A number of NACWA’s Standing Committees met this week during the Association’s 2020 Winter Conference in Atlanta, covering a wide range of hot topics impacting the municipal clean water community.

The Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC), Rhode Island’s largest wastewater authority, focuses on bold infrastructure improvements, active stakeholder engagement, diligent monitoring of environmental health, and trailblazing renewable energy generation. When the organization was formed in 1980, the NBC transformed Providence’s Field’s Point Wastewater Treatment Facility from one of the worst performing plants in the nation into an award-winning facility. In 1992, the state entrusted the NBC with the Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility, located in East Providence, and the NBC has made continual improvements in both service districts ever since.

The US House of Representatives passed a comprehensive legislative package in January 2020 to regulate PFAS that could potentially have major unintended consequences on public clean water utilities.

NACWA submitted comments to EPA January 24 on the proposed settlement agreements for Massachusetts and New Hampshire small municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s).

Members of Congress sent a bipartisan request to EPA this week requesting that no less than $500 Million be provided in Fiscal Year 2021 for EPA’s Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants. NACWA thanks the letter’s signatories for prioritizing funding for this program.

Members of Congress sent a bipartisan request to EPA this week requesting that no less than $500 Million be provided in Fiscal Year 2021 for EPA’s Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants. NACWA thanks the letter’s signatories for prioritizing funding for this program.

Representatives from NACWA travelled to Palm Springs, CA last week to participate in the California Association of Sanitation Agencies’ (CASA) Winter Conference and speak about the incredible value of the collaboration between the two organizations.

Water Week, this year scheduled for April 22-May 2, unites water professionals from across the country to advocate as one voice for the sector.