Water distribution rehabilitation is an urgent infrastructure problem and will be on the agenda of utilities, local governments, and industries for many years. Based on national studies, a large gap exists between current expenditures on water main rehabilitation and the investment levels needed to sustain system integrity. Many aging pipe segments are candidates for renewal and must be updated through funding from capital improvement programs...

Protect your organization - know the ins and outs of SEQRA. Join us for this seminar and get practical information about a complex area of the law presented by an extremely knowledgeable faculty in an interactive format. Get a handle on complicated issues surrounding SEQRA strategies. Avoid problems down the road by protecting yourself and your company - find out exactly what the critical issues are and how to best handle them. You will gain t...

Most impacts to wetlands and waters occurring from development activities, like a road crossing or construction of a utility corridor, require permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Typically impacts greater than 0.1 acres in size require mitigation to compensate for authorized impacts. After advancing wetland mitigation guidance for several decades in their regulatory programs, the USACE and U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) will kick-off First Thursday Seminars with the live webcast Combined Heat and Power: An Integrated Approach to Energy Resources on February 7, 2013. Experts Patricia Welesko Garland and Bob Slattery of Oak Ridge National Laboratory will offer training about technologies, applications, and successful examples to optimize heat and power resources at your site. Specifica...

Help keep your agency or client ahead of the curve and away from the EPA consent decree steamroller when it comes to the operation and maintenance of the sanitary sewer systems by becoming aware of recent innovations on the subject. Many agencies are at a crossroads when they look at their sewer systems. On the one hand, the federal agencies, such as the EPA, are issuing consent decrees for overflows at an accelerating rate; the funds that age...

Federal On-Site Renewable Power Purchase Agreements Learn how to develop an on-site renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) on a Federal site to meet Federal mandates: Review key PPA considerations, including state, local and utility requirements and restrictions; Evaluate the technical and site feasibility for an on-site renewable energy project; Establish a multi-disciplinary team to successfully implement the PPA; Understand key considerat...

FEMP e-Training: Sustainable Institutional Change for Federal Facility Managers Learn practical information and action-based tools to change individual and organizational behaviors in support of energy efficiency and strategic sustainability goals: Apply the construct of "rules, roles, and tools” in support of energy efficiency and strategic sustainability goals Apply eight principles of institutional change to strategy development Devel...

Rural, suburban and urban communities across the United States are wrestling with increasingly complex wastewater management issues in the face of funding limitations for system upkeep and new infrastructure, environmental degradation and water resource limitations, and increasing energy costs. Aging septic systems and new development in exurban areas often present acute challenges, prompting these communities to seek public sewer extensions f...

FEMP eTraining: Launching a Utility Energy Services Contract (UESC): Getting to Yes! Learn how to develop and implement energy efficiency, water efficiency, and renewable energy projects on Federal sites under a Utility Energy Services Contract: Evaluate a serving utilities' interest and capabilities; Form the best team to include the right skill sets to get a UESC underway; Answer common questions that might be raised concerning authority, pr...

Benefits Water resource management often struggles with the mismatch of political and hydrologic boundaries. Instead of drawing our jurisdictions according to natural watersheds, as suggested by the great western explorer John Wesley Powell, many of our political boundaries follow just the opposite. Political lines that follow rivers or lakes force resource sharing and collaboration for long term success. Integrated water resources management...