Calendar - April 2010

Reminder

The Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA) is holding three grant workshops for the current Fiscal Year 2011 funding cycle on March 30, 31 and April 1. Please RSVP to Veronica Rivera, WIFA Communications Director, at vrivera@azwifa.gov or (602) 364-1236 if you would like to attend. Attached is the Request for Grant Applications. Further information, including application forms, can be found at http://www.azwifa.gov/?pageid=pdgrant. Applications are due April 30, 2010.

View flyer.

Veronica Rivera

Communications Director

Public Affairs and Outreach

RWIC Coordinator

Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA) of Arizona 

1110 West Washington St.

Suite 290

Phoenix, AZ 85007

(602) 364-1236

(602) 364-1327 Fax

vrivera@azwifa.gov

www.azwifa.gov

www.rwic.azwifa.gov

PUBLIC NOTICE: Tank Programs: Notice of Proposed Soil and Groundwater Cleanup – Former Sunset Liquor/Ray Bell #440 Facility
Start of public comment period. Comment period ends May 03, 2010.
416 London Bridge Road, Lake Havasu City
Public Notice
Mark Lucas, (602) 771-4297

PUBLIC NOTICE: Water Quality; Ground Water/APP & Reuse: 27-10, AZ SPB-Slide Rock State Park STF, inv. 106082
Start of public comment period. Comment period ends May 01, 2010.
Public Notice
Draft Permit
Draft Fact Sheet
Monica Phillips, (602) 771-2253

PUBLIC NOTICE: Water Quality: Fountain Hills Sanitary District WWTP; Significant Amendment
End of public comment period. Comment period began March 04, 2010.
Public Notice
Draft Permit
Draft Fact Sheet
Monica Phillips, (602) 771-2253

PUBLIC NOTICE: Water Quality; Ground Water/APP & Reuse: 28-10, APP, City of Coolidge Water Reclamation Facility inv. 105911
Start of public comment period. Comment period ends May 02, 2010.
Public Notice
Draft Permit
Draft Fact Sheet
Robert Manley, (602) 771-4498

Grand Canyon Pump and Supply and Danfoss Drives Corporation are presenting an educational seminar on April 6^th (Tucson) and April 7^th (Phoenix) to review the use of VFDs in water pump applications.  Featured speaker is Jeff Bergman from Danfoss Drives.  The Rural Water Association of Arizona (RWWA) will present a certificate for (4) PDH/CEU’s for attendance.

Attached is an informational piece describing the contents of the seminar.  You and your staff are invited to attend. 

Please complete the Registration Form and return via fax or e-mail no later than March 29, 2010 to: 602-233-9225 or jim@grandcanyonpump.com  Registration will be limited to the first 40 respondents.

Sincerely,

Jim Sebbens

GRAND CANYON PUMP AND SUPPLY

602-272-7867

Join us for another Source Water Adventure in Portal, Arizona!

See full brochure. 

Portal Peak Lodge

2358 South Rock House Road

San Simon, AZ 85632

Itinerary:

9:00am—Meet at Portal Peak Lodge in Portal, AZ

• Introductions

Travel to irrigation diversions

• View irrigation ditches

Travel to Southwest Research

• View wetlands / spring box

Travel to Basin trail head

• Hike 3 mile trail to

     Herb Martyr camp ground

Lunch will be served at the Source Water Grill following the Basin Trail Hike

Grand Canyon Pump and Supply and Danfoss Drives Corporation are presenting an educational seminar on April 6^th (Tucson) and April 7^th (Phoenix) to review the use of VFDs in water pump applications.  Featured speaker is Jeff Bergman from Danfoss Drives.  The Rural Water Association of Arizona (RWWA) will present a certificate for (4) PDH/CEU’s for attendance.

Attached is an informational piece describing the contents of the seminar.  You and your staff are invited to attend. 

Please complete the Registration Form and return via fax or e-mail no later than March 29, 2010 to: 602-233-9225 or jim@grandcanyonpump.com  Registration will be limited to the first 40 respondents.

Sincerely,

Jim Sebbens

GRAND CANYON PUMP AND SUPPLY

602-272-7867

Please join Badger Meter and National Meter & Automation for our upcoming no charge Technical Seminars. Topics include:

PUBLIC MEETING: Regulations & Permitting Subcommittee Work Group Meeting of the Blue Ribbon Panel Changes to ADEQ and ADWR Permitting Processes & Revisions to BADCT for Sewage Treatment Processes
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
ADEQ Main Office
1110 W. Washington St., Room 145, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Michele Robertson, (602) 771-4827 or Kym Holloway, (602) 771-4691

WORKSHOP: Water Quality Division, Drinking Water Section: Expense Reimbursement Grant Workshop
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ADEQ Main Office
1110 W. Washington St., Room 3175 A&B, Phoenix, AZ 85007

Free workshop and no pre-registration

Please join Badger Meter and National Meter & Automation for our upcoming no charge Technical Seminars. Topics include:

Dear Tribes and Communities, 

Green energy, recycling, renewable energy!!! Every day you hear it, you read it, you talk it, now come experience it as you learn from knowledgeable leaders, experts in the subject.  

RCAC is a sponsor of this wonderful event and BioCycle has a new Tribal and Communities Track to assist you in developing new language for funding your needs, and ways to use green technologies in your communities.        

Please join us for the most energizing and exciting conference on composting, organics recycling & renewable energy of 2010!

Several of our staff are presenting. 

 Conference Highlights
• Proven Tools To Empower Sustainable Communities
• Food Waste Collection, Transport and Composting
• Optimizing Operations Of Composting, Anaerobic Digestion Facilities
• How To Navigate, Profit From Carbon Credit Protocols And Markets
• Compost Links To Community Food Production
• Digester Biogas Conditioning To Expand Market Options
• Ordinances, Mandates And Incentives To Sustain Organics Diversion
• Best Management Practices To Minimize Environmental Impacts
• Anaerobic Digestion Of MSW Organics — Systems And Substrate Processing

Waste” management challenges and opportunities — AND so much more.

BioCycle Conferences connect you with waste management solutions for today’s real world issues. Energy independence. Sustainability. Climate change. Soil and water protection. Jobs. Issues that must be addressed if we are going to successfully manage our waste streams for now and the future.

The 25th Annual BioCycle West Coast Conference 2010 is WHERE you need to be on April 12-15, in San Diego, California.

This conference will bring together the people who are making a difference in waste management – today’s leaders who are conducting research, managing projects and facilities that turn municipal, industrial and agricultural wastes into marketable resources including compost, renewable energy, soil conditioners, biofuels, and other high-value products.

Conference sessions cover zero waste, renewable energy from organics recycling, building compost markets, residential source separated organics collection, advances in anaerobic digestion and MSW composting, compost utilization, biofuels developments and much more. A special track will focus on organic waste management in tribal and rural communities.

Learn from and network with industry leaders and practitioners who have been through the ropes of project permitting, financing, start-up and successful facility management. BioCycle West Coast Conference 2010 is your best investment and guide to sustainable waste and resource management.

To register

http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=84f74636-be4a-4560-9468-8647b704b69c <http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=84f74636-be4a-4560-9468-8647b704b69c> 

Deborah Patton, MS

Rural Development Specialist- Environmental

Rural Community Assistance Corporation

1158 E. Beryl Avenue, Suite 8

Phoenix, AZ  85020

 dpatton@rcac.org

 Cell 520/631-5056

Phone 602/371-3412

PUBLIC MEETING: Regulations & Permitting Subcommittee Work Group Meeting of the Blue Ribbon Panel Changes to Reclaimed Water Quality Standards & Associated Monitoring and Additions to the Allowable End Uses List
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
ADEQ Main Office
1110 W. Washington St., Room 145, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Agenda
Tom Buschatzke, (602) 261-8532 or Kym Holloway, (602) 771-4691

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WORKSHOP: Water Quality Division and Northern Regional Office: Practice Operator Certification Exams
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Hon-Dah Resort
777 Highway 260, Pinetop, AZ 85935
Agenda
Byron James, (928) 337-3565

PUBLIC MEETING: Regulations & Permitting Subcommittee Work Group Meeting of the Blue Ribbon Panel Gray Water Recommendations
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
ADEQ Main Office
1110 W. Washington St., Room 145, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Ron Doba, (602) 381-4436 or Kym Holloway, (602) 771-4691

WORKSHOP: Water Quality: Groundwater Section: Free Aquifer Protection Permit Workshop
9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
ADEQ, Conference Room 3175 A&B
1110 W. Washington Street, Phoenix
Agenda
Carrolette Winstead

PUBLIC MEETING: Air Quality: Governor’s Agricultural Best Management Practices Committee
1:30 p.m.
ADEQ Main Office
1110 W. Washington St., Room 3175 A&B, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Lisa Tomczak, (602) 771-4450

We are also hosting the Second Annual Water Festival in Nogales, AZ on April 29th at Nogales High School.  That festival is being planned and staffed almost entireley by a group of really fabulous students from Nogales High School. If you are at all interested in acting as a helpful adult presence at that event, please let me (Holly) know!  Though it is a long journey for many of you, I assure you that it will be a VERY impressive, inspiring day.

hhilburn@cals.arizona.edu Holly Thomas-Hilburn

Public Meeting: Superfund: WQARF Advisory Board Meeting
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
ADEQ Main Office,
1110 W. Washington St., Room 3175 A&B, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Public Meeting
Juana Bonilla, (602) 771-4189