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From the Publications Chair

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Fuller Award

Norman J. Howard Award

Operators Meritorious Award

From the OWWA President

From the OMWA President

From the Desk of the OMWA Executive Director

OMWA Awards

From the OWWEA President

Calendar of Events

Membership Committee

Young Professionals Report

AWWA Director’s Report

From the OWWA Executive Directors

Joint Executive Committee Report

Water For People-Canada Report

Water Efficiency Committee

PAC Report

PPCP Report

OWWA Student Chapter Report

Public Sector Accounting

A New Approach to Water Management

MOE Volunteers

Ask a Director

Canadian Water Wastewater Report

Certification Corner

Watersheds

OWWA New Members

OWWEA Members Listings

Index to Advertisers

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From the Publications Chair…

By Emma Murphy, Publications Committee Chair

nother successful OWWA/OMWA conference and trade show has come and gone. For those lucky enough to attend in a great London venue, it was an amazing mix of learning, information exchange and networking.

Congratulations to Tom Moulton, the conference committee, and of course the ever hardworking OWWA staff — Bill Balfour, Lesia Lachmaniuk and Laura Libralesso. It takes an incredible amount of work to pull this event off every year. I think we all showed Terry Nolan, our AWWA guest of honour (and immediate past president of AWWA) Ontario’s (and our personal) commitment to providing safe drinking water.

This issue of Pipeline brings the essence of the conference to our members — highlighting presentations by keynote speakers Linda Sims and Ontario’s Minister of the Environment, John Gerretsen, as well as the many award winners. Communications director Glenn Powell has captured the essence of the conference and trade show through the lens of his camera. Also in this issue are articles on Regulation 450/07 (Charges for Industrial and Commercial Water Users) and PSAB 3150, the accounting standard for municipal government. Thanks go out to OWWEA and their very successful Casino Night — everyone enjoyed the western theme and the gaming tables were full!

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“We Can No Longer Take Water For Granted.” Environment Minister Gerretsen Sets Tone at Conference Opening Plenary By Glenn Powell & Angela Altass

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he environment has taken root with the masses,” stated Ontario’s Minister of the Environment, John Gerretsen. “However,” he added, “water has a tendency to be taken for granted.” In his address to the opening plenary session at the 2008 OWWA/OMWA joint annual conference and trade show in London, Gerretsen praised the work and commitment of the two associations and their volunteer members. “I am well aware of the great work that your associations do and in my new role as Minister of the Environment I look forward to continuing that work with you,” he said. Gerretsen, who noted that a big part of his public life involved a career in municipal politics, said that ministries have started to work closer together to deal with the issues. “We are committed to high quality drinking water for the people of Ontario.” The Minister indicated the new approach would focus on collective action. “It is absolutely necessary that we work together to make the progress that we need to see happen,” he stated. The Environment Minister commented on how the Walkerton crisis made Ontarians focus on the quality of drinking water more than ever before. He also made reference to the government’s new lead action plan and new municipal licensing plan. “Drinking water protection involves almost all aspects of the work we do 8

Environment Minister John Gerretsen

Linda Sims of the Business News Network

at the Ministry of the Environment,” he said, adding that the Clean Water Act is a huge step forward for the province.

A remarkable transformation has taken place in how we protect our water in Ontario, said Gerretsen. “We are working to protect our sources of drinking water through watershed protection plans and we are increasingly taking into account the earth’s changing climate with such things as targets to reduce greenhouse gases and expansion of the public transit system.” He noted that at a recent climate change adaptation summit the key aspect discussed was water.

He spoke about tougher penalties for endangering water and Ontario’s stringent standards as well as the new requirements for schools and daycares built prior to 1990 in regard to lead testing. “Children are especially vulnerable to the effects of lead,” Gerretsen said. “We built the new requirements on advice received from technical experts and Ontario’s Drinking Water Advisory Council. Some say our standards are too strong but we don’t believe that is the case.” He described the lead action plan as “a good one” but suggested there is always room for improvement. “We are getting a lot of feedback and we look forward to more feedback. We want to work with you to address issues.”

“I am impressed by the tireless dedication shown by your organizations,” he told the delegates. “By working together we can create even better protection of water and we wouldn’t be able to do what needs to be done without the people who do the work to make it happen. We may not always see the world in the same way but we have the same ultimate goal in that we are dedicated to having the best and safest drinking water in the world.” Summer 2008

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In response to questions from the floor, Gerretsen would not make any further financial commitment toward future costs resulting from changes in the regulatory system. “We will have to see the magnitude of the issue first but funding will probably have to be a combination of several financial sources,” he commented. “It also depends on how the economy is at the time and there may have to be increases in water charges.” We must not take our water supply for granted, Gerretsen stated, and he warned that some of the additional costs involved in protecting that supply may fall on the municipal taxpayer.

Water For People-Canada

Tony Petrucci, president, Water for People-Canada, and volunteer Barry Laverick provided the plenary session with what Petrucci described as a “celebration of our team of volunteers” — a look at what some dedicated water professionals are doing to transplant their skills and knowledge in the far corners of the world. Water for People helps people in developing countries improve their quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities and health and hygiene education programs. “Our vision is a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation,” said Petrucci. “Eighty per cent of all sickness and disease worldwide are water related and 1.1 billion people worldwide lack safe water and 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation.” Laverick spoke about his personal experience working on a mapping and needs assessment project in Malawi

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edge technology, camaraderie and entertainment.

The Canadian Economy

The water taste competition — won by the Town of Midland — brought a new event to this year’s conference. The tapping demonstration once again proved to be a popular spectator sport, and a real test of stamina for the tappers. Casino Night with its western theme this year — well, what can you say with so many big time gamblers and not an empty seat at the tables? The technical, concurrent sessions were extremely well attended, often it was standing room only.

Broadcaster Linda Sims of the Business News Network began the opening plenary session by sharing her knowledge of the business world. “I have had a ‘window seat view’ of the business world over the last 20 years,” she stated. “I have watched Canadians get tougher and more resilient as time goes on.” She spoke about changes taking place in the business community and the fact that many economic observers believe we are witnessing the end of a 25-year era of easy money and endless credit.

A Conference of Many Highlights

From the opening of the trade show on April 27 to the closing banquet on April 29 and the golf tournament and local tours on April 30, this year’s conference with its theme of Only Tap Water Delivers delivered information, networking opportunities, leading

“One of the best ever,” was the assessment most often heard as the more than 950 conference registrants departed London. “Thanks to so many volunteers — it went well,” said a pleased but exhausted conference chair, Tom Moulton. Time now to make plans to attend next year’s OWWA/OMWA Conference and Trade Show, Toronto, May 3-6, 2009. 9

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Conference 2008 — Through the Lens

The Golf Tournament’s Winning Foursome (l to r) — Larry Taylor, EMCO; Tim Torrens, City of London; Steve Fazekas, City of London; and John Shurr, Clow Canada

The head table arrives

Tom Orpana congratulates the new OWWEA president, Mike O’Brien 10

The newest inductees of “The Order of the Leaky Tap” — Doug Parker, Diane Gagner, Terry Rolan

“Wyatt” Stiver and “Miss Kitty” Prashad enjoy Casino Night — western style!

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Lee Anne Jones, Toronto Water, samples entries in the “Best Tasting Water” competition, won by the Town of Midland

City of Ottawa tapping team

Tom Moulton (r) receives the OWWA President’s gavel from Bob Le Craw

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Trade show floor… a busy place!

Nick Benkovich, City of Greater Sudbury, receives OMWA President’s gavel from Diane Gagner

Past president Diane Gagner and director Rosemary MacLennan share a moment with banquet entertainer Ron James 11

Fuller Award

Steve Burns Named OWWA Fuller Awardee 2008 The George Warren Fuller Award recognizes distinguished service in the water supply field through constructive leadership.

teve Burns began his “long-term” involvement with AWWA/OWWA shortly after graduating from the University of Waterloo in 1973 with a B.Sc. Civil Engineering. Encouraged by the local Public Works Superintendent in Goderich to join “the water professionals association,” Burns quickly became involved as a volunteer. He accepted responsibilities first at the regional level, then the provincial level and more recently at the international level serving as AWWA Director and AWWA Vice President. He continues to serve both OWWA and AWWA through committee work. “There isn’t one minute of my time with OWWA and AWWA that I regret,” Burns said in an interview with Pipeline shortly after receiving the prestigious George W. Fuller Award 2008.

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“To be honoured by your peers is extremely gratifying, and a true highlight of my years in the water profession.” Burns began his career as a co-op student with B.M. Ross and Associates Ltd., the firm of consulting engineers where he now serves as president. Over the years the company provided Burns the opportunity to gain broad experience, consulting on both drinking water and wastewater projects in many communities in its target area of southwestern Ontario. When asked about the pivotal event in his career, Burns does not hesitate — Walkerton 2000. “The events in that community dramatically changed my career and the Ontario drinking water industry forever.” “It was a terrible tragedy and we never want to revisit that part of Ontario’s history,” he said, but quickly added, “the waterworks industry turned a disaster into a positive with the result that this province is now amongst the world leaders with regulations to protect drinking water.” From the Fuller Award presentation itself: “During the Walkerton tainted water crisis, from May to October, (Burns) worked virtually full-time on behalf of the municipality investigating the causes of the water supply contamination. This included leadership roles in numerous press conferences and meetings, and testimony at the O’Connor Commission, all under intense public and media scrutiny.” From former AWWA Vice President, Pat Lachmaniuk: “Steve rose to the challenge when Walkerton happened. We became accustomed to hearing him on the national news every night and were always reassured by his calmness, knowledge and patience.” Steve and his wife Judy — who is also an enthusiastic participant in AWWA/OWWA activities — live in Goderich. Their family of three sons and one daughter are now building careers of their own in various parts of the country. “And we have one very special grandson,” Steve says with a proud smile. As for hobbies and special interests, Steve says he just doesn’t seem to have a lot of spare time. “Judy and I like to ride our bicycles and that’s about it.” Summer 2008

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Norman J. Howard Award – Don Currie The Norman J. Howard Award recognizes proficiency in one or more of the following areas of municipal water supply — design, construction, operation, maintenance, management, regulation or research.

“northern boy” at heart (born in Timmins), Don Currie soon realized that life in the big city failed to match the benefits offered by the smaller communities of the north. In 1968, after a few years in Toronto working as a data processing specialist, Currie accepted employment with the then Bracebridge Water, Light and Power Commission and moved north to the Muskoka community. After completing several skills and technical upgrade courses, Currie rose through the ranks, first at the lower tier municipal level and later with the regional government. In

Don Currie, N.J. Howard Award winner, receives plaque from AWWA rep Terry Nolan

1999, he was named Director, Water and Sewer Operations, District of Muskoka. At this level he had responsibility for 15 water treatment plants and 50 pumping stations. “Muskoka is an interesting challenge for water and wastewater services,” Currie says. “It’s a big region with a number of growing communities, a geography that can at times be difficult with plenty of lakes and rock formations to work around, and a population that can double or triple in peak vacation periods.” In 2003, after 35 years in the water and wastewater industry, Currie retired. But retirement did not last for long. He was soon asked to accept the role of district emergency coordinator, a position that was a natural follow to some of his earlier volunteer interests, and one that he holds to this day. “Along the way I became a volunteer firefighter,” he explains, “and eventually as a fire captain became involved in emergency planning and then as emergency coordinator for Bracebridge. The events of 9/11 quickly changed ‘voluntary’ emergency response plans to ‘mandatory,’ and every municipality had to become more involved.” In addition to the above “almost full-time” position, Don is also involved with assisting local water and wastewater treatment plants to make sure they are in compliance with all rules and regulations. He also continues to serve as a consultant to some of the First Nations on water and wastewater issues.

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Throughout his career Don has been active in OWWA activities serving as a board trustee and co-chair of the first utility council. In addition, he has been involved with planning the conferences of the regional Georgian Bay Water Works Association. Don continues to live in Bracebridge with his wife Vilenna and enjoys many of those things that the Muskoka District is famous for — boating, fishing, hunting and snowmobiling. Summer 2008

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Operators Meritorious Award

Neville Hewage Receives Operators Meritorious Service Award

The Operator’s Award is presented each year to recognize outstanding contributions by systems operators to the delivery of safe drinking water in Ontario.

Terry Rolan, AWWA, presents Operator’s Award to Neville Hewage.

t’s a long way from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Northern Ontario’s City of Greater Sudbury but that’s the path the 2008 winner of the OWWA’s Operators Meritorious Service Award has travelled pursuing studies, employment and new opportunities in the drinking water industry.

both surface water and groundwater supplies, a traditional water treatment plant, a newly-commissioned membrane filtration plant and no fewer than six distribution systems to service the small communities now part of Ontario’s largest (sq. kms) municipality.

Neville Hewage is today a water operator with WT- IV, WD- IV and WQA licenses, and proud to be part of what he describes as “a total team effort” supplying safe drinking water to the citizens of Sudbury.

Hewage’s most recent research work, in conjunction with other researchers at Laurentian University, is focused on developing an online bio-monitoring system to detect the presence of E.coli and total coliform contaminants in drinking water. The technology developed by Hewage and his colleagues employs fibre optics and fluorescence.

His road to the Northern Ontario community reads like a geographer’s quiz, beginning with his undergraduate studies at the University of Colombo. That was followed by a master’s degree at Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland and, after his arrival in Canada in 2001, studies at Ontario’s Centennial College and post-graduate research at the University of Guelph and Laurentian University. Squeeze in employment along the way — the Government of Quatar, Scotland’s Environmental Protection Agency, the Ontario Clean Water Agency, the City of Toronto and Greater Sudbury — and you get some idea of Neville’s ambition and achievements. “There is always a challenge when you get involved,” Hewage says as he relates details of some of both his work experiences and research studies. He sought employment in Sudbury because it is a municipality that has

For this enthusiastic new-Canadian, water treatment and distribution is his vocation and most years it’s also his vacation. Hewage regularly spends much of his annual leave as a volunteer designing, constructing and commissioning small water systems for rural villages in countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Haiti, Nepal and Rwanda. In addition, Neville is a doctoral candidate at Laurentian’s International Research Centre on Law and Human Rights. His research is focused on water resource management and water constraints in West Africa and South Asia. Neville Hewage lives with his wife Darshani, their children Sachini and Ishani in the community of Coniston, City of Greater Sudbury. Summer 2008

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year has come and gone and I have passed the gavel to our new president Tom Moulton at the very successful Annual Conference. Since Tom is just getting underway in his new position I get to give my farewell message here. The past year has strengthened our communication channels with the Ministry of the Environment (MOE). The Ministry brought in new regulations e.g. lead sampling and municipal licensing, and proposed new design guidelines — issues which the OWWA provided comment, sat on steering committees and helped in the outreach programs. Lead remains a concern because

of its potential health impacts. However, the regulation as enacted is not achievable by a significant number of municipalities because they are required to collect many more samples then they can obtain sites given that permission is required from the home owners. Applying for relief from the sampling requirement seems to be the norm rather than the exception. This needs a significant re-working. Municipal licensing is being phased in over a long period of time. An outreach program was designed and carried out to inform municipalities of the licensing requirements. More outreach is planned and municipalities are advised to take advantage of these sessions and get started with their own program. Our OWWA committees have been very active putting on workshops and addressing regulation anomalies that need fixing. On the home front, our Association is stronger than ever, in terms of membership, finances and organization. Our staff is doing a terrific

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job of getting our procedures and systems in place and will be in our new offices by the time this goes to press. Please make a note of the new address — OWWA, 1092 Islington Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto, ON. M8Z 4R9. Due to a quirk in the mail system the post office cannot forward mail automatically so please send all mail to the new address. The new office provides us with twice as much space for less money, and the location is far more convenient for staff. It is a ‘win’ situation all around. I look forward to one more year on the Board and the interaction with an exceptional group of people. We thank Liza Ballantyne for her time on the Board, and to Wayne Stiver who leaves the Board temporarily but will be back as our AWWA director in 2009. This will round out a decade of contribution and commitment by Wayne to the OWWA at the Board level. Finally, welcome to our new board members Brad Johns of City of Greater Sudbury and Emma Murphy of CH2M Hill. I know they will make a positive contribution to

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From the OMWA President

OMWA Focuses on the Proactive

he Joint Annual Conference “Only Tap Water Delivers” was a huge success thanks to the work of many volunteers under the guidance of Conference chair Tom Moulton. Congratulations to all who provided their time and talent in arranging a conference that bridged quality educational sessions and casual fun activities for our members and partners. The Annual Conference also marks the conclusion of another year of work by OMWA and OWWA and I would like to thank the Board members for their work on the Joint Committees and the success achieved on common projects. OMWA is proud of the work it has completed on behalf of our members in working with the provincial government to provide an adequate supply of safe, clean and affordable drinking water to the public. We want to ensure the people of Ontario continue to have confidence in the water we deliver. OMWA feels strongly that we must be proactive in our activities and we have just completed our Strategic

Plan outlining our goals and action plans. On behalf of our members we will continue our work with respect to the Lead Implementation Committee, Backflow Protection, Licensing and Certification, Infrastructure and Financial issues. The work of OMWA has five main goals:

4Utilize technical and political expertise to address legislative and regulatory issues affecting public water supply

4 Maximize government relations

4Enhance public confidence in the municipal water supply

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OMWA’s value to stakeholders through targeted communication

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education, training and development that is relevant to public water supply

OMWA has developed several action plans for each of these goals and we

Diane Gagner President, OMWA

welcome any membership volunteers who would like to work on any of the committees we establish to complete the action plans. When you volunteer on one of our working committees, you gain greater insight and understanding of the issues affecting your organization and community and you have the opportunity to influence provincial policy. All of the work of OMWA would not be possible without its volunteers and I want to thank our executive director, Doug Parker and all of our board members for their quality work. I would also like to thank our Eastern and Western OMWA chapters for their successful regional conferences, which are so important for continued outreach to, and input from, our members across Ontario.

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Another OWWA/OMWA Joint Annual Conference and Trade Show Douglas Parker Executive Director, OMWA

— another resounding success!

n her keynote address, national business affairs reporter Linda Sims spoke about the mortgage crisis in the United States and how it may affect Canada and the funding of public infrastructure in Ontario. The Hon. John Gerretsen, Minister of the Environment attended the conference for the first time since becoming minister and assured the delegates of his commitment to ensuring Ontario continues to have a sustainable and safe supply of drinking water.

The OMWA Concurrent Session covered a range of topics, including updates from the Ministries of the Environment and Public Infrastructure Renewal, a paper on the role of the Ontario Drinking Water Advisory Council, and an overview of the work of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Initiative. Throughout the session, the meeting room was filled to capacity. At the OMWA Awards Luncheon, president Diane Gagner spoke of the many accomplishments of OMWA during the past year, including the new strategic plan developed by the board of directors to guide the Association over the next few years. Director Mark Howson, chair of the Sault Ste. Marie Public Utilities Commission announced that the recipient of the OMWA Award of Exceptional Merit was Mayor Anne Krassilowsky of Dryden and the recipient of the Don Black Award was President Diane Gagner. Details of the awards appear in this edition of Pipeline. OMWA also recognized Rod Holme for his commitment and leadership in chairing the Joint OWWA/OMWA Committee, which deals with new legislation and regulations from the Ontario Government. Rod retired from the committee in 2008 after several years of outstanding work on behave of OMWA and OWWA. At the OMWA Annual General Meeting, Michael Hick, a director on the Lakefront Utilities Services Inc. serving Cobourg and the surrounding area was elected to the board. Michael had previously served on the board as chair of the Eastern Ontario Municipal Water Association. The OMWA executive for 2008-2009 is: president, Nick Benkovich, City of Greater Sudbury; 1st vice-president, Peter Veltheer, Town of Greater Napanee 2nd vice-president, Ed Houghton, Collingwood; and past president Diane Gagner, director-at-large.

Summer 2008

OMWA Awards

Mayor Anne Krassilowsky Receives OMWA Award of Exceptional Merit 2008

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Dryden Mayor Anne Krassilowsky

n presenting the award to Dryden Mayor Anne Krassilowsky, OMWA Director Mark Howson said, “Mayor Krassilowsky has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to bringing the issues of public water supply in Northern Ontario to the attention of OMWA members and to the provincial government.” This award is presented to those individuals who have made a contribution of exceptional merit to OMWA or the

waterworks industry either over an extended period of time or by distinguished service to a special project. “We all share a commitment to providing safe drinking water to our communities,” said Mayor Krassilowsky. “Some of the challenges we face in Northern communities are different from the rest of Ontario, and require special consideration.” Mayor Krassilowsky has been a director on the Ontario Municipal Water Association since 2004 and has been instrumental in bringing members of the OMWA Board of Directors to Northern Ontario to participate in key conferences on public water supply and to hear firsthand the challenges that smaller northern communities face on a daily basis.

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he Ontario Municipal Water Association Director Mark Howson, Chair of the Sault Ste. Marie Public Utilities Commission, proudly announced that Diane Gagner is the recipient of the 2008 OMWA Don Black Award. Don Black, a former executive director of OMWA, presented president Diane Gagner with the award, which recognizes individuals or public water authorities who have demonstrated outstanding and dedicated service in support of the principles of the Ontario Municipal Water Association. “Diane’s drive and dedication to furthering the goals and priorities of our organization has enabled a better understanding of OMWA’s role to our members,” said Black.

Don Black (l) presents award to Diane Gagner. OMWA director Mark Howson assists with the presentation

Diane has worked diligently since becoming a member of the board to ensure that the concerns of the OMWA membership are communicated to and addressed by the provincial government. “I am thrilled to receive the Don Black Award. It has been a pleasure working with the Board of Directors and members of the OMWA, all of whom are dedicated to providing safe, clean drinking water to Ontario communities.” Diane’s ongoing contribution to OMWA adds to a distinguished record of public service, including serving as mayor of Chatham-Kent, director of Chatham-Kent Public Utilities Commission, and director of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario. In addition, Diane has over 25 years of management experience.

Summer 2008

OWWA Awards

OWWA Awards Terry Rolan presents AWWA/OWWA Life Memberships Awards to Max Christie, Dave Durant and Hershel Guttman

Bob LeCraw presents A.E. Berry Membership Award to Wayne Stiver, accepting on behalf of Peterborough Utilities Services Inc.

Terry Rolan, AWWA, presents Steve Bonk with Gold Water Drop Award marking 50 years as a member of AWWA/OWWA

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Nick Benkovich presents OMWA Student Bursary to Kimberley Orr, Parry Sound

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From the OWWEA President

ou may have noticed the name and face have changed for this column. Tom Orpana has completed his term as president of the Ontario Water Works Equipment Association and will now become the OWWEA Representative on the OWWA Board of Directors.

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One of Tom’s goals as the incoming president two years ago was to stage a golf tournament (AMILTON in support of/. one of his favourite charities, Water For People. After a false start last year, the first annual OWWEA — Water For People Golf Tournament was a huge success. Seventy-five golfers participated in the tournament, which was held in conjunction with OWWA/OMWA Conference in London. Although the early morning temperatures delayed our start, the sun did shine all day and it was a great day on a truly beautiful golf course — Forest City National. Thanks to the hole sponsors, the golfers and the efforts of our volunteers, the r Ductile Iron Pipe is manufactured a Ontario Water Works Equipment Association presented

The other great Equipment Association event at this year’s conference was the OWWEA Casino Night. This was the 32nd edition of the casino night and it has become quite a tradition. The western theme was well received and once again every seat at the gaming tables was occupied. We had a large number of volunteer dealers, but we can always use more and look forward to your participation next year.

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I am looking forward to the next two years with the OWWEA. We have an enthusiastic group of people on our Board of Directors and I know they will continue to move our Association forward. Have a safe and happy summer!

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July 14-17th, 2008 AMTA/SEDA Joint Conference & Exposition “Membrane Week” Naples Grande Resort & Club, Naples Florida For more information see www.amtaorg.com

September 1-4, 2008 XIIIth World Water Congress: Global Changes & WaterResources Montpellier, France For more information see www.worldwatercongress2008.org

July 16-18, 2008 4th IWA Young Water Professionals Conference Berkeley California, USA For more information see www.iwa-ywpc.org

September 7-12, 2008 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition Austria Centre, Vienna For more information see www.iwa2008vienna.org

July 21-25, 2008 Geo Web 2008 Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Vancouver, British Columbia For more information see www.geoweb.org

September 15-18, 2008 Niagara Children’s Water Festival Balls Falls Conservation Area For more information see www.niagarachildrenswaterfestival.com

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Summer 2008

Membership Committee

WWA members have very diverse professions and businesses, however we all share an interest in the delivery of safe drinking water in Ontario. Our diversity adds value to the Association while our membership provides us numerous benefits. There are three main categories of membership; individual, utility and service provider. The purpose of this article is to describe some of the benefits associated with being a utility or service provider member. Currently there are about 94 utility and 68 service provider members within OWWA. Our appreciation for our utility and service provider members was recognized in an article in Pipeline’s Winter 2007 issue. Utility members include small water systems, water supply organizations or organizations that operate and/ or maintain a water supply system. Utility memberships are graded based on the size (number of connections) of the utility.

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All utility members have access to similar benefits however each utility can create its own membership value by selecting benefits most applicable to its organization. For instance, a utility could increase the number of active members or purchase items from the bookstore. Service providers are themselves a diverse group. They include companies that manufacture, sell or distribute products to the water industry, construct water supply and treatment facilities, provide consulting or professional services or are partner agencies like libraries and government departments. Service provider membership is based on the size (sales) of an organization. All grades have access to similar benefits however each member can create its own membership value by selecting the benefits most beneficial to the organization.

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The value that all of our members bring to the association is both recognized and appreciated. How do you feel about your membership in OWWA? If you would like to share your OWWA experiences, please contact the Membership Committee — membership@owwa.ca - This is part of a series of articles prepared by the OWWA membership committee in recognition of the AWWA 2008 focus on membership.

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Jones and Janine Deboer for guiding our tour, and also to Tom Sloley, Greg Lymer, and Jim Cunningham for their assistance in organizing the event.

he winter and spring seasons were busy for the OWWA Young Professionals Committee (YPC). First up was a Toronto Marlies hockey game on February 6, followed by a St. Patty’s “social” at Grace O’Malley’s Pub in Toronto on March 14. Both events were a huge success and were joint activities with the New Professionals of the Water Environment Association of Ontario.

Of course the YPC’s most important event was the OWWA Annual Conference held in London this year. The conference was a great success! YPs presented a great technical session on a broad range of topics, including: the importance and cost-effectiveness of SCADA networking, the value of pilot testing for full scale design, and the use of life cycle costing to determine the optimal solution for upgrading multiple water systems.

In April, more than 20 YPs toured the Ajax Water Supply Plant, which is Durham Region’s main control hub, and provides monitoring and control for both the Whitby and Oshawa WSPs, plus several pump stations. A special “thank you” to plant operators Richard

The YPC also held its third annual Fresh Ideas program. This program is for first-time presenters at the OWWA Annual Conference. Fresh Idea candidates are evaluated by three water professionals, and this year the competition was so close that only Summer 2008

Young Professionals Report one point separated the winner and the runner-up! Congratulations go to Laura Meteer whose presentation “Sampling to Success: Water Quality Data Management at York Region” was selected to represent OWWA YPs at the AWWA Annual Conference in Atlanta. Honourable mention goes to the runner-up, Patrick Halevy, for delivering a very strong presentation entitled “Comparing Ozone and Peroxone to Control Taste and Odor and Mitigate Bromate Formation.” The YPs also want to congratulate Monique Waller, who won the Michael R. Provart Award for her presentation and research in the removal of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) with activated carbon and ultra-filtration. Monique was also the 2007-2008 University of Toronto Student Chapter liaison to the YPC.

Finally, stay tuned for upcoming YPC events, which include a Tour of the Greenbrook WTP, Kitchener in July, and the annual YP Technical Seminar to be held on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 in Toronto at Black Creek Pioneer Village. Also, keep checking the OWWA website’s YP page for more details!

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Young Professionals are people with less than 10 years of experience in the water industry. We plan activities that help YPs develop professional contacts, and we promote participation of YPs in industry activities and committees. If you are interested in learning more about the OWWA Young Professionals,

D i a M E t E R

DEPEND-O-LOK

The annual YP Reception was again a huge success, thanks in large part to the sponsor, IPEX Inc. The showcase of the night was the Water Cup Challenge, a drinking water trivia game that puts TV’s Jeopardy to shame. Competition between the seven teams was fierce. Despite a few tears, some blood and the occasional attempt to bribe the judges — the games went off without a hitch. The surprise of the night occurred when the three-time defending champions (the ‘Eh’ Team) went down to defeat in the semi-finals. Congratulations to this year’s champions, the ‘Last Minute Club’ — Craig Hutchinson, Salma Dharsee, Thomas Hummel and U.S. import Terry Rolan. The YPC would also like to thank the sponsors of the YP Raffle (Emco, Metcon, UMA Engineering, Victaulic and Vissers Sales Corp), and also thank all who participated during the OWWA conference to hunt down the elusive red YP stamp!

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am writing this article a week after another great conference and trade show. The London venue was one of the best that we have used. Congratulations to Tom Moulton on his second success as conference chair. We look forward to working with him as the new president of OWWA.

A highlight of this conference was the tremendous support shown by the MOE. Not only did they provide generous financial support and session speakers, but also allowed 60 staff to attend the conference. I read this as an indication of the importance of the MOE/OWWA/OMWA relationship, and the relevance of the conference to the MOE. We are trying to ensure that the conference and tradeshow stay on a strong footing for the future. Efforts are being made to standardize the dates to the first week of May, and

to lock up venues four years in advance. At this time, firm arrangements have been made for 2009 in Toronto; tentative arrangements have been made for Windsor in 2010; and negotiations will soon commence for Niagara Falls in 2011 and a return to Toronto in 2012. I would like to offer my thanks to the departing directors, Liza Ballantyne and Wayne Stiver for their hard work and dedication. Wayne, of course, will be returning to the Board in 2009 as our AWWA Director. Also, I welcome the new directors, Emma Murphy and Brad Johns. The candidates for director this year were superb; the vote was unbelievably close. I encourage the unsuccessful candidates to throw their hats into the ring again next year. By the time this edition goes to press, the OWWA should be ensconced in its new offices at 1092 Islington Avenue, between Dundas and Bloor in Toronto’s west end. The Ad Heading: real-time Type: facility will have a fullIntelligent boardroom, enabling us to 4chost not Colour: water management 3.375" x 4.625" only Board andPublication: BoardOntario committee meetings, but virtually Pipeline Line Screen: 150 all OWWA committee meetings. If Insertion you wish to use these Date: Mat. Ship Date: June 27 2008 Email: Apr 30 2008 facilities, call the office to work out the logistics.

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The project’s birth is credited to Ross Slaughter, P.Eng., of Henderson Paddon & Associates Limited of Owen Sound, whose agricultural and engineering background first led him to appreciate the strength, durability, ease of maintenance and lifetime value of glass-fused-to-steel. “I worked six summers on my step grandfather’s farm north of Toronto,” says Slaughter, who has a B.Sc. (Eng) degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Guelph. “I saw Harvestores built in the 1970s that don’t have any noticeable rust even today. So I’ve known about glass-fused-to-steel for some time. I also saw that Greatario had put up numerous Aquastore structures without a problem, so I have always had great confidence in Greatario as a company.” Henderson Paddon & Associates also had

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experience with Greatario, erecting Owen Sounds’ 580,000 U.S. gallon (2,200m3) glass-fused-to-steel Aquastore with an aluminum geodesic dome for sewage sludge containment. It has been low maintenance since it was built in 1995, Slaughter notes. In 2003, the firm was asked by the Ontario Clean Water Agency in Toronto to do engineering studies and reports on water systems at three First Nation locations, including Henvey Inlet. As a result of a water feasibility study done for Henvey Inlet, Slaughter and crew recommended the elevated, composite glass-fused-to-steel Aquastore structure that now stands in place.

sand blasting the steel to a shiny finish, painting it inside and out, and other miscellaneous costs, Slaughter adds. There is also the risk of a fire during that time to consider, he says.

Capacity Enough to Fight Fires Lionel Fox, Band Councillor for Henvey Inlet First Nation, has been part of the project for the First Nation from its inception. He says there was no question that the quality of glass-fused-tosteel impressed him. “We looked at cement and steel, too, but once we saw a sample of glass-fused-to-steel we said ‘We like this’,” says Fox. “Not having to paint

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Low Maintenance, No Painting “We told the First Nation that the low maintenance of the installation would more than offset the slightly higher cost of building it,” says Slaughter. “The biggest point is you don’t have to paint it every 15 years like you do welded steel tanks,” Slaughter adds. Repainting a steel structure can cost $120,000 to $150,000, Slaughter says. Rodger knows of one bid of $1.3 million to repaint and renovate an elevated welded tank. The community must pay for providing other temporary water storage,

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Henvey Inlet First Nation’s Aquastore rises above Hwy. 69 not far from Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada.

every 10 to 15 years is what we wanted. The cost savings are big.” Fox, who runs the Henvey Inlet First Nation’s fire department and emergency ambulance service, said about 30 homes are served by the new Aquastore – the 136,000 gallon (515m3) capacity is fed by two connected wells and delivers a minimum of 40 psi pressure, enough to supply pressure for fire hoses attached to any of the 23 hydrants in the community. The tower on the hill sits near the First Nation’s helipad for air ambulatory service. The capacity, greater than what is needed by the community, was determined with fire fighting in mind. This Spring, the First Nation plans on surrounding the tank with spotlights to illuminate the logo on its side. “We want to be able to see it great at night,” Fox adds. “And we want others to see it, too. We’re proud of it.”

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Joint Executive Committee Report

Regulation 450/07: Charges for Industrial and Commercial Water Users

Will it Help Get Ontario Off the Bottle?

he province introduced this regulation after very brief consultation with stakeholders, even though during the discussion period several significant concerns were raised about the practicability of the proposed water-taking charges. Some issues were addressed but some remain in the final regulation.

Wayne Stiver, Committee Co-Chair, OWWA

Rosemary K. MacLennan, Committee Co-Chair, OMWA

There is no doubt that the province has the right idea in sending a clear message to large water users that water resources in the province are not free. We can no longer treat ground and surface water as an endless resource to be exploited for the significant benefit of private for-profit corporations. Some have described the bottled water market as a licence to print money, and that might not be far off when you consider the efforts of the large corporations over the past decade or two in this area. The purpose of the regulation is “to recover a portion of the costs the Government of Ontario incurs in the administration of the Act (referring to the Ontario Water Resources Act) and any other Act for the purpose of promoting the conservation, protection and management of Ontario’s waters and their efficient and sustainable use.” Industrial and commercial facilities under “phase one” of the regulation include water bottlers, beverage

and food manufacturers, ready-mix concrete and other manufacturing facilities, which incorporate water into the product and use more than 50,000 litres in any single day. The 50,000litre/day threshold comes from the Ontario Water Resources Act itself and is the point at which a Permit to Take Water (PTTW) is triggered. Since the threshold requires a daily measurement of water taken or used, it makes this regulation very difficult to apply in the field. There are also “grandfathered” water-takers in the province without PTTW’s if their activities commenced before March 30, 1961. There are generally two categories of large users — those with their own water supply and those on municipal water systems. The Ministry will deal with private supplies directly but may have an issue with the daily measurement of water taken. For large industrial and commercial water users on municipal systems, the Ministry is requiring owners of water works to supply them annually with the names, account numbers, addresses and water used in the last 12 months. Again, the issue of daily water taking will be a problem for the Ministry as we are not aware of any water utilities taking daily reads of water meters. Providing this data in the rigid format required by the Ministry’s template will be challenging for many municipal water Summer 2008

Joint Executive Committee Report providers and difficulties experienced so far have prompted the Ministry to revise the 2008 submission deadline via a compliance strategy from March 31 to May 31. Finally, let’s consider the regulated water taking charge of $3.71 per million litres. If a bottled water company charges an average of $0.75 for a 500mL container, the watertaking charge would represent an additional 0.00025 per cent or less than 0.0002 cents per bottle. To put it in numbers we can relate to, and for those on municipal water systems, it would amount to an increase of about 0.5 per cent above a typical municipal water rate. Nestlé has recently been granted approval to mine an additional 1.3 billion litres per year from the groundwater aquifer near Guelph and under this regulation, their watertaking charge will contribute $4,823 to the provincial coffers. At $0.75 per 500 mL bottle Nestlé would stand to increase gross annual revenues by $1,950,000,000 from this approval. So will the water charges under O. Reg. 450/07 send the right message to the large water users? Perhaps, but it certainly will have little to no impact on their business activities. The facilities captured under phase one of the regulation, incorporate water into their product so less water means less product; and less product is not why private for-profit corporations exist. It remains to be seen, but one has to wonder if the efforts and costs to collect these charges may exceed the actual charge. We expect that if the full costs of this regulation were examined, including municipal water system owner’s costs to collect and submit annual data to the Ministry, the program would run a deficit. If the province does make a net profit on this program, it will come at the cost of

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municipal water system owners. The municipal cost to “mine” this data for the Ministry is not insignificant but if it helps significantly fund worthwhile programs it may be a worthwhile price to pay. Unfortunately, the Ministry should not be counting on a significant financial surplus from this regulation to fund their very important initiatives

in promoting conservation, protection and management of Ontario’s waters and their efficient and sustainable use. We are, however, encouraged by a Toronto Sun article on April 24, 2008, in which it was reported that Premier McGuinty stated the province is looking at more appropriate fees for this regulation.

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On March 25 2008, we hosted our first World Water Corps event at the University of Toronto. The World Water Corps is Water For People’s (WFP) program that provides volunteers with an opportunity to travel abroad and support the organization in a very tangible way. Volunteers share their skills and professional experience in support of sustainEliza and her baby sister, Nanstazia

able safe drinking water resources, improved sanitation facilities and hygiene education programs at WFP’s various country locations. The evening at U of T provided a forum for World Water Corps volunteers to discuss the nature of their work and unique experiences around the world. The event received an overwhelming response, with over 100 people expressing an interest in attending. However, room size limited the guest list to 80 people. Tony Petrucci, President of Water For People-Canada hosted the evening while Barry Laverick, Flor Yunen Garcia Becerra and Quirien Muylwyk shared their experiences. Snacks and refreshments were provided courtesy of Canadian Contracting Ltd.

Water For People – Life Adventures

There are so many stories at Water For People-Canada. I am delighted to share just one of them with you. Eliza is an 11-year-old girl who is just getting by in rural Malawi, one of sub-Saharan Africa’s poorest countries. As you might imagine, life is hard where she lives. Poverty, hunger, lack of drinking water and disease are common. But for Eliza, uncontrollable events have made her life unfathomable. Her mother passed away in July and she was left to care for her two sisters, Martha, 8, and Nanstazia, 6 months. Her father had passed away two years before. Aside from her sisters, Eliza has no family left. At 11, she is suddenly responsible for raising the family. She has no money, and very little food. She must rely on the kindness of friends and neighbors to survive. 36

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Water For People-Canada Before Water For People came to her village, Eliza did not have access to safe drinking water. Like all women in her village, she walked a mile to a muddy hole carrying baby Nanstazia to get the water she needed. The water was not safe and her baby sister often got sick with severe diarrhea. Then, Eliza needed medicine that she could not afford. Today, with the support of caring, compassionate people from the North American water and wastewater community, Eliza’s village now has a regular supply of safe drinking water — and hope for a better future. Eliza and her sisters have a chance for a better life.

2009 Country Tour Schedule Water For People-Canada is pleased to announce the 2009 Country Tour Schedule:

Honduras: February 11-28, 2009 Malawi: September 13-19, 2009 Pack your bags, grab your camera, dust off your language dictionary and prepare for an amazing adventure as you visit a WFP-C project in Honduras or Malawi. WFP-C Country Tours give participants the extraordinary opportunity to travel off the beaten path for a firsthand look at the work and projects that WFP-C supports. You’ll travel on bumpy dirt roads to remote villages where you’ll taste traditional foods, dance traditional dances and become immersed in beautiful local culture. Most importantly, you will see sustainable water and sanitation development in progress and the vast difference these projects are making in people’s lives. The local WFP Country Coordinator will serve as your interpreter

and guide. You should be prepared for rugged terrain, some low-impact walking and limited amenities while on day-trips to the communities. This is not a luxury vacation. The cost of each tour is $1,000 (US), which covers in-country transportation, and time and expertise of our international development professionals. To reserve your space, $500 (US) must be paid three months in advance of departure. The remaining $500 (US) must be paid one month prior to departure. Participants are responsible for food and hotel expenses while on the tour. Participants must arrange and cover the costs for their own flights. This is “an experience of a lifetime.” Contact: Wendy Valentine at wvalentine@waterforpeople.org

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Water Efficiency Committee

Efficiency Committee Offers Peak Demand Reduction Manual and Seminars

rant funding from the Ministry of Environment has enabled the OWWA Water Efficiency Committee to contract Veritec Consulting to research and write a manual to help utilities plan and implement peak water demand reduction programs.

In conjunction with releasing the manual, three workshops will be held in Ottawa, the GTA and London this fall. The MOE grant will also subsidize workshop fees. Stay tuned for further details.

The manual will be completed this summer and distributed free of charge to each municipality in Ontario. The manual will also be posted for free download at www.owwa.com.

For more information, call Steve Gombos, Chair, OWWA Water Efficiency Committee, 519-575-4503.

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PAC Report

PAC at the Annual Conference

he Public Affairs Committee (PAC) was very busy at this year’s annual conference in London, hosting a workshop, presenting a poster and hosting the first ever Public Affairs session! The workshop, “Communication Plans and Media Relations,” was held on Sunday, April 27, the first day of the OWWA annual conference. Pat McNally, Director of Water Environment and Customer Relations for the City of London, provided a brief overview of recent local events, both positive and negative, that have required communication with the public and local media. Karla Kolli from Dillon Consulting and Tracey Ehl from EHC Consulting then led the group through the process of creating and implementing a communications plan. Greg Kail, Director of Public Affairs for AWWA flew in from Denver to teach participants how to effectively work with print,

radio and television media to control the message that consumers receive about drinking water. The PAC looks forward to continuing to help Ontario utilities communicate with consumers by offering practical and informative seminars and workshops. Look for the announcement of next year’s workshop! The poster presented by PAC at this year’s conference emphasized the importance of working with the media and proactively communicating with consumers to ensure that they are receiving the correct message about municipal drinking water. The PAC conference session on Tuesday afternoon consisted of five excellent and well-attended presentations. The afternoon began with a presentation from Nicole Dufort reviewing the extensive public education program at the City of Toronto.

Ted Joynt from the Town of Smiths Falls then introduced Jane Lyster from his utility’s local health unit who highlighted the many benefits to utilities who work closely with their local health units. Pat McNally from the City of London discussed the important role that the media played in 2007 with respect to the city’s lead mitigation program. Tracey McLean described York Region’s “Water for Tomorrow” program and the challenges faced by the Region with respect to water conservation. Leo Gohier ended the session with a presentation describing the importance of good public relations and some of the challenges involved in communicating with consumers. If you attended any of the PAC events at this year’s conference or you would like more information about how the committee can help your utility, we would like to hear from you: PAC@owwa.com.

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Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Canadian Environment

t has been known over the past two decades that residues of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from personal use or the veterinary treatment of animals (e.g. drugs, cosmetics) are released into the environment via wastewater effluent and land application of biosolids and manures, ending up in agricultural soils, surface waters, groundwater and drinking water. Concentrations of these chemicals detected in water are minute — however, there is an increasing concern over their potential long-term impact on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems as well as human health. For instance, laboratory studies have shown that low levels of PPCPs can accumulate in biological tissues of certain aquatic organisms adversely affecting their growth and reproduction. Although there have been significant advances in methods to identify and quantify the presence of PPCPs in the environment, our understanding of the level of risk and the span of potential adverse effects on biota and human health remains limited.

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One year ago, scientists and regulators from across Canada gathered to assess the current state of Canada’s research by government, academia and industry sectors on PPCPs in the environment, and to identify key actions to guide future research and Canada’s path forward on this emerging global environmental issue. The event was hosted by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Environment Canada, Health Canada, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, the Canadian Water Network and the Walkerton Clean Water Centre. A workshop report from this event, Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Canadian Environment: Research and Policy Directions, is now available at http://www.nwri. ca/ppcp-ppsp/i-cover-e.html. Key messages and recommendations from the workshop presentations and discussions include the following:

The issue of PPCPs in the environment is not yet sufficiently understood. More study and quantification of environmental concentrations and associated observed effects are needed in order to verify the assumption that there is a risk to be managed. There is also a need to identify major sources of PPCPs to the environment and determine the cost-effectiveness of source control programs and treatment technologies. Individual PPCPs have been 4 associated with adverse effects on

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PPCP Report aquatic organisms under controlled laboratory conditions, but research is needed to investigate their combined effect at the population and ecosystem levels, to identify sentinel species and to establish standardized environmentally-relevant endpoints.

Toxicity effects generally indicate that acute lethal effects are not likely to occur in the environment but that chronic or long-term effects are possible. To evaluate the potency of PPCPs and the vulnerability of ecosystems, long-term effects monitoring and whole-ecosystem studies are needed in locations where the most serious impacts have been observed or are likely to be observed.

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network to address the above needs, a specialized national inventory of research and monitoring information and activities, and a consistent framework for chemical analysis of PPCP concentrations, and provided specific advice on how to create and maintain these activities.

Moving forward: Enhancing communication and knowledge dissemination

In addition to the above recommendations, participants at the national workshop agreed on the need to enhance communication among researchers, and among science users such as risk assessors, regulators and wastewater managers. The proceedings provide a common understanding of the state of the

science and will help researchers prioritize needs and better identify collaborative opportunities to address knowledge gaps. This report will also make funding organizations aware of the research priorities in this field and give policy and program managers a better appreciation of existing research challenges and broader policy issues. To maintain research momentum on this important issue and further explore the utility of a central information coordinating network, a followup workshop in 2009 was recommended.

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OWWA Student Chapter

OWWA Student Chapter Update — University of Toronto Gregory Zimmer speaking at the drinking water legislation seminar

he 2007/2008 school year was a great success for the University of Toronto’s OWWA Student Chapter. Since its launch in 2005, the chapter has grown to almost 200 student members! Funded by the OWWA through the Young Professionals Committee, the Chapter gives students a chance to learn about the water industry through seminars, tours, social activities and networking events. In October of 2007, students learned about career opportunities in the water industry from Troy Leyburne and Monika Nobrega (Peel Region). In November, the chapter co-hosted a control valve seminar with the YP Committee, which included demonstrations and explanations by Peter Sucharda (Devine & Associates), Roland Barbazza (Syntec Process Equipment) and Andrew Cowburn (Victaulic). In December, the OWWA and WEAO Student Chapters collaborated to host a seminar on project management in the water and wastewater industries. We heard from Martin Gravel (Genivar) and Don Hoekstra (Don Hoekstra Project Management), who shared their experience and insights on this topic. Gregory Zimmer (Ontario Ministry of the Environment) spoke to us in March 2008 about drinking water legislation and regulations in Ontario, as well as career opportunities at the MOE. Our final activity for this school year was a networking event in which students were given an overview of the OWWA by Tom Moulton (EMCO) and Lesia Lachmaniuk (Marketing and Membership Manager, OWWA). We also heard from the Water For People Committee (Elia Edwards,

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Associated Engineering), the Youth Education Committee (Melissa Weber, R.V. Anderson Associates Limited) and the Young Professionals Committee (Grant Stanley, Vissers Sales; Samantha Fraser, GE – Zenon; Seth Wiggins, Halton Region). The evening concluded with informal networking between students and guests. Thanks to our many speakers, 2007/2008 was a big hit! The 2008/2009 U of T Student Chapter will be led by Dania Chehab and Kelly Griffiths of the Drinking Water Research Group. If you are interested in telling your story Tom the networking event Waller or to theMoulton Student speaking Chapter,atplease contact Monique Dania Chehab. We’d love to hear from you! Monique Waller President, U of T OWWA Student Chapter monique.waller@utoronto.ca

Dania Chehab Vice-President, U of T OWWA Student Chapter dania.chehab@utoronto.ca

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Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) 3150

Asset Management and the Infrastructure Master Plan By Mike Fortin, Consulting Economist assisted by Dave Watt, Senior GIS / Asset Management Specialist, Associated Engineering and Len Stein, Manager of Utility Operations, City of Abbotsford

y now, most in the water industry are well aware of PSAB 3150, the tangible assets accounting standard for municipal government. Those who have yet to implement PSAB 3150 might be experiencing a growing sense of urgency as the 2009 deadline approaches — asset inventories and valuations take time to prepare when most of your assets are underground. But if you are over the implementation hump, then it is time to start thinking about how tangible asset accounts can or will impact operations and planning. The new accounts provide the accountant’s measure of a system’s worth based, as it is, on depreciated historical cost. To appreciate the implication of historical cost valuation, consider the graph of price indices from Statistics Canada (Fig I). Our oldest water infrastructure has been subject to gradual but nevertheless very significant inflation from the time it was built (the dark blue line) while short-lived computer

hardware has shown a stunning decline in value over its short life span (the light blue line). For older assets, valuations are invariably based on replacement cost adjusted back in time to account for inflation. Thus, a pipe built in 1940 that would cost $10 million to replace today with a life span of 80 years, would have an historical value of about $580,000 before depreciation and $80,000 after depreciation. Such numbers tell us little about the functional value of the asset. Is tangible asset accounting therefore meaningful to the system manager? Not as meaningful as such measures are in the private sector where they provide the basis for estimating the book value of an enterprise. But the new approach to accounting can nevertheless contribute to effective operations and planning. The most important contribution in this regard will come from preparation of a comprehensive asset inventory during PSAB

implementation. As a one-off exercise, the resulting data is of little value. However, if it is structured as a user friendly data base, it can become the primary repository of tangible asset information for operations and finance. A properly structured asset inventory becomes a key tool for cataloguing new acquisitions, reporting asset condition and documenting asset management activities. The new standard can also lead to a more insightful financial analysis for infrastructure planning. When a fully specified financial model based on the new accounting standard is employed in the financial analysis for an infrastructure master plan study, the analyst can estimate full cost user rates based on the PSAB 3150 standard as opposed to the utility’s cash needs. Depending on the approach to financing, the cash needs rate can be quite erratic over time whereas the full cost rate incorporating depreciation as a measure of capital costs tends to be more stable as can be

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seen in the plot of water rates from a recent study for the City of Abbotsford BC. Using a fully specified financial model the analyst can forecast financial statements for the utility and estimate standard financial ratios to help evaluate proposed infrastructure investments. Ratio analysis lets us look at financial performance from several perspectives including recovery of operating costs (the operating ratio), capacity to service debt (debt service coverage), financial risk (current ratio, debt/equity) and profitability (return on investment). A ratio analysis corresponding to the rates profile above is shown in the table at right. The target ratios shown here are indicative of the performance of a low risk public enterprise for which

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A New Approach to Water Management in Canada

ater defines life in Canada. Our history, culture, communities, ecosystems and the economy on which we depend are all shaped by water. Our waters form the basis of an integrated hydroecological system that sustains both our environment and our growing population. Moreover, water has also long played a central role as the basis of our economy; in producing our food and agricultural products, our forests and their products, in transportation, manufacturing and energy production, in recreation and tourism. Perhaps it is because we have been blessed with so much that Canadians have a dangerous inclination to be complacent and to take our water riches for granted. We tend to assume all is well and that our governments will make sure that our needs for adequate supplies of safe and clean freshwater will be met. We have an established and increasingly complex and evolving arrangement of jurisdictional and legislative mechanisms addressing water management concerns. These have worked reasonably well in the past, but both ongoing and emerging threats are now challenging that management structure. New approaches to management and governance and a new response are called for. Whether we are trying to do our part internationally, or working to re-establish our clean water heritage here in Canada, we need a new, shared vision for water in Canada and a New Approach to Water Management. Realizing this need to develop a broad scope perspective on water

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management, Pollution Probe initiated the Water Policy in Canada: National Workshop Series, a progressive series of five national workshops for decision-makers, experts and key influencers. The series was organized by Pollution Probe in conjunction with a wide range of government and nongovernmental partners and sponsors. We began in Winnipeg in February 2006 by looking at the current status of water resource management. From there we proceeded to visit Lethbridge, Wolfville, Guelph and Moncton, benefiting from almost 70 presentations and the input of several hundred participants in total. The workshop series proved to be a goldmine of information and served to not only comprehensively articulate the challenges we are facing, but also reveal a strategic path forward towards more sustainable management of our water resources. To see or download a copy of a report based on the workshops refer to the website address below. Pollution Probe heard that multiple water issues are addressed at multiple levels and that these issues are not independent. It is this fundamental reality that underlies the many water management challenges we are experiencing today, challenges of role and mandate, of communication and leadership and jurisdiction. Water quantity management affects water quality management, and land use planning affects both. There exists an impressive collection of valuable data, however it is usually fractioned off in pieces and is largely inaccessible and often incompatible.

By Rick Findlay Director, Water Programme, Pollution Probe

Issues of allocation are growing more and more pressurized in parts of the country, and questions of whose water, why and for how long, exist at every jurisdictional level, including bi-nationally. Competition between industrial and domestic demands and between urban and rural users defines water management in mostly human terms. Too often the needs of the ecosystem, and of the ecological goods and services that sustain us, fall by the wayside. The path forward identified in Lethbridge was to go beyond water management and look at watershed management, and to recognize the shared nature of our common interest in water and act accordingly, moving from government to governance. Fundamentally the people, land and water are all connected, and although we could share a common vision, that vision has not been enunciated and acknowledged, and it has not been the basis of a common coordinated approach to water management in Canada. Pollution Probe heard this call for a common vision and has taken up the challenge. Building from the crossCanada workshop series we recently published our vision and strategy titled A New Approach to Water Management in Canada (March 2008). 45

Water Management This concise document expresses the belief that water resources in Canada will be best protected by a broadly shared ethic of stewardship and responsibility for sustainable watershed management. It goes on to lay out a blueprint and action plan for how to get there. Beginning with a high level characterization of the breadth of water management challenges and their interconnectivity, the report lays out some ground rules based on the following eight principles: precaution; shared responsibility: living off the interest; right to know; net gain; jurisdiction best-placed: pollution prevention and polluter pays. Three strategic and mutually reinforcing policy directions are defined. A New Approach to Water Management in Canada will:

see watersheds as the operational unit for water management

use distributed governance and distributed information management approaches

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The future of water management in Canada begins in the watershed. All across Canada there is a growing realiza-

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tion of the need to manage water on a watershed basis and that is good news. Watershed based management presents a clear opportunity for authorities at all levels to work together to place human needs for water within an ecosystem context and to adopt appropriate planning approaches for land use and development decisions. Addressing the needs of the watershed however requires data. It requires appropriate, inter-operable data that is standardized, mapped and wherever possible, publicly accessible through the latest web-based technology. Sharable data is fundamental to managing water not only within a watershed but also between watersheds and regionally. This standards-based, distributed approach highlights the need for a coordinated data gathering, monitoring and research agenda that is efficient and responsive to the needs of our regions and watersheds. Within the water monitoring and research communities there is a need for a national networking approach and strong science-policy linkages to ensure that important scientific knowledge regularly informs the decision making process and that the research agenda is responsive to policy priorities and needs. Meanwhile from a governance perspective, the fact is that political jurisdictions do not generally follow watershed boundaries and this has given rise to a need for new institutions to step forward and represent the interests of the watershed. The practice so far has been to form these watershed management institutions locally, a valuable approach that empowers people who have a vested interest in the watershed, primarily because it is their watershed — their place. The need to rethink governance models to incorporate the interests of the watershed present the basis for a more robust and distributed governance model that will nurture a broad, shared stewardship ethic. A more distributed approach to governance highlights the need for clarification of roles and responsibilities, while encouraging leadership to emerge at every level. Ultimately a more distributed but inclusive approach to governance, one that enables local watershed leaders to step forward and be heard, can both de-politicize decision making and bring new political energy to addressing watershed management challenges. A new dimension of trust and a coalition of support for decisions taken will serve to make taking a decision less risky politically. For a copy of A New Approach to Water Management in Canada (March 2008) please refer to: http://www.pollutionprobe.org/ Publications/Water.htm Summer 2008

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ccess to clean drinking water and basic sanitation are basic human rights. Yet an estimated 2.6 billion people worldwide don’t have access to proper sanitation — and that usually means limited or no access to safe drinking water. The United Nations designated 2008 as International Year of Sanitation to draw attention to this dire situation. Two staff members of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s Thunder Bay Office have seen the grim realities firsthand. As co-founders of Lifewater Canada, a non-profit, volunteer organization established in the 1990s, Jim Gehrels and Glenn Stronks are helping to bring critically needed water and sanitation facilities to developing countries. They and other volunteers train and equip local workers in Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Zambia. These crews then mobilize villages to drill wells, build washrooms and provide hygiene education. Providing basic sanitation and hygiene education is a key focus of Lifewater Canada’s work. Many communities are now building latrines and washrooms with technical assistance from the organization and donations from international sponsors. Health and hygiene workshops help villagers learn how to break disease transmission pathways and how to respond with life-saving treatment when diarrhoea strikes. Since their first trip together to Liberia in 1995, more than 250 wells have been drilled and they look forward to surpassing the 300 mark by November 2008. An estimated 100,000 people now have access to clean drinking water, basic sanitation and hygiene as a result of this communitybased activity.

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Jim and Glenn recently returned from a three-week trip to the war-devastated country of Liberia. While there, they worked with local teams to make the pump maintenance and repair program more sustainable. Together with volunteer specialists from Canada and a local project team, they also installed a major septic system. Lifewater Canada is proud of its low, five per cent overhead costs. As Glenn puts it, “We are volunteers working from home and our headquarters is a small mailbox.” Despite this low overhead, Glenn and Jim still have to raise over $275,000 each year to carry on this work. They continue to be touched by the many offers of help they receive. Recently Lifewater Canada received $190 from a young girl who celebrated her 11th birthday by asking for donations to help kids in Africa get safe drinking water. And last year, a group of 19 young people in London, Ontario performed “The One-World Talent Show” and raised enough funds to sponsor a $3,000 well. Together, these and other donors are making a difference that has a huge ripple effect — help, health and hope for thousands of people who otherwise might die from contaminated water and the lack of basic sanitation and hygiene education. You can help make a difference by donating online at www.lifewater.ca or sending a cheque to Lifewater Canada at 307 Euclid Ave., Thunder Bay ON P7E 6G6.

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OMWA’s mission is to act as the voice of Ontario’s public water supply authorities and their customers on policy, legislative and regulatory issues related to the provision of safe and reliable public water supply in Ontario. They are a unique organization in that their focus is upon the management and administration of public drinking water and their membership is made up of public water supply authorities. OMWA brings together a cross-section of expertise to provide direction and leadership to their mission. As an organization it is oriented towards action aimed at ensuring the best possible safety, quality, reliability and sustainability of drinking water in Ontario. The OWWA works closely with OMWA on technical or other matters of mutual interest. Most of this work is accomplished through the Joint Executive Committee, co-chaired by both the OWWA and OMWA. pub-aquapipe-OPM 1/14/08 OWWA 10:55 and AM AWWA Page 1Director Tim Lotimer,

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CWWA Report

Canadian Water and Wastewater Association Activities By Joe Salter, OWWA, Member Association Representative

Federal legislative or policy initiatives

The Canadian Water and Waste Water Association (CWWA) regularly monitors the legislative initiatives of Parliament. Currently there are two government bills and four private member bills in the House of Commons or the Senate with a potential impact on water/wastewater regulations. The Government Bills are:

Bill C-30 — The Canada Clean Air Act, which has been referred to the Parliamentary Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development for review.

Bill C-52 — An Act respecting the safety of consumer products. Notice was provided on April 4 of the intention to introduce legislation on this subject. This legislation would strengthen the authority to declare consumer products unsafe and also recall unsafe products. Of potential interest is the “general presumption of safety” which could apply to the sale of POU/POE drinking water treatment devices. The Private Members Bills are:

Private Members Bill C-315 — An Act to provide for the harmonization of environmental standards throughout Canada: to establish a process of federal-provincial consultation to achieve uniformity in environmental standards throughout the country.

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An Act to Amend the Fisheries Act

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(untreated sewage): to prohibit the deposit of untreated sewage in Canadian waters, and to prescribe by regulation how sewage must be treated before it can be deposited in those waters.

Private Members Bill C-504 — An Act to amend the Fisheries Act (deposit in lakes): to prohibit the use of lakes for depositing deleterious substances.

Private Members Bill S206 — An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (clean drinking water): to include water from a community water system as a food that is subject to regulation under the Act. Water systems that serve fewer than 25 persons or that operate less than 30 days a year are excluded. The Senate Committee on Natural Resources and the Environment has begun hearings on this Bill. In addition, the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development completed its examination and reporting on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act — 1999. The report was deposited in the House of Commons and has not been acted upon — the Government indicated it would not act on the report which remains tabled.

Wastewater

The primary and major effort during 2007-08 was responding to the CCME’s proposed Municipal Waste Water Effluents Strategy. The CWWA submission exceeded 30 pages of detailed comments and expression of policy concerns.

Environment Canada has issued a report of “what it heard” at hearings across the country.

Biosolids

CCME has set up a scoping committee to determine what it may wish to do about biosolids. It has been suggested that something favouring the Canadian Biosolids Partnership may be considered. CWWA participates in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s initiative to review the Fertilizer Regulations, which incidentally address biosolids as soil enhancers and fertilizers.

FOG Management

CWWA has formed a special FOG (Fats, Oil, Grease) Working Group to begin work on developing a standard best management practice for utilities to distribute to restaurants and other businesses requiring FOG management activities.

Water Efficiency and Conservation

CWWA wrote to the federal ministers and departments regarding the benefits of water efficient devices and the need for standards and a labeling system. No responses have been received.

Watershed Management

CWWA was invited to prepare a brief to the senate committee studying a Private Senators bill to set up a national watershed management scheme. A brief was prepared, but the examination of the bill was postponed to 2008. 49

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Future Events Canadian National Conference and 4th Policy Forum on Drinking Water —October 4-7, 2008, 413th Quebec City. This biannual conference is organized on behalf of the Federal-Territorial and Provincial

Committee on Drinking Water and is expected to attract more than 300 delegates. The theme for this year’s conference is focused on small systems.

Canadian National Conference and Policy Forum on Water Conservation and Efficiency — 42nd November 2-5, 2008, Waterloo, Ontario. This event will provide a unique opportunity to report on and learn

about water efficiency and conservation programs. Conference sessions will cover all aspects of municipal efficiency programs from technology, to best management practices, to policy and education.

4Window on Ottawa — December 4-5, 2008, The Albert at Bay Suite Hotel, in Ottawa. National Workshop on Water Security is tentatively planned for December 3 in conjunction with the 4CWWA 2008 Window on Ottawa. National Pollutant Release Inventory CWWA participates in the NPRI Working Group examining proposed substances for the 2008 Inventory Report — the results of this consultation will be Gazetted shortly.

Heat Exchange/Recovery Devices CWWA has been monitoring the increasing interest

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ft. is below the tops of most mountains in the area. At Nido de Cóndores and higher up Aconcagua there is nothing to diminish the force of winds coming off the Pacific and sweeping across Chile to our west. Dawn came none too soon. Our team leaders assessed the weather forecast, which was for more of the same for the next two days, and decided it was time to retreat. Within an hour of the decision, we had packed and were on our way back down the mountain. Frankly, I was relieved. My cold was getting worse, I was getting weaker from lying in a small tent for over 70 hours, and I did not relish the thought of trying to go higher under these adverse conditions. My dreams of climbing higher than 20,000 ft. and summitting this highest mountain in all of the Americas, were dashed. But my spirits remained high. As I descended, all I could see before me were the beautiful mountains in all directions. Life was good, and a medium-rare steak and glass of wine were waiting in Mendoza. Summer 2008

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U of Waterloo Students Receive Prestigious AWWA Academic Achievement Awards

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The AWWA Academic Achievement Awards encourage academic excellence by recognizing contributions to the field of public water supply. All Masters theses and doctoral dissertations that are relevant to the water supply industry are eligible and this international competition is open to students majoring in any subject, provided the work is directly related to the drinking water supply industry.

4Dr. Jianping Zhang: 1st Place

Of the four awards in the 2008 competition, three went to graduate students at the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Treatment at the University of Waterloo. This is the first time in the history of the awards that this has occurred and only the second time a university has received multiple awards in a single year. In that instance it was again the NSERC Chair in Water Treatment that was recognized. This year’s winners include:

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4Quinn K. Crosina: 1st Place Master’s Thesis [Supervisors S. Peldszus & P.M. Huck]

4Jeffery L. DeLoyde: 2nd Place Master’s Thesis [Supervisors P.M. Huck & W.B. Anderson]

Title: Removal of MS2 Bacteriophage, Cryptosporidium, Giardia and Turbidity by Pilot-Scale Multistage Slow Sand Filtration All three students accepted their awards at the AWWA’s Annual Conference and Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, June 8-12. Jianping Zhang completed his Ph.D. in January 2007 under the supervision of Drs. Peter M. Huck and Gordon Stubley (Dept. of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering). Jianping’s doctoral thesis focused on the application of an advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling technique to optimize the design and operation of drinking water ozone disinfection processes. Quinn Crosina’s Masters thesis, entitled “A Bench-scale Evaluation of the Removal of Selected Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products by UV and UV/H2O2 in Drinking Water Treatment,” was completed in Summer 2008

Watersheds December 2006 under the co-supervision of Drs. Peter M. Huck and Sigrid Peldszus. Her research is an important contribution to the evolving body of knowledge aimed at addressing the issue of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) as emerging and persistent contaminants in drinking water.

engineers at the consulting firms of Associated Engineering in Burnaby, BC, and Stantec in Ottawa, ON, respectively. Jianping Zhang is a senior engineer at Hatch Ltd. in Mississauga, where he has been applying his CFD modelling expertise in diverse water and wastewater treatment projects.

Jeff DeLoyde’s research was supervised by Drs. Peter M. Huck and William B. Anderson with considerable professional involvement by the Chair’s senior microbiologist, Dr. Michele Van Dyke. Jeff’s research involved virus and protozoan cyst/ oocyst challenge tests in multi-stage slow sand filtration treatment systems.

These awards are a tribute not only to the students at the chair but also to the 18 industrial partners and the vision of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Chair program. The chair is led by Dr. Peter M. Huck and senior chair researchers include Drs. William B. Anderson, Sigrid Peldszus and Michele I. Van Dyke.

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ACI Instrumentation Ltd. 120 Woodstream Blvd. #6 Woodbridge, ON L4L 7Z1 ph.905-265-0063 fx.905-265-0064 valente@aciltd.ca Process Instrumentation and Controls

Bren Technologies Inc. 61 Parr Blvd.- Unit#2 Bolton, ON L7E 4R3 ph.905-951-8118 fx.905-951-8384 wes@bren-tech.com Corrosion Control / Corrosion Protection

American AVK Company (Strong Enterprises) 5430 Fawn Bay Rd.RR#6 Orillia, ON L3V 6H6 ph.705-327-7851 fx.705-325-9730 strongenterprises@csolve.net Hydrant & Valve Manufacturer

Bristol Canada 6338 Viscount Rd. Mississauga, ON L4V 1H3 ph.905-362-0880 fx.905-362-0882 tom.langstaff@emerson.com Manufacturer of Controls & Instrumentation / System Integration

Anthrafilter Media & Coal Ltd. 20 Sharp Rd. Brantford, ON N3T 5LB ph.519-751-1080 fx.519-751-0617 swildey@anthrafilter.net Filter Media Sales and Installations

C.P. Systems 4700 Thickson Rd. N. Whitby, ON L1R 2W9 ph.905-655-7122 fx.905-655-7178 pat@cp-systems.com Cathodic Protection Systems

Aqua -Spec Ltd. 78 Camberdale Pl. London, ON N6K 4A2 ph.519-657-7504 fx.519-657-3946 wwright@aqua-spec.com Waterworks Products

Cambridge Brass 140 Orion Place Cambridge, ON N1R 5V1 ph.800-265-6638 fx.519-621-8038 gbell@cbrass.com Manfacturers of Corporation Brass/ Service Saddles & Clamps & Smith-Blair Distributor

Canada Pipe Company Ltd. 1757 Burlington St. E. Hamilton, ON L8N 3R5 ph.905-547-3251 fx.905-547-7369 tlang@canadapipe.com Distributor of Ductile Iron Pipe Cancoppas Limited 2595 Dunwin Drive, Unit#2 Mississauga, ON L5L 3N9 ph.905-569-6246 fx.905-569-6244 controls@cancoppas.com Distributor of Process MeasurementControl & Environmental Instrumentation

Concord Supply 2353 Bowman Street Innisfil, ON L9S 3V6 ph.705-436-3800 fx.705-436-6338 christina@concorcsupply.ca Master Distributor of Water / Waste Supplies Conval Equipment Ltd. 1111 Finch Ave. West #39 Toronto, ON M3J 2E5 ph.416-665-8960 fx.416-665-9145 gord@convalequipment.com Sluice Gates, Valves & Instrumentation

Carson Plumbing Supplies 1071 Goderich St. Port Elgin, ON N0H 2C0 ph.519-389-6245 fx.519-389-4079 carsonsupply@bmts.com Wholesale Distributor

Corix Water Products (East) Inc 4102 Eastgate Cr. London, ON N6L 1B2 ph.519-652-5555 fx.519-652-0545 rick.henry@corix.com Sewer & Watermain Distributors

Cleartech Industries Inc. 7480 Bath Rd. Mississauga, ON L4T 1L2 ph.905-612-0566 fx.905-612-0575 mobrien@cleartech.ca Distributor of Instrumentation, Chemical Feed and Chemicals

Coulter Services Inc. 180 Whiting St., Unit B Ingersoll, ON N5C 3B5 ph.888-304-5558 fx.519-245-5527 richardm@coultermeterservices.com Water Meter Service, Repairs, Calibrations, Installations & Testing

Clow Canada 1757 Burlington St. E. Hamilton, ON L8N 3R5 ph.905-548-9604 fx.905-548-6885 dferraro@clowcanada.com Manufacturer of Fire Hydrant & AWWA Valves

Cromer Industries Inc. 698 Highview Rd. Pickering, ON L1V 4V8 ph.416-996-4536 fx.905-831-8328 gdhoward@sympatico.ca Sales and Marketing of Pipeline Products

Geoscientists & Well Technicians Innovative Testing & Studies Service & Supply of Wells & Pumps

519 442 2086 www.lotowater.com Ontario Pipeline

OWWEA Members Listing Dakins Engineering Group Ltd. 4161 Sladeview Cres.#1 Mississauga, ON L5L 5R3 ph.905-814-6024 fx.905-814-6029 karenc@dakins.ca System Integrators for the Water & Wastewater Industry

Direct Equipment Ltd. 1363 Cornwall Rd. Oakville, ON L6J 4Z5 ph.800-667-7467 fx.905-844-5122 jsamek@directequipment.ca Trench Shield & Hydraulic Shoring Rentals & Sales

DelcoWater #201 - 121 Wyndham St. N. Guelph, ON N1H 4E9 ph.519-455-8401 fx.519-826-7443 bsmida@delco-water.com Integrated Membrane Solutions for Municipal and Industrial Applications

Elster Metering #101-1100 Walker’s Line Burlington, ON L7N 2G3 ph.905-634-4895 fx.905-634-6705 kevin.mills@ca.elster.com Water Meters & Metering Systems

Denso North America Inc. 90 Ironside Crescent #12 Toronto, ON M1X 1M3 ph.416-291-3435 fx.416-291-0898 blair@densona.com Corrosion Prevention and Sealing Technology Devine & Associates Ltd. 375 Steelcase Rd. E. Markham, ON L3R 1G3 ph.905-479-2130 fx.905-479-9870 sales@devineassoc.com Manufacturers Representative - Valves

Emco Water Works 944 Leathorne Street London, ON N5Z 3M5 ph.519-686-1141 fx.877-392-0240 ltaylor@emcoltd.com Distributor of Water & Sewer Products Endress & Hauser 1075 Sutton Dr. Burlington, ON L7L 5Z8 ph.800-668-3199 fx.905-681-9444 info@ca.endress.com Process Control & Analysis Instrument Manufacturer

Environmental Science & Engineering 220 Industrial Pkwy. #30 Aurora, ON L4G 3V6 ph.905-727-4052 fx.905-841-7271 penny@esemag.com Environmental Science & Engineering Magazine

Ford Meter Box Co. Ltd. 775 Manchester Ave. Wabash, IND 46992 ph.519-495-4999 fx.519-474-4386 sboyd@fordmeterbox.com Manufacturer of Municipal Brass, Watermain Products & Uniflange Restrainers

Evans Utility-Municipal Products Supply Ltd. 338 Neptune Cres. London, ON N6M 1A1 ph.519-453-6515 fx.519-453-7756 revans@evansupply.com Waterworks Wholesale Distributor

Galaxy Plastics Ltd. 159 Industrial Road Bolton, ON L7E 1K5 ph.905-951-7662 fx.905-951-2215 pvc@bellnet.ca PVC Fitting Manufacturer

Flowmetrix Technical Services 212 Terrence Ave Dorchester, ON N0L 1G3 ph.519-870-3569 fx.519-268-3459 stacey@flowmetrix.ca Flow Measurement, Calibration and Leak Detection

Greatario Engineered Storage Systems P.O. Box 399 Innerkip, ON N0J 1M0 ph.519-469-8169 fx.519-469-8157 sales@greatario.com Erection of Potable Water & Wastewater Tanks

Fluidtech Process Inc.(AWI) 2209 Lakeshore Road Burlington, ON L7R 1A8 ph.905-632-3080 fx.905-632-3080 rgmondoux@on.aibn.com Filter Optimization

Gunn Product Services 31 Primrose Path Kitchener, ON N2E 2R2 ph.519-240-2996 fx.519-578-1595 gerrygunn@sympatico.ca Manufacturers Sales Representative

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OWWEA Members Listing H2Flow Equipment Inc. 470 North Rivermede Rd.#7 Concord, ON L4K 3R8 ph.905-660-9775 fx.905-660-9744 info@h2flow.com Water Treatment Equipment Supplier

Kentain Products Ltd. 55 Howard Place Kitchener, ON N3K 2Z4 ph.519-576-0994 fx.519-576-0919 Manufacturer of PVC Liners for Chemical Storage Tanks

Measuremax Inc. 2015 Fisher Dr. Peterborough, ON K9J 6X6 ph.705-745-1626 fx.705-745-3493 kgillis@measuremax.ca Distributor

Olameter Inc. 300 Industrial Parkway S. Aurora, ON L4G 3T9 ph.905-841-1167 fx.905-841-1288 info@olameter.com Utility Outsourcing Solutions

Hetek Solutions Inc. 2085 Piper Lane London, ON N5V 3S5 ph.519-659-1144 fx.519-453-2182 gary.fricke@hetek.com Water Efficiency Programs and Leak Detection

Lakeshore Hydrant Services Inc. P.O.Box 712 Cobourg, ON K9A 4R5 ph.866-622-4022 fx.905-377-1715 bobcowin@bellnet.ca Hydrant & Valve Inspection, Maintenance, Chlorination,

Metcon Sales & Engineering Ltd. 15 Connie Crescent,Unit 3 Concord, ON L4K 1L3 ph.905-738-2355 fx.905-738-5520 metcon@metconeng.com Manufacturer & Distributor of Water & Wastewater Equipment Systems

Porters, J.A.. Holdings Ltd. RR#1, 4 Washington St. Lucknow, ON N0G 2H0 ph.519-528-3537 fx.519-528-2025 porter@hurontel.on.ca Quality Precast Concrete & Complete Infrastructure Supply

Hollen Controls Ltd. 180 Southgate Dr. #1 Guelph, ON N1G 4P5 ph.519-766-1152 fx.519-766-1153 taylor@hollencontrols.ca Instrument calibrations, SCADA Specialists, Custom Control Panels

Lightning Equipment Sales Inc. 2377 Baxter Cres. Burlington, ON L7M 4C9 ph.905-332-7026 fx.905-336-0191 ken@lightningequipment.on.ca Emergency Lighting, Truck and Van Equipment Upfitters

MJH2O Services Inc. 39 Rayside Drive Toronto, ON M9C 1S9 ph.416-908-8655 fx.416-233-0099 mjh2o@sympatico.ca Water Leak Detection, Products and Services

Power Plant Supply Co. 140 Midwest Rd. Unit#12. Toronto, ON M1P 3B3 ph.416-752-3339 fx.416-752-7637 steve@powerplantsupply.com Distributors for Valves, Link Seals & Spacers, MagnaDrive Cplg’s

Hy-Grade Precast Concrete 2411 First Street, RR#1 St.Catharines, ON L2R 6P7 ph.905-648-8568 fx.905-684-8560 snebel@hygradeprecast.com Pre-engineered Precast Concrete Utility Buildings

Lotowater Technical Services Inc. P.O.Box 415 Paris, ON N3L 2N2 ph.519-442-2086 fx.519-442-7242 lauriel@lotowater.com MOE Licensed Water Well Contractors, Pump Installers, Professional Geoscientists

Mueller Canada 82 Hooper Rd. Barrie, ON L4N 8Z0 ph.705-719-9965 fx.800-263-4145 hwestcott@muellercanada.com Suppliers of Hydrants,Valves, Brass & Municipal Castings

Protectolite Inc. 84 Railside Rd. Don Mills, ON M3A 1A3 ph.416-444-4484 fx.416-444-4485 kszasz@protectolite.com Fiberglass Parts for Water & Wastewater Equipment

M S Filter 17665 Leslie St. Unit 47 Newmarket, ON L3Y 3E3 ph.905-853-0164 fx.905-853-8807 brianjobb@msfilter.com Water Treatment Equipment Supplier

Munro Concrete Products Ltd. 8807 Simcoe Rd. # 56 Utopia, ON L0M 1T0 ph.705-734-2892 fx.705-734-2920 karl.hartl@munroconcrete.com Manufacturer of Concrete Gravity & Pressure Pipe

Rehau Industries Inc. 1149 Pioneer Road Burlington, ON L7M 1K5 ph.905-335-3284 fx.905-335-1112 cal.reaume@rehau-na.ca Manufacturers of PVC Pipe & Fittings

Magnor Inc. 1621 McEwen Dr. - Unit#1 Whitby, ON L1N 9A5 ph.905-434-6321 fx.866-202-1759 rdelisle@magnor.ca Water Treatment Equipment Design and Manufacturing

Napier-Reid Ltd. Unit#2-10 Alden Rd. Markham, ON L3R 2S1 ph.905-475-1545 fx.905-475-2021 info@napier-reid.com Water Treatment Equipment Manufacturer

Robar Industrial Products Ltd. 4368 Romfield Crescent Mississauga, ON L5M 4L2 ph.905-608-0867 fx.905-608-0867 brad.dunmore@robar.ca Service Saddles, Repair Clamps & Bolted Couplings

Maple Agencies 21 Regan Rd. Brampton, ON L7A 1C5 ph.905-840-2232 fx.905-840-2205 geoff.kerr@mapleagencies.com Corrosion Control Distributor

Neptune Technology Group (Canada) Ltd. 7275 West Credit Ave. Mississauga, ON L5N 5M9 ph.905-858-4211 fx.905-858-0428 torpana@neptunetg.com Water Meters, AMR Systems & Meter Installation Services

Royal Pipe Systems 131 Regalcrest Court Woodbridge, ON L4L 8P3 ph.905-856-7550 fx.905-856-4367 jaccardi@royalpipe.com PVC Pipe Manufacturer

Hanson 5387 Bethesda Rd. Stouffville, ON L4A 7X3 ph.905-640-5151 fx.905-640-5154 syake@h2o.hyprescon.com Manufacturer & Supply of Concrete Pressure Pipe & Fittings International Water Supply Ltd 342 Bayview Dr. Barrie, ON L4M 4T5 ph.705-733-0111 fx.705-721-0138 iws@iws.ca Groundwater Engineering, Contracting, Supply & Maintenance of Wells IPEX Inc, 6810 Invader Cr. Mississauga, ON L5T 2B6 ph.905-670-7676 fx.905-670-1512 edwfon@ipexinc.com Manufacturer of PVC Pipe & Fittings Jagger Hims ltd. 1091 Graham St.#301 Newmarket, ON L3Y 8X7 ph.905-853-3303 fx.905-853-1759 gbelcourt@jaggerhims.com Environmental Consulting Engineers John Meunier Inc. 2000 Argentia Rd. Plaza IV Ste.430 Mississauga ON L5N 1W1 ph.905-286-4846 fx.905-286-0488 scole@johnmeunier.com Water and Wastewater Treatment Manufacture

Master Meter Canada Ltd. 100, Lansdowne, Suite 207 St-Bruno, QC J3V 0B3 ph.450-461-1535 fx.450-461-3720 jclauret@mastermeter.com Water Meters McCoy Construction Castings 159 Sugar Maple, Box 475 St.George, ON N0E 1N0 ph.519-448-3395 fx.519-448-3393 fmulligan@ejiw.com Manufacturer of Municipal Castings

ATX Systems Ltd. Unit#4-725 Westney Rd. S. Ajax, ON L1S 7J7 ph.905-686-6666 fx.905-619-1053 plafrenais@atxincorporated.com Wireless Communications O.W.O.T.C./ MacViro Training 600 Cochrane Rd. Ste#500 Markham, ON L3R 5K3 ph.905-475-8727 fx.905-475-5994 info@owotc.com Water & Wastewater Operator Training

Sandale Utility Products 66 Adams Blvd. Brantford, ON N3S 7V2 ph.519-754-1366 fx.519-754-4576 jroswell@sandale.ca Distributor of HDPE Pipe and Fittings Scadalliance 150 Douglas Dr. Toronto, ON M4W 2B7 ph.416-849-6702 fx.416-849-6703 contact@scadalliance.com Distributor of telemetry / SCADA / Meter Reading(AMR) Systems

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OWWEA Members Listing SGS Environmental Services 185 Concession St. Lakefield, ON K0L 2H0 ph.705-652-2000 fx.705-652-6365 chris.sullivan@sgs.com Environmental Services Sensus Metering Systems 452 Brant St. Woodstock, ON N4S 5J2 ph.519-608-6979 gareth.price@sensus.com Metering, AMR/AMI Sigma Corp. 8461 Keele St. #25 Concord, ON L4K 1B1 ph.416-580-7237 fx.905-660-7832 dlough7686@rogers.com Manufacturer of Ductile Iron Watermain Fittings & Street Castings Smart Metering Inc. 317 Pinnacle St., PO Box #758 Belleville, ON K8N 5B5 ph.613-399-5447 fx.613-399-5004 smartmetering@bellnet.ca Water Meter / Meter AMR Supply and Installation SPD Sales Ltd. 6467 Northham Dr. Mississauga, ON L4V 1J2 ph.905-678-2882 fx.905-293-9774 farkas.f@spdsales.com Water & Wastewater SPR Control Systems Ltd. #19-5155 Spectrum Way Mississauga, ON L4W 5A1 ph.905-238-2880 fx.905-238-9590 sales@srpcontrol.com Instrumentation and Calibration Instruments Star Pipe Canada 1144 Industrial Rd . Cambridge, ON N3H 4W4 ph.519-650-1550 fx.519-650-1553 eugenej@starpipeproducts.com Manufacturer / Distributor of Waterworks Fittings & Joint Restraint

Stealth Valve & Controls Ltd. 1273 North Service Rd.E. #F7 Oakville, ON L6H 1A7 ph.905-845-4500 fx.905-845-4505 sales@stealthvalve.com Distributors of Valves, Actuators & Controls

Underground Specialties Inc. 131 Shearson Cres. Cambridge, ON N1T 1J3 ph.519-622-3185 fx.519-622-4666 mark@undergroundspecialities.ca Distributor of Water & Sewer Products

Summa Engineering 6423 Northam Dr. Mississauga, ON L4V 1J2 ph.905-678-3388 fx.905-678-0444 fcosentino@summaeng.com Process Control & Instrumentations

Universal Flow Engineering Inc. 87 Baldwin Ave. Brantford, ON N3S 1H9 ph.519-759-0574 fx.519-759-2341 ufeng@rogers.com Fire Hydrant Parts, Stortz Nozzle Manufacturer and Distributor

Syntec Process Equipment Ltd. Unit 1 - 68 Healey Bolton, ON L7E 5A4 ph.905-951-8000 fx.905-951-8002 info@syntecpe.com, pat@syntecpe.com Manufacturer’s Rep/Agent for Valves and Controls The Birks Company 2132 Fifteen Sideroad Moffat, ON L0P 1J0 ph.905-854-9875 fx.905-854-0180 mbirks@birksco.com Manufacturers Rep & Distributor of Specialty Products ( water & sewer) Trenchless Utility Equipment Ltd. P.O. Box 1338 Burlington, ON L7R 4L9 ph.905-634-0669 fx.905-634-6685 dniles@trenchlessutility.com Locating Equipment, Sales, Service, Support - Utility Installllation & Equipment Troy-Ontor Inc. 230 Bayview Dr. Unit 1A-3A Barrie, ON L4N 5E9 ph.705-721-8246 fx.705-721-5851 troy-ontor@troy-ontor.ca Valves, Actuators and Controls

Urecon Limited 115 George St., Ste.#625 Oakville, ON L6V 0A2 ph.905-257-3797 fx.905-257-9723 c.vreugde@urecon.com Pre-Insulated Pipe & Heat Tracing Systems Valve & Hydrant Solutions #607, 80 Highview Ave. E. London, ON N6C 5W8 ph.519-680-1855 fx.519-680-1855 valve-hydrantsolutionsinc@ sympatico.ca Corrosion Protection, Hydrant Repairs, Valve Turning

Walkerton Clean Water Center 220 Trillium Ct. Bldg 3 Walkerton, ON N0G 2V0 ph.519-881-2003 fx.519-881-4947 kfransen@wcwc.ca Training Provider/Technology Demonstration-Water Distribution & Treatment Wamco Group 551 Tiffin St. Barrie, ON L4N 9W6 ph.705-734-3535 fx.705-734-3541 wamco@mcw.on.ca Waterworks/Meters & Sewer Supplies Wika Instruments Ltd. #1-2679 Bristol Circle Oakville, ON L6H 6Z8 ph.905-337-1611 fx.905-337-2716 lclarke@wika.ca Manufacturer of Pressure & Temperature Instruments and controls Wilcox Bodies Limited 6215 Mississauga Road Mississauga, ON L5N 1A4 ph.905-826-3722 fx.905-826-4585 chris@wilcoxbodies.com Truck Body Manufacture

Vissers Sales Corp. 220 Industrial Parkway #19 Aurora, ON L4G 3V6 ph.905-841-4073 fx.905-841-4018 roberta@vissers.on.ca Distributors of Pumps, Mixers & Process Controls

Wolseley Water Works 110 Hanson Ave. Kitchener, ON N2C 2E2 ph.519-741-4044 fx.519-741-9135 wayne.ernst@wolseleyinc.ca Distributor Waterworks & Sewer Products

Wachs Canada Ltd. #8 - 1166 Gorham St. Newmarket, ON L3Y 8W4 ph.905-830-8888 fx.905-830-6050 sward@wachsco.com Manufacturer / Distributor of Pipe & Valve Maintenance Tools

Zurn Industries 3544 Nashua Dr. Mississauga, ON L4V 1L2 ph.905-405-8272 fx.905-405-1292 doug.dyer@zurncanada.com Distributor of Water Control Products

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..................... Inside Back Cover www.ebaa.com EMCO Waterworks Corporation............................ 54 www.emcoltd.com Evans Utility- Municipal Products Supply Limited..... 27 www.evansupply.com Galaxy Plastics Ltd.............. 61 www.galaxyplastics.com Genivar Ontario Inc.............. 46 www.genivar.com

Magnor Inc............................ 50 www.magnor.ca Maples Agencies ................ 31 www.mapleagencies.com Mars Company........................ 3 www.marswater.com Master Meter Canada Inc. ............................ 7 www.mastermeter.com MJH20 Services Inc............ 37 MMM Group.......................... 19 www.mmm.ca

Canbar Inc............................. 62 www.canbar.com

Greatario Engineered Storage Systems........ 14,32,33 www.greatarioengsys.com

CH2MHill............................. 44 www.ch2mhillcanada.com

Gunn Product Services........ 55 www.arivalves.com

MSU Mississauga Ltd......... 58 www.msumississauga.com

Clear Tech.............................. 53 www.cleartech.ca

Hetek Solutions Inc............. 31 www.hetek.com

Mueller Canada.................... 25 www.muellercanada.com

Concord Supply..................... 58

H2Flow Equipment Inc........ 53 www.h2flow.com

Pall Corporation.................... 17 www.pall.com

Hydromantis Inc................... 62 www.hydromantis.com

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Interprovincial Corrosion Control Inc.......... 56 www.rustrol.com

RAL Engineering Ltd............ 43 www.raleng.com

Corix....................................... 37 www.corix.com Corrosion Service Co. Ltd................................... 31 www.corrosionservice.com

MS Filter Inc......................... 51 www.msfilter.com

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R.J. Burnside & Associates Ltd......................27 www.rjburnside.com

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Kemira Water Canada......... 20 www.kemira.com

Robar Industries Ltd............ 24 www.robarindustries.com

Delcan Corporation.............. 35 www.delcan.com

Kentain Products Ltd.......... 21 www.kentain.com

Delco Water ......................... 41 www.delco-water.com

KGO Group Ltd...................... 18 www.kgogroup.com

R.V. Anderson Associates Limited.............. 57 www.rvanderson.com

Coulter Water Meter Service Inc............................ 19 www.coulterservices.ca

Denso North America Inc. . ....................... 22 www.densona.com EBAA Iron Sales Inc................

KWH Pipe............................... 12 www.kwhpipe.ca Lotowater............................... 57 www.lotowater.com

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SPD Sales Limited .............. 47 www.spdsales.com Star Pipe Products Canada Inc............................ 55 www.starpipeproducts.com Summa Engineering Limited................................... 18 www.summaeng.com Syntec Process Equipment Ltd...................... 50 www.syntecpe.com Testmark Laboratories Ltd................... 44 www.testmark.ca The Birks Company.............. 39 www.birksco.com The Thompson Rosemount Group................. 43 www.trg.ca Trojan Technologies......................... 13 www.trojanuv.com TSHEngineers Architects Planners............. 61 www.tsh.ca Urecon Ltd............................. 30 www.urecon.com Victaulic Company of Canada............................... 29 www.victaulic.com Wachs Canada Ltd............... 38 www.wachsco.com Walkerton Clean Water Centre........................... 4 www.wcwc.ca Watts Industries (Canada) Inc............................. ......................Outside Back Cover www.wattscanada.ca

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