DEQ Water Quality Division

AdministrationDD – Chard-McClary Chief Engineer – Parrott ADD - Lyhane Sec IV – Smith

WQMAC, Finance, Personnel Support & Emergency

ResponseEPM III – Hildebrand

ComplianceEPM II – Welsh

Field Inspection/ EnforcementEM II – Coffey

DWSRFEM II - Carr

ComplianceEPM II – Bailey

Industrial & Stormwater Field

Inspection/ Enforcement

EM II – Craney

Municipal Field Inspection/

EnforcementEM II – To be advertise

soon

Discharge PermittingEM II – Paden

Construction Permitting/

Engineering Report Review

EM II –Chen

Modeling, TMDL, 208 & 303(d)

EM II /EPM II – To be advertised soon

Operator CertificationEM II – Wisniewski

Next Gen Reporting, Technical Support &

QA/QCEM II –Derichsweiler

Discharge & Stormwater Permitting

EM II – To be advertised soon

EnforcementConstruction

and Operations

NPDES Permitting

Compliance Tracking

Public Water SupplyEM III – Thompson

Water Quality Planning

EM III- Rosch

WastewaterEM III– Moe

Next Gen Reporting, Technical Support & Operator Certification

EPM III – Pruitt

Focus on drinking water

Water Quality Division

Customer Service Training

All DEQ Managers have received customer service training from Dr. Manzer with OSU.

One idea he emphasized is - “make sure the water gets to the end of the row”

Customer Service Training

Customer Service Training

• To push the flow of information on customer service, all DEQ employees will receive customer service training by May

• Water Quality is the next Division to receive training

• Three top initiatives when providing customer service

• Reliability – Consistency of your performance and dependability

• Responsive – Your willingness or readiness to provide service

• Competence – The possession of the required skills and knowledge, by the employee, to provide the service

Oklahoma’s Statewide Historical Precipitation

Dust BowlEra

1950’s Drough

t

Current Drought

West Central Oklahoma’s Statewide Historical Precipitation and

Temperature

Oklahoma’s Statewide Historical Precipitation

Lake Overholser

1919

WPA Projects

1935-1937

Lake Hefner1947

Lake Eufaula

1956-1964

Lake Atoka1959

Lake Optima

1966-1978

McGee Creek1976

Lake Arcadia

1980-1987

DustBowl

Central Oklahoma Regional Water Supply

Infrastructure Study

OklahomaNormal Annual Precipitation

Oklahoma Population Counties

Central Oklahoma Regional Water Supply

Infrastructure Study

Central Oklahoma Regional Water Supply

Infrastructure Study

Central Oklahoma Regional Water Supply

Infrastructure Study

Integrated Water Cycle Management

• Construction Standards• Drinking Water State Revolving Fund• Compliance with Safe Drinking Water Act• Operator Certification• Volunteer activities to help communities

• Water loss program• Capacity development

• Construction Stormwater Permits• Compliance with Clean Water Act• Industrial Stormwater Permits• Stormwater permitting in Sensitive Water Watershed

• Construction Standards• National Pollutant Discharge

Elimination System (NPDES) permit to discharge

• Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies

• Maintaining the 303(d) list for impaired streams

• Compliance with Clean Water Act• Water Reuse Regulations

QuestionsTim Ward

tim.ward@deq.ok.gov405-702-5181