Approaching Storm: NPDES Phase II Stormwater Rule Deadline Nears   Water Engineering & Management September 2002   David Woelkers
In December of 1999, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Phase II Stormwater rule in the Federal Register. The issuance of the rule started a clock that has had municipalities, and stormwater professionals working to understand and evaluate its implications.
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Concord, N.C. - A Proactive Approach to Beginning a CMOM-Based Program   Water Engineering & Management August 2002   Ron Geiger, PE, and Todd Schuster
The federal government is in the process of establishing a CMOM philosophy for wastewater collection and treatment facilities that hinges on an aggressive, proactive approach, calling for utilities to act like investigative reporters rather than firefighters. Eventually, utility providers will have to follow federal CMOM guidelines, and states may establish similar guidelines.
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Stormwater Retrofitting to Protect Drinking Water Reservoirs from the Impacts of Urban Runoff - Part 2   Water Engineering & Management July 2002   James D. Benson, AICP, and Melissa Beristain
The Kensico Reservoir Stormwater Management Program is designed to reduce fecal coliform bacteria and turbidity delivered to the reservoir by controlling and treating stormwater. The first phases of the project, assessment of the watershed, site selection and the screening and design of stormwater control and treatment facilities, were completed in July 1998. Facility construction began in the spring of 1999 and completed early in 2001. DEP has committed to monitoring and evaluating facility performance and maintaining the facilities.
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Stormwater Retrofitting to Protect Drinking Water Reservoirs from the Impacts of Urban Runoff - Part 1   Water Engineering & Management June 2002   James D. Benson, AICP, CPESC, and Melissa Beristain, CPESC
This paper summarizes the stormwater management element of the program and its control of the two key pollutants regulated by the SWTR: fecal coliform bacteria and turbidity that are conveyed to the reservoir by stormwater.
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Groundwater Crisis and Sustainable Agriculture in Northern China   Water Engineering & Management April 2002   Zhang Guang-xin and Deng Wei
Although China ranks sixth in the world in total water resources, there is a shortage. The average water resources per capita is 2,300 m3, making it only one fourth of the world average per capita, while the unit plantation area of water resources is only one half the world’s average value.
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Legionella: Minimizing Risks   Water Engineering & Management August 2000   W. Craig Meyer
Legionellosis, the disease caused by Legionella spc., is common, though most people would guess it is extremely rare. Outbreaks of Legionellosis, defined as a cluster of three or more cases in a single locale, occur regularly in the United States and much of the developed world.

EPA Issues Proposed New Rule on Groundwater   Water Engineering & Management June 2000   Robert Gray
The Environmental Protection Agency said that a new rule it is proposing will "establish multiple barriers to protect against bacteria and viruses in drinking water from groundwater sources.

Water Quality Impacts of Long-Term Effluent Disposal Strategies in Southeast Florida   Water Engineering & Management May 2000   Ghislaine B. Carr, P.E., Patrick A. Davis, P.E., Robert E. Fergen, P.E. and Frederick Bloetscher, P.E.
The Southeast Florida Ocean Outfall Experiment II project was designed to satisfy bio-monitoring concerns and provide site specific information to allow the U.S. EPA Regional Administrator to evaluate if four open ocean outfalls located off the Southeast Florida coast were contributing to "unreasonable degradation" of the local marine environment.

New Arsenic Treatment Technology Tested in India   Water & Wastes Digest May 2000
A new low cost technology for purifying arsenic contaminated groundwater assists the government of India in removing this slow but steady assassin from their midst.