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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 1 2 3 4 5 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