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PA-AWWA's Water For People
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Drawing in Late December 2008

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Posted: 07/01/2008
AWWA E-Mainstream
Dave Plank, Senior Writer

Water For People

Water buffalos give $80k to WFP

 

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Nearly $80,000 was raised for Water For People by a charity ride and raffle sponsored by the Water Buffalos, a group of water industry motorcycle enthusiasts, at ACE 2008.

Nine riders took part in the trip to AWWA’s annual conference in Atlanta, raising approximately $49,000 through sponsors and pledges. Raffle tickets were also sold at the Water For People booth to win a 2008 Harley Davidson motorcycle; the winner, Jeff Hines from York, Penn., donated the motorcycle back to Water For People, bringing the total amount raised to almost $80,000.

The Water Buffalos formed in 2004 when Harold Thomas Jr., with Brown and Caldwell's Phoenix office, joined a handful of other water professionals on a ride to a water conference. The group had such a great time that they decided to form an official club and eventually settled on the name The Water Buffalos. Each year, they reunite to ride to the Annual Tri-State Seminar (Arizona, California, and Nevada), which features sessions on water, wastewater, and security issues and to the AWWA annual conference.

This year, Mark Stratton of the Tucson (Ariz.) Metropolitan Domestic Water Improvement District had longest ride the group. He was supposed to meet Bill Persich, from Brown & Caldwell’s Seattle office, in Salt Lake City, to share the ride from there to Atlanta. Mechanical trouble with Persich’s motorcycle, however, left Stratton riding alone all the way to Knoxville, Tenn.

From Knoxville, the group proceeded on to the Cherohala Skyway and the Smoky Mountains, then Cartersville, Georgia, the home of Gene Camp from AWWA’s Georgia Section. Camp and others from the Georgia section hosted a fish fry dinner; though there were only nine riders, many of the Water Buffalos who were unable to ride this year made the Friday night dinner as well.

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*All sponsors will be mentioned at the reception, in the Water News Source newsletter and on PA-AWWA's website (over 100,000 hits a month). 
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March 14, 2008
 

New city water authority head named

 Friday, March 14, 2008

By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority board today unanimously picked Michael Kenney as the agency's new executive director, effective April 1.

Mr. Kenney, 54 and of Greensburg, will leave a job as assistant manager of the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County and will move to Pittsburgh shortly.

He emerged from four finalists interviewed by board Chairman Don Walko and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl. "He understood the role of the authority in relation to city departments and other authorities," Mr. Walko said, emphasizing Mr. Kenney's sensitivity to the role water systems play in development.

Mr. Walko said he was also impressed with Mr. Kenney's success at marketing the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County's services to new areas -- something Pittsburgh's water authority is also doing as exemplified by a recent deal to sell water to Aspinwall. "We see [Mr. Kenney's experience] as fitting in with our need to consolidate services in this region," Mr. Walko said.

"I think the biggest challenge for anybody in our business, in the Northeast, is the aging infrastructure," said Mr. Kenney. He said he would seek innovative ways to improve the authority's network of water lines and sewers while minimizing rate increases.

Mr. Kenney will earn around $130,000 a year, said Mr. Walko, who described that as mid-range for water system bosses in markets Pittsburgh's size.

Mr. Ravenstahl prompted the departure in September of former executive director Greg Tutsock, who earned $116,000 and whose six-month independent consulting contract with the authority is expiring. Michael D. Lichte, who served as acting executive director, will return to his old post of engineering director. He did not apply for the executive director post.

Mr. Walko said the other finalists were from Allegheny County, Florida and New York.

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ATtention: Operators
NEW ON-LINE TRAINING OPPORTUNITy!!!
Partnership FOR SAFE WATER

Partnership Online Course
Provides CEU’s for Operators

The long-awaited Partnership training course is
now available.The course is entitled Optimizing Performance
Using Turbidity Data.
The course content
closely follows the procedures used in the Phase
III self-assessment. Therefore, operators from
participating Partnership plants should find
taking the course very familiar.

The course is part of the AWWA Online Institute.
 Operators that are associated with
Partnership
member plants can take the course
for only $25 (regular member charge is $60).
Click here for more information:
http://www.awwa.org/learnonline
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2006 Partnership for Safe Water Phase III and Phase IV Awardees

The Partnership for Safe Water is recognizing all Phase III Directors
Awardees and Phase IV Excellence in Water Treatment Awardees by placing
the attached ad in two national publications.

The first ad ran in the December 25 issue of Nation's Cities Weekly,
the official weekly publication of the National League of Cities. The
second ad will run in U.S. Mayor, the official bi-monthly publication of
the Conference of Mayors, and will appear in the January 7, 2007 issue.

The Partnership Steering Committee congratulates you on your
achievement. Your participation in the Partnership for Safe Water and
your award accomplishment demonstrates your commitment to providing the
highest quality water to your customers.

Congratulations to the following award-winning Pennsylvania drinking water utilities!

You have demonstrated your commitment to providing superior quality water to your customers beyond the requirements of the USEPA regulations.

The Partnership for Safe Water is a voluntary initiative sponsored by USEPA, and five other safe drinking water organizations. For more information

on the Partnership for Safe Water contact the American Water Works Association using our web site, www.awwa.org/science/partnership, or call 303.794.7711.

Excellence in Water Treatment Award Utilities

Pennsylvania

Blossburg Water Authority

Brodhead Creek Regional Authority

Carlisle Borough Municipal Authority

Chester Water Authority

City of Lancaster Authority

Downingtown Municipal Water Authority

East Greenville Borough Water Department

Harrisburg Water System

Jersey Shore Area Joint Water Authority

North Penn and North Wales Water Authorities

Oakmont Water Authority

Pennsylvania American Water

Philadelphia Water Department

Schuylkill County Municipal Authority

Shenandoah Municipal Water Authority



Click here for the list of all 2006 awardees

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Pennsylvania American Water presents
Partnership for Safe Water's Five-Year
Directors Awards...Congratulations!!!

Pennsylvania American Water Kane, Pa. Treatment Plant Operator
Don Holt (right) looks on, along with Water Quality Manager Ron Bargiel
(center), as Network Supervisor Tim Mague displays the Five-Year
Partnership for Safe Water Directors Award.  The award was presented to
plant operators and other colleagues in Kane on October 26, 2006.
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October 19, 2006:

Pennsylvania American Water presents
Partnership for Safe Water's Five-Year
Directors Awards...Congratulations!!!

White Deer Water Treatment Facility: Pictured l to r: Pennsylvania American Water employees
Dan Hufton, Ed Russel, Bob Schnitzler, Ron Long, David Ferster, Gary Witmeyer.



Susquehanna Water Treatment Facility: Pictured l to r: PA DEP's Jim Ressler and Len Shebby;
Pennsylvania American Water's Brad Button, Ed Krug, Dan Millard and Don Kessler.

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Pennsylvania American Water's Punxsutawney, Pa. Big Run Water
Treatment Plant on Friday, September 22, 2006. A ceremony was held at the
plant to recognize attainment of the Partnership for Safe Water's Five-Year
Directors Award.

Gathered at Punxsutawney, Pa's Big Run Water Treatment Plant for a
Partnership for Safe Water Five-Year Directors Award presentation are (left
to right) Pennsylvania American Water colleagues Bruce Steinhiser, Brian
Henretta, Tom Zimmerman, Doug Hollenbaugh, Jon Natale, PA DEP Water Supply
Program Manager Brad Vanderhoof, and Pennsylvania American Water's Ron Bargiel.

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PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFE WATER NEWS:
Pennsylvania American Water Receives National Award for Ongoing Safe Water Practices

Five Years of Successful Participation Merits Recognition for Susquehanna Treatment Plant

 (Hershey, Pa.) – September 28, 2006 - Pennsylvania American Water recently received nine national awards—including one for its Susquehanna water treatment plant—for maintaining the Partnership for Safe Water’s Directors Award requirements for five consecutive years. 

The Partnership for Safe Water is a national volunteer initiative developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and other organizations representing water suppliers.

The Directors Award is presented to water systems that have successfully completed a rigorous review in the Partnership’s Self-Assessment and Peer Review phase.  During this phase, participating utilities identify areas of possible improvement in plant design, operation and management and then create a plan for implementing these improvements.

To receive the five-year award, utilities must carry out these improvements and deliver water that not only meets drinking water standards, but surpasses what is required by regulation, for five consecutive years.

Pennsylvania American Water signed the Partnership agreement with the EPA and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in February of 1996, thereby declaring the company’s dedication to achieving the program goals.

The Partnership currently includes more than 200 water utilities, collectively serving more than 85 million people nationwide. To date, 33 water treatment plants received the five-year award in Pennsylvania, 28 of which – or 82% – are Pennsylvania American Water facilities. All 35 of Pennsylvania American Water’s water treatment facilities are enrolled and in various phases of the Partnership program.

 “Maintaining Directors Award status for five years demonstrates Pennsylvania American Water’s ongoing commitment to optimizing treatment processes and providing high-quality water to customers,” said Dan Warnock, Pennsylvania American Water president. “Working as a team over the years, our employees have achieved this high mark of distinction. They are the driving force behind our success, and I am thrilled that they have achieved this national recognition. It is well-deserved.”

In addition to the Susquehanna Water Treatment Plant, the following Pennsylvania American Water treatment facilities have achieved the Partnership’s Five-Year Directors Award in 2006: 

  1. Brownsville Water Treatment Plant, Fayette County
  2. Crystal Lake Water Treatment Plant, Luzerne County
  3. Lake Scranton Water Treatment Plant, Lackawanna County
  4. Kane Water Treatment Plant, McKean County
  5. Norristown Water Treatment Plant, Montgomery County
  6. Punxsutawney Water Treatment Plant, Jefferson County
  7. Watres Water Treatment Plant, Luzerne County
  8. White Deer Water Treatment Plant, Union County

        The following Pennsylvania American Water treatment facilities have achieved the five-year status in the Partnership in 2005:

  1. Bangor Water Treatment Plant, Northampton County
  2. Brownell Water Treatment Plant, Lackawanna County
  3. Butler Water Treatment Plant, Butler County
  4. Ceasetown Water Treatment Plant, Luzerne County
  5. Clarion Water Treatment Plant, Clarion County
  6. Fallbrook Water Treatment Plant, Lackawanna County
  7. Forest City Water Treatment Plant, Susquehanna County
  8. Ellwood City Water Treatment Plant, Lawrence County
  9. Hershey G. C. Smith Water Treatment Plant, Dauphin County
  10. Indiana Water Treatment Plant, Indiana County
  11. Kittanning Water Treatment Plant, Armstrong County
  12. Milton Water Treatment Plant, Northumberland County
  13. Montrose Water Treatment Plant, Susquehanna County
  14. Nesbitt Water Treatment Plant, Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties
  15. New Castle Water Treatment Plant, Lawrence County
  16. Philipsburg Water Treatment Plant, Centre County
  17. Pittsburgh Water Treatment Plant (Aldrich), Washington County
  18. Pittsburgh Water Treatment Plant (Hays Mine Plants), Allegheny County
  19. Silver Spring Water Treatment Plant, Cumberland County

             Pennsylvania American Water was presented with the Five-Year Directors Award at AWWA’s annual conference and exposition in San Antonio on June 12, 2006. Recognition ceremonies at local plants receiving the award will be held before year’s end.  More information about the Partnership and the Pennsylvania American Water plants receiving the award in 2006 can be found at www.pawc.com under “In the Spotlight.”

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pport
Partnership News:

The Utility Quality Programs Luncheon was held on June 12, 2006, in San
Antonio, the Partnership recognized utilities that have received awards
during the year. The luncheon was held jointly with the QualServe
program.

Photos of award presentations are now available for viewing on
the Partnership's web page at
http://www.awwa.org/Science/partnership/Summary/Whats_New.cfm

Congratulations to all Pennsylvania awardees! Keep up the great work.

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Partnership for Safe Water
2006 Annual Data Summary Report
Click here to read the report

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Easton Joins the Partnership for Safe Water HARRISBURG (Feb. 13) -- The City of Easton Water Filtration Plant, located in Northampton County, recently signed an agreement to become the newest member of the Partnership for Safe Water. The partnership program is a voluntary effort involving rigorous self-assessment procedures that are specifically geared toward identifying and correcting weaknesses in plant operation, design and administration. Correcting these weaknesses helps prevent waterborne disease outbreaks from organisms like Cryptosporidium and Giardia.    Through the partnership program, the Pennsylvania Section-American Water Works Association (PA-AWWA) has teamed up with DEP to heighten prevention of disease-causing organisms, to increase treatment plant performance and evaluation methods, as well as to develop public recognition for efforts toward optimal water quality. Active participation in the Partnership program will provide an extra level of protection for consumers of their drinking water.   The City of Easton filtration plant obtains raw water from the Delaware River.  Following treatment at the plant, drinking water is provided to more than 70,000 consumers. With the recent addition of Easton, 112 surface water filtration plants are enrolled in the Partnership Program in Pennsylvania.  These plants serve approximately 5.3 million people, which is well over half of the 8.3 million Pennsylvanians who obtain part or all of their drinking water from surface water treatment plants.
For more information, contact Ed Chescattie at 717-772-4018 or e-mail mailto:echescatti@state.pa.us Information is also available on DEP's website (Keyword "filtration").

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 15, 2006
CONTACT: Greg Kail
303-734-3410
gkail@awwa.org

In Times of Disaster, Utilities Should Help Each Other
AWWA, other water agencies say Encourage members to form intrastate mutual aid networks

(Denver) - The American Water Works Association (AWWA), along with
other water agencies, today announced a Joint Policy Statement on Mutual
Aid & Assistance Networks. This "Utilities Helping Utilities"
concept encourages utilities and local/state governments to establish
intrastate mutual aid and assistance networks.
"Hurricane Katrina was a real wake up call to the whole country,"
said AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr. "The water community has a
long history of working towards emergency preparedness, and these mutual
aid networks are the next step. They will provide rapid, short-term
deployment of emergency assistance to any water or wastewater utility
affected by either natural or manmade events."
According to the joint statement: "A pre-established agreement among
a network of utilities can complement and enhance local capabilities to
prepare for and respond to a broad range of threats, both natural and
man-made. The establishment of such intrastate mutual aid and assistance
networks is a core principle of the National Preparedness Goal developed
by the Department of Homeland Security."

A copy of the full statement is attached.
More information on security and disaster recovery can be found on
AWWA's Web site at http://www.awwa.org/Advocacy/govtaff/issues/Issue08_Security.cfm.

For more information click here
New Release

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Elizabethtown Joins Partnership for Safe Water HARRISBURG (Dec. 28) --

The Elizabethtown Water Filtration Plant in Lancaster County, recently signed an agreement to become the newest member of the Partnership for Safe Water.   The partnership program is a voluntary effort involving rigorous self-assessment procedures that are specifically geared toward identifying and correcting weaknesses in plant operation, design and administration. Correcting these weaknesses helps prevent waterborne disease outbreaks from organisms like Cryptosporidium and Giardia.   

Through the partnership program, the Pennsylvania Section-American Water Works Association (PA-AWWA) has teamed up with DEP to heighten prevention of disease-causing organisms, to increase treatment plant performance and evaluation methods, as well as to develop public recognition for efforts toward optimal water quality. The Partnership program will provide an extra level of protection for consumers of their drinking water. Elizabethtown oversees the operation of a filtration plant that obtains raw water from Haldeman Lake.  Following treatment at the plant, drinking water is provided to about 12,000 consumers. 
With the recent addition of Elizabethtown, 111 surface water filtration plants are enrolled in the Partnership Program in Pennsylvania.  These plants serve approximately 5.2 million people, which is well over half of the 8.3 million Pennsylvanians who obtain part or all of their drinking water from surface water treatment plants. For more information, contact Ed Chescattie at 717-772-4018 or by e-mail  at echescatti@state.pa.us .  Information is also available on DEP's website (Keyword "filtration").

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