NACWA Secretary and CEO of Metro Water Recovery, Mickey Conway, testified May 16 on behalf of the Association this week before the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee on the need for sensible and important regulatory reforms under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

Starting in late March, EPA Region 1 began issuing several draft individual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits to municipal clean water utilities in Massachusetts that contained novel and unduly prescriptive climate planning and mitigation requirements.

On Tuesday, May 23, NACWA and legal affiliate Baker Botts will hold a free webinar to walk through opportunities for clean water agencies to leverage funding made available through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

In Beckley, WV, creek banks are becoming places for watershed education. Thanks to a collaborative effort among three watershed partners, students and other community members are now involved in year-round hands-on learning on Beckley’s urban streams. The thriving partnership among NACWA Member Beckley Sanitary Board, Piney Creek Watershed Association and West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech) has sustained an ongoing effort to collect and analyze water samples from 22 sites across a 20 square mile area, once a month for more than three years

The Science Advisory Board (SAB) biosolids panel met in person recently on May 2 and May 3 and dissected, discussed, and debated the charge questions before them on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed biosolids screening tool (BST) and refined risk assessment framework that would be used to assess 700 chemicals found in biosolids.