Arizona Advanced Water Purification Rules (A.A.C. R18-9-A801) Overview of Terminology The term “direct potable reuse” does not appear in the Arizona Administrative Code. Rather, Arizona has...

Direct Potable Reuse (DPR) Introduction Direct Potable Reuse (DPR) Defined Direct Potable Reuse (DPR), also called advanced water purification, is the process of treating wastewater to remove chemical...

Final PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation: What Utilities Need to Know Overview of the EPA Final PFAS Regulation On April 8, 2024, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)finalized...

Final Lead Copper Rule Improvements This is an update to the article titled “EPA Releases Proposed Lead Copper Rule Improvements in Drinking Water Regulation” dated April 2, 2024. The U.S...

National Pollution Discharge Elimination System 101 In my previous article titled “Surface Water Quality Standards 101”, I discussed what Surface Water Quality Standards are and how they are...

Aquifer Water Quality Standards Update Background The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality was established by the Arizona Environmental Quality Act (EQA) of 1986. The EQA also established the...

Surface Water Quality Standards The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (aka Clean Water Act of 1972 and subsequent amendments) requires states, territories, and authorized Indian tribes to establish...

Lead Copper Rule Revision (LCRR) And Next Steps. What It Means For Public Water Systems Background On January 16, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the Final Lead Copper Rule...

Protection of Drinking Water: Backflow Prevention/Cross Connection Control Water systems expend a huge amount of effort and resources to treating and distributing safe drinking water to their...

EPA Releases Proposed Lead Copper Rule Improvements in Drinking Water Regulation On November 21, 2023, EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan signed the Proposed National Primary Drinking Water Regulation...

A Messy Environmental Issue: Fats, Oils, And Grease In The Sewer System And How To Control Them (Part Two) Part 1 of ‘Fats, oils, and grease’ answered the questions why FOG is a problem and how it can...

A Messy Environmental Issue: Fats, Oils, And Grease In The Sewer System And How To Control Them (Part 1) What are fats, oils, and grease? Fats, oils, and grease (FOG) are substances that are...

EPA Releases Proposed PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published, in the Federal Register, a...

Lead Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) And Next Steps. What It Means For Public Water Systems Background On January 16, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the Final Lead Copper Rule...

Health Advisory Levels Lowered For Perfluoroalkyl Substances; Regulation On The Horizon – What to Expect What are PFAS? Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are a group of chemicals used in the...

Microbial/Disinfection Byproducts Rules Updates As a result of findings from the Third Six-Year Review of National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR), as required under the Safe Drinking Water...

SAMS Field Data Collection Application Paperless field data collection using mobile devices is replacing the way water operators gather, store, and share site information. The days of manually...

EPA Water: Drinking Water Training System Compliance Monitoring Data Portal (CMDP) we live in a data-driven age with nearly instant access to information using hand-held devices and computers. The...

SAMS Introduces Asset And Work Order Management Tool SAMS provides state of the art technologies for Utility Information Management Tools for water, wastewater, crossconnection, pretreatment, air...

NJBSoft Conducts SAMS Technical Workshop NJBSoft conducted an all-day SAMS Technical Hands-on Workshop on February 20, 2020, hosted by the City of Mesa at the Brown Road Water Treatment Plant, Mesa...

Successions Planning Using SAMS The baby boomer generation has reached retirement age and it is expected that millions of individuals will be leaving the working force over the next decade. The...

Message From President Hello, As we begin to kick off 2020, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on 2019. What a year!  We are privileged to walk this path with our clients, team, family and...

New Audit Rules In SAMS Drinking Water What is the appropriate amount of water quality sampling at well sites and surface water treatment plants? The answer to this question varies widely among water...

Compliance Rules In SAMSWater Water Quality supervisors and their staff are tasked with making sure their utility remains compliant with all drinking water regulations.  The Environmental Protection...

SAMS Asset Management SAMS Asset Management NJBSoft is excited to announce the recent launch of their new SAMSAsset Management module. This new Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) product has recently...

Business Intelligence Tools – Analytics In SAMS Using Dashboards A hot topic in many boardrooms and executive offices these days is “Dashboards” – having immediate access to the key performance...

Managing Multiple – Complex Monitoring Schedules Knowing what, when, and where to monitor by drinking water systems can be a daunting task.  Groundwater and surface water sources within a...

Improving Workflows In SAMS With Refined Chain-Of-Custody The field Chain-Of-Custody (COC) record is a document that we are all very familiar with. They are used daily while collecting water...

Newest Trend: Drinking “Raw Water” Promises Life-Changing Health Benefits! Have you seen the PUR Water TV Commercial where two guys walk into a store featuring a “water bar” where various...

Rules Manager In SAMS Water – Processing Nitrate Results Nitrate and Nitrite are found worldwide as water and wastewater pollutants.  Whether results are expressed in their ionic form (NO3– and...

Will The 2019 Snowpack Delay Colorado River Shortages? On April 16, 2019, President Trump signed new legislation aimed at safeguarding water shortages that could impact drinking water for 40 million...

EPA Water: Drinking Water Training System On April 3rd, 2019, EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water launched a new training program titled “Drinking Water Training System (DWTS).” The site...

EPA’s Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule Program Monitoring for unregulated drinking water contaminants isn’t a new concept for most public water systems (PWSs). The 1996 Safe Drinking...

PFOS And PFOA Regulations Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) What do Scotchguard, non-stick cookware, and water have in common? They all contain environmental chemicals...