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doi: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09735.xpmid: N/A
Disinfection holds an unmatched distinction among water treatment technologies: it has saved countless lives over the past 100 years since chlorine was first applied to water drawn from the Boonton Reservoir in Jersey City, N.J. This momentous application of “chloride of lime” transformed water treatment across the globe. Chlorine has remained the disinfectant of choice, as reported by 68% of the utilities that responded to AWWA's Disinfection Systems Committee survey of disinfection practices. A number of utilities reported having switched to other disinfectants: chloramine ‐ 30%, ozone ‐ 9%, chlorine dioxide ‐ 8%, ultraviolet light ‐ 2%. Part 1 of the committee's two‐part report covers recent changes, current practices, and water quality. Part 2 will be published in the November issue.
doi: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09729.xpmid: N/A
In his column, AWWA Executive Director Gary Zimmerman celebrates the 100th anniversary of the first large‐scale use of chlorination as a disinfection technology at the Boonton Reservoir of the Jersey City Water Works in 1908. He mentions other topics presented in this month's Journal, including disinfection practices, the results of AWWA's Disinfection Systems Committee survey, and the 2008 State of the Industry Report.
doi: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09736.xpmid: N/A
In this case, the Supreme Court of Montana has determined that a private nonprofit water and sewer association can prohibit the drilling and use of private wells on its members’ property.
doi: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09737.xpmid: N/A
In this case, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA's) revised underground injection control (UIC) regulations for Class I municipal disposal wells in Florida are an appropriate exercise of administrative rulemaking pursuant to the power granted to the agency under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Miami‐Dade County, several cities, a wastewater treatment facility, and the Sierra Club challenged the new rule on the grounds that the USEPA failed to follow proper notice and comment procedures, that the rule was inconsistent with the language of the SDWA, and that the rule was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA).
doi: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09738.xpmid: N/A
In this case, the Court of Appeals of Indiana recently held that the state of Indiana does not own the land underneath a dam built on a public freshwater lake and therefore is not responsible for the maintenance and repair of the dam.
doi: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09739.xpmid: N/A
This article argues that in order to equitably address real public health issues facing communities of all sizes, affordability must be clearly understood and addressed. After seven years of experience with the current drinking water affordability criteria, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) concluded in 2006 that refinements should be considered to address the situations within communities with below‐average incomes or above‐average costs (USEPA, 2006). The article discusses affordability and exemptions, affordability and variances, affordability criteria under review, and achieving sustainable water systems.
doi: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09740.xpmid: N/A
This article discusses how water utilities and AWWA are scrambling to comply with a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule that includes water utilities among financial entities that must have a written plan by November 1 describing how they will identify and respond to “red flags” that indicate identity theft involving customer accounts. The program must include reasonable policies and procedures for detecting, preventing, and mitigating identity theft. The article lists several examples of “red flags”.
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