Good afternoon NIOA members & friends! A couple things to note:

Good afternoon, NIOA Members & Friends!

April's NIOA Training will be held in Koontz Lake, Indiana. We will start the plant tour at 10:30 EST (9:30 CST).

We will meet at the Koontz Lake Regional Sewer District Wastewater Treatment Plant, located at 7315 N 1175 E, which is on the south side of Koontz Lake (use Walkerton, IN 46574 for mapping purposes).  

Good afternoon, NIOA members! A quick note to update you on a couple of things:

 Good Afternoon!

On Wednesday, March 9th, NIOA Training will be at the Huntertown Fire Hall, 15412 Lima Road, Huntertown, IN 46748. I somehow missed including the date in my email earlier this week, my apologies for the confusion...

We will meet at the Fire Hall at 10:15 & will carpool to Huntertown’s Water and Wastewater Facilities at 10:30. PLEASE USE THE BACK PARKING LOT AT THE FIRE STATION! 

IDEM has been contacting a number of WWTP's to continue encouraging the implementation & use of NetDMR for monthly reporting. Regardless of your feelings about this, your community will be required to use NetDMR by the end of next year. Some IDEM folks are pushing to have communities submitting NetDMR reports by the end of this year - this is a request, not a requirement, FYI. The deadline for transitioning to NetDMR is the end of 2016.

Good morning, NIOA members! At yesterday's training, one of the things that we discussed was language in Section 428 pf the Senate Appropriations Committee FY 2016 spending bill. If passed, Section 428 will prohibit all CSO's within the Great Lakes Watershed. After 2035, POTW's will be fined $100,000 for any CSO's, regardless of the intensity and/or duration of the storm event. The financial costs are tough to estimate at this point, but would be extremely high.

Good afternoon fellow NIOA-ers! You know, almost 4 months ago to the day, I was thinking "I can't wait for summer to see green grass". Now that I am mowing my lawn every 3 days, I'm reminded to be careful what you wish for! With summer here in full force, I know that schedules are busy, but there are some things we want to make sure you are aware of. 

NIOA Training Schedule

Here is what we have planned through October of 2015 – we hope to see you soon!

Dear NIOA Members - a couple updates to the NIOA calendar for you to be aware of:

June NIOA Meeting. Please plan on joining us at the Kendallville WPC facility on June 10th for learning, lunch and more learning! We will start off with a tour of the Kendallville WPC at 9:00 am. Training will start at 10:00 am. The topics will include: Biosolids Process Optimization, Chemcial Phosphorus Removal and Chlorides and Your Receiving Stream, presented by Craig Williams. Lunch will be provided by Franke Environmental Systems. We are applying for 5.0 Technical CEUs.