Recycling Treated Municipal Wastewater for Industrial Water Use
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Institutional Issues Topic Discussion Liability/ Indemnification Environmental Stewardship Public Education Demonstration Project Recycling Treated Wastewater For Industrial Water Use in MN March 8, 2007 Industry Stakeholder Workshop Issues Table • If a quality issue causes a health problem – who is liable? • Industry concerned with taking responsibility for a contaminant measured in their effluent that is from the reclaimed supply – who is at fault for a possible violation or health risk? • Have other states seen problems with contaminants in the reclaimed supply that are discharged by the industry? (No – just a public perception) • Water reuse is the “right thing to do” • Consider an award category for water reuse to acknowledge industries. • Need a consistent message from the regulatory community. o Water conservation/resource protection versus public perceptions related to health. • Need to link environmental stewardship to the regulatory policy and structure – “don’t make it hard to do the right thing” • Public education seen as critical to success of reuse projects. • Need a public education program which includes data about a specific reuse application (appropriate sampling and measurement to show an application is meeting all regs and environmental indices). • See the need for education up-front to support the concept so when it is time to implement there are no obstacles. • Do not want to begin a capital planning process if public outcry is going to kill it. • What is a demonstration project? Is this to demonstrate technology, regulatory process, public education element? (Answer: any or all of the above). • The implementation issues of a reuse project would be an important focus of a demonstration project. o Document and explore the regulatory aspects, public education efforts and results, data needs at various levels of project planning through construction. o Several participants thought the institutional issue inquiry is more important than the technical or treatment technologies – since the technology-related projects would be a very site specific applications. • Better wastewater effluent characterization could be an element of a demonstration project or a separate project to document characteristics for various areas or select WWTPs. • Demonstration project would be a partnership of various entities to ‘walk hand-in-hand’ through the planning and implementation process. ExhB-Issues Tables_frMar0807 Ind Stakeh Mtg-FINAL.doc Page 4 of 5
Institutional Issues Topic Discussion Summary/Misc Comments Recycling Treated Wastewater For Industrial Water Use in MN March 8, 2007 Industry Stakeholder Workshop Issues Table • If we can address the issues identified in this meeting, then water reuse is a viable water supply option for some industries. • The larger hurdles are the institutional issues not the technical ones. ExhB-Issues Tables_frMar0807 Ind Stakeh Mtg-FINAL.doc Page 5 of 5
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Institutional Issues<br />
Topic Discussion<br />
Liability/<br />
Indemnification<br />
Environmental<br />
Stewardship<br />
Public<br />
Education<br />
Demonstration<br />
Project<br />
<strong>Recycling</strong> <strong>Treated</strong> <strong>Wastewater</strong> For <strong>Industrial</strong> <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Use</strong> in MN<br />
March 8, 2007 Industry Stakeholder Workshop<br />
Issues Table<br />
• If a quality issue causes a health problem – who is liable?<br />
• Industry concerned with taking responsibility <strong>for</strong> a contaminant measured in their effluent that is<br />
from the reclaimed supply – who is at fault <strong>for</strong> a possible violation or health risk?<br />
• Have other states seen problems with contaminants in the reclaimed supply that are<br />
discharged by the industry? (No – just a public perception)<br />
• <strong>Water</strong> reuse is the “right thing to do”<br />
• Consider an award category <strong>for</strong> water reuse to acknowledge industries.<br />
• Need a consistent message from the regulatory community.<br />
o <strong>Water</strong> conservation/resource protection versus public perceptions related to health.<br />
• Need to link environmental stewardship to the regulatory policy and structure – “don’t make it<br />
hard to do the right thing”<br />
• Public education seen as critical to success of reuse projects.<br />
• Need a public education program which includes data about a specific reuse application<br />
(appropriate sampling and measurement to show an application is meeting all regs and<br />
environmental indices).<br />
• See the need <strong>for</strong> education up-front to support the concept so when it is time to implement<br />
there are no obstacles.<br />
• Do not want to begin a capital planning process if public outcry is going to kill it.<br />
• What is a demonstration project? Is this to demonstrate technology, regulatory process, public<br />
education element? (Answer: any or all of the above).<br />
• The implementation issues of a reuse project would be an important focus of a demonstration<br />
project.<br />
o Document and explore the regulatory aspects, public education ef<strong>for</strong>ts and results, data<br />
needs at various levels of project planning through construction.<br />
o Several participants thought the institutional issue inquiry is more important than the<br />
technical or treatment technologies – since the technology-related projects would be a<br />
very site specific applications.<br />
• Better wastewater effluent characterization could be an element of a demonstration project or a<br />
separate project to document characteristics <strong>for</strong> various areas or select WWTPs.<br />
• Demonstration project would be a partnership of various entities to ‘walk hand-in-hand’ through<br />
the planning and implementation process.<br />
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