Emerging Water Contaminants Roundtable (75min)

As if running your water system wasn’t hard enough with COVID-19, you also need to keep up to date with legislative and regulatory changes. Our panel will review what is required now and what’s on the horizon, and how utilities are preparing for the following:
• Lead & Copper Rule: updates to the rule, getting an accurate system survey of lead service lines, finding funding, and how water authorities can get public buy-in and trust
• PFOA and PFAS: regulations in various states, ITRC website, and top solutions
• Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey & Assessment: What it is, when will it be released, can utilities do the survey themselves, and the value of survey
• America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA): update, deadline for medium and small systems for the risk & resiliency assessment and emergency response plan, and resources available thru EPA and AWWA
• Start-up of schools and businesses after COVID shutdown: AWWA and CDC help
• UCMR-4: what data is showing us so far, what to do when your data doesn’t look right
Panelists include:
Tori Morgan (Entech)
Rob Horvat (Entech)
Kim Mazur (Entech)
Kevin Morley, PhD (Federal Relations for AWWA)
Ron Milke (Eurofins Eaton Analytical, LLC)
Recorded on September 10, 2020