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GREAT LAKES -
Illinois - Indiana - Iowa - Michigan - Minnesota - Missouri - New York - Ohio - Pennsylvania - Wisconsin - Ontario
OF STATE and PROVINCIAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGERS
Recommended
Standards
(Ten States Standards)
Wastewater Water Supply Individual Sewage Systems
Swimming
Pools
Bathing Beaches
MINUTES
2010 Annual Meeting
April 26, 2010
Attendees: Via
Phone:
Mike Baker –
Jill
Jonas - Wisconsin
Wayne
Farrand -
Jim
Cleland –
Pat
Carroll – Indiana Gene
Soderbeck - Minnesota
Roger
Selburg –
Jerry
Kuhn -
Randy
Ellingboe -
Added Topics:
UV Light & Membrane
Filtration – Roger Selburg
Minutes:
1. Review of
Membership List
·
Make changes or
corrections and send via email to Bob Smude within next two weeks.
·
Retirements:
A.
Wayne Farrand
& Roy Ney (IA); Jennifer Bunton will continue as Iowa water supply representative;
Board member will be decided in due time;
B.
Roger Selburg
retiring in July; Jerry Kuhn (IL) will fill in thereafter on Board.
2. Review of 2009 Minutes
·
Motion to approve
made by Mike Baker, seconded by Roger Selburg, approval unanimous.
3. Financial Report
· Roger indicated there is currently $470 cash in the fund. There also are three $10 checks payable to
GLUMRB for a total of $500, if the checks counted. Since there isn’t an account for GLUMRB,
cashing the checks will be difficult.
·
Roger says we
aren’t in need of these funds, so he suggests donating the money to a worthy
cause.
· Motion by Mike Baker, seconded by Jim Cleland, to
dispose of the $30 in checks since they can’t be cashed; passed unanimously.
·
Motion by Mike Baker,
seconded by Pat Carroll, to donate the $470 in the water fund to Water for
People since there has not been any expenditures since 1985; passed
unanimously. (Roger will write checks
& reimburse himself $470)
·
Roger said he
will draft a letter to Water for People, write the check, and copy both to
GLUMRB Board.
Committee Reports
4. Water Works– Roy Ney
· Water Supply Committee met in
· 7 of 11 attended
· Agenda topics – see Committee Report dated April 26,
2010.
· Next meeting scheduled for mid-October 2010 in
· 2007 Edition of standards is being reviewed by
committee with chapters split up among members for updating. Standards are reviewed every five years.
· 2012 Edition first draft will be presented to GLUMRB
next year at this meeting, with final drafting to take place between 2011 &
2012 GLUMRB meeting; approval requested at April 2012 GLUMRB meeting.
· Missing four states that hoped to be able to attend the
meeting in October – most states are on travel restrictions.
·
Motion by
Cleland, seconded by Carroll to approve Water Works report; passed unanimously.
5. Sewage Works – Terry Kirschenman
· Wastewater report sent via email on April 21, 2010.
·
Chose last year
not to meet because of travel restrictions (normally would meet in November).
·
2009 meeting was
to be in
·
When states can’t
travel, it is difficult to make progress.
· Decided to have phone meetings not lasting longer than
2 hours.
·
Suggestion for
future meetings to meet via conference call and watch/do document editing
on-line.
· Email document doesn’t work very well for
communicating committee concerns, so phone & WEBEX for document is next
best option to meetings.
· Committee decided no face to face meeting in 2010,
only via phone/WEBEX.
· Jerry Novotny (WI) is very valuable member, but hasn’t
been able to attend.
·
Want to get draft
of revised standards done next year for approval in 2012; last version in 2004.
· Chapters assigned one by one to state for work then
collectively reviewed after that. Ron
Bell (OH) coordinated getting concurrence on chapter at end, like water supply
does.
·
Motion by Roger Selburg,
to accept report, seconded by Mike Baker; passed unanimously.
6. Individual Sewage Systems
– No participants
· Delay in committee work because of other work going on
with NEHA & National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association on
environmental health issues.
· Roger will check with Chad Moorman as to status of
committee work. Other states should also
check on status in their states. Roger
will send status to board members via email, to Terry.
· Interests in SSTS growing, not decreasing –
concerns: cluster systems, nonpoint problems,
industry technology developments, rules.
· Discussion:
Take small SSTS (e.g., cluster) into Wastewater Committee work? What is needed?
· Suggestions: Each
state go back and check on these questions (after GLUMRB hears back from
a. How adequate is 10 States Standard for small systems
design? (Small system up to 25 people.
b. Is an organization filling design standard needs for
these systems?
*For CWA
folks we meet with on Wednesday do they have a concern over these systems?
c. Next year discussion for
GLUMRB – What is the need for guidance on small systems?
·
Conclusion of
Discussion: Wastewater systems don’t
have to do anything new.
7. Swimming Pools & Beaches
· Hold off on developing guidance document since CDC is
doing a guidance document.
·
Consumer Product
Safety Commission is asking for inspections on pools after Baker act.
8. Status
Report on Publication of New Document for Pools & Status of ISS &
Swimming Pools Committees
·
No other business
9. Officers
for 2011
·
Chair – Roger Selburg
will be chair until July, when he’ll pass it on to Vice Chair.
·
Vice Chair –
·
Secretary –
·
Motion by Roger
Selburg, to vacate treasurer position until needed, seconded by Mike Baker;
passed unanimously.
11. Certificates of Appreciation for Roger Selburg, Wayne Farrand, Roy Ney,
& D.S. Patel
· Ask Bob Smude to prepare for Chair’s signature.
·
New chair for
Water Supply Committee
- Roy Ney will
notify Roger (as Chair) and Bob Smude, of who the new Chair is.
12. Other Issues
A. NY had
written letter to NSF on contaminated hypochlorite that resulted in a “Do Not
Drink” order. NSF is now working with
ASDWA on safeguards to prevent this in the future. NSF acted on this in December on Standard 60.
Bromate
and perchlorate can both be contaminants in chlorine products.
B. UV Light
(Roger) – How to measure effectiveness?
· New bacteriophage being brought in to model
inactivation, but not on EPA approved list for modeling.
· New organisms being brought in as inactivated, but not
on EPA list.
· EPA not dealing with it; states are on their own.
· The nature of the monitoring is different from other
measurements (logic controllers) and can’t measure parameters like turbidity or
chlorine residual.
· A third party reviewer of effectiveness of UV
technology will be helpful.
· Main Concern – Uncertainty of effectiveness; WI –
99.9% (see WS notes).
· All systems that have to disinfect also have to
maintain a residual.
· UV can add to log removal credits and reduce
disinfection by-products, so this is the reason for using it (plus inactivation
is instantaneous).
· Other concerns:
Difficult to review claims of effectiveness relative to equipment used,
although there are companies that can assess effectiveness.
· Some interest in NSF reviewing.
C. Water
Treatment & Monitoring for Single Family Systems Using Surface Waters
· Jill will see what she can find out on level used in
·
Lih-in Rezania (MN)
has been working on this information.
D. Membrane Filtration (Roger)
·
Membranes wearing
out early (1 – 2 years instead of 8 -10 years), especially for surface water
treatment systems.
·
They are plugging
up sometimes because of coagulant being used and had to go back to alum as
coagulant.
·
Common design
flow – flux rate cut in half in wintertime.
·
Design
consideration – use worst case scenario to design flow capacity.
·
Manufacturers may
replace membranes and not tell states.
E. Wayne Farrand (IA)
· See IA DNR information share sheet.
F. Mike Baker
· OH & AWWA approved capacities document, adopting
it into rule.
· Recommended & mandatory planning; maximum day and
maximum capacity requirements are on their webpage.
13. Next Meeting
·
April 25 in
14. Adjourned
·
Motion to adjourn
made by Wayne Farrand; seconded by Pat Carroll.
Passed unanimously.