[Dwopcert] ADEQ to provide training on LT2ESWTR & Stage 2 DBPR

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ADEQ is staging a statewide series of workshops to provide training on the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR) and the Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule (Stage 2 DBPR).

NOTE:  * The LT2ESWTR presentation will only be given on 8/9, 9/27, 10/25 and 11/7.



Wed 8/2/06 - Yavapai County
Prescott
10-11:30 (Stage 2)
Prescott City Hall
Council Chambers
201 S. Cortez St.
Prescott, AZ

Wed 8/9/06 * - Coconino County
Flagstaff
10:30-12 (Stage 2)
1-2:30 (LT2)
ADEQ Northern Regional Office
1801 W. Route 66, Suite 117
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Tues 8/15/06 - Apache/Navajo County
Taylor
12-1:30 (Stage 2)
Taylor Fire Department
411 Papermill Road
Taylor, AZ  85939

Wed 8/23/06 - Mohave County
Kingman
12-1:30 (Stage 2)
Mohave County Administration Building
700 West Beale Street
Kingman, AZ  86401

Wed 8/30/06 - Pinal County
Eloy
10-11:30 (Stage 2)
Town of Eloy
City Library
701 Main St.
Eloy, AZ

Wed 9/6/06 - Gila County
Globe
10-11:30 (Stage 2)
Gila County Courthouse
Board of Supervisors Conference Room
1400 E Ash St
Globe, AZ  85501

Wed 9/20/06 - La Paz County
Parker
12-1:30 (Stage 2)
Parker City Council Chambers
1314 11th Street
Parker, AZ

Wed 9/27/06 * - Graham/Greenlee County
Safford
11-12:30 (Stage 2)
1-2:30 (LT2)
Graham County General Services Building (lg. assembly room)
921 Thatcher Blvd.
Safford, AZ

Wed 10/4/06 - Pima County
Tucson
10:30-12 (Stage 2)
ADEQ Southern Regional Office
400 West Congress Street
Room 444
Tucson, AZ

Wed 10/11/06 - Cochise County
Sierra Vista
12:30-2:00 (Stage 2)
Sierra Vista Public Library
2600 East Tacoma
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635

Wed 10/25/06 * - Yuma County
Yuma
11-12:30 (Stage 2)
1-2:30 (LT2)
City of Yuma Public Works
155 West 14th Street
Yuma, AZ  85364

Wed 11/1/06 - Santa Cruz County
Nogales
12-1:30 (Stage 2)
ADWR 
857 West Bell Road
Suite 3 
Nogales, AZ 85621

Tues 11/7/06 * - Maricopa County
Phoenix
10:30-12 (Stage 2)
1-2:30 (LT2)
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Room 250
1110 W. Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85007


About the presentations:

LT2ESWTR Rule

ADEQ will be providing training to public water systems and certified operators on the new Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR).  Professional development hours will be awarded.

The LT2ESWTR applies to all public water systems (systems) that use surface water or ground water under the direct influence of surface water.  
The purpose of the LT2 rule is to reduce illness linked with the contaminant Cryptosporidium and other disease-causing microorganisms in drinking water. The rule will supplement existing regulations by targeting additional Cryptosporidium treatment requirements to higher risk systems. This rule also contains provisions to reduce risks from uncovered finished water reservoirs and to ensure that systems maintain microbial protection when they take steps to decrease the formation of disinfection byproducts that result from chemical water treatment.

LT2 will improve the control of Cryptosporidium and other microbiological pathogens in drinking water systems with the highest risk levels. EPA estimates that full compliance with the LT2 will reduce the incidence of cryptosporidiosis - the gastrointestinal illness caused by ingestion of Cryptosporidium. The additional Cryptosporidium treatment requirements of the LT2 will also reduce exposure to other microbial pathogens, such as Giardia, that co-occur with Cryptosporidium. Additional protection from microbial pathogens will come from provisions in this rule for reviewing disinfection practices and for covering or treating uncovered finished water reservoirs, though EPA has not quantified these benefits.
_________________________________________________________Stage 2 DBP Rule

ADEQ will be providing training to public water systems and certified operators on the new Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule (Stage 2 DBP rule).   Professional development hours will be awarded.

The Stage 2 DBP rule applies to community and nontransient, noncommunity water systems that add and/or deliver water that is treated with a primary or residual disinfectant other than ultraviolet light.  The Stage 2 DBP rule builds upon earlier rules that addressed disinfection byproducts to improve your drinking water quality and provide additional public health protection from disinfection byproducts. This final rule strengthens public health protection for customers by tightening compliance monitoring requirements for two groups of DBPs, trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5). The rule targets systems with the greatest risk and will reduce potential health risks related to DBP exposure and provide more equitable public health protection.


Seating is limited, but reservations are not required.  For more information about the workshops please contact:

Donna Lucchese, Manager
Drinking Water Monitoring & Protection Unit
Safe Drinking Water Section 
602/ 771-4641
dml@azdeq.gov 

Starr Abounader
SWTR, DBPR Rule Specialist

Drinking Water Monitoring & Protection Unit
Safe Drinking Water Section
602/ 771-4626
sa2@azdeq.gov