permit management Articles
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Ice Cream
Problem: This ice cream maker, established almost 70 years ago, is one of the largest premium ice cream companies in the USA. The plant discharged its wastewater to the local sanitation plant until 1987, at which time heavy restrictions were placed on their discharge permit. The plant manager hired a consulting firm, and together they proceeded to investigate wastewater treatment systems that ...
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How Klir Helped SCV Water Navigate Amalgamation - Case Study
Find out how Santa Clarita Valley Water used Klir to navigate a complicated amalgamation process, consolidate its permitting and get compliance peace of mind. At A Glance As SCV Water amalgamated three water divisions under one agency, Klir supported a seamless operational transition by organizing over 150 permits into a single collaborative dashboard. Complete visibility for management into ...
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Groundwater management in China
After introducing groundwater development and other issues, the paper analyzes China's groundwater management system and its problems, and provides suggestions for improving the system. Increasing water demand since the 1970s has resulted in severe groundwater overdraft, water level decline and water quality degradation in China, but the current management system is not able to provide ...
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Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans
Why Your Railroad Facility Needs One and What to do About It Did you know that that railroad facilities are subject to the Clean Water Act? This includes requirements to have a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) in place to clarify how you will control pollutants in storm water runoff from your facility. A SWPPP will identify the potential sources of pollution and describe the ...
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EPA Clean Water Act: New Regulations re: `Waters of the United States`
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule defining the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act… The rule will ensure protection for the nation’s public health and aquatic resources, and increase CWA program predictability and consistency by clarifying the scope of ‘‘waters of the United States’’ protected under the ...
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Understanding the True Cost of Water
Overcoming Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship For companies pursuing corporate water stewardship strategies, a common barrier to action is the perceived low cost of water “at the tap.” Water reduction, reuse, and recycling projects often do not meet investment hurdle rates or compare positively to other investments. This also acts to limit community and watershed engagement ...
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Understanding the True Cost of Water - Overcoming Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
For companies pursuing corporate water stewardship strategies, a common barrier to action is the perceived low cost of water “at the tap.” Water reduction, reuse, and recycling projects often do not meet investment hurdle rates or compare positively to other investments. This also acts to limit community and watershed engagement actions outside of the fence line as well. Our water ...
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Groundwater resources of a multi-layered aquiferous system in arid area: Data analysis and water budgeting
The Maknassy basin in central Tunisia receives insignificant precipitation (207 mm/y), but the hydrological system retain very small quantities of water due to the steep topography and surface water resource partially mobilised witch is evacuated toward the basin outlet. However, the Maknassy plain support agriculture based on ground water irrigation with increasing water demand last decades. ...
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Developing solutions for today and tomorrow case study
Challenge: To improve compliance performance, a national foodservice distribution company contracted with Antea Group to develop and implement a corporate-wide environmental compliance audit program throughout the United States. Faced with an aggressive six-week project completion deadline, Antea Group scheduled multiple local audit teams to conduct facility audits simultaneously across the ...
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The middle Rio Grande watershed based MS4 permit - Case Study
ALBUQUERQUE MS4 – THE EARLY YEARS In the early years of its permit history, the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Agency (AMAFCA) operated with a typical MS4 Phase I, individual permit that included Minimum Control Measures along with Best Management Practices to enhance water quality including: Public education and outreach Public participation and involvement Illicit ...
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Yes, even tourism and hospitality businesses benefit from streamlined environmental management
Monitoring environmental impacts by tracking sustainability KPIs is essential for any business in the hospitality industry. But, from a financial perspective, how these environmental metrics are tracked is as important as the fact they are tracked. Results increasingly show a software-based EMS is the most effective way of improving environmental performance and boosting revenue. Environmental ...
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Is a software-based EMS the only way to effectively improve sustainability performance?
Monitoring environmental impacts by tracking sustainability KPIs is essential for any business that wants to improve or report on environmental performance. But, from a financial perspective, how these environmental metrics are tracked is as important as the fact they are tracked. Results increasingly show a software-based EMS is the most effective way of improving environmental performance and ...
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British Columbia Approved Water Quality Guidelines: Aquatic Life, Wildlife and Agriculture
The British Columbia (BC) Water Quality Guidelines (WQG) was developed by the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (ENV), and it provides the safe levels for substances to enforce protection of water used for drinking, agriculture, aquatic life, recreation and wildlife. The Environmental Management Act provides the basis for the formation and implementation of WQG through ...
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Surface water quality management using an integrated discharge permit and the reclaimed water market
Water quality trading is a sustainable framework for surface water quality management. It uses discharge permits to reduce the total treatment costs. For example, the case of Gharesoo River in Iran shows that the nitrogen permit market between point and non-point sources is 37% more economical than the command and control framework. Nevertheless, the cost saving may be reduced to ...
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Privatization and Outsourcing Storm Water Discharge Requirements: Simplification Through Automated Sampling
ABSTRACT Kelly Air Force Base (KAFB) is a large industrial complex that is currently undergoing a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action. Privatization is occurring concurrently with the base closure and realignment. The base maintains both two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and two Texas Natural Resource Conservation ...
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Monitoring the aquatic toxicity of mosquito vector control spray pesticides to freshwater receiving waters
Pesticides are applied to state and local waterways in California to control insects such as mosquitoes, which are known to serve as a vector for West Nile Virus infection of humans. The California State Water Resources Control Board adopted a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit to address the discharge of pesticides to waters of the United States resulting from ...
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Water quality at Blue Plains improved case study
The Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant in Washington D.C. is the largest advanced wastewater treatment plant in the world. The District of Columbia’s Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) operates the plant. LimnoTech’s expertise in sewer system and river modeling helped WASA make decisions about two complex programs: combined sewer overflow (CSO) control to improve local water ...
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Modelling impacts of seasonal wastewater treatment plant effluent permits and biosolid substitution for phosphorus management in catchments and river systems
The issues of diffuse and point source phosphorus (P) pollution in river systems are presented using a catchment model to assess nutrient behaviour, seasonal effluent standards and biosolid substitution. A process-based, dynamic water quality model (INCA-P) has been applied to four UK catchments, namely, the Rivers Tywi, Wensum, Lunan and Hampshire Avon, to simulate water fluxes, sediments, ...
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New septic system at no cost?
DEAL ISLAND -- When Robert Archibald heard that Maryland offers free septic system upgrades, his gut response was one of, well, skepticism. After all, his house in Deal Island had a septic system that after more than 30 years of use was working just fine, he said. Additionally, what things in life -- no less, from government -- are actually free, he wondered? Two months ago, spurred in part by ...
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Negotiating Higher NPDES Permit Limits Strategies for Optimizing Technology and Water Quality-based Effluent Limit Calculations for Petroleum Refining
Untitled Document Introduction The Clean Water Act is generally considered to be one of the most successful environmental statutes in terms of measurable progress towards pollutant reduction goals. This success is largely due to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program, which regulates the control of pollutant discharges from point sources to waters of ...
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