SMG POV
Chamber Business Summit Looks at Big Ideas and Problems
July 31, 2015
For the third year, I attended the Kentucky Chamber Business Summit this week. While we participate in numerous conferences each year, most are focused on environmental, health and safety or energy issues – all important to our business and our clients. The Business Summit is a different kind of conference. The ideas and issues addressed […]
Local Limits
July 27, 2015
This entry of my blog will talk about local limits and the factors triggering development of local limits. As mentioned in my previous blog, local limits address the specific needs and concerns of a POTW, its sludge, its receiving waters and protection of POTW personnel. Local limits are developed for pollutants that could cause interference, […]
Tis the reporting season!
July 22, 2015
Tis the semi-annual monitoring report season! Many facilities with KPDES general wastewater discharge permits and/or with air permits have semi -annual reports due on July 28 (DMRs) or July 30 (SAMRs). KPDES Discharge Monitoring Reporting (DMRs) for general industrial stormwater permit KYR00 have a semi-annual reporting deadline of January 28 and July 28. To help […]
MSD Has a New Director
July 21, 2015
The Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) has named a new executive director. Tony Parrot, formerly of the executive director of Metropolitan Sewer District for Greater Cincinnati, has accepted the position. MSD is a quasi-governmental agency that serves the Louisville community through wastewater collection and treatment, stormwater drainage and management and flood protection. In the past […]
Change Announced to Kentucky’s “Sulfuric Acid Battery Facility Policy”
July 7, 2015
Many facilities in Kentucky have been subject to emergency planning requirements solely because of their industrial batteries which contain sulfuric acid. The Kentucky Emergency Response Commission’s “Sulfuric Acid Battery Facility Policy,” originally enacted on 24 July 2003, which required local emergency planning committees (LEPCs) to develop TAB Q-7 plans for all facilities with lead acid […]