Water Quality Issues Affecting Wastewater Treatment Plants

During the past year, new federal regulatory and policy initiatives, together with ongoing litigation in both the state and federal court systems, have impacted wastewater treatment plants. If you represent, advise or are employed by agencies or local government entities responsible for the management or operation of wastewater treatment plants, then you should review this information, which will highlight and discuss both the most pertinent issues facing wastewater treatment plants today and emerging issues which will undoubtedly face such plants in the future. 

Learning Objectives

• You will be able to discuss the latest information on the Federal Government’s use of consent decrees for environmental matters, including sanitary and combined sewer system overflows.
• You will be able to illustrate Integrated municipal and wastewater planning, and how such planning could be used to address water quality issues.
• You will be able to indicate latest case law addressing impaired waters and the development of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) by both EPA and the states.
• You will be able to discuss The Clean Water Rule.