Description of Initiative: Nebraska has many communities with declining populations. This decline can create problems for communities to fund projects or maintain wastewater facilities. Based on these observations, Nebraska determined…
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Iowa’s Water Resource Restoration Sponsored Project Initiative
Description of Initiative: In 2009, the Iowa Legislature authorized the use of sewer utility revenues to finance a new category of projects, called “Water Resource Restoration Sponsored Projects.” Sponsored projects…
Alaska DEC Supports Sewer and Drinking Water Innovation
With over 3,300 rural Alaska homes lacking running water and flush toilets, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is supporting work to develop better and more affordable methods for delivering drinking…
Washington’s Local Source Control Partnership – Local Pollution Prevention Focused on Small Business
What do mercury, flame retardants, and polychlorinated biphenyls have in common? All of these persistent chemicals, and many other toxics, have been detected in Washington State’s waterways. Together, they are…
Modernization of Virginia’s Erosion and Stormwater Certification Program
On July 1, 2013, legislation transferred responsibility for the Erosion and Sediment Control (ESC) certification program and the Responsible Land Disturber (RLD) certificate program to the Virginia Department of Environmental…
Nebraska Energy Conservation at Publicly Owned Wastewater Treatment Plants
The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) is partnering with the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) Bioengineering Department’s Partners in Pollution Prevention Program (P3) to provide energy assessments at…
Nebraska’s Assessing Wastewater Infrastructure Needs (AWIN)
Nebraska has many communities with declining populations. This decline can create problems for communities to fund projects or maintain wastewater facilities. Based on these observations, Nebraska determined that a tool…
Washington’s Ferries for Science and Eyes over Puget Sound
Ferries for Science – Innovative Marine Monitoring on Ferries Washington State’s Puget Sound is in trouble, due mostly to the everyday activities of the 4.4 million people who live on…
Renewed Concerns by ECOS & State Water Groups with H.R. 8
ECOS, ACWA, and ASWM write to express concern with H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015. If enacted, H.R. would modify requirements with respect to…
Letter to Senate on Hydropower Regulatory Modernization Act of 2015
This joint letter (ECOS, ACWA, ASWM) expresses concern with provisions of S. 1236, the Hydropower Improvement Act of 2015. If enacted, S. 1236 would modify requirements with respect to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)…
