HomeMy WebLinkAbout07.d.2) (Handout) Member Causey NACWA ReportItem 7, d. 2)
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CCCSD NACWA Report
July 21, 2016
Denver Summer Conference
• CCCSD Platinum Award — highlighted in the video for 18 years
• Technical Committee Meetings
o Leg & Regulatory
• Integrated Planning — ":whatever you want it to be" key outcomes
affordability and environmental enhancement
• Examples of single agency use — more time and com petition for priorities
• No longer based on multiple CWA needs evaluation
• Used with NPDES permits
• To be used as reopener in CD programs — use as tool instead of CDs
• Santa Maria
• Consolidation — small agency mentoring program
o Legal Affairs
• Updating Consent Decree Manual — reviews desired
• Permit Shield Litigation 2 cases amicus briefs — issue of narrative standards —
cause or materially contribute — over the edge
• Meet with environmental community to discuss solutions
o Facility & Collection System
• I/1 from Laterals issue abandon laterals becoming issue
• PSL program become very popular
• Especially self enforcing model
• Better connection standards needed
• Big data — real time monitoring for the future — cost saving especially at plants
• Better operating results examples ay plants
o Utility & Resource Management
• LIHEAP low income affordability issues
• Rates 1= affordability
• social agency funds the programs for low income not sewer agency
• DOE Wastewater Accelerator program
• Performance Under Pressure — JP Pawlieu-Fry Institute for Health and Human Potential
o How many think better performance under pressure?
o Productivity diminished under pressure
o Courage and preparation are keys to perform under pressure
• Richard Luthy — Stanford Professor — ReNUWit
o Loops of water = one water
o Closing loops — opportunities
o Self sufficiency revolution
o Diversified water supply solution is the future
o Decentralized systems moving back into the mix
o Finance and rate structures need to change — too much fixed costs
o Repurpose existing infrastructure
o Can we recharge groundwater in the overflow basins
• Communications Panel
o Outside validators are hugely important to future success
o No news not good news
o Two hour public conversations at District monthly — history of seswers —100 people
o Unusual events to raise awareness — beer, purple pipe decorating, pipe sculptures
contest, Super bowl articles about super bowl flush, City film festival restroom flyers
"we know what you flushed last year"
o Toilet seat decorations
o NEORSD — lack of brand clarity, lack of customer awareness drivers
o Clean Water Central —
■ target community values in communications
• how directly connected to what the public wants
• how connected to water way — focus on outcomes in telling stories
• get public to make comments not District staff — Brand Ambassadors
• WEF — Infrastructure Innovation Financing Workgroup
o How can current financing mechanisms be imporved?
o What areas in most need of funding but least funding available?
o What are new and underutilized financing concepts?
o East coast bias
o Strong affordability issues — environmental justice issue future
o Low income affordability issues big topic LIHEAP — low income home energy
assistance program
o Protect tax exempt bonding
o Unfunded mandates
o R&D expansion
o Need more long term views not just my term
o Trust fund development
o Allow states to develop own funding programs rather than fed government
o Social side of paying for programs
o Peer exchange programs
o New proposal — FAST FORWARD like buy America bonds