The NIOA Newsletter - September Edition
Happy Friday to our NIOA Friends!
We hope that you were able to attend the IWEA Annual Conference this year! It was a huge success, and we are looking forward to the 2019 conference, which will be hosted by the City of Fort Wayne at the Grand Wayne Center!
NIOA Slate of Officers: At the October meeting, we will be accepting nominations for NIOA officers. Bill Etzler has served three years as officer and Mike Franke has served four years as officer & they would like to hand off the reigns to a couple committed members who will work with Katie Hernandez to continue providing valuable training and other opportunities to our members. If you are interested in serving, but have questions, please feel free to contact any one of your officers: Mike Franke, Bill Etzler or Katie Hernandez or, give one of the previous officers a call (Bill Reed, Craig Williams, Jeff Krotke, Jeff Hersha, to name a few). We have streamlined a lot of the work required to serve as officer and it does require a small time commitment, but it is worth it. Please, please, please consider serving!
Future NIOA/IWEA Training:
- September 12 - Bodine Fish Hatchery. Technical presentation & tour of a trout and salmon fish hatchery. Tour starts @ 12:30 and will last for 1.5 hours. NIOA officers are working out the details, but lunch will likely be provided. RSVP no later than noon Sept. 9th. We will update everyone who RSVP's with the details for lunch. No RSVP, no lunch!
- October - Huntertown Wastewater Treatment, training on sludge conditioning and dewatering.
- November - Angola Wastewater Treatment with a possible "after hours" event. Stay tuned!
- December - Christmas Lunch & Training in Nappanee
IDEM Updates & Announcements
IDEM is in the process of implementing changes to wastewater licensing due to the passage of HB 1233. What changes can you expect? Check out these IDEM updates here and here! As IDEM has been working to implement NetDMR and related electronic notification, they have created a cheat sheet showing how they would like you send in your e-reports to wwreports@idem.in.gov and wwviolationresponse@idem.in.gov.
