Kentucky Drinking Water UpDate

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Kentucky Drinking Water Up-Date

• KWWOA
• March 25, 2009
• Division of Water
• Department for Environmental ProtectionEnergy
  and Environment Cabinet

To Protect and Enhance Kentuckys Environment
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Topics

• Division of Water/Drinking Water Reorganization
• DWCTA Section
• Data Audit
• New SDWA Regulations
• Primacy
• Regulatory Development
• SDWIS Release 2
• Drinking Water Advisory Committee

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• Division of Water/Drinking Water Reorganization

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Goals of Reorganization

• Redirect resources to priorities and needs
• Promote decision making on a watershed basis
• Facilitate cross-program communication and
  cooperation
• Develop a culture of mission focus versus program
  focus

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DEP Divisions
Valerie Hudson, Acting Commissioner
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DEP - Branches
Yellow fill New
Green typeName change
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DOW Branch Level
Sandy Gruzesky, Director Peter Goodman, Assistant
Director
Paulette Akers (Acting)
Ron Price
Andrea Fredenburg (Acting)
Tom Gabbard
Shafiq Amawi (Acting)
Jory Becker
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DOW Section level
Drinking water related areas
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Where Did Drinking Water Program Go?
DW Engineers and WW Collections Engineers
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Where Did Drinking Water Program Go?
Julie W. Roney
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Not to Mention the Move

• New Address
• 200 Fair Oaks Lane, 4th Floor, Frankfort KY 40601
• Phone
• 502/564-3410 for the switchboard
• 502/564-8158 for the backdoor to the directory

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Map Showing New DEP Office Locations
300 Fair Oaks --DEP --DCA --Enforcement
200 Fair Oaks --1st floor Air --2nd floor
Waste --4th floor Water
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• DWCTA Section
• (Compliance and Technical Assistance)

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Who Does What?

• Compliance Staff
• Jerry Pike SDWIS Database
• Todd Ritter Lead/Copper, Inventory
• Acting (Semi-vacant) Total Coliform Rule
• Brian Chitti IOC, VOC, SOC, Rads
• Kevin Stewart Stage 1 DBP
• Natalie Bruner CCR, PN
• Acting (Vacant) SNC, Enforcement, NOVs
• Kellee Husband Stage 2, LT2
• Amber Vaughn MOR
• Vacant Groundwater Rule

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Who Does What Where?

• Technical Assistance Staff
• Areas set based on DOW Regional Offices
• Jim Hamon Morehead, Hazard and Florence ROs
• Eric Sutton London and Frankfort ROs
• Don DeKoster Louisville, Madisonville and
  part of Paducah ROs
• Crystal Davis Columbia, Bowling Green and
  part of Paducah ROs
• Vacant Western KY

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Technical Assistance Assigned Areas
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Who Does What?

• KY Laboratory Certification Program
• Patrick Garrity Laboratory Certification
  Officer
• Brian Chitti Auditor
• Kevin Stewart Auditor
• Eric Sutton Auditor

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DWCTAS Accomplishments

• SDWIS Release 2 (finally in March 2009)
• Drinking Water Watch
• As of February 2009, 2 full years of submitting
  SDWA compliance data to EPA on time
• AWOP considered a national leader
• EPA Data Audit (3-year audit) in December 2008
• Was also a program audit

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SDWIS Release 2

• Finally able to implement SDWIS Web Release 2
• Incorporates the new regs (Stage 2, LT2, GWR)
• Electronic submittals
• Labs are submitting electronically
• eMOR waiting on changes to ePortal so they can be
  downloaded in batches rather than 1 at a time
• Drinking Water Watch
• http//dep.gateway.ky.gov/DWW/

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• Regulations and Primacy

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Pending Federal Regulations

• Lead and Copper Revisions (again)
• Total Coliform Rule Revisions
• Contaminant Candidate List 3
• Could result in UCMR 3!
• New SNC Definition
• Now an overall SNC not by rule
• Formula based on severity of violations and
  population served

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KY Drinking Water Regulations

• 2008 DW Regulations Package 1
• 10 Subchapters of 401 KAR Chapter 8 were revised
  to delete all state language that was directly
  related to federal regulatory language
• Also picked up Stage 2, LT2 and the GWR
• Refers to 40 CFR Parts 141 (SDWA regulations),
  142 (State Primacy) and 141 (Secondary
  Contaminants)
• Should be final the first week in April

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KY Drinking Water Regulations

• 2008 DW Regulations Package 2
• 2 Subchapters of 401 KAR Chapter 8 were revised
• 8040 Lab Certification
• 8050 Fees
• Increase in fees for lab and operator
  certification
• Both program fees were not sufficient to maintain
  the program

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KY Drinking Water Regulations

• 2009 DW Regulations Package 1
• 2 Subchapters of 401 KAR Chapter 8 will be
  revised
• 8022 Sanitary Surveys
• 8600 Secondary Standards
• 1 new regulation
• Capacity Development
• 2009 DW Regulations Package 2
• Revisions to 8100 Design/construction/approval
• Proposed to go to LRC in the fall of 2009
• With DCA will begin working on revisions to 8030
  on water system staffing and operator
  certification in the summer of 2009

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Primacy for the SDWA

• Primacy
• being first in time, rank, order etc supremacy
• Primary Enforcement Responsibility
• primary responsibility for administration and
  enforcement of primary drinking water regulations
  (40 CFR Part 141) and related requirements
  applicable to public water systems within a State

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Primacy for the SDWA

• Currently KY has either interim primacy or is
  working on initial primacy packages
• With the complete 401 KAR Chapter 8 revisions,
  primacy packages have to be re-submitted!
• Involves a crosswalk that compares the federal
  language in Part 141 with comparable state
  language
• 40 CFR Part 142 has the language and requirements
  that fall on states to obtain and maintain
  primacy
• Basically how the state program is run

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• Drinking Water Advisory Committee

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Drinking Water Advisory Committee

• A committee of drinking water-related entities
  that provides guidance and input for the state
  program
• DOW staff
• Other related state agency staff
• Public water systems
• Engineering firms
• Technical assistance organizations
• Professional organizations
• From the committee several subcommittees have
  been formed for more specific issues

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DW Sub-committees

• Capacity Development (Jerry Wuetcher/PSC)
• Assisted with developing the CD strategy and
  assessment
• Compliance (Kim Padgett/RCAP)
• Assisted with lab fee development, new forms
• Regulations (Stephanie Smith/OMU)
• Provided guidance on special primacy requirements
• Engineering (Mike Wilmouth/Bell)
• Revised the drinking water Design Criteria
• Cross Connections (Yet to be determined)
• Joint effort with the Division of Plumbing

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Questions?? Comments??

• Franklin C. Hall, Jr.
• Drinking Water
• Compliance and Technical Assistance Branch
• Division of Water
• [phone]
• X 4959
• frank.hall_at_ky.gov