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PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION TESTING OF SOURCE WATER PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES UNDER EPA'S ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION PROGRAM
Citation:
Frederick*, R, T. G. Stevens, AND M. H. Roush. PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION TESTING OF SOURCE WATER PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES UNDER EPA'S ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION PROGRAM. Presented at ASCE World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, Orlando, Fl, 5/20-24/2001.
Description:
This paper presents a brief overview of EPA's ETV program established in 1995 to overcome the numerous impediments to commercialization experienced by developers of innovative environmental technologies. Among those most frequently mentioned is the lack of credible performance data. It is believed that objective, independently acquired, high quality performance data and operational performance on new technologies will significantly facilitate the use, permitting, financing, export, purchase, and general marketplace acceptance of new environmental technologies. The purpose of ETV is to provide such data and information to the customer groups that require them in order to accelerate the real-world implementation of improved technology. This paper describes the ETV approach including the use of stakeholder groups, development of protocols and site-specific test plans, and the activities being conducted by the Source Water Protection (SWP) Pilot, one of 12 activities within the ETV program. The SWP Pilot has partnered with National Sanitation Foundation, Int (NSF) to verify environmental technologies in several areas: decentralized wastewater treatment systems including single unit and cluster-type systems for both domestic and commercial wastewater; animal waste reatment systems for use at confined animal feedings operations (CAFO); infrastructure rehabilitation technologies for concrete sewer pipe and pump stations. Other watershed protection-related technologies are also being considered such as; drain inserts for physical-chemical treatment; technologies to remove mercury amalgam from wastewater; systems for biomedical waste treatment; and barrier curtains for protecting reservoirs, lakes and rivers from contaminants carried by stormwater runoff. A recent addition to the cadre of environmental technologies being scheduled for verification testing is ship ballast water treament systems intended to reduce the proliferation of aquatic nuisance species such as zebra mussels and other invasive organisms. Introduction of these nonindigenous species results from ship ballast water exchanges performed in coastal areas. This activity will e conducted in cooperation with the US Coast Guard's National Ballast Water Management Program.