2015 at 8:00 a.m., in the Administration Building of the Orange County Sanitation District. Director Kim led the pledge of allegiance. A quorum was declared present, as follows: COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT: STAFF PRESENT: Greg Sebourn, Board Vice-Chair Jim Herberg, General Manager Tom Beamish, Director Nick Arhontes, Director of Facilities Robert Kiley, Director Support Services Peter Kim, Director Rob Thompson, Director of Engineering Lucille Kring, Director Lorenzo Tyner, Director of Finance & Administrative Services COMMITTEE MEMBERS ABSENT: Kelly Lore, Clerk of the Board John Nielsen, Board Chair Jennifer Cabral John Withers, Director Jim Colston Chad Crow Norbert Gaia Al Garcia Rebecca Long OTHERS PRESENT: Brad Hogin, General Counsel Eric Sapirstein, ENS (via Teleconference) Eric O'Donnell, Townsend Public Affairs Cori Williams, Townsend Public Affairs PUBLIC COMMENTS: None. 12/14/2015 Legislative and Public Affairs Committee Minutes Page 1 of4 REPORTS: The Committee Chair and the General Manager may present verbal reports on miscellaneous matters of general interest to the Committee Members. These reports are for information only and require no action by the Committee. None. CONSENT CALENDAR: Consent Calendar Items are considered to be routine and will be enacted, by the Board of Directors, after one motion, without discussion. Any items withdrawn from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion will be considered in the regular order of business. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES (Clerk of the Board) MOVED, SECONDED and DULY CARRIED TO: Approve minutes for the Committee meeting held on November 9, 2015. AYES: Beamish, Kiley, Kim, Kring, and Seboum NOES: None ABSTENTIONS: None ABSENT: Nielsen and Withers NON-CONSENT CALENDAR: Assistant General Manager Bob Ghirelli introduced Item No. 2 and Senior Public Affairs Specialist Rebecca Long who provided a PowerPoint presentation and overview of the 2016 Legislative Plan including: advocacy, legislative highlights and the OCSD Federal and State priorities. Ms. Long further provided a 2015 bill update and specifically discussed the efforts regarding SB 163 (Hertzberg). Director Beamish suggested and the committee concurred to add a statement to State and Federal priorities to support efforts to secure our water supply including water storage, water quality and availability. 2. APPROVAL OF 2016 LEGISLATIVE PLAN (Bob Ghirelli) MOVED, SECONDED and DULY CARRIED TO: Recommend to the Board of Directors to: Approve the Orange County Sanitation District 2016 Legislative Plan as amended. AYES: Beamish, Kiley, Kim, Kring, and Sebourn NOES: None ABSTENTIONS: None ABSENT: Nielsen and Withers 12/14/2015 Legislative and Public Affairs Committee Minutes Page 2 of 4 INFORMATION ITEMS: Vice-Chair Sebourn moved item 4 forward as requested by staff. 4. LEGISLATIVE UPDATE (Rebecca Long) Senior Public Affairs Specialist, Rebecca Long introduced Cori Williams from Townsend Public Affairs, who provided information regarding: California's fiscal outlook as reported by the LAO; Executive Order 8-36-15 which gives the State Water Resources Control Board authority to extend restrictions in accordance with the drought; public workshop regarding extension of emergency conservation regulations; Senator Pavley's hearing to address underfunded water needs; and WateReuse bottling education. Ms. Williams informed the Committee that the Legislature reconvenes on January 4g'. Eric Sapirstein, ENS Resources, provided an informative presentation regarding: Budget agreement between House and Senate; funding of water infrastructure needs; Drought relief bill update; and an update on H.R. 3353 (Hunter) Citizen suits. 3. PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE (Jennifer Cabral) Principal Public Affairs Specialist, Jennifer Cabral provided an update on Public Affairs community education outreach for the month and explained the process and decision making regarding participation at City/Community events that will be focused on for 2016. Ms. Cabral stated a draft plan will be provided to the Committee in March. Ms. Cabral also informed the committee of other proposed outreach efforts including: career outreach; educational and professional outreach opportunities such as: American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists, CASA Educational Foundation Scholarship Program, Gift of History; and media relations including published articles and a television opportunity for our General Manager and OCWD General Manager on the Discovery Science Channel. Vice Chair Sebourn also expressed his approval of the white paper presentations used for the Strategic Plan Update process as a method to promote OCSD. OTHER BUSINESS AND COMMUNICATIONS OR SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA ITEMS, IF ANY: None. 12/14/2015 Legislative and Public Affairs Committee Minutes Page 3 of 4 ADJOURNMENT: Vice Chair Sebourn declared the meeting adjourned at 8:49 a.m. to the next Legislative and Public Affairs Committee Meeting, February 8, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Submitted by: Kelly A. Lore Clerk of the Board 12/14/2015 Legislative and Public Affairs Committee Minutes Page 4 af4 LEGISLATIVE AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE Meeting eti 8/16ce TO ad.of Dir. AGENDA REPORT ItemNumber Item Number z Orange County Sanitation District FROM: James D. Herberg, General Manager Originator: Robert Ghirelli, Assistant General Manager SUBJECT: LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS UPDATE GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION Information Only. SUMMARY Staff will provide an update on recent legislative affairs activities. BACKGROUND The Orange County Sanitation District's (OCSD) legislative affairs program includes advocating OCSD's legislative interests, OCSD sponsored legislation where appropriate and seeking federal/state funding for projects. RELEVANT STANDARDS • Unified legislative advocacy and public outreach program • Build brand, trust, and support with policy makers and community leaders • Use all practical and effective means for recovering wastewater for reuse • Maintain collaborative and cooperative relationships with neighboring agencies • Listen to and seriously consider community inputs on environmental concerns PROBLEM Without a strong advocacy program, elected officials may not be aware that the Orange County Sanitation District is more than a wastewater treatment plant—treating and sending water to the ocean. OCSD is an environmentally engaged organization which recycles more than 50 percent of the wastewater.Additionally, to help meet the goal of 100 percent recycling, OCSD uses the byproducts from the wastewater treatment process to produce biosolids and energy used to help run the two plants in Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach. Page 1 of 2 PROPOSED SOLUTION Work with Local, State and Federal officials to advocate OCSD's legislative interests. Help to create legislation and grants that would benefit OCSD, the wastewater industry and the community as a whole. To assist in our relationship building activities, we will continue to reach out to our elected officials providing facility tours, one-one-one meetings, trips to D.C. and Sacramento. TIMING CONCERNS N/A RAMIFICATIONS OF NOT TAKING ACTION If we do not work with the Local, State and Federal elected officials legislation could be passed that negatively affects the Orange County Sanitation District and the wastewater industry as a whole. Additionally, this could affect our chances of receiving grant funding. PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS N/A ADDITIONAL INFORMATION N/A CEQA N/A FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS N/A ATTACHMENT The following attachment(s) maybe viewed on-line at the OCSD webslte (www.ocsd.corn with the complete agenda package: • Federal Update-ENS Resources • State Update -Townsend Public Affairs • Grant Matrix Page 2 of 2 RETURN TO AGENDA L11 �V RESOURCES MEMORANDUM TO: Jennifer Cabral Rebecca Long FROM: Eric Sapirstein DATE: January 18, 2016 SUBJECT: Washington Update Congress reconvened this month, setting in motion the second and final session of the 114� Congress. The legislative agenda is expected to be somewhat halting as Congress is planning to be splitting its schedule in a manner that allows for an extended summer break because of the congressional elections. Nonetheless,a crowded agenda appears to be taking shape in the run-up to the final months of the session,after the general election occurs. The following summarizes the status of activities of interest to the District. Drought Relief Policy Recent press surrounding the collapse of last year's drought legislation negotiations resulted in Senator Feinstein developing a new legislative option that is expected to be introduced within the next two weeks. As part of this renewed effort,we understand that the Senator will maintain strong support for funding of alternative water supply infrastructure, consistent with her earlier bill, S. 1894. As part of this,we anticipate that the legislation will authorize funding for projects that have carried out a feasibility study consistent with USBR's guidelines. If,in fact,this is indeed the direction of the language, it would be a positive development for the District,given its ongoing study. Under the Feinstein approach, we anticipate that the Secretary of the Interior would have the authority to fund projects without the time consuming process of a project sponsor seeking an authorization of project construction after satisfactory completion of the project feasibility study. 11Page RETURN TO AGENDA The outstanding question involves timing. It is unclear whether the Senator's approach will be considered as part of a larger western water bill that was under development late last year in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. At this time, our assumption is that any California specific legislation would likely be part of a western drought relief bill in the Senate. This would then require House review and approval,leading to a conference committee between the two chambers later this year. Of course,it is possible that any final resolution of a drought bill could be attached to an omnibus measure as an alternative to the usual process of passage of a drought bill. Water Resources Reform and DevelopmentAct Reauthorization Both the House and Senate committees with jurisdiction over water resources and the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers are in the process of moving forward in the development of a renewed WRRDA bill. Both committees have sought information on project needs and fixes to WRRDA 2014 in anticipation of bill drafting later this spring. As part of this effort,we expect attention to turn to the Corps'responsibilities for develop and supporting water supply needs as well as ecosystem projects. USEPA Celebrates Anniversary of Finance Center On the heels of Congress amending WIFIA (as part of the highway reauthorization) to allow the use of tax exempt securities in conjunction with WIFIA assistance, USEPA conducted a briefing to celebrate the first anniversary of the Environmental Finance Center. As part of this briefing, USEPA informed those present that it is moving forward with the creation of a new program to provide technical assistance to public agencies seeking to develop infrastructure financing solutions. As part of this effort,an enhanced priority to support public private partnerships is expected to be pursued by the agency. This priority is expected to support innovation in the financing of water infrastructure needs that far exceed public resources funding. President's Final Budget Expected to Focus on Water The United Nation is celebrating 2016 as the Year of Water and the White House is expected to support this designation by seeking a budget request that boosts support of water programs as part of the fiscal year 2017 request. While it is unclear which programs will seek renewed support,we expect that both the clean water SRF program and alternative water supply programs will enjoy support. The budget will be released on February 2. 21Page RETURN TO AGENDA USEPA Releases Clean Water Needs Survey USEPA published its updated analysis of the national need for wastewater infrastructure. The survey re-enforces the existing understanding that local communities'financial needs to comply with federal water quality standards,as well as general replacement and rehabilitation,continue to grow with an annual demand of at least$60 billion. Over the next twenty years the estimate of need is well beyond$600 billion. A copy of the survey can be downloaded at httl2://www.epa.goy/cwns/cwns Regulatory Reviews and Rulemakings The House passed the Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2016, H.R. 712. It was approved along an almost party line vote. H.R. 712 represents an attempt to add transparency to the settlement process where nongovernmental organizations (NGO) sue federal agencies and then proceed to engage in settlements with the applicable federal agency. Under the bill,an agency would be required to open up any settlement discussions to entities that might be impacted by such settlement discussions. The process would also require that any settlement would require review and input from the public. The proposed settlement would be subject to formal publication in the Federal Register for public comments. Action in the Senate is uncertain at this writing, given the strong opposition from the NGO community. 31Page T ® W N S E N D RETURN TO AGENDA PUBLIC AFFAIRS — TPA „a To: Orange County Sanitation District From: Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. Date: January 25, 2016 Subject: Legislative and Public Affairs Agenda Report State Political Update The Legislature reconvened for the second year of the two year session on January 4, 2016. All eyes in the Legislature are focused on the January 31 deadline to pass bills that did not pass out of their house of origin in the previous year. February 19 will be the next deadline as it is the last day for any new legislation to be introduced. On January 7, Governor Brown released his 2016-2017 budget proposal summary, which provided the first insight to the Governor's funding priorities including a Cap and Trade expenditure plan.This budget will serve as the first year of a three year Cap and Trade investment plan that has been set out by the Administration. The proposed General Fund budget is $122.6 billion—an increase of $6.6 billion over the current fiscal year. The total proposed budget, including special funds is $170.7 billion. The Governor is also proposing $2 billion be placed in the State's reserve, which increases the total amount of the reserve to 65 percent of the constitutionally mandated target. Before the budget proposal was announced, an economic outlook performed by the Legislative Analyst's Office indicated that the State is projected to have a multi-billion budget surplus for the next several budget years. These additional revenues projected in the FY 2016-17 budget, and the Governor's desire for addressing debt and reserves, will set up a spending debate between the Democratic majority in the Legislature and the Governor. In his budget presentation, the Governor had a clear message to the Legislature to not create or increase funding of permanent programs in order for the State to withstand a future recession. The Governor delivered his 14" State of the State address to the Legislature on January 21. The Governor spoke about the need for equality and vigilance in California, highlighting the unprovoked attacks in San Bernardino and the continued incidents of violence throughout the US. The Governor shared that global events impact America and that he wants to ensure the State is prepared to face a future which is partially determined and also somewhat unknown. In his speech, the Governor did not discuss any new programs or policies, but instead stressed focus and resiliency for current programs. The Governor specifically warned, as he did during his January Budget release, that another economic downturn is imminent and that the State must continue its fiscal restraint. He added that if we were to add up the State's deficits over a period of time, they would amount to 7 times of the surplus. Additionally, with another recession Southern California Office•1401 Dove Street•Suite 330•Newport Beach,CA 92660•Phone(949)399-9050•Fax(949)47M215 State Capitol Office•925 L Street•Suite 1404•Sacramento,CA 95814•Phone(916)447-4086•Fax(916)444-0383 Federal Office•600 Pennsylvania SE•Suite 207•Washington,DC 20003•Phone(202)54M696•Fax(202)5464555 Northern California Office•300 Fronk Ogawa Plam•Suite 204•Oakland,CA 94612•Phone(510)835-9050•Fax(510)835-9030 RETURN TO AGENDA potentially looming on the horizon, the Governor anticipates that revenues could potentially be cut by$55 billion, strengthening the continued need for the State's Rainy Day Fund. The topic of water is already off to a quick start in 2016 as Assemblymember Richard Gordon, Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Water Consumption and Alternative Sources, hosted a second informational hearing on January 21 to discover ways to maximize the use of water through reuse. As opposed to the Committee's first hearing where the topic revolved around expanding the State's water portfolio, this hearing focused on recycling the water we already use daily. The panel of reuse experts included representatives from cities, counties, private institutions, and water districts. The common theme expressed from the panels was the critical need for advanced water recycled infrastructure as well as the importance of public outreach when expanding your water portfolio to include indirect potable reuse and direct potable reuse water sources. Governor Brown's January Budget: Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Included in the Governor's Budget were proposals on how to spend Cap and Trade money to combat climate change as well as how to allocate additional emergency funds to respond to the drought. The following figures were proposed in the January Budget: • Cap and Trade—the Governor is proposing approximately $3 billion in cap and trade revenues for various programs. This amount includes the cap and trade proceeds from the current year, which the Legislature and the Governor could not agree on an allocation formula,as well as funding projected forthe 2016-17 fiscal year. The Governor's proposal continues to propose$1.2 billion in funding for several ongoing programs: high speed rail ($500M), Low Carbon Transit Operations($100M),Transit and Intercity Rail ($200M), and Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program ($400M). The remaining funding is proposed to be spread over a number of different programs that address Local Climate Action, Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, Carbon Sequestration, Energy Efficiency, and Petroleum Use Reduction. The Governor has also proposed using $150 million in Cap and Trade revenues on implementing the Safeguarding California Plan by using the California Water Action Plan as a blueprint. This revenue will be used to fund programs that reduce GHG emissions by saving energy through water conservation, and restore ecosystems to improve carbon sequestration: o $60 million for the Department of Fish and Wildlife to implement wetland restoration projects that result in carbon sequestration benefits, including habitat restoration projects through the California EcoRestore program. o $30 million for the Energy Commission to begin implementation of the Water Energy Technology Program (WET) to provide funding for GHG reducing innovative technology. The goals of this program are as follows: • Achieve significant energy and water savings • Demonstrate actual operation beyond the research and development stage • Document readiness for rapid, large-scale deployment in California 0 January 2016 Report 2 RETURN TO AGENDA o $30 million for the Energy Commission to implement consumer rebate programs for the replacement of energy inefficient water-consuming appliances such as dishwashers and washing machines. o $20 million for the Department of Food and Agriculture's existing State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program. This program provides incentives to agricultural operations to invest in energy-efficient irrigation technologies that reduce GHG emissions and water use. o $10 million for the Department of Water Resources' existing Water Energy Grant Program, intended to reduce energy demand and GHG emissions through local projects that also support water use efficiency and conservation. • Natural Resources Agency— The Governor is proposing total funding of$9.5 billion for all programs included in the Agency. Since the Governor declared a state of drought emergency in January 2014, the Administration has worked with the Legislature to appropriate $3.7 billion to assist drought impacted communities, provide additional resources for critical water infrastructure projects, and respond to drought-related wildlife emergencies. The Budget provides an additional $323.1 million on a one-time basis to continue immediate response to the drought. Emergency funding will go towards fire prevention measures, salmon protection, drought food assistance, unemployed farmworker assistance, technical support, and disaster recovery. The following funding adjustments are included in the Governor's Budget: o An increase of $64 million for the Department of Water Resources to increase statewide drought response efforts including: • $42 million for the installation and removal of a temporary rock barrier in the Delta • $12 million for the implementation of water transfer support, water supply modeling, and the operation of a drought management operations center • $5 million to provide emergency drinking water support for small communities including addressing private wells • $5 million to continue the Save our Water Campaign o An increase of $21.4 million for the State Water Resources Control Board for activities including the enforcement of drought related water rights and provide grants for emergency drinking water projects o An increase of $385 million in State Obligations including Proposition 1 funds to support commitments under the Klamath Agreements, the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, and the San Joaquin River Settlements o An increase of$100 million for Flood Protection in the Central Valley o An increase of $80 million from Proposition 1 for the Department of Water Resources to conduct Salton Sea Restoration projects o An increase of $3.6 million to implement an update of the Delta Plan that will include the WaterFix conveyance project o An increase of$6.7 million for research and data associated with preparing for dry periods, updating the National Hydrography Dataset, and Investment Strategies 0 January 2016 Report 3 RETURN TO AGENDA Draft Urban Water Conservation Regulatory Framework Amendments The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB)released their first draft amendments to the emergency regulations for urban water conservation on December 21. The draft amendments were a result of a stakeholder workgroup formed by the SWRCB to discuss possible changes to the emergency regulations. On December 7, The SWRCB hosted a workshop to solicit feedback from agencies around the Slate about the emergency conservation standards and their effect on local agencies. The hearing started with a staff update from both the SWRCB as well as the Department of Water Resources regarding California's current hydrology and conservation efforts. Five panels made up of various stakeholders throughout the state then gave their opinion on the conservation measures as well as ideas on how to make them better if they are needed in 2016. Many agencies expressed disappointment about various items, such as indirect potable re- use projects, desalination projects, or other water supply creating projects, which are not factored under the current regulations. Many other agencies spoke about the financial hardship that the conservation measures have placed on their agencies, and how the State needs to consider the financial position that face agencies throughout the State. During the workshop, the most talked about themes involved providing conservation adjustments or credits based on water recycling, growth equity, climate equity, and effective groundwater management. As a result of additional comments submitted to the SWRCB after the December 21 draft amendments were released, the SWRCB issued a second draft of the emergency water conservation regulations. The draft amendments released by SWRCB staff on January 15 addressed all of the major themes brought forth by the stakeholder working group. Staff recommends that all credits and adjustments be capped to allow up to a maximum eight percentage point decrease to any individual water supplier's conservation standard. Previously, the first draft amendments to the regulations on December 21 only conceded up to a maximum of four percentage point decrease to the conservation standard. Comments are due on this proposed framework by January 28, 2016. It is anticipated that the SWRCB will take action at their Board meeting on February 2 regarding the framework amendments. A summary of the staff proposed credits or adjustments includes: • Growth adjustment: Provide a mechanism to adjust urban water supplier conservation standards to account for population growth since 2013. The adjustment will be equal to the ratio of the additional volume of water used since 2013 to the baseline water use for 2013, multiplied by the water supplier's conservation standard. • Drought Resilient Sources of Credit: Any urban water supplier that obtains at least four percent of its total potable water production from a qualifying new local, drought-resilient water supply will be eligible for a four to eight percent reduction to its conservation standard. This credit will be equal to the urban water supplier's actual percentage of total potable water production that comes from a qualifying new local, drought-resilient water supply up to a maximum of eight percent. The credit will apply only to urban water suppliers that certify the percentage of their total potable water production comes from a local, drought-resilient source of supply developed after 2013, and that the use of that supply does not reduce the water available to another legal user of water or the environment(e.g., indirect potable reuse of wastewater in coastal regions where the water would not have otherwise been discharged into a water body that others use as a source of supply). 0 January 2016 Report 4 RETURN TO AGENDA • Climate adjustment: Incorporate a climate adjustment in the regulation that reduces the conservation requirement by up to 4 percentage points for water suppliers located in the warmest regions of the state(based on service area evapotranspiration (ET)).The climate adjustment would be based on each urban water supplier's approximate service area ET for the months of July through September as compared to the statewide average ET for the same months. The adjustment would range from a 2-4 percentage point decrease in an urban water supplier's conservation requirement. • Homeowners' associations: Penalties for homeowners' associations or community service organizations impeding homeowners from reducing or eliminating the watering of vegetation or lawns during a declared drought emergency, as described in existing Civil Code provisions. • Agricultural use: Further defines what agricultural uses may be subtracted from a supplier's potable water production total. • Updates: compliance and reporting timeline have been updated Notable omissions from the Draft Emergency Water Conservation Regulations: • Groundwater credits: Do not provide credit for groundwater use or management since this is not well-defined and is inconsistent with the goal of conserving the state's remaining surface and groundwater supplies during the drought. Groundwater augmentation is materially different than creation of a new drought-resilient source of supply, such as indirect potable reuse. • Regional compliance: Not recommended, has the potential to reduce individual water supplier accountability and there is nothing currently prohibiting regional coordination for education or media campaigns. State Water Use: November 2015 Despite Californian's lowest conservation percentage since the Governor's Executive Order in April, California continues to stay on track toward meeting the Governor's goal of conserving 1.2 million acre feet of water by February 2016. Total water saved in the month of November was 20.3 percent when compared with November 2013. The cumulative water savings from June, July, August, September, October, and November when compared to the same months in 2013, is now 26.3 percent. The SWRCB attributed the reduction to usual winter conditions, and explained that this does not create a negative trend. In November, the statewide average for residential gallons per capita per day (R-GPCD) equated to a record low 75 gallons. In November: • For June through November, the cumulative statewide reduction was 26.3 percent, compared with the same months in 2013. That equates to 1,009,387 acre-feet (328.9 billion gallons), or 84 percent of the 1.2 million acre-feet savings goal to be achieved by the end of February 2016. • Statewide, the average water use for November was 75 residential gallons per capita per day (R-GPCD), a decrease from the 87 residential gallons per capita per day reported for October. 0 January 2016 Report 5 RETURN TO AGENDA OCSD Bills of Interest AUTHORBILL SUMMARY LATEST ACTION . POSITION POSITIONS Proposed Legislation 2015-2016 AB 83 Gatto[D] Personal data. Current law requires a person or business that owns, Moved to Senate Inactive File. Watch ACC-OC-NYC licenses, or maintains personal information , as defined, about a LOCC-Watch California resident to implement and maintain reasonable security CASA- NYC procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to NACWA- NYC protect the personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, CSDA-Watch use, modification, or disclosure. This bill would expand the definition of "personal information"for purposes of these provisions to include any unique government-issued identification number, an individual's geophysical location, health insurance, or biometric information, or an individual's signature. AB 307 Mathis [R] Graywater: groundwater recharge Would state the intent of the Subject to the January 31 Watch ACC-OC-NYC Legislature to enact legislation to explicitly permit the usage of deadline LOCC-Watch residential, commercial, and industrial graywater for the recharge of a CASA- NYC groundwater basin or aquifer. NACWA- NYC CSDA-Watch AB 308 Mathis [R] Graywater: agricultural use.Would state the intent of the Legislature to Subject to the January 31 Watch ACC-OC-NYC enact legislation to explicitly permit incorporated and unincorporated deadline LOCC-Watch communities to sell graywater for agricultural purposes and agriculture to CASA- NYC use graywater for agricultural purposes. NACWA- NYC CSDA-Watch AB 356 Williams [D] Oil and gas: groundwater monitoring.Would authorize the State Oil Subject to the January 31 Watch ACC-OC-NYC and Gas Supervisor to require a well operator to implement a monitoring deadline LOCC-Watch program for belowground oil production tanks and facilities, and disposal CASA- NYC and injection wells,. Because a failure to comply with this requirement NACWA- NYC would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. CSDA-Watch This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. AB 581 Gomez[D] Water Quality,Supply,and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014. Amended on January 4th. ACC-OC-NYC The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 Passed Assembly LOCC-Watch provides that it is the intent of the people that, to the extent practicable, a Appropriations committee on CASA- NYC project supported by the funds made available by the act will include January 21 st NACWA- NYC signage informing the public that the project received funds from the act. CSDA- NYC This bill would require certain recipients of funding pursuant to the act to post signs acknowledging the source of funds in accordance with guidelines that the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency would be required to develop. RETURN TO AGENDA OCSD Bills of Interest AS 708 Jones-Sawyer[D] Consumer Products: Content Information. Requires the manufacturer Subject to the January 31st Watch ACC-OC-NYC of a designated consumer product manufactured after July 1, 2017, for deadline LOCC- NYC retail sale in California,to disclose the 20 most prevalent ingredients CASA- NYC contained in the product on the product label and on the manufacturer's NACWA- NYC Web site, as specified, including information if the product has more than CSDA- NYC 20 ingredients, and requires the manufacturer to list any ingredient found on the list of candidate chemicals, as specified, on the product label. AS 1139 Campos [D] Personal income taxes: credit: turf removal. The Personal Income Subject to the January 31st ACC-OC-NYC Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. deadline LOCC-Watch This bill would,for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2015, CASA- NYC allow a credit to a taxpayer participating in a lawn replacement program, NACWA- NYC as defined, in an amount equal to$2 per square foot of conventional CSDA-Watch lawn removed from the taxpayer's property, up to$50,000 per taxable year, as provided.The bill would make findings and declarations in this regard. AB 1144 Rendon [D] Renewable Portfolio Standard Program.The Renewable Portfolio Held in Senate Appropriations Support ACC-OC-NYC Standard (RPS)Program would allow public agencies to finance energy Committee LOCC-Watch related infrastructure by selling renewable energy credits(REC) CASA-Support generated by methane gas. Some wastewater utilities, such as OCSD, NACWA- NYC put methane to use for energy generation within their own facility. CSDA-Watch However, smaller facilities without the supporting energy infrastructure, under this bill would be able to sell RECs for credits under RPS Category 1, which is the largest category with the most demand for credits. Currently, unbundled RECs are categorized in 'bucket 3' by the Public Utilities Commission, regardless of their source. AB 1217 Daly[D] Orange County Fire Authority. Would, as of January 1, 2017, require Oppose ACC-OC-Oppose the Board of Directors of the Orange County Fire Authority, a joint LOCC- Oppose powers agency,to consist of 13 members, each serving a term of 2 CASA- NYC years. The bill would create the Orange County Fire Authority City NACWA- NYC Selection Committee to select 11 of those board members from cities CSDA-Watch that contract with the authority for fire protection services, as specified. The bill would additionally require 2 of the members of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Fire Authority to be members of the board of supervisors of the County of Orange, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions. RETURN TO AGENDA OCSD Bills of Interest AB 1463 Gatto[D] Onsite treated water.Would require the State Water Resources Control In Senate Environmental ACC-OC-NYC Board, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health,the Quality Committee LOCC-Watch California Building Standards Commission, and stakeholders,to CASA- NYC establish water quality standards anddistribulion, monitoring, and NACWA- NYC reporting requirements for onsite water recycling systems prior to CSDA-Watch authorizing the use of onsite treated water in internal plumbing of residential and commercial buildings.This bill would require onsite treated water to be considered the same as recycled water that is produced on site. AB 1473 Sales [D] CEQA: Would extend the time by which the Governor may certify Amended on January 4th ACC-OC-NYC projects as environmental leadership projects to January 1, 2019, and LOCC-Watch would extend the time by which lead agencies are required to approve CASA- NYC certified projects to January 1, 2020, in order for certified projects to NACWA- NYC benefit from the streamlining benefits. Because the bill would extend the CSDA-Watch time period in which lead agencies would be required to concurrently prepare the record of proceedings, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program.The bill would repeal the act on January 1, 2021. AB 1588 Mathis [R] Water and Wastewater Loan and Grant Program Would require the Introduced on January 6th ACC-OC-NYC Stale Water Resources Control Board to establish a program to provide LOCC-Watch low-interest loans and grants to local agencies for low-interest loans and CASA- NYC grants to eligible applicants for specified purposes relating to drinking NACWA- NYC water and wastewater treatment. This bill would create the Water and CSDA- NYC Wastewater Loan and Grant Fund and provide that the moneys in this fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature,to the board for expenditure for the program.This bill would transfer to the Water and Wastewater Loan and Grant Fund $20,000,000 from the General Fund. This bill contains other related provisions. Similar to Be 127(Vidak) AB 1590 Mathis [R] State Water Resources Control Board: Would require that an Introduced on January 6th ACC-OC-NYC additional 4 members be appointed to the State Water Resources LOCC-Watch Control Board by the Legislature. The bill would require that one member CASA- NYC each be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly,the Assembly NACWA- NYC Minority Leader, the President pro Tempera of the Senate, and the CSDA- NYC Senate Minority Leader. The bill would require that vacancies be immediately filled by the appointing power. RETURN TO AGENDA OCSD Bills of Interest AB 1649 Salas [D] Proposition 1,Water Storage: Would state the intent of the Legislature Introduced on January 12th ACC-OC-NYC to enact legislation to ensure surface water storage is funded and built LOCC-Watch consistent with the goals of Proposition 1 and that the commission fulfills CASA- NYC the original intent of the water storage project provisions of Proposition 1. NACWA- NYC The bill would make findings and declarations of the Legislature, CSDA- NYC including, but not limited to, that, of the water storage projects available, the Temperance Flat Dam and Sites Reservoir will meet statewide goals and provide those specified public benefits to the greatest extent. AB 1661 McCarty[D] Local Government, Sexual Harrassment Training: Existing law Introduced on January 13th ACC-OC-Watch requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified LOCC-Watch intervals, if the local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, CASA- NYC or stipend to those officials. This bill would additionally require local NACWA- NYC agency officials, as defined,to receive sexual harassment training and CSDA- NYC education if the local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to those officials, and would allow a local agency to require employees to receive sexual harassment training or information. SIB 122 Jackson [D] California Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings. CEQA Held in Assembly Suspense ACC-OC-NYC establishes a procedure for the preparation and certification of the record File LOCC-Watch of proceedings upon the filing of an action or proceeding challenging a CASA- NYC lead agency's action on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA. This NACWA- NYC bill would require the lead agency, at the request of a project applicant CSDA-Watch and consent of the lead agency, to prepare a record of proceedings concurrently with the preparation of a negative declaration, mitigated negative declaration, EIR, or other environmental document for projects. This bill contains other related provisions. SIB 127 Vidak[R] Water and Wastewater Loan and Grant Program. Would require the In Assembly Rules Committee ACC-OC-NYC State Water Resources Control Board to establish a program to provide LOCC-Watch low-interest loans and grants to local agencies for low-interest loans and CASA- NYC grants to eligible applicants for specified purposes relating to drinking NACWA- NYC water and wastewater treatment. This bill would create the Water and CSDA-Oppose Wastewater Loan and Grant Fund and provide that the moneys in this fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature,to the board for expenditure for the program.Very similar to AB 1588(Mathis) RETURN TO AGENDA OCSD Bills of Interest SB 163 Hertzberg (D) Wastewater treatment: recycled water. SB 163 was amended the last ACC-OC-NYC week of the Legislative session to address wastewater treatment.The bill LOCC-Watch would declare that the discharge of treated wastewater from ocean CASA- NYC outfalls, except in compliance with the bill's provisions, is a waste and NACWA- NYC unreasonable use of water in light of the cost-effective opportunities to CSDA-Watch recycle this water for further beneficial use. This bill, on or before January 1, 2026, would require a wastewater treatment facility discharging through an ocean ouffall to achieve at least 50% reuse of the facility's actual annual flow, as defined,for beneficial purposes. SB 661 HIII [D] Protection of subsurface Installations. Current law requires every Passed Assembly ACC-OC-NYC operator of a subsurface installation, except the Department of Appropriations Committee on LOCC-Watch Transportation,to become a member of, participate in, and share in the January 21 CASA- NYC costs of, a regional notification center. Current law requires any person NACWA- NYC who plans to conduct any excavation to contact the appropriate regional CSDA-Watch notifcation center before commencing that excavation, as specified. Current law defines a subsurface installation as any underground pipeline, conduit, duct,wire, or other structure. This bill, the Dig Safe Act of 2016, would declare the need to clarify and revise these provisions. The bill would define and redefine various terms relating to a regional notification center. Gut and Amended on January 4, 2016 SB 814 Hill [D] Drought,excessive water use: As introduced on January 4, 2016, this Amended on January 4th ACC-OC-NYC bill would require each urban retail water supplier to establish a local LOCC-Watch definition of excessive water use.This bill would prohibit excessive water CASA- NYC use under the local definition by a residential customer and would make NACWA- NYC a violation of this prohibition an infraction punishable by a fine of at least CSDA- NYC $500 per 100 cubic feet of water used above the excessive water use definition in a billing cycle. This bill would provide that these provisions apply only during a period for which the Governor has issued a proclamation of a state of emergency based on drought conditions. This bill would require certain information about residential customers that violate the prohibition on excessive water use to be made available under the CPRA upon request. OC c D RETURN TO AGENDA Bills of Interest N/A NIA OCSD, OCWD,WateReuse Bottled Recycled Water Legislation - Not yet introduced Support N/A Legislation to allow the bottling of potable reuse water for educational purposes. Legend: ACC-OC-Association of California Cities LOCC- League of California Cities NYC- Not Yet Considered CASA-California Association of Sanitation Agencies NACWA-National Association of Clean Water Agencies CSDA-California Special Districts Association RETURN TO AGENDA MD's Grant Funding Tracker Name of Grant Synopsis of Grant Amount of Grant Applying Y/N Project/Program Reason Deadline The P2 grant program supports grants and/or cooperative We do not fit within the guidelines of the grant. It EPA Pollution Prevention (P2) agreements that provide pollution prevention technical In fiscal year 2015, EPA anticipates approximately$3.97 states that the grant will be given to "state assistance services ortraining to businesses. Funded million will be available underthis program. governments,colleges and universities(recognized projects use P2 techniques that reduce and/or eliminate as instrumentalities of the state),federally- pollution from air,water and/or land. No C4P recognized tribes and intertribal consortia". 5/14/2015 The program promotes projects that"encourage the development and use of safer alternatives to The SRA funds projects that address: (1)climate change hazardous chemicals",and references EPA and DTSC mitigation/prevention of greenhouse gas emission by priority lists. The program guidelines describe EPA Source Reduction Assistance(SRA) providing technical assistance to businesses; (2)food EPA has a total of$1.2 million to award in SRA grants hazardous materials as chemical ingredients, paints, manufacturing; and 3 State or community a nationwide in FY 2015. ( ) y approaches solvents and pesticides on land and hazardous to hazardous materials source reduction. wastes. The guidelines give examples like assisting business to improve material practices that reduce the risk of release of hazardous chemicals during a No C4P storm. 5/28/2015 Integrated Regional Water Management Funding: $5.4 billion in general obligation bonds for water and Designed to encourage integrated regional strategies for flood control projects. $60 million for the Santa Ana Prop 84 management of water resources and to provide funding Region. for implementation projects that support integrated Appyling for the grant.SAW PA has recommeded Have been notified of water management. Yes Projects include: 2-72 OCSD to receive$1 million. Next phase: DWR award The Drought Response Program is funded under the U.S. Total program fuding$3 million. Award ceiling Department of the Interior's(Interior)WaterSMART $300,000.00 (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Program.The Drought Response Program supports a proactive approach to drought by providing assistance to water users to (1)develop and update comprehensive drought contingency plans Drought Contingency Plans,(2) The schedule for the project shows final completion Water Smart Drought Resiliency implement projects that will build long-term resiliency to in October 2020. USBR requires that the project be completed by September 30,2017(FDA p.45). Our drought(Drought Resiliency Projects),and (3) implement emergency response actions.This Funding Opportunity project does not fit within this timeline. Announcement(FDA)supports Drought Resiliency Projects that will build long-term resiliency to drought and reduce the need for emergency response actions. No. Projects include: 2-72 6/25/2015 State Water Resources Control Board provides funding Authorize$7.12 billion in general obligation bonds for Pry for the planning,design and construction of water state water supply infrastructure projects. $725 million recycling projects that offset or augment state fresh for water recycling and advanced water treatment We are looking at applying for the construction water supplies. technology projects. Yes SP-173 grant. Spring 2016 The CPUC's Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) Up to$1.4 million provides incentives to support existing, new,and emerging distributed energy resources.The SGIP provides rebates for qualifying distributed energy systems installed on the customer's side of the utility meter. Qualifying We are looking to see if the project fits within the Self-Generation Incentive Program technologies include wind turbines,waste heat to power technologies, pressure reduction turbines, internal specs of the grant combustion engines, microturbines,gas turbines,fuel cells,and advanced energy storage systems. In progress Aquacritox Ongoing Updated: Monday,January 25,2016 LEGISLATIVE AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE Meeting 2ngData To ad.ofDir. AGENDA REPORT /08/15 Item Item Number 3 Orange County Sanitation District FROM: James D. Herberg, General Manager Originator: Robert Ghirelli, Assistant General Manager SUBJECT: PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION Information Only. SUMMARY BACKGROUND Staff will provide an update on recent public affairs activities. RELEVANT STANDARDS • Unified legislative advocacy and public outreach program • Build brand, trust, and support with policy makers and community leaders • Use all practical and effective means for recovering wastewater for reuse • Maintain collaborative and cooperative relationships with neighboring agencies • Listen to and seriously consider community inputs on environmental concerns PROBLEM Many Californian's are not aware of the Sanitation District and the important work we do to keep the environment clean by using the wastewater byproducts to create energy, water recycling and the use of biosolids. Additionally, they are not aware that more than 50 percent of the wastewater is recycled and used to replenish the Orange County Groundwater Basin. In general, the community and businesses do not realize that when they improperly dispose of waste into the sanitation system, it can negatively affect the work we do and the quality of water we supply for the Groundwater Replenishment System. PROPOSED SOLUTION By providing tours, community outreach education and general communication via the OCSD's Website, Social Media Outlets and mainstream media we have the ability to educate the community, local agencies and businesses on the What2Flush program, Page 1 of 2 energy production, water recycling, biosolids and our source control program. This in turn results in a better quality of wastewater. TIMING CONCERNS N/A RAMIFICATIONS OF NOT TAKING ACTION If we did not educate the community, local agencies and area businesses about OCSD, we would lose an opportunity to educate thousands of people about our plants, source control, and the wastewater industry as a whole. PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS N/A ADDITIONAL INFORMATION December 2015 & January 2016 Activity # # of Guests OCSD/OCWDTours 7 177 OCSD Tours 16 262 Events 3 _300 CEQA N/A FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS N/A ATTACHMENT The following atfachment(s)are attached in hard copy and may also be viewed on-line at the OCSD website (wwwocsd.com) with the complete agenda package: • Outreach Calendar December 2015 & January 2016 • Media Clips December 2015 & January 2016 Page 2 of 2 OCSD Outreach Report - 1 2/2 812 01 5 Date Time Or anization/Event Location Purpose Attendee Contact 12/02/2015- 930- 1100 Plant Tour Room A CSULB Nursing to tour P1. Gina Tetsch Tour Guide Cheryl Scott Approx. 13 guests. 12/03/2015- 830- 1000 Plant Tour Boardroom Saddleback College to tour Jeff Armstrong Tour Guide Cheryl Scott P1. Approx. 30 guests. 12/05/2015- 800- 1000 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF Engineering to tour Mark Esquer Tour Guide Cheryl Scott P1. Approx. 20 guests. 12/13/2015- 1200- 1600 Speaking Engagement OC OCSEF Youth Leadership Victoria Pilko Speaker Cheryl Scott conference. Approx. 150 attendees 12/14/2015- 1000- 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom FLS International Paula Zeller Tour Guide Cheryl Scott Saddleback College To tour P1.Approx. 30 guests 12/15/2015- 930- 1200 Plant Tours Rooms A& B Dana Hills High School to Tom Meregillano/Eros Cheryl Scott tour P1. 2 Tours, 50 guests Yong and Leyla Perez Tour guides 12/16/2015- 930- 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom University High School Mike Zedek and Sharon Cheryl Scott group 1 to tour P1. Ying Tour Guides Approx.40 guests. 12/17/2015- 930- 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom University High School Mike Zedek and Sharon Cheryl Scott group 2 to tour P1. Approx. Ying Tour Guides 40 guests 12/28/2015 10:14:56 AM OCSD Outreach Report - 1 2/2 812 01 5 Date Time Or anization/Event Location Purpose Attendee Contact 12/18/2015- 900- 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom CSULB Microbiology Class Jeff Armstrong Tour Guide Cheryl Scott tour. Approx. 15 guests. 12/18/2015- 1000- 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation to tour Morris Ying Tour Guide Cheryl Scott P1. Approx. 6 guests. 12/22/2015- 930- 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Resident Tour, Approx. 6 Gary Conklin Tour Guide Cheryl Scott attendees 01/05/2016- 930- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom Dana Hills High School to Paula Zeller and Amy Cheryl Scott tour P1. Approx. 50 Stretten Tour Guides guests. 2 tours 01/11/2016- 900- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom Bolsa Grande HS Tours. Leyla Perez and Amy Cheryl Scott 50 attendees, 2 tours. Stretten Tour Guides 01/13/2016- 900- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom Bolsa Grande HS Tours. Amy Stretten, Cindy Murra Cheryl Scott 50 attendees, 2 tours. and Leyla Perez Tour Guides 01/13/2016- 1800-2000 Science Night Courreges Elem. Courreges Elementary Mike VonWinkelmann Cheryl Scott School School Science Night. Speaker 01/14/2016- 900- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom Orange High School Randy Kleinman and Eros Cheryl Scott Coastkeepers to tour P1. Yong Tour Guides Approx. 50 guests, 2 tours 12/28/2015 10:14:56 AM OCSD Outreach Report - 1/2 512 01 6 Date Time Or anization/Event Location Purpose Attendee Contact 01/05/2016- 930- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom Dana Hills High School to Amy Stretten and Paula Cheryl Scott tour P1 Approx. 50 guests. Zeller Tour Guides 2 tours 01/11/2016- 900- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom Bolsa Grande HS Tours. Amy Stretten and Randy Cheryl Scott 50 attendees, 2 tours. Kleinman Tour Guides 01/13/2016- 900- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom Bolsa Grande HS Tours. Ingrid Hellebrand Tour Cheryl Scott 50 attendees, 2 tours. Guide 01/13/2016- 1800-2000 Science Night Courreges Courreges Elementary Mike VonWinkelmann Cheryl Scott Elem. School School Science Night. Speaker 01/14/2016- 900- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom Orange High School Amy Stretten and Randy Cheryl Scott Coastkeepers to tour P1. Kleinman Tour Guides Approx. 50 guests, 2 tours 01/15/2016- 900- 1130 Plant Tour Room A Guozhen Environmental Mark Esquer Tour Guide Cheryl Scott group China to tour P1. 11 guests. 01/15/2016- 900-2300 Plant Tour Boardroom CMHS Coaslkeepers tour. Mike Zedek Tour Guide Cheryl Scott Approx. 30 guests 01/15/2016- 1200- 1300 Speaking Engagement Claremont Claremont Rotary Jeff Armstrong Speaker Cheryl Scott Speaking Engagement 01/22/2016- 900- 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom City of HB Environmental Ingrid Hellebrand Tour Cheryl Scott group to tour P1.Approx. 6 Guide guests. 1/25/2016 10:22:10 AM OCSD Outreach Report - 1/2 512 01 6 Date Time Or anization/Event Location Purpose Attendee Contact 01/25/2016- 1230- 1330 Plant Tour Control Center Operator training class Paula Zeller Tour Guide Cheryl Scott Auditorium tour. 01/26/2016- 900- 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom New Employee/Open to Ann Crafton Tour Guide Cheryl Scott the Public Tour 01/28/2016- 1500- 1700 Plant Tour Boardroom ACCOC to tour P1 and Jim Spears Tour Guide Cheryl Scott GWRS. Approx. 40 guests. 02/03/2016- 1000- 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom Beijing HS group to tour Ingrid Hellebrand Tour Cheryl Scott P1. Approx. 30 guests. Guide 02/05/2016- 900- 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom USC Tour. Approx. 25 Ingrid Hellebrand Tour Cheryl Scott guests. Guide 02/10/2016- 900- 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF Nursing tour, 26 Gina Tetsch Tour Guide Cheryl Scott guests 02/11/2016- 900- 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom San Clemente High School Amy Stretten and Eros Cheryl Scott to tour P1. Approx. 54 Yong Tour Guides guests, 2 Tours 02/17/2016- 1230- 1330 Plant Tour Control Center Operator training tour. Ingrid Hellebrand Tour Cheryl Scott Auditorium Guide 02/18/2016- 900-0 Plant Tours Boardroom San Clemente High School Cindy Murra and Randy Cheryl Scott to tour P1. Approx. 54 Kleinman Tour Guides guests, 2 Tours 1/25/2016 10:22:10 AM OCSD Outreach Report - 1/2 512 01 6 Date Time Or anization/Event Location Purpose Attendee Contact 02/19/2016- 900- 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Godinez HS Lisa Rothbart& Leyla Cheryl Scott (Coastkeepers)tour. 40 Perez Tour Guides guests 02/22/2016- 1230- 1330 Plant Tour Control Center Operator Training tour Ingrid Hellebrand Tour Cheryl Scott Auditorium Guide 02/23/2016- 900- 1030 Plant Tour A&B CSULB Nursing Tour, 15 Gina Tetsch Tour Guide Cheryl Scott guests 02/24/2016- 900- 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Hampton Roads Sanitation Rob Thompson Tour Guide Cheryl Scott District-Virginia to tour Pi. Approx.4 guests. r��7 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Vanguard University Gina Tetsch Tour Guide Cheryl Scott Nursing Class to tour P1. Approx. 15 guests. 1/25/2016 10:22:10 AM Monthly News Clippings G�JN�V S A N I TgT�Oy = 9 Q 2 c� o � FCTi� �E December 2015 OCSD Public Affairs Office Table of Contents CONSTRUCTION.......................................................................PAGE 1 December 9, 2015 Orange County District wins kudos for Brown and Caldwell-led Sewer Force Main Upgrade By: Business Wire Staff Business Wire GWRS...................................................................................PAGE 4 December 3, 2015 How Dow Chemical is turning Sewage into a refreshing drink By: Amanda Little Bloomberg News December 13, 2015 California's billion-dollar drought plan draws ire By: Mark Snowiss Voice of America December 15, 2015 Los Angeles, San Diego reshaping California drought Strategy By: Mark Snowiss Voice of America HYDROGEN CELL................................................... .................PAGE 29 December 23, 2015 FuelCell energy pathway for hydrogen from digester gas has negative carbon intensity for CA LCFS Green Car Congress TWITTER POSTINGS................................................... ..............PAGE $1 FACEBOOK POSTINGS................................................... ..........PAGE 34 December 9, 2015 Business Wire 6M.4.1_11- Orange County District Wins Kudos for Brown and Caldwell-led Sewer Force Main Upgrade December 09,2915 91 08 PM Eastem standsN Time WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brown and Caldwell continues to do its part in rehabilitating the nation's aging infrastructure, earning accolades for the Orange County Sanitation District in the process, after a BC team designed and upgraded two deteriorated sewer force mains in Newport Beach, Calif., along the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway. The pipeline project—one of the largest diameter(30- to 36-inch) installations of glass-fiber reinforced cured-in-place pipe (GFR-CIPP)that includes one of the longest CIPP liner inversion drives (1,013 linear feet) — has been recognized with a Trenchless Technology award for the Southern California district. Earlier, the project received the 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers, Orange County branch, award for Construction Project of the Year. "The design and construction of this pipeline rehabilitation project was considerably complex from a technical, environmental and social perspective," BC project manager Mark Briggs said. Benefits include extended service life, protection of coastal resources and public health, increased system reliability, and reduced risk of wastewater overflows. The district's 60-year-old Newport Force Main (NFM) consists of two parallel, interconnected ductile iron pipelines, with diameters varying from 20 to 36 inches. The NFM conveys up to 36 mgd of wastewater flow across more than five miles of pressure pipe along the PCH to the district's treatment plant in Huntington Beach. This project was essential for the district to maintain a reliable and effective wastewater collection system and to convey flows from three sewage lift stations in Newport Beach. 1 Briggs noted that"it has been a great experience applying advancing technologies for trenchless rehabilitation of force mains, which to date have lagged behind those developed for gravity sewer and potable water systems. Replacing under-capacity segments with upsized non-metallic HDPE pipe has also been key. Being a part of the OCSD mission to protect public health and the environment while endeavoring to mitigate a variety of risks and community impacts has been truly rewarding." Brown and Caldwell has led the evaluation of force main inspection technologies, developing inspection programs and providing condition assessments and rehabilitation design of force mains throughout the country. The firm is consistently ranked in Trenchless Technology's annual Top 10 Design firms list, and to date, has completed the inspection and condition assessment of more than 1 million feet of wastewater force mains nationwide. For the Orange County Sanitation District, more than half of the NFM system was rehabilitated using GFR-CIPP to reduce impacts to the community, businesses, tourism and the environment. New 32-inch HDPE was installed in a 42-inch microtunneled steel casing, and 150 linear feet of 24-inch HDPE was installed in a 36-inch bored and jacked steel casing to connect to the lift station. In addition, 32- and 36-inch HDPE was used to replace the balance of project piping using traditional cut-and-cover techniques. This is phase one of the two-phase project. Phase one focused on replacement piping, tunneling and rehabilitation of portions of the two-barrel system pipeline located on the south side of the Pacific Coast Highway. Phase two focuses on rehabilitation of the portions of the pipeline on the north side of the highway, which needed to remain in service during phase one, along with final abandonments and roadway restoration, and is expected to be completed in the spring of 2016. Brown and Caldwell performed evaluation, design and construction support for the project, with Kiewit on board as the general contractor and Insituform serving as a major subcontractor. About Brown and Caldwell Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering, consulting and construction firm with 45 offices and 1,500+ professionals across the country. For more than 60 years, our creative designs and progressive solutions have helped scores of municipal, federal and private agencies 2 successfully overcome their most challenging water and environmental obstacles. An employee-owned company, Brown and Caldwell is relentlessly focused on client needs, and brings all the essential ingredients®for a successful project and a standout experience. Service, great technical solutions, and innovation: these qualities were important to our founders in 1947, and they still are essential to BC and our clients today. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com. Contacts Media Contact: Brown and Caldwell Diana Leonard, 925-210-2216 d leona rd(cU brwncald.com www.brownandcaldwell.com 3 December 3, 2015 Bloomberg News How Dow Chemical Is Turning Sewage into a Refreshing Drink Inside the technology that cuts the crap from water. December 3, 2015 Amanda Little http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-12-03/how-dow-chemical-is-turning-sewage-into-a- refreshing-drink Snehal Desai shows off Dow reverse osmosis elements. "This is step one of the filtration process,"says Snehal Desai, struggling to suppress his gag reflex. "We call it the big-tooth comb." There's a torrent of raw sewage streaming through a channel below us at an Orange County Sanitation District facility that treats waste from the toilets, showers, and sinks of 1.5 million Californians. An enormous rake descends into the depths of the sludge and brings up a load of detritus�cardboard,wet wipes,tampons,marbles,toys,tennis balls, sneakers that can't fit through the screen covering the plant's intake. The flow that passes through has now begun its journey in an advanced purification process, and that's what Desai and I have come to see. This plant is right next to the county's water treatment facility, and together they perform a kind of alchemy, converting human sewage into purified water so clean it can go right back into residential faucets. The plants pump out 100 million gallons of drinking water daily, enough to supply 850,000 Orange County residents,which makes this the largest"toilet-to-tap"facility on the planet. For decades, sewage has been treated and used for irrigating crops,parks, and golf courses, but making it fit for human consumption requires a much more rigorous filtration technology using polymer membranes.No thicker than a human hair,the membranes are at once delicate and durable. Using 4 pores smaller than one-millionth of a millimeter, they're capable of wiping out microscopic contaminants. 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He's come to see his products at work in the plant,which has become a global proving ground for toilet-to-tap technology. Desai is 52,but even with his salt-and-pepper hair he looks a decade younger, wearing jeans, a pastel plaid button-down, and thick-framed glasses. The global business director for the water division at Dow Chemical, he pulls in more than $1 billion in sales annually. The membrane market is growing more than 10 percent a year in part because of increasing water scarcity worldwide and ever more pressure to develop drought-proof water supplies from new sources. "Recycled wastewater will probably be the single largest source of water for California over the next quarter century,"says Tim Quinn, executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies. "And it isn't just happening here—the same goes for many water-strapped regions of the world." San Diego recently announced plans to produce 33 percent of its water from recycled sewage by 2035,up from none today, and is designing a toilet-to-tap facility even bigger than Orange County's. Governments in Australia, China, India, Israel, and Spain, and throughout the Middle East and sub- Saharan Africa have developed recycled wastewater systems for irrigation; many are beginning to convert their systems to make drinking water. Singapore has the largest program, producing a third of its potable water from sewage. When you see and smell the noxious muck that courses into a sewage plant and consider everything it holds, it's hard to believe the purification process is even possible. It's harder still to accept that the end result can be delicious. "The purity you get from this process is quantifiably better than the water you get from traditional treatments—better even than some bottled water,"Desai says. "What flows from our membranes is essentially the Rolls-Royce of municipal water." 5 Dow Chemical is the company that gave the world napalm, Agent Orange, silicone breast implants, and plutonium triggers for hydrogen bombs. "If not Dow,then who?" Desai asks. The company has been a dominant player in advanced materials engineering for more than a century; it does business in 180 countries and has revenue of$57 billion a year. "The future water supply is a big-ass problem,"he says. "We've got growing urban populations, growing industries, and dwindling resources. Who can tackle something of this magnitude?You need patience and horsepower to come up with solutions and to scale them. You can't do that without big-boy company money." Andrew Livens,Dow's chairman and chief executive officer, sees only opportunity. "Communities and companies are increasingly realizing the economic value of clean water—and that's driving growth in Dow's water business at two times [the rate off the global GDP,"he says. There's one lingering hitch: the gross-out factor. Even given the desperation of drought, drinking your own waste is nobody's first choice. "Accepting recycled wastewater is kind of like being asked to wear Hitler's sweater," says Paul Rozin, a social psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania who's researched consumer response to toilet-to-tap programs. "No matter how many times you clean the sweater,you just can't take the Hitler out of it." That's certainly how I feel at the end of our tour of the Orange County sewage and water plants,when we arrive at a shining stainless-steel sink. What just hours earlier was raw sewage is flowing crystal clear from the tap. Desai fills two Dixie cups. "To the future!"he toasts. I shudder as I knock mine back. Somehow,there's no trace of the Hitler. The stuff tastes every bit as good as water that bubbles up from a spring in the Alps. I pour myself a second cup. The whole concept of recycled sewage might be harder to swallow if there weren't already so much sewage in the water sources we routinely draw from. The Colorado River, for example, a primary source of drinking water for Southern California, receives billions of gallons a day of treated sewage: More than 200 plants in six states pump their effluent into the river. The Mississippi is also inundated. By the time water gets to New Orleans, it's been ingested and expelled by people in more than a half- dozen cities farther upriver. "Very little of our water supply today is naturally pure,"Desai says. In fact, the very reason chemists created these synthetic membranes decades ago is that, increasingly,humans have been contaminating the water supply. Industries have emerged,meanwhile,that need purer water for manufacturing. Most major players in the automotive,beer and wine,food processing,petrochemical,pharmaceutical, and semiconductor industries,for example, rely on water purified by membranes. "Hyperpure water is how you get to precision electronics,"Desai says. "When you're making a microchip—if you have even one little tiny particle of contaminant from the water used to clean the components,it could fail." The membranes that do the hardest work—pulling out viruses,pathogens, and hormone-disrupting chemicals—perform"reverse osmosis,"known in the industry as RO. They simulate the biological filtration process that happens within our cells as fluids flow across semipermeable membranes. Imagine that a hole in the RO membrane is the width of a basketball hoop. On that same scale, a water molecule would be the width of a basketball,but a pathogen or a virus would be the size of a Hummer—it can't pass through.Nor can pharmaceutical residues,which on this scale can be as large as a Mack truck. 6 The most difficult thing to remove is salt,because it isn't suspended in water, but dissolved. That's why recycling wastewater is about half the cost of desalinating ocean water: Both use RO membranes, but the salinity of ocean water is much higher, so it's harder and much more energy-intensive to pump it through the tiny holes. The RO membranes we rolled up inside 8-by40-inch cylinders,thousands of which are stacked and networked together at the Orange County facility. Water is blasted through the modules with 1,000-horsepower pumps. Before the water gets to the RO stage, it must go through seven other stages of filtration. In one, it enters a"microfiltration"process in which the water is sucked through thousands of tiny,porous straws. In another, it's zapped with a purifying ultraviolet light. "At each stage of filtration,you're using methods that remove contaminants with lower and lower molecular weight,"Desai says. "Ultimately,by the time you get to reverse osmosis, nothing gets by but pure water." Traditional forms of treating water are much cruder. Instead of forcing it through membranes,most plants in the U.S. today use chemicals. When water is pulled from the Colorado River, for instance, chemicals known as coagulants and flocculants are poured in, causing particles to bind together, separate from the liquid, and settle to the bottom of a holding tank. The water is then removed and disinfected with chlorine. Another plus of the toilet-to-tap process: Sewage water doesn't have to be transported long distances. Almost none of the freshwater consumed by the 22 million people of Southern California is local, and the cost of importing it is climbing. Even though it's local and cost-effective,toilet-to-tap has been hard to sell to the public. Proposals for major recycled wastewater plants in Tampa Bay, Los Angeles, and Brisbane,Australia,have failed in the past two decades—shut down by public objection to the yuck factor. A key concern of critics is that wastewater could be more easily contaminated by a pathogen. Everybody in the water industry remembers the largest epidemic of waterborne disease in U.S. history: a 1993 outbreak caused by cryptosporidium, an invisible parasite that made its way into Milwaukee's public water supply. Almost half a million people were affected with uncontrollable diarrhea; 70 died from dehydration. The disinfectant chemicals used at the water treatment plant weren't strong enough to kill the parasite. Because of this concern, the Orange County plant is required to have an"environmental buffer."After it gets through the RO process,the water that I drank at the end of my plant tour must flow into a local aquifer and mix with that natural supply before it's pumped into people's homes. And yet there's no health reason why processed water can't be consumed immediately. "No pathogen, including cryptosporidium, can make it past the physical barrier of an RO membrane,"says Mike Markus, general manager of the Orange County Water District. "Nor can pharmaceutical chemicals or endocrine disrupters or virtually all other contaminants."He explains that as toilet-to-tap technology becomes more widely accepted, it will be cheaper and more efficient to pump directly into people's homes. 7 rl A model used for demonstration shows a cross section of one of the company's reverse osmosis filters. Photographer:Matthew Hintzfor Bloomberg Businessweek Desai is frowning into his grande black coffee at Starbucks. He'd asked the baristas to leave"room for milk,"but they filled his cup nearly to the brim. "This is one of those inefficiencies that drives me crazy,"he says. "Think of all the millions of people each day who dump out a portion of their coffee to put milk in because it's filled too high allthe water and heat and fuel and coffee beans that are wasted because of this negligence! Why isn't there a line printed on every coffee cup that represents a universal standard for `room for milk'T'He pauses, and his face brightens. "If you're interested in efficiency, everywhere you look there are opportunities." Desai has the kind of mind that chums out ideas so fast you can almost hear it humming. The son of Indian immigrants,he grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich.,where his father was a civil engineer for Bechtel. While a pre-med student at the University of Michigan, he decided he preferred chemistry to biology; he didn't like laboratories,but he loved business. "I was the guy who was the social chairman of my fraternity, and I worked my way through college as a bartender,"he says. "I wasn't cut out for a lab coat." He got a job at Dow after graduating, selling water treatment products to power and food processing plants. After a few years in the field,he received an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management,where he took night classes. He spent more than a decade at Dow, then got the entrepreneurial itch and left to help build the startup Natureworks, a maker of corn-derived biodegradable plastics. He took annual sales from$10 million to$100 million and then returned to Dow to head the water division. 8 a Ap hog r Unfurling a roll of reverse osmosis membrane. Photographer. Matthew Hintz for Bloomberg Businessweek Dow's been making water filtration membranes since the 1970s—at fast as a means for desalination. By the mid-'80s, it was selling water filtration products to Intel, General Motors, and other companies that wanted reliable streams of hyperpure water in their manufacturing facilities. Today,Dow is the biggest player in the RO membrane market,but it faces stiff competition from Toray Industries and Hydranautics. "They're like the Toyota,Ford, and GM of membranes,"says Tom Pankratz, a water industry analyst, "but Dow is considered to be out front." Desalination is still a huge part of Dow's water business. Its membranes were used at a$1.5 billion plant that opened this fall in Carlsbad, Calif, which provides almost 10 percent of San Diego's drinking water, siphoned from the Pacific Ocean. But given the cost advantages of toilet-to-tap, it has far more potential than desalination. Desai expects his sales will eventually tilt heavily toward toilet- to-tap. "When I look at my innovation portfolio now,pretty much everything in it has some connection to recycling wastewater,"he says. "That's the megatrend." The nerve center of the membrane industry is located in an unassuming metal warehouse in Edina, Minn.,just outside the Twin Cities. "This is by far the most membrane made under one roof anywhere on the planet,"Desai says. Tens of thousands of RO units are fabricated here every day. The membranes,which are thinner than tracing paper,are layered with mesh spacers that allow the water to flow through; they're then rolled into cylinders,wrapped in fiberglass,tested, and packaged. The process is automated. Each RO cylinder is cut,glued, and rolled by robotic arms that look like praying mantises dancing. "The robotics in this facility allow us to scale and build products that don't fail,"Desai says. "Failure in the purity of the water supply isn't an option. The membranes have to work. Precision is everything." 9 t r 7 1 < i Desai with a load of reverse osmosis water filters at the manufacturingfacility in Edina. Photographer: Matthew Hintz far Bloomberg Businessweek Desai is reluctant to disclose much detail about Dow's precision manufacturing;there's a blue line painted on the floor that I can't cross, and no pictures can be taken. He says Dow lost its patent on RO membranes in the 1990sa blow to the company but a boon to the larger industry in the long term, driving competition, efficiency, cost reduction, and scale. In that same period, Dow has increased its products' efficiency. A decade ago, each RO cylinder could filter 4,800 gallons of water per day;now that same-size unit can filter 6,000 gallons. "Ten years ago there was only one machine in this whole building the rest was empty,"says Max Fadeyev,a plant engineer. "Now it's jampacked with equipment running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To us, it's seemed like an explosion."In December, Dow is opening a second large-scale water membrane manufacturing plant,in Saudi Arabia. For now,Desai is focused on making membrane products for big industrial and municipal water systems,but he predicts the systems will eventually become smaller, serving communities and even individuals. Dow is also investing heavily in decentralized, at-home water recycling for developing- world markets. Bill Gates made a pitch for a similar approach in January 2015 when he blogged about watching a big pile of human feces on a conveyor belt enter a small-scale waste treatment plant built to serve a community. In minutes,the feces was converted into"water as good as any I've had out of a bottle," Gates wrote. "I would happily drink it every day." He's funding this "poop water"technology, as he calls it,developed by Janicki Bioenergy in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., for a pilot project in Dakar, Senegal;the self-powered plant treats and boils human waste, distilling the moisture into clean water. Desai predicts that all water filtration technology may eventually be this accessible. `It's Moore's Law,"he says. "What we're perfecting at a large scale, for big centralized plants, may become affordable and effective enough to use in a decentralized system,household by household, so that we each control and regenerate our own water supplies." 10 Importing water to places like Southern California and Texas has historically been cheap, but with climate change, extended droughts, and increasing stress on rivers and lakes,the economics of water are changing. Virtually every city in the world has to start rethinking the foundation of its water supply. "Not every city has an ocean, not everyone has good lakes and rivers,"Desai says. "But everybody's got sewage." 11 December 13, 2015 Voice of America VOA Voice of America California's Billion-dollar Drought Plan Draws Ire J'l b The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts'Joint Water Pollution Control Plant(center)in Carson,CA,with the Ports of L.A.and Long Beach in the background.The Metropolitan Water District would build a new purification plant on the she. Mark Snowiss Last updated on:December 13,201510:42 AM Political leaders in water-starved Southern California are headed for a confrontation over an innovative but costly plan to build one of the world's largest systems for recycling wastewater, VOA has learned. 12 San Diego officials are casting serious doubt on the proposal, which advocates say could provide the region with a secure source of drinking water even in the event of future droughts or an earthquake. The Metropolitan Water District, Southern California's massive water importer serving a six- county area and nearly 19 million people, partnered with the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County to develop the plan. By 2035, the project would purify up to 168,000 acre-feet (207 billion liters) of treated wastewater discharged each year into the Pacific Ocean and inject it into local groundwater basins before being pumped out and used as potable water. According to a still unpublished report obtained by VOA, Metropolitan's Regional Recycled Water Supply Program has a budget of more than $3.45 billion and projected operating costs of$2,300 per-acre-foot. "Those [operating] costs are about the same as the Carlsbad desalination plant [about to go online near San Diego] and significantly higher than wholesale imported water at $1,000 an acre- foot," said Keith Lewinger, an MWD board member representing San Diego County. Regional Recycled Water Supply Program e . e umu�u.+.n an � A Metropolitan Water District rendition of its planned$3.45 billion wastewater recycling program.By 2035,the system would move posted!water from the JWPCP(lower left)through hundreds of kilometers of pipelines to groundwater basins in 3 counties. 13 San Diego officials doubt a viable market for the extra water exists and question the motives of Metropolitan, the largest distributor of treated drinking water in the United States. "They're going to into this with eyes wide shut and wallets wide open with the goal of expanding Metropolitan's mission when every one of their member agencies are reducing their purchases [of MWD water]," said Dennis Cushman, assistant general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority. The dispute is the latest chapter in a contentious, decades-long feud between the Water Authority and Metropolitan over San Diego's longstanding contention that it pays exorbitant fees for water. A San Francisco Superior Court judge agreed earlier this year, ordering MWD to pay the Water Authority $231.7 million in damages for illegal rates Metropolitan charged from 2011 to 2014. MWD plans to appeal. Away from imported water In 1991, the San Diego region was 95 percent reliant on imported MWD water brought in via aqueducts from Northern California and the Colorado River. By 2020, that will drop to 26 percent as San Diego develops new local and imported supplies. 14 Increasing San Diego County's Water Supply Reliability through Supply Diversification 1.9.2E Estimated 2020 28 tAf 5% Ifl9.q� TAf 190 TAF 48 TAF 550 DO 32% 8% 9sx 27 TAr SO TAF S% Tout= 578 TM 26% 48 TAF " Proieded 2035 9919E Total- S87 TAF 80 TAF So TAIE SO TAF 100 TAF I s% 2, TAE 12% 30 TAF 19%_ %IS SO TM SSAE 20D TAF 7% I% 30% Im 5 % 100 Isx Total — 534 TAF Total -680 TAF "'apahtan waze.arnn meal wrf.ci,i er 1 Ill ■ Imli hrlaumn Di True ■ kwate R a l w,o ■ fta i,Reuse flncluJes J eormeprual aM planne8 prge0f) al A,Mnran a CoazMla Canal lmnp � CrouMwuer San Dwpp COUMY wafer Aulrony Tu-Tnaa..aa a<w-rrer tl The San Diego County Water Authority is rapidly moving to diversify Its water supply portfolio away from the Metropolitan Water District,which was virtually its single supplier as recently as the early 19901 In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has directed the L.A. Department of Water and Power to slash its purchases of imported water in half by 2025. "San Diego and L.A. are two of Met's top buyers," said Cushman. "Eighty-five percent of their revenue comes from water sales, and those sales have been declining." Metropolitan officials contend the project is not only needed locally, but sets the tone for diversifying urban water supply systems throughout the western U.S. "The purified water produced by this program would represent a new drought-proof supply to help replenish the region's groundwater basins, which typically produce about a third of Southern California's overall water needs," Metropolitan board Chairman Randy Record said last month. 15 But San Diego's scant groundwater aquifers provide a mere 19,000 acre-feet(23 billion liters)of storage capacity versus nearly 1.2 million acre-feet (1.5 trillion liters)for L.A. County. MWD's solution would make more imported water available for the San Diego authority to purchase as the project's advanced treated water supplements regional supplies. "Given our own diversification efforts, its preposterous [for them] to think our region would benefit from this program," Cushman countered. "San Diego is buying and plans to buy less water from Met, not more." San Diego County Has Very Little Groundwater rrr r rrr LA County Coastal Plain Basins 450,000 San Gabriel Valley Basins 245,000 6` able Orange County Basins 135,000 undwater2� Inland Empire Basins 439,000 In Storage Eastside MWD Service Area Basins 500,000 ce (AF) v San Diego County Basins 19,000 Still, experts cautioned against dismissing a project that would assist Southern California's move away from imported water. "With climate change here and more severe droughts on the horizon, we're going to need reserve water from other sources," said Stanford University's Richard Luthy. "You're banking water for future droughts so you can even out fluctuations in rainfall and snowfall" But there's another rub. 16 The San Diego authority is obligated to buy Carlsbad's entire output of product water for 30 years through a purchase agreement with Poseidon Water, the Boston-based company that built the plant. Similar deals between MWD, its member agencies and groundwater basin managers in the project's target area have yet to be worked out— potentially putting Metropolitan at risk, the report warns. Billions of dollars... That worries Lewinger, along with the project's potentially high operating costs. "If it's raining cats and dogs, why would agencies buy expensive water from Met when they're getting it from the sky?" he asked. MWD Assistant General Manager Debra Man said those deals will be discussed as a $15 million demonstration plant and feasibility studies approved last month are rolled out in 2016. Metropolitan officials also provided VOA with official correspondence stating that the cost estimates in the draft report were "based on very conservative assumptions which are now outdated." "It's in the range of$1,700 per-acre-foot and we're hoping to drive that down even more," Man said. MWD has conducted two studies over the past five years on the project, including a $1 million evaluation by the highly regarded engineering firm CDM Smith. "We'd like to understand what's changed since those studies were done that would drive down capital and per-acre-foot water costs, and what data and engineering studies will support the statement that costs will be so much lower," Cushman said. ...and miles of pipe Regardless of the final numbers, the project will shoulder huge distribution costs. Much of those cover hundreds of kilometers of pipeline and approximately 80 new injection and extraction wells, according to the report. 17 "MWD will have to get the purified water from our Joint Water Pollution Control Plant in Carson to groundwater basins located all over the L.A. metropolitan area and [neighboring] Orange County,' said Robert Ferrante, the Sanitation Districts' assistant chief engineer. Orange County's water and sanitation districts have run their own Groundwater Replenishment System —currently the world's largest—since 2008. The MWD system would be technically similar but much greater in scale. 0 b� iY Tasting recycled wastewater at the Edi C.Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo,CA,July 11,2015.Orange County wastewater treatment program is more than twice the size,while the Metmpolitan Water District's plan would eclipse even that. Both programs utilize so-called indirect potable reuse—where purified wastewater moves through a groundwater aquifer buffer before reaching those who drink it. "IPR costs are significant because the water needs to be conveyed to a location and percolated or injected into the ground," Ferrante said. San Diego officials welcomed the idea, but questioned whether Metropolitan was the right agency for the job. 18 "For us the biggest risk is that MWD has zero experience building, owning and operating a recycling plant and potable reuse project," Cushman said. "It's an expansion of Met's mission that's well outside its wheelhouse." But water experts say recycling into urban aquifers must move forward. "If a big earthquake hits north of L.A. and disrupts flow in the aqueducts, having extra water in the ground is critically important, said Luthy, who directs the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for re-inventing the nation's urban water infrastructure. "Met can't be the same agency in the 21st century that it was in the 20th," he said. This is the first article in a 2-part series on how California is reshaping its urban water supply systems in the face of the state's epic drought. 19 December 15, 2015 Voice of America VOA Voice of America Los Angeles, San Diego Reshaping California Drought Strategy 0 I Some of the 2,000 pressure vessels housing more than 16,000 reverse osmosis membranes at the Carlsbad Desalination r idol in Carlsbad Calif. Salt and other minerals are separated from the water with high pressure,making it fit for consumption. Mark Snowiss December 15,2015 7:57 PM Southern California's two great cities, Los Angeles and San Diego, are pursuing different but equally cutting-edge solutions to the state's epic, four-year drought. The extreme dry spell, called a 500-year event, follows previous droughts in the early 1990S that galvanized local officials to invest in pioneering water delivery and storage systems on an unprecedented scale. 20 Their efforts are thrusting the two municipalities to the forefront of a growing number of cities reshaping urban water supply systems in drought-prone areas from Australia to the Middle East to the American West. "The big story in Southern California is the move away from imported water to a more diversified supply," said Stanford University's Richard Luthy. Los Angeles and San Diego were built with massive water infrastructure investments— reservoirs, dams and aqueducts—that continue to bring water from Northern California, the eastern Sierra and the Colorado River, sources more than 300 kilometers away. But that's changing, as supplies dwindle and prices rise. "By 2025, we plan to reduce our purchases of imported water by half," said Marty Adams, director of water operations for the influential Los Angeles Department of Water and Power(LADWP), the largest municipal water agency in the United States. Now, 58 percent of L.A. County's water is imported, with 38 percent coming from local groundwater sources, and only 4 percent from recycling, according to a University of California- Los Angeles study. The numbers for the city of Los Angeles are even starker—about 86 percent of its water is imported. TODAY FUTURE• i011-SO15 Avarara 2035 Tent:513,5601nwfaet Px Vear Tatal:]1L000 AerafwlPx Yar ma Iw. A taw aw use 'EaEntabQYom Me 201P UMn Wtlx MdwpemeMRn The aty of Los Angeles currently imports about 86 percent of its water from sources more than 300 kilometers away through purchases from the Metropolitan Water District and via the LA Aqueduct.By 2035,imported supply Is projeded to drop to 57 percent. 21 Determined to change that equation, L.A. has embarked on huge wastewater recycling, stormwater capture and conservation projects. One of those, an advanced water purification facility scheduled for completion in 2022 at the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant, would add 30,000 acre-feet (37 billion liters) of recycled water to the city's San Fernando Groundwater Basin. The basin is located in the San Fernando Valley and supplies 80 percent of the city's groundwater. Los Angeles currently recycles about 8,000 acre-feet (10 billion liters) of water per year. Most of it is used to irrigate golf courses, parks and cemeteries and meet industrial needs through so-called purple pipe systems that carry wastewater filtered for solids and cleaned of some impurities. a A purple pipe feeds recycled wastewater to a holding pond to recharge an underground aquifer at the Orange County Water District recharge facility in Anaheim,Calif,May 8,2015. 22 LADWP is also in the pre-design phase to build the world's largest groundwater treatment center over a huge swath of contaminated aquifers, also in the San Fernando Valley. The area is one of the Environmental Protection Agency's largest Superfund pollution sites in the U.S. and contains scores of underground wells closed since the 1980s. The Valley is about 200 meters higher than the coastal area where the city's main sewage treatment facility, the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, is located. "If we did the same thing at Hyperion, getting the water back to the rest of L.A. would be incredibly expensive,"Adams said. "Our goal is to catch water as high up in the system as possible." That's why the city purchased a 46-acre (19-hectare) former landfill in the Sun Valley area and plans to convert it into an engineered wetlands park that will collect stormwater and pump it into those same underground basins. "The treatment center will recover the full use of groundwater aquifers lost to contamination and retain extra capacity to pump out the additional recycled water and stormwater we're looking to capture," Adams said. Meanwhile, L.A.'s conservation efforts are also showing results, according to officials with the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County. "We've seen our [sewage] flows drop 20 percent since 2005 together with steady population growth," said Robert Ferrante, the Sanitation Districts' assistant chief engineer. But despite the success of L.A.'s award-winning sustainable water management programs, the region's per capita water use is still twice as high as that of the average European city, the UCLA report says. "L.A. has a long way to go to reach the efficiency levels of countries like Australia and Israel that have a similar climate and lifestyle but use a fraction of the water we do," said Conner Everts, executive director of the Southern California Watershed Alliance, an environmental group. 23 San Diego bets on desalination San Diego's flagship effort, a Controversial $1 billion seawater desalination plant in Carlsbad, is set to go online by the end of December and provide 7 to 10 percent of the county's drinking water by 2020. Y - f Z, 7 rr -_ The Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Carlsbad CA,just north of San Diego,is the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western hemisphere and the latest one to come online worldwide. The ultra-modem, private facility—the largest in the Western Hemisphere—is seen by local officials and industry insiders as a counter to critics who say such projects are expensive, require huge amounts of energy and damage the environment. "All the inexpensive water is gone, and the new supply—especially if drought-proof and locally controlled — costs more than conventional sources," said Bob Yamada, water resources director at the San Diego County Water Authority. 24 "But Carlsbad's cost increases are governed by contract, and we expect the price of treated imported water to equal or surpass that of desalinated water in the next 10 to 15 years," he said. Concerns raised by environmental groups about the impacts of seawater desalination — especially open-ocean intakes and concentrated brine discharge—helped push Los Angeles away from the technology, Luthy said. Officials at Poseidon Water, the Boston-based company that built the Carlsbad plant, say their facility is state-of-the-art. "It's the most technologically advanced and environmentally sound desalination plant in the Americas and the latest one to come online worldwide," said Jessica Jones, a Poseidon spokeswoman. The San Diego authority is obligated to buy Carlsbad's entire output of product water for 30 years through a purchase agreement with Poseidon. For Everts, that's just one of many red flags. "Running a desalination plant is like buying an old Hummer [a large SUV] at peak gas prices, and being stuck with a 30-year lease [just makes it worse]," he said. "Beyond the environmental impacts, it's just a bad idea." Australia invested more than $12 billion to build six desalination plants, four of which were shut down in 2012 when their Millennial Drought ended. LA has groundwater, San Diego doesn't The most significant influence on the two cities' choices is the fad that L.A. County's extensive groundwater basins provide nearly 1.2 million acre-feet (1.5 trillion liters) of water storage versus just 19,000 acre-feet (23 billion liters) in San Diego. 25 a J' San Diego County Has Very Little Groundwater r , LA County Coastal Plain Basins 450,000 c, San Gabriel Valley Basins 245,000 l� vailable I Orange County Basins 135,000 roundwater 4 Inland Empire Basins 439,000 asin Storage Eastside MWD Service Area Basins 500,000 Pace (AF) I� San Diego County Basins 1119,000 Groundwater basins In Southern Califomla,with San Diego County In purple.L.A.County's total storage capacity Includes the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley Basins as well as the L.A.County Coastal Plain Basins. "We looked at desalination, but given our geography and available resources, we have a lot more cost effective solutions available," said Adams. In San Diego, the Water Authority is running an aggressive strategy to diversify the region's supply, including relining parts of the Coachella and All-American canals with water-saving concrete. By 2035, local sources are projected to meet 40 percent of San Diego's water demand, up from just 5 percent in 1991. MWD's giant recycling plans The region's largest and most ambitious water reuse plan is moving into a pilot phase after preliminary approval last month by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the largest distributor of treated drinking water in the United States. 26 The massive importer, serving a six-county area and nearly 19 million people, partnered with the L.A. County Sanitation Districts to build what would be one of the world's largest wastewater recycling systems. Regional Recycled Water Supply Program f O f ~ r'- e..� is awr � Watwr- a. ti rkareo.an.aMmpdn.n cos.,perat raurrC.rrn�no.rws n rmc....nn.eru.uaeerFlla Ayba•M$A �yaa�rb.„wrYTr,a ar Mw.nar.nanariraOra�ry.naom�ay .r�w� n.aw�,r.w�rarrrar..rw.vw ar,rtu.a.�a�uaanaanramau..,..rueaea.m>tarwr �r�r0li�l A Metropolitan Water District rendition of its planned$3.45 billion wastewater recycling program.By 2035,the system would move punted water from the J WPCP(lower left)through hundreds of kilometers of pipelines to groundwater basins in 3 counties. By 2035, the project would purify up to 168,000 acre-feet(207 billion liters)of treated wastewater discharged each year into the Pacific Ocean and inject it into local groundwater basins before being pumped out and used as potable water. For a look at why San Diego's water authority is fighting Metropolitan's innovative water reuse project click here to see the first article in this two-part series. LADWP, Metropolitan and the Sanitation Districts are currently discussing adding advanced treated water from Hyperion to the new system, pending its final approval. 27 "That's a lot of water to push backwards into L.A.,"Adams said. "The best opportunity would be to add it to Met's new pipelines." Orange County's water and sanitation districts have run their own Groundwater Replenishment System —currently the world's largest—since 2008. Officials there hope a final expansion, planned for the next decade, would eventually treat and reuse all the Sanitation Districts' effluent, about 49 billion gallons (180 billion liters) per year. The MWD system would be technically similar—forcing wastewater through the same reverse osmosis membranes also used for desalination —but much larger in scale. Both programs utilize so-called indirect potable reuse, where purified wastewater moves through a groundwater aquifer buffer before reaching those who drink it. Direct potable reuse systems that put recycled water straight into a treatment plant's supply have been approved for advanced treated wastewater in Texas. "That's a change, and it's being studied in California," said Luthy, who directs the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for reinventing the nation's urban water infrastructure. "Direct potable reuse has many advantages, including cost savings by circumventing injection into the ground or discharge to a reservoir," he said. "In the coming years, we'll likely see some version of that." This is the second article in a two-part series on how California is reshaping its urban water supply systems in the face of the state's epic drought. Click 28 December 23, 2015 Green Car Congress Green Car Congress F.faV h/bA iPS,CS@Hdlyd Al6�6rnrt�rrblrrw�iildr Fue1Ce11 Energy pathway for hydrogen from digester gas has negative carbon intensity for CA LCFS 23 December 2015 Connecticut-based FuelCell Energy (FCE) has applied for a prospective pathway for California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for the production of hydrogen fuel produced from biogas derived from the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge at a publicly owned treatment works (POTW). The biogas is cleaned, then internally reformed in an integrated hydrogen energy system (Tri-Gen DFC) that produces hydrogen fuel for transportation; electric power for plant operations and export; as well as thermal energy for plant use. Once the internal energy demands of the pathway have been met, any energy not utilized for process is considered to be surplus to the system boundary and is credited to the FCE pathway. The Tri-Gen DFC system is expected to generate 1,270 kilogram per day of hydrogen fuel which would be used as a transportation fuel; 2,250kW of electric power; and 2 million Btus of thermal energy. The electrical energy produced is the net electricity after subtracting the parasitic load of the Tri-Gen DFC system (705 kW). The FCE pathway is dependent upon an allocation of 44% of the biogas yield; the rest of the biogas being sent to the CHP system (business as usual). All of the thermal energy, and part of the electrical energy will be used to meet the energy demands of the process units constrained within the system boundary 29 established for the FCE pathway. The hydrogen fuel produced will be distributed to the nearby hydrogen stations following the hub and spoke distribution model. PROPOSED SYSTEM BOUNDARY AND BLOCK FLOW DIAGRAM FCE PATHWAY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN FROM DIGESTER GAS WASTEWATER SLUDGE NFLOW TO DIGESTERS ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS CENTRIFUGE BIOSOUIS AVOIDED iLMING CREDIT BIOGAS PROWCTIOM LANDIRU OR LAND APPLICATION BIOGAS REFINING ALLOCATION OF BIOGAS dIP TRI-GEN me SURPLUS ELECTRICRY ELECTRICRYAND HYDROGEN FUEL EXPORT THERMAL ENERGY i dSPLACEMEIT OF GRID i THERMAL ENERGYFOR POWER DIGESTERS OFF-SRE H2 RENEllA3 Source ARB.Click to enlarge. FCE proposes that the carbon intensity (CI) of the hydrogen is -0.82 gCO2e/MJ. ARB Staff is recommending approval of the proposed process as a prospective pathway; i.e., no LCFS credits can be claimed until the company supplies more operational data, and ARB staff completes an updated lifecycle analysis. The FCE Tri-Gen DFC system was until recently operational at the Orange County Sanitation District Plant #1 (120 mgd) (OCSD), and was producing hydrogen, electric power, as well as thermal energy in a test project to demonstrate the economic and technical viability of high temperature fuel cells employed at CHP units. The proposed pathway is based upon the three-year demonstration project at OCSD. 30 December 2015 MD Tweets Twitter Posts for December 2015 Tweeted 7 times, Re-tweeted 2 times 1. Julie Sore follows gQiOC Sewers @OC_Sewers Dec 23 The administrative offices of the Orange County Sanitation District will be closed 12/24-12/25. Happy Holidays! pic.twitter.com/21DFknnYtT 2. ' ® Water Allies@waterallies Dec22 Water Allies Retweeted WSSC Water News @SFWater @OC_Sewers#SewerSystems @neorsd @sewer#waterallies hftps://twitter.com/WSSCWaterNews/status/679386109961445376 ... Water Allies added, WSSC Water News @WSSCWaterNews On hold? Customers have 3 ways to report a water or sewer problem to#WSSC . http://ow.ly/i/flyUo 31 3. 6 OC Sewers @OC_Sewers Dec zz The Orange County Sanitation District is hiring! Take a look at our latest job vacancies: http://www.ocsd.com/about-ocsd/jobs/job-openings ... 4. OC Sewers @OC_Sewers Dec 21 eoss000nm Happy Holidays from the Orange County Sanitation District! pic.twitter.com/GHCGDwZgVT 5. Snehal Desai @snedesai Deco Snehal Desai Retweeted Businessweek Thanks @littletrip for checking out @OC_Sewers with me hftps://twitter.com/BW/status/672549488991932416 ... Snehal Desai added, 32 AU IL] Businessweek@BW How Dow Chemical cuts the crap, literally, from sullied water hftp://bloom.bg/1 NJhb4B pic.twitter.com/8kjnk3Flzd 6. ffownsend PA @TownsendPA1 Dec TPA is honored to continue to provide legislative and funding advocacy to @OC_Sewers. Proud to serve the District! pic.twitter.com/JngYQJvao4 7. Julie Sone follows 6 OC Sewers @OC_Sewers Dec t Thank you San Hertzberg @hertzieLA for meeting with @OC_Sewers GM to discuss the future of water reuse in California pic.twitter.com/OsTtWgBwRC 33 December 2015 OCSD Facebook Postings Facebook Posts for December 2015 Posted 15 times and Re-Shared 5 times Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - December 23 at 4:10pm The administrative offices of the Orange County Sanitation District will be closed Thursday, December 24- Friday, December 25. Have a safe and happy holiday! 35 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - December 22 at 8:25am The Orange County Sanitation District is hiring! Take a look at some of our latest job openings: http://www.ocsd.com/about-ocsd/jobs/job-openings Orange County Sanitation District : Job Openings 12 people reached 34 Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - December 21 at 10:01 am Happy Holidays from the Orange County Sanitation District. f Orange County Sanitation District Published by Jennifer Cabral - December 20 at 9:55am Looking for a construction inspector.Do you know anyone?Please share. http://ocsd.com/about-ocsd/jobs/job-openings Orange County Sanitation District : Job Openings g people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Jennifer Cabral - December 16 at 5:54pm Two new great opportunities are now avaialble at OCSD. We are looking for an engineering intern and a lead mechanic. Check it out. http://www.ocsd.com/about-ocsd/jobs/job-openings Orange County Sanitation District : Job Openings 35 770 people reached 10 Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - December 15 at 3:14pm Thank you to Ms. Dolores Dang-Wright and her AP Environmental Science class at Dana Hills High School for visiting us today! 71 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Rebecca Gorelick Long - December 11 at 2:37pm We're currently accepting applications for the position of Information Technology Analyst III. If you're interested please apply. http://agency.govemmentjobs.com/ocsd/default.eftn... agency.govemmentjobs.com You can apply online by clicking on the job title you are interested in and clicking on the "Apply" link. If this is the first time you are applying using our online job application,you will need to create an account and select a Usemame and Password. If you previously had an account on our old sy... agency.govemmentjobs.com 27 people reached 36 Orange County Sanitation District added 5 new photos. Published by Jennifer Cabral - December 11 at 3:53am Collections team prepares and supports Darren Schuler entering a regional sewer trunkline in the City of Santa Ana to divert wastewater flow. This effort is in support of the Sunflower Trunkline Sewer Assessment. 'll a J i 33 people reached 37 Orange County Sanitation District added 2 new photos. Published by Jennifer Cabral - December 11 at 2:55am Collections staff,Brent Hall and Lia Togia managing wastewater flow at Bitter Point Pump Station while cured in place pipe is installed for the Newport Force Main Project. 151 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Jennifer Cabral - December 11 at 1:54am OCSD's Electrician, Rueben Manriquez conducting a shutdown in order for instrumentation, engineering&collections staff to do necessary work for the Newport Force Main project. 38 157 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Jennifer Cabral - December 9 at 1:36pm OCSD's Newport Force Main Project recognized for the design and construction of what is considered to be a considerably complex project from a technical, environmental and social perspective. !E Orange County District Wins Kudos for Brown and Caldwell-led Sewer Force Main Upgrade Business... Brown and Caldwell-led design and upgrade of two deteriorated sewer force mains in Newport Beach,... businesswire.com 389 people reached 39 Orange County Sanitation District Published by Jennifer Cabral - December 8 at 4:09pm - Fountain Valley, CA We are looking for new people to join our team. Currently available: Contracts Administrator,Public Affairs Interns, and Lead Mechanic. http://www.ocsd.com/about-ocsd/jobs/job-opmings Orange County Sanitation District : Job Openings 543 people reached 10 Orange County Sanitation District Published by Rebecca Gorelick Long - December 7 at 12:55pm Did You Know: The Orange County Sanitation District receives 187 million gallons of wastewater on an average day. But, during a heavy rain event that number can almost triple! Here's how we're preparing for potential heavy rains. #E1Nino bit.ly/1QrJWSj Orange County Sanitation District is Preparing for El Nino During periods of heavy rain, such as an El Nino,wastewater flow can significantly increase from water trickling into our sewer lines through manhole covers,pipe joints, and small cracks in the sewer system caused by normal aging,which can overwhelm our sewer system. ocsewers.com 377 people reached 10 Orange County Sanitation District shared Bloomberg Business's post. Published by Jennifer Cabral - December 4 at 4:21pm Ajoint project by#OCWD and#OCSanitation continues to make the news. Thank you Bloomberg Business for the article. 40 Bloomberg BusinessLike Page December 3 at 8:OOam He cuts the crap from water. e Meet the Man Turning Sewage Into a Refreshing Drink From your toilet to your sink. bloomberg.com 140 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Rebecca Gorelick Long - December 1 at 3:1 Opm Today, OCSD General Manager Jim Herberg met with Senator Bob Hertzberg to discuss the future of water recycling in California. 271 people reached 41 Monthly News Clippings G�JN�V S A N I TgT�Oy = 9 Q 2 c� o � FCTi� �E January 2016 OCSD Public Affairs Office Table of Contents HYDROGEN CELL................................................... .................PAGE 1 January 14, 2016 Renewable Hydrogen from Tri-Generation Fuel Cells Included Under California Low Carbon Fuel Standard By: BIZ Wire Express Staff Biz Wire January 19, 2016 Renewable hydrogen included under Californian LCFS By: Fuel Cell Energy Inc. Staff Fuel Cell Energy Inc. MICROBEADS................................................... .......................PAGE 7 December 28, 2015 Obama signs ban on microbead pollution By: Garret Ellison M Live Media Group WHAT21FLUSH.........................................................................PAGE 14 January 19, 2016 A Toilet is not a trashcan, says NACWA By: Sharon Verbeten TPO—Treatment Plant Operator TWITTER POSTINGS................................................... ..............PAGE 16 FACEBOOK POSTINGS................................................... ..........PAGE 20 January 14, 2016 BizWire Express INZWke Owen Renewable Hydrogen From Tri-Generation Fuel Cells Included Under California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) GlobeNewswire 2016-01-14 DANBURY, Conn., Jan. 14, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCEL), a global leader in the design, manufacture, operation and service of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, has received contingent certification for a prospective pathway for its renewable hydrogen generation solution using fuel cells at wastewater treatment facilities under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), administered by the California Air Resources Board (CARE). Under the LCFS, certified pathways define the carbon intensity of various types of alternative fuels. The new tri-generation pathway has a remarkable negative carbon intensity, meaning that a vehicle using hydrogen fuel from tri-generation is not only carbon free, but in fact is offsetting carbon emissions compared to alternatives. Production of renewable hydrogen from megawatt-class FuelCell Energy power plants provides a transportation fuel for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) that is generated in a carbon-neutral and non- polluting process. The inclusion of tri-generation FuelCell Energy power plants in the LCFS Credit Market means that each kilogram of renewable hydrogen supplied for vehicle fueling is eligible for an LCFS credit that can be sold or traded to offset carbon-intensive petroleum fuel usage. Final certification is expected following a specified period of operation and review of performance data of a megawatt-class tri-generation system utilizing renewable biogas as the fuel source. "Our commercial solution for generating hydrogen is technologically, operationally and financially superior to conventional hydrogen generation alternatives and our ability to generate renewable hydrogen affordably and with private capital is a game-changer that addresses the challenges faced by regulators and auto manufacturers," said Chip Bottone, Chief Executive Officer, FuelCell Energy, Inc. "The key aspect of supporting the hydrogen infrastructure necessary for widespread fuel cell electric vehicle adoption is a clean and carbon- friendly solution that is priced competitively to the cost of gasoline, which is what we can deliver." J LCFS, established in 2007 through a Governor's Executive Order, requires producers of petroleum-based fuels to reduce the carbon intensity of their products, beginning with a quarter of a percent in 2011 culminating in a 10 percent total reduction by 2020. Petroleum importers, refiners and wholesalers can either develop their own low carbon fuel products, or buy LCFS Credits from other companies that develop and sell low carbon alternative fuels, such as renewable hydrogen from tri-generation fuel cell plants. California Senate Bill 1505 directs CARB to develop regulations that ensure the production of hydrogen for transportation use is undertaken in a manner that is consistent with environmental goals. "CARB's team performed a complete Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) on our tri- generation system and determined that we have a negative carbon footprint, as our power and hydrogen generation process is net carbon-neutral due to the use of renewable biogas, and is a cleaner use of the biogas compared to alternatives," said Tony Leo, Vice President Application Engineering & Advanced Technology Development, FuelCell Energy, Inc. "This means that overall, we are negative carbon emitters; a superior result in comparison to other hydrogen generation technologies such as electrolysis or traditional steam reforming." "While the LCFS standard is focused on carbon emissions, it is also notable that tri-generation produces hydrogen without using water, which is consumed in both electrolysis and conventional steam methane reforming. Trigeneration uses waste heat and water byproducts produced by the fuel cell during power generation to make hydrogen efficiently and without the need for external water consumption, which is increasingly a concern in certain regions, including California," continued Mr. Leo. This LCFS prospective pathway certification is based on the success of a three- year tri-generation project at the Orange County Sanitation District in California. A FuelCell Energy tri-generation fuel cell system produced renewable hydrogen for FCEV's and power for the wastewater treatment facility, demonstrating the technical viability of the system using a sub-megawatt fuel cell plant. FuelCell Energy's hydrogen-co-production system, utilizing a DFC3000@ plant, generates approximately 1,200 kilogram per day of hydrogen, which is adequate to service approximately 300 cars/day or 50 buses/day. Simultaneous with the hydrogen production is the generation of 2 megawatts of electric power and 2 million Btu's of thermal energy. Hydrogen production results in a modest reduction of electrical output in the tri-generation configuration compared to the power/heat-only configuration. The FCEV market is expected to grow rapidly. Both Hyundai and Toyota have FCEV's commercially available today. Many other automobile manufacturers have announced plans for commercially launching FCEV's including General Motors, BMW, Honda, Audi and Mercedes. Providing renewable hydrogen for fuel cell 2 buses and material handling are also potential markets. The renewable hydrogen market potential for FCEV's is global, currently including the USA, Western Europe and select Asian markets such as South Korea and Japan. DFCO stationary fuel cell power plants manufactured by FuelCell Energy utilize carbonate fuel cell technology and provide continuous power located where the power is used, including both on-site applications and electric grid support. The plants provide combined heat and power (CHP) capabilities, also known as cogeneration, supporting sustainability initiatives and economics. The plants are fuel flexible, capable of operating on clean natural gas, on-site renewable biogas, or directed biogas. Power is produced by an electrochemical reaction, resulting in the virtual absence of pollutants such as nitrogen oxide (NOx) that causes smog, sulfur dioxide (SOx) that contributes to acid rain, or particulate matter that aggravates asthma. About FuelCell Energy Direct FuelCell@ power plants are generating ultra-clean, efficient and reliable power at more than 50 locations worldwide. With more than 300 megawatts of power generation capacity installed or in backlog, FuelCell Energy is a global leader in providing ultra-clean baseload distributed generation to utilities, industrial operations, universities, municipal water treatment facilities, government installations and other customers around the world. The Company's power plants have generated over four billion kilowatt hours of ultra-clean power using a variety of fuels including renewable biogas from wastewater treatment and food processing, as well as clean natural gas. For additional information, please visit www.fuelcelieneray.com, follow us on Twitter and view our videos on YouTube. Direct FuelCell, DFC, DFC/T, DFC-H2 and FuelCell Energy, Inc. are all registered trademarks of FuelCell Energy, Inc. DFC-ERG is a registered trademark jointly owned by Enbridge, Inc. and FuelCell Energy, Inc. Contact: FuelCell Energy, Inc. Kurt Goddard, Vice President Investor Relations 203-830-7494 it@fce.com 3 January 19, 2016 BIOMASS BIOMASS Renewable hydrogen included under California LCFS By FuelCell Energy Inc. I January 19, 2016 �111wwW4w.w1YnM .IuKMG '.. y FuelCell Energy Inc., a global leader in the design, manufacture, operation and service of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, has received contingent certification for a prospective pathway for its renewable hydrogen generation solution using fuel cells at wastewater treatment facilities under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, administered by the California Air Resources Board. Under the LCFS, certified pathways define the carbon intensity of various types of alternative fuels. The new tri-generation pathway has a remarkable negative carbon intensity, meaning that a vehicle using hydrogen fuel from tri-generation is not only carbon free, but in fact is offsetting carbon emissions compared to alternatives. Production of renewable hydrogen from megawatt-class FuelCell Energy power plants provides a transportation fuel for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) that is generated in a carbon-neutral and non-polluting process. The inclusion of tri-generation FuelCell Energy power plants in the LCFS Credit Market means that each kilogram of renewable hydrogen supplied for vehicle fueling is eligible for 4 an LCFS credit that can be sold or traded to offset carbon-intensive petroleum fuel usage. Final certification is expected following a specified period of operation and review of performance data of a megawatt-class tri-generation system utilizing renewable biogas as the fuel source. "Our commercial solution for generating hydrogen is technologically, operationally and financially superior to conventional hydrogen generation alternatives and our ability to generate renewable hydrogen affordably and with private capital is a game-changer that addresses the challenges faced by regulators and auto manufacturers," said Chip Bottone, CEO of FuelCell Energy. "The key aspect of supporting the hydrogen infrastructure necessary for widespread fuel cell electric vehicle adoption is a clean and carbon-friendly solution that is priced competitively to the cost of gasoline, which is what we can deliver." LCFS, established in 2007 through a governor's executive order, requires producers of petroleum-based fuels to reduce the carbon intensity of their products, beginning with a quarter of a percent in 2011 culminating in a 10 percent total reduction by 2020. Petroleum importers, refiners and wholesalers can either develop their own low carbon fuel products, or buy LCFS Credits from other companies that develop and sell low carbon alternative fuels, such as renewable hydrogen from tri-generation fuel cell plants. California Senate Bill 1505 directs CARB to develop regulations that ensure the production of hydrogen for transportation use is undertaken in a manner that is consistent with environmental goals. "CARB's team performed a complete life cycle analysis (LCA) on our tri-generation system and determined that we have a negative carbon footprint, as our power and hydrogen generation process is net carbon-neutral due to the use of renewable biogas, and is a cleaner use of the biogas compared to alternatives," said Tony Leo, vice president of engineering and advanced technology development at FuelCell Energy. "This means that overall, we are negative carbon emitters; a superior result in comparison to other hydrogen generation technologies such as electrolysis or traditional steam reforming." "While the LCFS standard is focused on carbon emissions, it is also notable that tri- generation produces hydrogen without using water, which is consumed in both electrolysis and conventional steam methane reforming. Trigeneration uses waste heat and water byproducts produced by the fuel cell during power generation to make hydrogen efficiently and without the need for external water consumption, which is increasingly a concern in certain regions, including California," continued Leo. This LCFS prospective pathway certification is based on the success of a three-year tri- generation project at the Orange County Sanitation District in California. A FuelCell Energy tri-generation fuel cell system produced renewable hydrogen for FCEV's and power for the wastewater treatment facility, demonstrating the technical viability of the system using a sub-megawatt fuel cell plant. FuelCell Energy's hydrogen-co-production system, utilizing a DFC3000 plant, generates approximately 1,200 kilogram per day of hydrogen, which is adequate to service approximately 300 cars/day or 50 buses/day. Simultaneous with the hydrogen production is the generation of 2 megawatts of electric power and 2 million Btu's of thermal energy. 5 Hydrogen production results in a modest reduction of electrical output in the tri-generation configuration compared to the power/heat-only configuration. The FCEV market is expected to grow rapidly. Both Hyundai and Toyota have FCEV's commercially available today. Many other automobile manufacturers have announced plans for commercially launching FCEV's including General Motors, BMW, Honda, Audi and Mercedes. Providing renewable hydrogen for fuel cell buses and material handling are also potential markets. The renewable hydrogen market potential for FCEV's is global, currently including the U.S., Western Europe and select Asian markets such as South Korea and Japan. DFC stationary fuel cell power plants manufactured by FuelCell Energy utilize carbonate fuel cell technology and provide continuous power located where the power is used, including both on-site applications and electric grid support. The plants provide combined- heat-and-power (CHP) capabilities, also known as cogeneration, supporting sustainability initiatives and economics. The plants are fuel flexible, capable of operating on clean natural gas, on-site renewable biogas, or directed biogas. Power is produced by an electrochemical reaction, resulting in the virtual absence of pollutants such as nitrogen oxide (NOx) that causes smog, sulfur dioxide (SOx) that contributes to acid rain, or particulate matter that aggravates asthma. 6 December 28, 2016 M Live Media Group Obama signs ban on microbead pollution ig R This 2012 file photo provided by the 5 Gyres Institute shows a sample of"microbeads"collected in eastern Lake Erie on the face of a penny. (MLive file photo) JLBy Garret Ellison I gellison@mlive.com December 28, 2015 at 6:15 PM, updated December 28, 2015 at 7:23 PM Say goodbye to the beads. 7 On Monday, Dec. 28, President Barack Obama signed into law a ban on tiny plastic particles used in personal cosmetic products that scientists say are polluting U.S. lakes, rivers and the oceans. The bipartisan "Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015," (H.R. 1321), passed by the U.S. House on Dec. 7, "prohibits the manufacture and introduction into interstate commerce of rinse-off cosmetics containing intentionally-added plastic microbeads." The tiny plastic beads, about the size of a pen-tip, have been shown to filter through municipal wastewater treatment plants after consumers rinse them down the drain while using soaps, toothpaste and other products that contain them. The concern is that pollutants can attach to the floating plastic, which enters the food chain when fish and wildlife mistake the tiny beads as edible. The House bill was co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St Joseph, and Rep. Frank Pallone, D-New Jersey. The Senate approved the bill Dec. 18. The law will phase microbeads out of consumer products over the next few years, starting with a ban on manufacturing the beads in July 2017, followed by product-specific manufacturing and sales bans in 2018 and 2019. In an email blast, the Alliance for the Great Lakes of Chicago said a "wave of action" from California to Maine helped bring an end to the plastic pollution and "now a national ban will protect the Great Lakes and all our nation's waters." Illinois was the first state to pass a ban, followed by New Jersey. Other Great Lakes States to ban the beads included Indiana and Wisconsin. A Michigan ban went nowhere this fall amid legislative disagreements over allowances for "biodegradable" plastic alternatives. The act language, which defines microbeads as "any solid plastic particle" less than 5 millimeters in size intended for use as an exfoliant, shuts the door on a loophole that could have let manufacturers switch to a different type of plastic. Obama did not issue any remarks about the ban, signed alongside a bill hold Medicare reimbursement rates steady for some freestanding oncology centers. 8 Increasing San Diego County's Water Supply Reliability through Supply Diversification 1.9.2E Estimated 2020 28 tAf 5% Ifl9.q� TAf 190 TAF 48 TAF 550 DO 32% 8% 9sx 27 TAr SO TAF S% Tout= 578 TM 26% 48 TAF " Proieded 2035 9919E Total- S87 TAF 80 TAF So TAIE SO TAF 100 TAF I s% 2, TAE 12% 30 TAF 19%_ %IS SO TM SSAE 20D TAF 7% I% 30% Im 5 % 100 Isx Total — 534 TAF Total -680 TAF "'apahtan waze.arnn meal wrf.ci,i er 1 Ill ■ Imli hrlaumn Di True ■ kwate R a l w,o ■ fta i,Reuse flncluJes J eormeprual aM planne8 prge0f) al A,Mnran a CoazMla Canal lmnp � CrouMwuer San Dwpp COUMY wafer Aulrony Tu-Tnaa..aa a<w-rrer tl The San Diego County Water Authority is rapidly moving to diversify Its water supply portfolio away from the Metropolitan Water District,which was virtually its single supplier as recently as the early 19901 In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has directed the L.A. Department of Water and Power to slash its purchases of imported water in half by 2025. "San Diego and L.A. are two of Met's top buyers," said Cushman. "Eighty-five percent of their revenue comes from water sales, and those sales have been declining." Metropolitan officials contend the project is not only needed locally, but sets the tone for diversifying urban water supply systems throughout the western U.S. "The purified water produced by this program would represent a new drought-proof supply to help replenish the region's groundwater basins, which typically produce about a third of Southern California's overall water needs," Metropolitan board Chairman Randy Record said last month. 9 But San Diego's scant groundwater aquifers provide a mere 19,000 acre-feet(23 billion liters)of storage capacity versus nearly 1.2 million acre-feet (1.5 trillion liters)for L.A. County. MWD's solution would make more imported water available for the San Diego authority to purchase as the project's advanced treated water supplements regional supplies. "Given our own diversification efforts, its preposterous [for them] to think our region would benefit from this program," Cushman countered. "San Diego is buying and plans to buy less water from Met, not more." San Diego County Has Very Little Groundwater rrr r rrr LA County Coastal Plain Basins 450,000 San Gabriel Valley Basins 245,000 6` able Orange County Basins 135,000 undwater2� Inland Empire Basins 439,000 In Storage Eastside MWD Service Area Basins 500,000 ce (AF) v San Diego County Basins 19,000 Still, experts cautioned against dismissing a project that would assist Southern California's move away from imported water. "With climate change here and more severe droughts on the horizon, we're going to need reserve water from other sources," said Stanford University's Richard Luthy. "You're banking water for future droughts so you can even out fluctuations in rainfall and snowfall" But there's another rub. 10 The San Diego authority is obligated to buy Carlsbad's entire output of product water for 30 years through a purchase agreement with Poseidon Water, the Boston-based company that built the plant. Similar deals between MWD, its member agencies and groundwater basin managers in the project's target area have yet to be worked out— potentially putting Metropolitan at risk, the report warns. Billions of dollars... That worries Lewinger, along with the project's potentially high operating costs. "If it's raining cats and dogs, why would agencies buy expensive water from Met when they're getting it from the sky?" he asked. MWD Assistant General Manager Debra Man said those deals will be discussed as a $15 million demonstration plant and feasibility studies approved last month are rolled out in 2016. Metropolitan officials also provided VOA with official correspondence stating that the cost estimates in the draft report were "based on very conservative assumptions which are now outdated." "It's in the range of$1,700 per-acre-foot and we're hoping to drive that down even more," Man said. MWD has conducted two studies over the past five years on the project, including a $1 million evaluation by the highly regarded engineering firm CDM Smith. "We'd like to understand what's changed since those studies were done that would drive down capital and per-acre-foot water costs, and what data and engineering studies will support the statement that costs will be so much lower," Cushman said. ...and miles of pipe Regardless of the final numbers, the project will shoulder huge distribution costs. Much of those cover hundreds of kilometers of pipeline and approximately 80 new injection and extraction wells, according to the report. 11 "MWD will have to get the purified water from our Joint Water Pollution Control Plant in Carson to groundwater basins located all over the L.A. metropolitan area and [neighboring] Orange County,' said Robert Ferrante, the Sanitation Districts' assistant chief engineer. Orange County's water and sanitation districts have run their own Groundwater Replenishment System —currently the world's largest—since 2008. The MWD system would be technically similar but much greater in scale. 0 b� iY Tasting recycled wastewater at the Edi C.Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo,CA,July 11,2015.Orange County wastewater treatment program is more than twice the size,while the Metmpolitan Water District's plan would eclipse even that. Both programs utilize so-called indirect potable reuse—where purified wastewater moves through a groundwater aquifer buffer before reaching those who drink it. "IPR costs are significant because the water needs to be conveyed to a location and percolated or injected into the ground," Ferrante said. San Diego officials welcomed the idea, but questioned whether Metropolitan was the right agency for the job. 12 "For us the biggest risk is that MWD has zero experience building, owning and operating a recycling plant and potable reuse project," Cushman said. "It's an expansion of Met's mission that's well outside its wheelhouse." But water experts say recycling into urban aquifers must move forward. "If a big earthquake hits north of L.A. and disrupts flow in the aqueducts, having extra water in the ground is critically important, said Luthy, who directs the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for re-inventing the nation's urban water infrastructure. "Met can't be the same agency in the 21st century that it was in the 20th," he said. This is the first article in a 2-part series on how California is reshaping its urban water supply systems in the face of the state's epic drought. 13 January 19, 2016 TPO Treatment Plant Operator TPOTm Treatment Plant Operator. A Toilet Is Not a Trashcan, Says NACWA • By Sharon Verbeten • January 19,2016 Want to tell your customers about the flushable wipes problem? Look no further than the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, which provides free materials to utilities and organizations. Cynthia Finley grew up with a septic system, so she learned as a child what not to put down a toilet. However, she knows not everyone has that knowledge. That's why as director of regulatory affairs for the National Association of Clean Water Agencies in Washington, D.C., she's working hard to get that word out to the public, as well as to associations in the wastewater industry. One way NACWA is doing this is through its Toilets are not Trashcans campaign. The campaign launched about two years to encapsulate the work NACWA members are doing. "We really need to keep the message out there,"says Finley."There are a lot of things that can make an impact.' The campaign focuses on protecting the pipes, pumps, plants and personnel of wastewater utilities across the nation by keeping unflushable materials, such as wipes, paper towels, dental floss and feminine products, out of the sewer system. It also targets other consumer products with ingredients such as plastic microbeads or triclosan, which might harm water quality and the environment. The main focus of the program is flushable wipes—and disseminating consumer education materials that explain wipes are not flushable and can cause extreme damage to pipes and septic systems. But in addition to educating the public, NACWA is working closely with manufacturers to develop new flushability guidelines. 14 "As NACWA continues to work on this problem with the Water Environment Federation and the American Public Works Association, it is becoming more and more apparent just how expensive this problem is for utilities,"Finley says. For example, according to Finley's blog, the City of Vancouver, Washington, has spent $650,000 on new pumps and equipment in the past five years and spends more than $100,000 each year in extra maintenance and electricity costs because of clogged pumps. She also notes: • Clean Water Services in Oregon spends about$120,000 dealing with wipe-related problems. • The Orange County Sanitation District in California has spent$2.4 million in the past five years on new equipment and more than $300,000 in one year to unclog pumps. • Columbus Water Works in Georgia spent $550,000 in the past two years on new inline grinding equipment and spends $250,000 each year on additional operations and maintenance costs. According to a 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek article, New York City, which runs the largest U.S. sewer system, has spent more than $18 million during in the past five years replacing and repairing sewer plant pumps, gears, valves and screens clogged when the cloth-like material. As part of the campaign, NACWA offers utilities and associations the Toilets Are Not Trashcans logo for free. For example, Finley says Mount Pleasant Waterworks in South Carolina uses the logo on its trucks. 15 January 2016 OCSD Tweets Twitter Posts for January 2016 Tweeted 14 times,Re-tweeted 13 times Julie Sone follows OC Sewers @OCSewers Jan 21 Call for Applications: Search Begins for California's Best High School Water Research Project @CWEAMembers http://cweawatemews.org/sjwp/?utm_source=January+2016+E- Bulletin+Highlights&utm_campaign=EBulletin&utm_medium=email ... Careers In Gov @careersingov Jan 18 Orange County Sanitation Dept IS HIRING! A great#career#opportunity awaits! http://ow.ly/WLCdz #jobsearch#califomia @OC_Sewers OC Sewers @OCSewers Jan 18 TY @WERFResearch for profiling OCSD,highlighting our innovative approach to solids treatment and resource recovery. Careers In Gov @careersingov Jan 18 .@OC Sewers ENGINEER electrical http://ow.ly/X8kLx #engineering#tech#construction#water #califoria#jobsearch#veterans#trending Mirka @_mmmmrka Jan 14 @luunhitoon @OC_Sewers so mad OMG 16 Enhi hat @luunhitoon Jan 14 Off to see the poop @OC_Sewers pic.twitter.com/ufO6LdBQMa IL 9:33 AM- 14 Jan 2016 F�� SAWPA @SAWPA_OWOW Jan 13 State announces $64 million in funding for Santa Ana River Watershed. Project proponents include @OC_Sewers, @EastemMuni , @IEUAwater... AI Kimberly Tran @kimberlypws Jan 13 I would SOO use this smell as my perfume ANYDAYY#ocsewers pic.twitter.com/lmZMyhX3h0 v 10:34 AM- 13 Jan 2016 - Details 17 0014 1 NVESOUAInvesqua @invesqua Jan 12 The Invesqua Daily is out! ht4)://paper.li/invesqua/1436286685?edition_id=b3d559a0-b9ae-1 le5- b6aa-Occ47a0dl64b ... Stories via @OC_Sewers @h2oexecutive @aaronkunz JAADSLLC @ADSENV Jan 6 ADS LLC Retweeted OC Sewers Preparedness is so much better than a reactionary response. Kudos to @OC_Sewers! Good luck with the rains! #E1Nino https://twitter.com/OC_Sewers/status/684835773082808320 ... ADS LLC added, OC Sewers @OCSewers Here's how we've prepared your regional wastewater system for heavy rains: http:/Ibit.ly/lQrJWSj #EWino#OCStorm#OCEINino ©Townsend PA @TownsendPAI Jan 4 Townsend PA Retweeted OC Sewers Congratulations to @OC_Sewers for receiving this well-deserved reward. We are proud&honored to serve you! https://twitter.com/OC_Sewers/status/682333323327225856 ... Townsend PA added, OC Sewers @OCSewers OCSD has won the 2015 Award of Merit from the National Clay Pipe Institute for visionary leadership! pic.twitter.com/rzvBItcwOd 18 redditpics @redditpics Jan 2 [OC] Inside the sewers! Find more o... http://bit.ly/22DxLYj #reddit#pics 19 January 2016 OCSD Facebook Postings Facebook Posts for January 2016 Posted 13 times and Re-Shared 4 times Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - January 21 at 9:58am Call for Applications: California Water Environment Association is looking for the Best High School Water Research Project in the state. I'D CWEA Call for Applications: Search Begins for California's Best High School Water Research Project The California Water Environment Association(CWEA) is opening the application process for the... cweawatemews.org 21 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - January 21 at 7:47am For over 60 years,we have safely collected,treated and recycled or disposed wastewater generated by 2.5 million people. 20 Curious about how? Come and take a tour! Orange County Sanitation District : Tours OCSD is committed to providing a valuable educational experience that focuses on leaming the importance of wastewater treatment in protecting the public health and the environment. To encourage learning,the District offers a one and a half hour... oesewers.com 1 share F Ron Wade This is a picture of a great crew that worked night shift, yes, that's correct, OCSD is staffed around the clock to protect our health and water environment. Unlike - Reply - Message 1 - January 21 at 8:08am Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - January 20 at 2:47pm Wondering if El Nino-driven storms are really on their way?According to the Los Angeles Times,you can bet on it. i ; What happened to El Nifio?Be patient, L.A., it'll come, expert says When the first hints of El Niño developed last year, experts believed that the brunt of the rain would occur in Southern California rather than Northern California. latimes.comlBy Los Angeles Times 251 people reached 21 Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - January 20 at 9:44am The Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Santa Ana River Interceptor(SARI)Rock Removal Project project are now available. We encourage all interested parties to submit comments during the public review period which extends from January 20 to February 19, 2016. A public meeting is scheduled for Tuesday,February 2 at 2pm at OCSD's Administration Building. 21 people reached Am IF Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - January 18 at 11:26am Thank you to the Water Environment Research Foundation(WERF) for profiling OCSD, highlighting our innovative approach to solids treatment and resource recovery. I OCSD Named Featured Facility in Water Environment Research Foundation Newsletter The Orange County Sanitation District is the Water Environment Research Foundation's (WERF)... ocsd.com 54 people reached Water Enviromnent Research Foundation and Ron Wade like this. 1 share 22 Orange County Sanitation District at Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - January 14 at 3:25pm Thank you Orange High School (Orange, Califomia)'s AP Environmental Science class for visiting the Orange County Sanitation District today! 104 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten • January 13 at 1:51pm Thank you to Balsa Grande High School's AP Environmental Science students for visiting us today! 98 people reached 23 no Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - January 12 at 3:16pm Wondering how to dispose of unused or expired medication? Check out our PSA. #What2Flush f Orange County Sanitation District : Pharmaceutical Disposal Program Unused prescriptions and over-the-counter medications that are put in drains or flushed down the toilet pollute the environment,please take... ocsd.com 440 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - January 11 at 3:15pm The Orange County Sanitation District is hiring! Take a look at our latest job vacancies. Orange County Sanitation District : Job Openings ©2016 Orange County Sanitation District. All Rights Reserved. Website Created by Vision Internet- The Government website experts ocsd.com 553 people reached Orange County Sanitation District shared California Association of Sanitation Agencies's post. 24 Published by Rebecca Gorelick Long - January 11 at 9:42am a- California Association of Sanitation AgenciesLike Page January 8 at 8:46am Cameron Park Exciting news! California is getting $1.2b in revenue bonds to fund water recycling projects. CASA joined WateReuse and ACWA in sending a comment letter to the ...Water Board supporting this funding. This is significant for CA, as recycled water projects create reliable, sustainable water supplies,helping to ensure economic vitality for industrial, commercial,municipal, and agricultural users. See More State gets$1.2 billion boost for more water recycling projects The state got a big financial boost in its quest to find more water sources—by recycling it.The State Water Resources Control Board authorized the sale of$1.2... sgvtribune.com 33 people reached Orange County Sanitation District shared Orange County Water District's post. Published by Rebecca Gorelick Long - January 8 at 7:55am Q Orange County Water District January 7 at 5:48pm This week, #OCWD captures 3.2 BILLION gallons of water(and counting)behind Prado Dam from #E1Nino storms. #CAdrought 73 people reached Orange County Sanitation District shared Cease The Grease's photo. Published by Rebecca Gorelick Long - January 4 at 8:06am 25 Cease The GreaseLike Page December 29, 2015 at 10:46am Grease and fat turns into a solids when it cools. Just think what would happen to your pipes if this went down the drain. #CeaseTheGrease 106 people reached Orange County Sanitation District Published by Amy Stretten - December 31, 2015 at 3:06pm The administrative offices of the Orange County Sanitation District will be closed Friday, January 1. Have a safe and happy New Year's Eve! Our offices will he CLOSED Friday, January 1, 2016 LLD Call 714.962.2411 to report emergencies 89 people reached 26 ORANGE COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT Agenda Terminology Glossary Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations AQMD Air Quality Management District ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers BOD Biochemical Oxygen Demand CARB California Air Resources Board CASA California Association of Sanitation Agencies CCTV Closed Circuit Television CEQA California Environmental Quality Act CRWQCB California Regional Water Quality Control Board CWA Clean Water Act CWEA California Water Environment Association EIR Environmental Impact Report EMT Executive Management Team EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FOG Fats, Oils, and Grease FSSD Facilities Support Services Department gpd Gallons per day GWR System Groundwater Replenishment System (also called GWRS) ICS Incident Command System IERP Integrated Emergency Control Plan LOS Level of Service MGD Million gallons per day NACWA National Association of Clean Water Agencies NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NWRI National Water Research Institute O&M Operations and Maintenance OCCOG Orange County Council of Governments OCHCA Orange County Health Care Agency OCSD Orange County Sanitation District OCWD Orange County Water District GOBS Ocean Outfall Booster Station OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration POTW Publicly Owned Treatment Works ppm Parts per million RFP Request For Proposal RWQCB Regional Water Quality Control Board SARFPA Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations SARI Santa Ana River Inceptor SARWQCB Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board SAWPA Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system SCAP Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works SCAQMD South Coast Air Quality Management District SOCWA South Orange County Wastewater Authority SSMP Sanitary Sewer Management Plan SSO Sanitary Sewer Overflow SWRCB State Water Resources Control Board TDS Total Dissolved Solids TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load TSS Total Suspended Solids WDR Waste Discharge Requirements WEF Water Environment Federation WERF Water Environment Research Foundation Activated-sludge process — A secondary biological wastewater treatment process where bacteria reproduce at a high rate with the introduction of excess air or oxygen, and consume dissolved nutrients in the wastewater. Benthos — The community of organisms, such as sea stars, worms and shrimp, which live on, in, or near the seabed, also know as the benthic zone. Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)—The amount of oxygen used when organic matter undergoes decomposition by microorganisms. Testing for BOO is done to assess the amount of organic matter in water. Biosolids — Biosolids are nutrient rich organic and highly treated solid materials produced by the wastewater treatment process. This high-quality product can be recycled as a soil amendment on farm land or further processed as an earth-like product for commercial and home gardens to improve and maintain fertile soil and stimulate plant growth. Capital Improvement Program (CIP) — Projects for repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of assets. Also includes treatment improvements, additional capacity, and projects for the support facilities. Coliform bacteria—A group of bacteria found in the intestines of humans and other animals, but also occasionally found elsewhere used as indicators of sewage pollution. E. coli are the most common bacteria in wastewater. Collections system — In wastewater, it is the system of typically underground pipes that receive and convey sanitary wastewater or storm water. Certificate of Participation (COP) —A type of financing where an investor purchases a share of the lease revenues of a program rather than the bond being secured by those revenues. Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations AQMD Air Quality Management District ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers BOD Biochemical Oxygen Demand CARB California Air Resources Board CASA California Association of Sanitation Agencies CCTV Closed Circuit Television CEQA California Environmental Quality Act CRWQCB California Regional Water Quality Control Board CWA Clean Water Act CWEA California Water Environment Association EIR Environmental Impact Report EMT Executive Management Team EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FOG Fats, Oils, and Grease FSSD Facilities Support Services Department gpd Gallons per day GWR System Groundwater Replenishment System (also called GWRS) ICS Incident Command System IERP Integrated Emergency Control Plan LOS Level of Service MGD Million gallons per day NACWA National Association of Clean Water Agencies NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NWRI National Water Research Institute O&M Operations and Maintenance OCCOG Orange County Council of Governments OCHCA Orange County Health Care Agency OCSD Orange County Sanitation District OCWD Orange County Water District GOBS Ocean Outfall Booster Station OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration PCSA Professional Consultant Services Agreement POTW Publicly Owned Treatment Works ppm Parts per million PSA Professional Services Agreement RFP Request For Proposal Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations RWQCB Regional Water Quality Control Board SARFPA Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency SARI Santa Ana River Inceptor SARWQCB Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board SAW PA Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system SCAP Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works SCAQMD South Coast Air Quality Management District SOCWA South Orange County Wastewater Authority SSMP Sanitary Sewer Management Plan SSO Sanitary Sewer Overflow SWRCB State Water Resources Control Board TDS Total Dissolved Solids TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load TSS Total Suspended Solids WDR Waste Discharge Requirements WEF Water Environment Federation WERF Water Environment Research Foundation Activated-sludge process — A secondary biological wastewater treatment process where bacteria reproduce at a high rate with the introduction of excess air or oxygen, and consume dissolved nutrients in the wastewater. Benthos — The community of organisms, such as sea stars, worms and shrimp, which live on, in, or near the seabed, also know as the benthic zone. Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)—The amount of oxygen used when organic matter undergoes decomposition by microorganisms. Testing for BOD is done to assess the amount of organic matter in water. Biosolids — Biosolids are nutrient rich organic and highly treated solid materials produced by the wastewater treatment process. This high-quality product can be recycled as a soil amendment on farm land or further processed as an earth-like product for commercial and home gardens to improve and maintain fertile soil and stimulate plant growth. Capital Improvement Program (CIP) — Projects for repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of assets. Also includes treatment improvements, additional capacity, and projects for the support facilities. Coliform bacteria—A group of bacteria found in the intestines of humans and other animals, but also occasionally found elsewhere used as indicators of sewage pollution. E. coli are the most common bacteria in wastewater. Collections system — In wastewater, it is the system of typically underground pipes that receive and convey sanitary wastewater or storm water. Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Certificate of Participation (COP) -A type of financing where an investor purchases a share of the lease revenues of a program rather than the bond being secured by those revenues. Contaminants of Potential Concern (CPC) - Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants. Dilution to Threshold (D/T) - the dilution at which the majority of the people detect the odor becomes the D/T for that air sample. Greenhouse gases - In the order of relative abundance water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone gases that are considered the cause of global warming ("greenhouse effect"). Groundwater Replenishment (GWR) System - A joint water reclamation project that proactively responds to Southern California's current and future water needs. This joint project between the Orange County Water District and the Orange County Sanitation District provides 70 million gallons a day of drinking quality water to replenish the local groundwater supply. Levels of Service (LOS)-Goals to support environmental and public expectations for performance. NOMA- N-Nitrosodimethylamine is an N-nitrosoamine suspected cancer-causing agent. It has been found in the Groundwater Replenishment System process and is eliminated using hydrogen peroxide with extra ultra-violet treatment. National Biosolids Partnership (NBP) - An alliance of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) and Water Environment Federation (WEF), with advisory support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). NBP is committed to developing and advancing environmentally sound and sustainable biosolids management practices that go beyond regulatory compliance and promote public participation in order to enhance the credibility of local agency biosolids programs and improved communications that lead to public acceptance. Plume-A visible or measurable concentration of discharge from a stationary source or fixed facility. Publicly-owned Treatment Works (POTW)- Municipal wastewater treatment plant. Santa Ana River Interceptor (SARI) Line - A regional brine line designed to convey 30 million gallons per day (MGD) of non-reclaimable wastewater from the upper Santa Ana River basin to the ocean for disposal, after treatment. Sanitary sewer - Separate sewer systems specifically for the carrying of domestic and industrial wastewater. Combined sewers carry both wastewater and urban run-off. South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) - Regional regulatory agency that develops plans and regulations designed to achieve public health standards by reducing emissions from business and industry. Secondary treatment - Biological wastewater treatment, particularly the activated-sludge process, where bacteria and other microorganisms consume dissolved nutrients in wastewater. Sludge - Untreated solid material created by the treatment of wastewater. Total suspended solids (TSS)-The amount of solids floating and in suspension in wastewater. Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Trickling filter — A biological secondary treatment process in which bacteria and other microorganisms, growing as slime on the surface of rocks or plastic media, consume nutrients in wastewater as it trickles over them. Urban runoff — Water from city streets and domestic properties that carry pollutants into the storm drains, rivers, lakes, and oceans. Wastewater—Any water that enters the sanitary sewer. Watershed —A land area from which water drains to a particular water body. OCSD's service area is in the Santa Ana River Watershed.