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Region 9

Contacts for Region 9

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  • Elizabeth Janes
    US EPA, Region 09
    75 Hawthorne St
    San Francisco, CA 94105-3901
    Phone: (415) 972-3537  
    Email: janes.elizabeth@epa.gov

 

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  • Seepage Pits May Endanger Ground Water Quality [PDF] - In 1999 EPA promulgated regulations prohibiting the use of cesspools for the disposal of sewage from multifamily dwellings and any other buildings where cesspool capacity was for 20 or more persons per day, such as schools, hospitals and manufacturing facilities (EPA 909-F-01-001). Published: 2001

 

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American Samoa

Contacts for American Samoa

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  • Elizabeth Janes
    US EPA, Region 09
    75 Hawthorne St
    San Francisco, CA 94105-3901
    Phone: (415) 972-3537  
    Email: janes.elizabeth@epa.gov

 

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Arizona

Contacts for Arizona

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  • Agyare Kwame
    Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
    1110 W Washington St
    Phoenix, AZ 85007
    Phone: (602) 771-4664  
    Fax: (602) 771-4634
    Email: ka2@azdeq.gov

 

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California

Contacts for California

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  • Todd Thompson, P.E.
    California State Water Resources Control Board
    PO Box 100
    Sacramento, CA 95812-0100
    Phone: (916) 341-5518  
    Fax: (916) 341-5463
    Email: tthompson@waterboards.ca.gov
  • Kim Ward
    Environmental Scientist
    California State Water Resources Control Board / Division of Water Quality
    1001 I St
    Sacramento, CA 95814
    Phone: (916) 341-5586  
    Fax: (916) 341-5463
    Email: wardk@waterboards.ca.gov

 

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Demonstration Projects for California

  • Title: California, Eastern San Francisco: Alternative Technologies, California

    Description: This project is funded under a Water Quality Cooperative Agreement and was designed to evaluate sewer mining (see Mobile, AL) using decentralized alternative technologies to relieve the overloaded sewers of San Francisco and avoid its costly expansion.

    Contact: Wendy Iwata
    City and County of San Francisco, Public Utilities Commission
    (415) 558-4022

  • Title: California, Paradise: Management Program, California

    Description: By creating of an onsite management zone, the town required operating permits for all new and existing systems; adopted design criteria, including special regulations for large systems and innovative systems; set up variance and enforcement procedures; and established a surface water monitoring program. Paradise also established a program for initial and periodic operational evaluation of all onsite systems by private evaluators.

    Contact: "National Small Flows Clearinghouse
    (800) 624-8301
    Wes Greenwood
    Butte County Health Department
    (916) 872-6293."

    For More Information: http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/nodp/nodp_index.htm Exit EPA Site

  • Title: California, WAWTTAR: Cost-estimating Program, California

    Description: This project produced a tool to assist with planning and implementing water and wastewater treatment systems, including treatment systems incorporating wastewater effluent reuse. The cost-estimating program was designed to be used at the pre-feasibility step in facility planning or infrastructure investment. The program has an extensive database of water and wastewater alternative technologies and treatment processes (more than 200 and user expandable), onsite or decentralized waste and wastewater treatment processes and collection systems.

    Contact: Brad Finny
    Humboldt University
    (707) 826- 3918

    For More Information: http://firehole.humboldt.edu/wawttar/wawttar.html Exit EPA Site

  • Title: California: Model Code, California

    Description: This project is funded under a Water Quality Cooperative Agreement and will promote the adoption and implementation of a statewide onsite or decentralized wastewater management program in California. This will be accomplished by developing a model Memorandum of Understanding between local and state agencies, preparing guidelines and funding options for local sanitary surveys, and establishing of a California onsite or decentralized systems Web site.

    Contact: Justin Malan
    CA Association of Environmental Health Administrators
    (916) 944-7315

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Guam

Contacts for Guam

   Septic Systems

  • Elizabeth Janes
    US EPA, Region 09
    75 Hawthorne St
    San Francisco, CA 94105-3901
    Phone: (415) 972-3537  
    Email: janes.elizabeth@epa.gov

 

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Hawaii

Contacts for Hawaii

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  • Tom See
    Hawaii Department of Health / Wastewater Branch / Environmental Management Division
    919 Ala Moana Blvd
    Rm 309
    Honolulu, HI 96814
    Phone: (808) 586-4294  
    Fax: (808) 586-4300
    Email: tom.see@doh.hawaii.gov
  • Harold K. Yee
    Hawaii Department of Health / Wastewater Branch / Environmental Management Division
    919 Ala Moana Blvd
    Rm 309
    Honolulu, HI 96814
    Phone: (808) 586-4294  
    Fax: (808) 586-4300
    Email: harold.yee@doh.hawaii.gov

 

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Nevada

Contacts for Nevada

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  • Alexi Lanza
    Nevada Department of Environmental Protection
    901 S Stewart St
    Carson City, NV 89701
    Phone: (775) 687-9468  
    Email: alanza@ndep.nv.gov
  • Joe Pollock
    State of Nevada Department of Human Resources / Bureau of Health Protection Services
    1179 Fairview Dr
    Suite 104
    Carson City, NV 89710-5405
    Phone: (775) 687-4750 x226  
    Fax: (775) 687-5751
    Email: jpollock@nvdh.state.nv.us

 

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Northern Mariana Islands

Contacts for Northern Mariana Islands

   Septic Systems

  • Elizabeth Janes
    US EPA, Region 09
    75 Hawthorne St
    San Francisco, CA 94105-3901
    Phone: (415) 972-3537  
    Email: janes.elizabeth@epa.gov

 

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Trust Territories

Contacts for Trust Territories

   Septic Systems

  • Elizabeth Janes
    US EPA, Region 09
    75 Hawthorne St
    San Francisco, CA 94105-3901
    Phone: (415) 972-3537  
    Email: janes.elizabeth@epa.gov

 

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