HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 4 PPP 7-17-19 Admin - Lab_Ocean Monitoring UpdateLaboratory, Monitoring and Compliance Program
Presented by: Lan Wiborg / Ron Coss
Environmental Services Department
Environmental Services Department
610 Administration
620 Resource Protection Division
(RPD)
Non-Industrial Source Control
Industrial Source Control
Source Control Inspectors
630 Laboratory, Monitoring, & Compliance Division (LMC)
Compliance
Laboratory
Ocean Monitoring
Lan Wiborg
Director of Environmental Services
Peggy
Echavarria
Paul Spassoff
Ron Coss
LMC ManagerRoya Sohanaki
RPD Manager
Compliance Group focuses on ensuring
compliance with permitting, monitoring, and reporting as related to air quality, water, and biosolids
Annually, the Laboratory performs more than
100,000 tests for Operations, Source Control, Compliance, Ocean Monitoring and Engineering
Restaurants
(Non-Industrial Source)
Residential Runoff
NISC Group focuses on monitoring non-
industrial sources discharging to the sewer
Together, ISC and SCI Groups monitor,
inspect, and enforce industrial source dischargers
Industrial Source Control, Inspection, and Enforcement
Residential Runoff
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Resource Recovery
Post-Treatment Monitoring
Treatment MonitoringPretreatment Monitoring
Reuse
Restaurants(Non-Industrial Source)OCSD Environmental Services
Ocean Monitoring
Group conducts extensive ocean monitoring to evaluate potential environmental and public health risks from the release of secondary treated wastewater
GWRS is the world’s largest
purification system for indirect potable reuse
GWRS
provides new water for businesses, industries, and nearly 850,00 residents
Environmental Monitoring
Code of
Federal
Regulations
California Ocean Plan
Santa Ana RWQCB Basin Plan
NPDES Permit
OCSD Ocean Monitoring and Reporting Program
Compliance Monitoring
Strategic Process Studies
Regional Monitoring
Laboratory, Monitoring, and Compliance Division (630)
Mission Statement
To ensure safe recreational and environmental protection; perform sampling, analysis and
reporting to document OCSD’s exemplary regulatory compliance, inclusive of air, biosolids,
water recycling and ocean discharge
Ocean Monitoring
Laboratory
Sample Type No. of Samples
2016 2018
General Chemistry 69,039 63,300
Inorganic Chemistry 142 191
Metals 7,578 10,238
Microbiology 24,182 22,852
Organic Chemistry 7,266 6,689
Toxicology 288 69
Total 108,495 103,270
Highlighted Instruments
Analytical
ASE AutoTrace GPC Concentrator
Gandalf
Sed PAHs
Xena
Tissue/Sed PCBs/PESTs
Sed PAHs
Frodo
Sed PCBs/PESts
Andor
Sed Fripronil
Sample Preparation
Accreditation
2018-2019 OC Beach Report Card
Beach Report Card
Looking Forward
OCSD-Focused Strategic Process Studies
•GWRS Expansion
•Microplastics
•PFAS*
Routine Monitoring Optimization
Reduce efforts in areas that are unlikely to show change
•Focus efforts to quickly detect changes in the receiving environment
Leverage Regional Monitoring Resources
Address regional issues relevant to OCSD and other POTWs
•Ocean acidification
•Contaminants of emerging concern
•Nutrients
Highlighted Projects & Partners
•ROMS/BEC Plume Tracking Model
•Domoic Acid Method Development
•Characterization of Microplastics in Wastewater
•Environmental Monitoring for CECs
•Meiofauna Baseline Study
Team in Action
Clockwise from right
Staff
Dr. Jeff Armstrong
Laura Terriquez
Former Directors
Keith Curry
Bob Kiley
Serving the Community
Water Quality Safe to swim
SedimentHealthy ecosystem
Fish health Safe to eat