CASA Connects for July 10, 2017

• Paul Bushee, General Manager, Leucadia Wastewater District
• Jasmin Hall, Director, Inland Empire Utilities Agency
• Ashwini Kantak, Assistant Director of Environmental Services, City of San Jose
• Bill Long, Director, Novato Sanitary District
• Jeff Moorhouse, Director, Carpinteria Sanitary District (1 year term)

The Senate Environmental Quality Committee heard and passed one of CASA’s top priority bills, AB 574 (Quirk), on July 5. The bill’s next hearing is July 11 before the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. Read more about the bill and CASA’s support letter.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein and several other senators recently introduced the Water Conservation Tax Parity Act. The bipartisan bill will encourage residential water conservation and stormwater management programs. Read the news release.

CalRecycle plans to conduct a statewide waste characterization study in 2018. We recently submitted comments on the proposed study that will focus on materials destined for landfill disposal. Specifically, for SB 1383 compliance, we urge CalRecycle to include biosolids in their 2014 baseline data and the 2018 study. Read more about the study and CASA’s full comments.

USEPA recently published “Algal Indicators in Streams: A review of their application in water quality management of nutrient pollution.” Water quality managers can use this paper to better understand when and how regulators use algae as indicators of nutrient pollution in stream ecosystems. View the document.