Reclaimed Water Program Operation and Management Standard

AWWA Recycled Water StandardAWWA CA NV Whole Water, Monterey, CA

June 24, 2014 Ane Deister

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Agenda

AWWA organization, approval process

Committee on Reclaimed Water

Highlights Key Features Table of Contents Next steps

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AWWA Organization, Approval

AWWA Standards Council charged with developing new standards Committee on Reclaimed Water

Management level standard for reclaimed water Requires consensus from diverse committee, balloting

Board of Directors approval ANSI*/AWWA G481

*American National Standards Institute

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Committee on Reclaimed Water

Ane Deister, Parsons, Chair User participants

Contra Costa Water District LA County Sanitation District Reedy Creek Improvement District (Disney World) Washington State Dept. of Public Health Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection

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Committee Members

Producer Members Laboratory Quality Systems (Colorado) FTT (Orlando)

General Interest Members AECOM, B&V, Brown & Caldwell, Burgess & Niple,

Burns & McDonnell, Carollo, HDR, KPMG, MWH, Parsons

AWWA, Florida Atlantic University, WateReuse, individuals

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Highlights

First ever management level standard for recycled/reclaimed water from AWWA

Coordination between AWWA, WEF, WateReuse

Programmatic document

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Key Features

Foreword – approved standard 1/19/2014 Background – advises the standard

designed to serve water, wastewater, recycled water utilities, the customers, owners, service providers, and regulators

First edition of the standard Acceptance: through agreement in

1985 with EPA and NSF to develop voluntary third party consensus standards and certification programs

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Key Features

Special Issues Advisory Info on Application of Standards

This standard addresses only requirements limited exclusively to operation and management practices for reclaimed/recycled water programs

Advisory Info on Regulatory Issues Does not provide regulatory requirements, as there are not

federal regs governing reuse at this time, but does reflect regulatory issues handled by states

Indirect and Direct Potable Reuse This standard does not address these applications, but

recognizes its emergence and need for appropriate public health protections

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What’s Included in the Standard

General

References

Definitions

Requirements

Scope, purpose, application

AWWA G400 Utility Management System; AWWA M24 Planning for the Distribution of Reclaimed Water

25 of them from backflow to water supplier

Regulatory requirements – must meet local, state, federal requirements in each jurisdiction

Sec. 1

Sec. 2

Sec. 3

Sec. 4

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What’s Included in Section 4: Requirements

Management Programs Performance Goals Establishing Viable

Customer Base Marketing to New

Customers Public Information and

Education Program

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What’s Included in Section 4: Requirements

Management Programs (cont’d) Integrated Resource Plan Water demand Mitigating shortages Scheduling, controlling

deliveries Retrofitting Use requirements

Recycled Water

Retrofits

Delivery &Scheduling

Use Regs

Supply and

Shortages

IRP

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What’s Included in Section 4: Requirements

Management Programs (cont’d) Environmental Considerations Customer Communications Customer Inquiry Tracking,

Response Water Rights Compliance Agreements – customers,

purveyors, principles, service Rates and Pricing Billing Practices Health and Safety Management

Orange County GroundwaterReplenishment Project

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Source water monitoring and metering

What’s Included in Section 4: Requirements

City of Fresno CA tertiary treatment plant

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What’s Included in Section 4: Requirements

Operations Treatment, operations,

management objectives Multiple-barrier philosophy,

treatment options Treatment plan Disinfection Water quality Monitoring, sampling,

testing

West Basin Recycled Water Plant,Carson CA

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What’s Included in Section 4: Requirements

Water delivery programs

Distribution system objectives

Pressure, color coding, labeling,

Backflow and cross connection control

Visalia Water Conservation Plant

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What’s Included in Section 4: Requirements

Verification Human resources,

personnel involved Licensing, certifications,

competencies, training Documentation

Reports, SOPs, doc control, format, readability

Example of a customer agreement

Hialeah Florida R/O plant

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Next Steps

Distribute to users

Emerging technologies and treatment

Financing, rates Expanded uses into

indirect and potable reuse

Receive feedback on the G-series level document Anticipate future will

include more technically specific standards

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Questions?