Blog Tag Archives: Regulations
Pennsylvania Municipal Bid Base Amounts 2022
Posted by Bryon Killian on Monday, January 3, 2022
Each year the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry announces new public project cost thresholds required for public bids. The thresholds for 2022 have increased again this year. The...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Wastewater | Municipal Engineering | Budgeting & Funding | Regulations
How to Stay on Track with the Revised Lead and Copper Rule (RLCR)
Posted by Tori Morgan on Thursday, October 28, 2021
The Revised Lead and Copper Rule (RLCR) is at our doorstep, with a scheduled effective date of December 16, 2021. RLCR is a federal EPA regulation that will require water systems to conduct a Lead...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Regulations | Revised Lead & Copper Rule (RLCR)
Pennsylvania Municipal Bid Base Amounts 2021
Posted by Bryon Killian on Monday, January 11, 2021
Each year the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry announces new public project cost thresholds required for public bids. The thresholds for 2021 have increased again this year. In...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Wastewater | Municipal Engineering | Budgeting & Funding | Project Management | Regulations
DRBC AEMR Reports Due 1.31.20
Posted by Bryon Killian on Tuesday, January 14, 2020
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) requires that all docket and permit holders who discharge effluent within the Delaware River Basin, monitor discharge levels and file annual reports to the...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Wastewater | Environmental | Regulations
Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Trading: Succeeding Through the Volatility
Posted by Heath Edelman on Monday, October 21, 2019
If your facility has been relying on the purchase of nutrient credits each year to meet your Chesapeake Bay permit limits, it may be time to re-evaluate that strategy, or if your facility produces...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Wastewater | Environmental | Regulations
AWWA Free Online Water Training
Posted by Natalie O'Connor on Thursday, September 26, 2019
Technical, financial, and managerial training is available to help small public water systems maintain compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act – best of all it’s FREE! The American...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Budgeting & Funding | Regulations
PRWA March Madness 2019
Posted by Entech Engineering on Friday, March 8, 2019
We had so much fun last year with our Tournament of Talks at the Pennsylvania Rural Water Association’s Annual Conference (PRWA, we're doing it again!Along with all the basketball madness...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Wastewater | Municipal Engineering | Budgeting & Funding | Engineering | Regulations
Maintaining Chlorine Residuals has Changed the Water Tank Rules
Posted by Christine Gunsaullus on Wednesday, January 16, 2019
When I started in the water industry almost 25 years ago, we had certain steadfast rules when it came to water tanks: 1. The more storage, the better.
Owners would try to get the most volume,...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Regulations
DRBC Annual Effluent Reporting Due by 1/31/19
Posted by Bryon Killian on Wednesday, January 2, 2019
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) requires that all docket and permit holders who discharge effluent within the Delaware River Basin, monitor discharge levels and file annual reports to the...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Wastewater | Regulations
Don’t Let the New PADEP Water System Fees Bust Your Budget
Posted by Curt Tran on Monday, November 5, 2018
On August 18, 2018 new Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) fees went into effect for public water suppliers in PA. This comes as no surprise, as we’d heard these...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Budgeting & Funding | Regulations