March 2013
BARSCREEN BEE
The Official Newsletter of the Northern Sacramento Valley Section
of the California Water Environment Association
www.cwea.org/nsv
NSVS
EXECUTIVE
BOARD
PRESIDENT
Nolan Randal
CH2M Hill
530 229-3341
530 243-5831
[email protected]
VICE PRESIDENT
Nancy Cameron
Sierra Foothill Lab
530 301-6655
[email protected]
SEC-TREASURER
April Overfield
SC-OR
530-534-0353
[email protected]
2-YR DIRECTOR
Tracy Wyhlidko
City of Redding
530-224-4319
twyhlidko@
ci.redding.ca.us
1-YR DIRECTOR
Dale Klever
daleklever@
sbcglobal.net
The Barscreen Bee is a
bimonthly publication of
the Northern Sacramento Valley Section of
the California Water
Environment Association.
Articles, announcements, job postings,
questions, etc should be
e-mailed to the newsletter editor, Eric Wold at:
[email protected]
530 894-4300
Oroville Training Day March 20th and Tour of the Oroville
Chinese Temple.
We hope you will come & participate as we have four very important & pertinent training
classes going on the morning of March 20th, 2013.
Greg Cash, from the Regional Water Quality Control Board will be talking on some significant and recently passed changes with Operator Certification. This is very important for operators to know. Greg will be coming back at a later meeting in the year to talk about SSO,
once that executive order has been okayed. He had wanted to discuss it at this time but unfortunately that information isn’t ready to give out.
Chris Reidel from Homeland Security will be giving our second talk on threat assessments to
our industry and steps to follow to protect ourselves, and things to watch for while out on the
job. That will include not only treatment plants, but collections as well. This talk will be
somewhat introductory, as Homeland Security will hopefully return at a later training meeting to expand on this subject for us.
The final 2 presentations will revolve around the “burning” laboratory issue of the recently
passed Method Up Date Rule 2012. The first of these last two talks will go over the changes
introduced by this rule & highlight those that will impact laboratory operations. And we
couldn’t have gotten a more knowledgeable speaker than William (Bill) Ray, now retired
from State service with the State Water Regional Control Board as manager of the Board’s
Quality Assurance Program. Bill is a “rock star” in our industry and is current owner & president of William Ray Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in technical and compliance assistance to the environmental laboratory community. More on Bill Ray will be available at the meeting.
Bill Ray will also do our last presentation. This talk will be pertinent to anyone, especially
wastewater treatment plants, that have to report lab data via the CIWQS system. The talk will
cover and explain detection, quantization,
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reporting, and minimum levels.
So, enjoy the First Day of Spring here in
Oroville while “soaking up” some great information.
Please RSVP by March 14th for the caterer’s lunch count. Call April Overfield at
530 534-0353 or [email protected]
Oroville Meeting
pg 1&2
Oroville Meeting Map pg 3
President’s Message
and Awards Banquet pg 5
NSVS Calendar pg 9
Oroville Meeting Cont. Page 3
Oroville Chinese Temple pg 4
Welcome to Oroville for Training
Wednesday, March 20st, 2013
Feather River Tribal Health Center
2145 Fifth Ave, Oroville
Your Hosts, Sierra Foothill Laboratory and Oroville, the “City of Gold”, welcomes
everyone for a day of training at the Feather River Tribal Health Center, & a Tour of
the Oroville Chinese Temple.
8:30
SIGN-IN and NETWORK with your peers over coffee & donuts.
9:00
“OPERATOR CERTIFICATION UPDATE”, By Greg Cash,
California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley
Region, Redding Office.
9:50
“ENHANCED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM
OVERVIEW”, By Chris Reidel, Protective Security Advisor,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security- Sacramento
10:40
“THE 2012 METHOD UP DATE RULE & WHAT IT MEANS TO
LABS”, By William (Bill) Ray, Owner/President of William Ray
Consulting, LLC.
11:30
“DETECTION, QUANTIZATION, REPORTING, & MINIMUM
LEVELS POSSIBLY DEMYSTIFIED”, By William (Bill) Ray,
Owner/President of William Ray Consulting, LLC.
12:40
LUNCH – CHINESE CUISINE – FREE
First 100 lunches paid in Full by SIERRA FOOTHILL LABORATORY,
whom we wish to THANK VERY MUCH for their support.
1:30
TOUR OF THE OROVILLE CHINESE TEMPLE.
Take either a guided tour of the museum, or wander around on your
own. This is a “one-of-a-kind” museum, displaying a wide variety
of Chinese history & culture. Please see the article later in the newsletter.
Please RSVP by March 14th for the caterer’s lunch count. Call April Overfield
at 530 534-0353 or [email protected]
Attendees of all technical sessions will be issued up
to four (4) Continuing Education contact hours toward CWEA Technical Certification.
To find out if a class qualifies for continuing education in your area of
certification, go to the CWEA web site. Click on “Certification”. Under
“Wastewater Trainers and Educators”, Click on CWEA Trainers. Scroll
down to “training subjects” for a list of class subjects.
Directions to Oroville Training Meeting
Feather River Tribal Health Center 2145 5th Ave, Oroville - red arrow
From Hwy70, take the Oro Dam Blvd. exit heading East (Hwy 162/exit 46). Turn left on 5th Ave and continue
0.3 miles. The Tribal Health Center is on the right. Park in any non-designated parking.
Oroville Chinese Temple 1500 Broderick Street, Oroville - green arrow
Follow 5th Ave to Montgomery St. Right on Montgomery to 2nd Ave then left to Broderick. Oroville Chinese
Temple is on the corner of Broderick and Elma St.
Oroville Meeting Cont:
We wish to THANK VERY MUCH Sierra Foothill Laboratory for sponsoring lunch on our first training meeting of 2013. Sierra Foothill Labs has been very supportive of our Section for many years, and we really appreciate it. So, if you get an opportunity, please seek out some of the people attending from Sierra Foothill, especially
Sandy Nurse, and pass along your thanks!!!
Finally, please check out the article on the Chinese Connection…….it explains why the visit to the Chinese
Temple, and just what you will see during the tour. It may surprise you what you will see there. WE LOOK
FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE on the 20TH.
The Chinese Connection
By April Overfield
In addition to the morning’s training, in the afternoon around 1:30, those interested will assemble at
the Chinese Temple here in Oroville @ 1500 Broderick Street, just down the street from last year’s
Bolt Museum. A tour of the temple will then be provided by local docents, and the entrance fee paid
for by the Section.
The Oroville Chinese Temple traces its roots back to the gold rush era and the 1860’s when there was a
large population of almost 10,000 Chinese living & working in the area. It has been said that the Chinese community here was second only to that of San Francisco. Unfortunately, before there was a dam
on the Feather River at Oroville, a major flood decimated the Chinese community, forcing many to either go back to China or flee to Sacramento and San Francisco. So the temple, which includes 3 chapels for each of the major ways of life in China, was eventually deeded to the City of Oroville in 1937,
and opened to visitors in 1949. Please bear in mind, this is a working temple, and worshippers may
still come and use it.
So, why the Chinese Temple??
The first recorded Chinese man arrived in California in 1815 in Monterey to serve as a cook for the
Spanish Governor. But it was not until after the discovery of gold in 1848 that Chinese men began to
arrive in large numbers. Their arrival was a part of a complex relationship between China and the
United States in which Chinese men became a major source of LABOR for the economic development
of the American West. By 1870, the Chinese made up 25% of California’s “unskilled” labor force but
only 10% of the state’s total population.
Although most of the Chinese worked primarily in the gold mines, they also helped with the building
of the Transcontinental Railroad, had farming, and even built the decorative lava border walls on farmland that can be seen around Oroville and parts of Northern California. Although I searched extensively for documentation showing their participation in the building of infrastructure such as sewers &
conduits, early day treatment plants, and water systems, I couldn’t find any. However, they surely must
have been participants due to their invaluable labor, and skill. Many of these jobs were unpleasant and
back breaking, and left for the Chinese to do.
Chinese Connection Cont. Pg 9
President’s Message
By Nolan Randall CH2M HILL
I can’t believe it is March already. It seems like just a few days ago we were having our awards banquet in Oroville. If you were not able to attend, we tried out a new venue, Feather Falls Casino, which proved to be a great
place for our banquet. We had about 55 to 60 attendees with Carrie Mattingly (CWEA President) in attendance as
well. We honored the agencies who hosted our training meetings last year (Sewerage Commission-Oroville Region, City of Chico, Olivehurst PUD, City of Redding, City of Red Bluff/Southwest Water Co.) and I would like to
thank these folks again. I would also like to give a big thank you to Kathy Stone for purchasing the Section door
prizes as well as to the companies and individuals who provided additional door prizes (Valley Pump, Sierra Foothill Laboratory, PACE Engineering, Carollo Engineers, CH2M HILL, and Greg Cash). Valley Pump brings a truck
load of prizes each year and we are especially appreciative of this. And if you haven’t seen the fishing rods that
Greg Cash makes, you should definitely come to the banquet next year and hope he brings another one (hint hint
Greg). The big prize this year was won by Brian Hodge of the City of Redding, proud new owner of a Kindle Fire!
You can check out the award winners and see some more pictures from the banquet on the next page and our website www.cwea.org/nsv.
The Northern Sacramento Valley Section outgoing and incoming Board members. The 2013 Board has the
same members as 2012 but their offices have changed. Former President Tracy Whylidko has moved to 2 Year
Director, Nolan Randal is now President and Nancy Cameron is our new Vice President.
Pictured above from left to right are: Carrie Mattingly-CWEA President, Tracy Whylidko-Redding, Nolan
Randal-CH2M Hill, April Overfield-SCOR Oroville, Dale Klever, Nancy Cameron-Sierra Foothill Laboratory.
President’s Message Cont. Pg 6
President’s Message Cont.
The past few years we have been trying to schedule a fun summer event to bring our members together that wasn’t
a training event (those are fun too). The last two years we attended a Rivercats game in Sacramento as a group.
Now the groups have been pretty small, but everyone had fun. We are looking into something a little closer to our
area this year that we can attend as a group. Stay tuned for more information. Hopefully it will be in the Chico
area, a little more central to the area of our section.
This month we have a training meeting in Oroville which should be of special interest to the lab folks in our
group. Training dates and locations have now been set for most of the rest of the year, so check the newsletter and
our website for more information.
2012 NSV Section Awards
Above: President Tracy Whylidko handing out awards.
From left to right- Rob Price, John Peterson, James Carr,
Rhonda Ohler.
Plant of the Year - Secondary Treatment - Sewerage
Commission-Oroville Region SC-OR
Below: Top– Plant Of The Year, Sewerage Commission
Oroville Region
Bottom– Plant Of The Year, City of Redding Clear Creek
Presented at the January 2013 Awards Banquet
Plant of the Year - Tertiary Treatment - City of Redding
Clear Creek Plant
Collection System of the Year - Olivehust Public Utilities
District
Individual Awards
Certificate of Appreciation: Eric Wold, City of Chico
Secretary of the Year: Rhonda Ohler, City of Redding
Laboratory Person of the Year: John Peterson, Olivehust
Public Utilities District
Public Education Award: Marcia Ames, City of Redding
Supervisor of the Year: Rob Price, Olivehust Public Utili
ties District
Pretreatment Pollution Prevention Person of the
Year: Brian Hodge, City of Redding
Treatment Plant Operator of the Year: James Carr, City
of Chico
Outstanding Service: April Overfield, SC-OR
Northern Sacramento Valley Section Corporate Sponsors
Northern Sacramento Valley Section Corporate Sponsors
[email protected]
mikeambrosi@aquadyneassociates
Chinese Connection Cont.
So, they were no doubt a SILENT part of California’s
infrastructure history, and it is for that reason that we
visit the temple to understand why they subjected
themselves to what were sometimes terrible conditions.
In addition to all that, the Chinese were long known as
innovators, and people who built things that lasted.
The Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians were not the only
early day peoples with sewers. The Chinese, still have
standing and in use, sewers that are 900 years old. One
in particular, in what was once the city of Canton,
saved the city during a devastating flood in 2010. Although we would have problems with its simplicity
and openness, it still functions just fine at 900 years
old!!
So….please join us for a tour of a very interesting ,
unique, and beautiful temple. Something a little different than what we normally do.
NSVS Calendar of Events
March 20
NSVS Training Day, Oroville
April 16-19
CWEA Annual Conference, Palm
Springs
April 17
Board Meeting, Italian Cottage, Chico
May 15
NSVS Training Day, Colusa
June 19
Board Meeting, Italian Cottage, Chico
July 17
NSVS Training Day,
August 21
Board Meeting, Italian Cottage, Chico
Sept. 10-12
Northern Regional Training Conference
Sept. 18
NSVS Training Day, Redding
Oct. 16
Board Meeting, Italian Cottage, Chico
Nov. 20
NSVS Training Day, Yuba City
Dec. 11
Board Meeting, Italian Cottage, Chico
Jan 25
NSVS Annual Banquet at Feather Falls
Casino
All Board meeting held at 10:00am at the
Italian Cottage restaurant 2234 Esplanade, Chico.
Members welcome.
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Northern Sacramento Valley Section Corporate Sponsors
Northern Sacramento Valley Section Corporate Sponsors
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