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AMC Engineering PLLC. 2. LONG ISLAND WATER. Drinking water sources: Sole source aquiferAquifers: A primerWastewater generation: Treatment and FateDeep-recharge basinsGroundwaterGroundwater Contamination. AMC Engineering PLLC. 3. LONG ISLAND WATER. Discharge permits: NPDES
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1. AMC Engineering PLLC 1 LONG ISLAND WATER AND WASTEWATER
2. AMC Engineering PLLC 2 LONG ISLAND WATER Drinking water sources: Sole source aquifer
Aquifers: A primer
Wastewater generation: Treatment and Fate
Deep-recharge basins
Groundwater
Groundwater Contamination
3. AMC Engineering PLLC 3 LONG ISLAND WATER Discharge permits: NPDES – SPDES
Regulations – Agencies having jurisdiction
SPDES permit process
Typical contaminants
Arsenic Poisoning
Carwash Study
Q&A
4. AMC Engineering PLLC 4 LONG ISLAND
5. AMC Engineering PLLC 5 L.I. Drinking water sources:
6. AMC Engineering PLLC 6 L.I. Drinking water sources:
7. AMC Engineering PLLC 7 L.I. Drinking water sources:
8. AMC Engineering PLLC 8 Sole Source Aquifer Designation
9. AMC Engineering PLLC 9 Sole Source Aquifer Designation
10. AMC Engineering PLLC 10 SOLE SOURCE DESIGNATIONS NYS
11. AMC Engineering PLLC 11 Sole Source Aquifer
12. AMC Engineering PLLC 12 Sole Source Aquifer
13. AMC Engineering PLLC 13 Sole Source Aquifer
14. AMC Engineering PLLC 14 Sole Source Aquifer
15. AMC Engineering PLLC 15 Sole Source Aquifer
16. AMC Engineering PLLC 16 Sole Source Aquifer
17. AMC Engineering PLLC 17 Sole Source Aquifer
18. AMC Engineering PLLC 18 Sole Source Aquifer
19. AMC Engineering PLLC 19 DEMOGRAPHICS Nassau County: 5% sewered (POTW)
Suffolk County: 75% non-sewered
(2005 estimate, US Census)
20. AMC Engineering PLLC 20 DEMOGRAPHICS Each household generates approximately 241 gpd (thesis Jennie Erin Munster, Stony Brook, 2004)
According the census bureau, there were 469,299 households in Suffolk County and 447,387 in Nassau county, yielding 221 million gallons per day.
21. AMC Engineering PLLC 21 DEMOGRAPHICS
22. AMC Engineering PLLC 22 Wastewater Generation:
23. AMC Engineering PLLC 23 Wastewater Generation: AHJ(Agency Having Jurisdiction)
24. AMC Engineering PLLC 24 Wastewater Generation: AHJ(Agency Having Jurisdiction)
25. AMC Engineering PLLC 25 WASTEWATER TREATMENT FARM: LEACHING POOLS / FIELDS
SUBURBAN: LEACHING POOLS / FIELDS AND SEWER
URBAN: SEWER
26. AMC Engineering PLLC 26 INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE REGULATIONS DISCHARGE TO THE GROUND: STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS. TREATMENT NEEDED.
DISCHARGE TO A SEWER: LOCAL, NOT STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS. PRETREATMENT NEEDED (USUALLY)
27. AMC Engineering PLLC 27 INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE REGULATIONS SURFACE DISCHARGE
GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE
28. AMC Engineering PLLC 28 INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE REGULATIONS NPDES: NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (EPA)
29. AMC Engineering PLLC 29 INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE REGULATIONS NPDES: NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (EPA)
SPDES: STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NYS DEC)
30. AMC Engineering PLLC 30 SPDES PERMIT NY-2C: INDUSTRIAL PERMIT
http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/6287.html
SOLE SOURCE AQUIFER
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FORM
SHORT OR LONG
SAAF: STRUCTURAL ARCHAELOGICAL ASSESSMENT FORM
OTHER WATER PURVEYORS, PRIVATE OR PUBLIC WELLS
THERE ARE OTHER TYPES OF PERMITS
31. AMC Engineering PLLC 31 LIST OF MCLs MCL: MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL
DIFFERENT LEVELS DEPENDING ON TYPE OF DISCHARGE (CLASS)
MOST STRINGENT, CLASS GA, IS DRINKING WATER.
32. AMC Engineering PLLC 32 LIST OF NYS WATER CLASSES 701.2 Class N fresh surface waters
701.3 Class AA-Special (AA-S) fresh surface waters
701.4 Class A-Special (A-S) fresh surface waters
701.5 Class AA fresh surface waters
701.6 Class A fresh surface waters
701.7 Class B fresh surface waters
701.8 Class C fresh surface waters
701.9 Class D fresh surface waters
701.10 Class SA saline surface waters
701.11 Class SB saline surface waters
701.12 Class SC saline surface waters
701.13 Class I saline surface waters
701.14 Class SD saline surface waters
701.15 Class GA fresh groundwaters
701.16 Class GSA saline groundwaters
701.17 Class GSB saline groundwaters
33. AMC Engineering PLLC 33 REGULATIONS: ECL CHAPTER X: DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES Part 703: Surface Water and Groundwater Quality Standards and Groundwater Effluent Limitations
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703.6 Groundwater effluent limitations for discharges to Class GA waters
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34. AMC Engineering PLLC 34 DRINKING WATER STDs EPA MCLs:
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#listmcl
NYS DoH water reports:
http://www.health.state.ny.us/environmental/water/drinking/water_quality_report_links.htm
35. AMC Engineering PLLC 35 Typical contaminants Hydrocarbons
Chromium (VI)
Nitrogen
Pesticides, herbicides
Antibiotics, other drugs
MBAS – endocrine disruptors (Europe)
Arsenic
36. AMC Engineering PLLC 36 Arsenic Poisoning Bangladesh and India
Remediation methods
Incidence of arsenic in the USA
37. AMC Engineering PLLC 37 Arsenic Poisoning Indo-China Region Bangladesh
38. AMC Engineering PLLC 38 Arsenic Poisoning Bangladesh
<0.5 ppb
0.5 – 5
5 – 50
>50
39. AMC Engineering PLLC 39 Arsenic Poisoning 73 MILLION PEOPLE CONTRACTED ARSENIC-INDUCED SKIN KERATOSIS
40. AMC Engineering PLLC 40 Arsenic in USA
41. AMC Engineering PLLC 41 Arsenic in USA
42. AMC Engineering PLLC 42 Arsenic Std. In drinking water – WHO 2003 – 3rd Edition: 0.01ppm
43. AMC Engineering PLLC 43 Carwash Study Process Flow Diagram
Analysis of wastewater
Antimony
Park City, Utah
44. AMC Engineering PLLC 44 CARWASH PFD-BLOCK DIAGRAM
45. AMC Engineering PLLC 45 CAR WASH – ANTIMONY DISCHARGE MCL DRINKING WATER STD = 6 PPB
PQL FOR WW DISCHARGE CLASS GA = 10 PPB
46. AMC Engineering PLLC 46 CAR WASH – As AND Sb
47. AMC Engineering PLLC 47 CAR WASH – ANTIMONY DISCHARGE (PPB) MCL DRINKING WATER STD = 6 PPB
PQL FOR WW DISCHARGE CLASS GA = 10 PPB
48. AMC Engineering PLLC 48 ANTIMONY IN DRINKING WATER Soluble antimony salts, after oral uptake, exert a strong irritating effect on the gastrointestinal mucosa and trigger sustained vomiting. Other effects include abdominal cramps, diarrhea and cardiac toxicity (FROM WHO)
49. AMC Engineering PLLC 49 ANTIMONY – PARK CITY, UT 5-YEAR EPA MORATORIUM ON 6 PPB IN DRINKING WATER – CURRENTLY 13 PPB AVERAGE
50. AMC Engineering PLLC 50 LAUNDROMATS MBAS as ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS
SURFACTANT BIODEGRADABILITY IN ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS
LAUNDROMATS – NEW ENACTED LAW IN BROOKHAVEN (MAY 1, 2007)
SHIRLEY, NY
ALTERNATIVES
51. AMC Engineering PLLC 51 MONTAUK, NY