Cheryl MacKelvie

AB 818 Wipes Collection Study Moving Forward After the passage of our sponsored wet wipes labeling law, AB 818 in 2021, CASA has been working with industry stakeholders to implement the education and outreach requirements in the bill. This effort includes advising on the industry’s mandatory public outreach campaign and distributing materials from the Responsible [...]

OMB Publishes Final BABA Guidance for Grants and Agreements The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued its final Guidance for Grants and Agreements pertaining to Build America, Buy America (BABA) mandates. The final guidance effectively reaffirms earlier administrative implementation proposed guidance and clarifies BABA’s domestic preferences provisions. The purpose of the final rule [...]

Welcome New CASA Members Environmental Science Associates   Century Old Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgraded The San Luis Obispo (SLO) Water Resource Recovery Facility has been cleaning wastewater for a century. Now it’s going through a multi-million-dollar update, the biggest one since it was built. The SLO Water Plus project has been underway since 2015, and [...]

CAPIO 2023 Leadership Summit CAPIO has announced that registration is now open for the inaugural Leadership Summit taking place in Lake Forest, CA on September 25 & 26! Join CAPIO for an insightful and engaging two days geared toward public sector communicators looking to further their leadership skills. Register Today! This summit is designed for [...]

WBE Research Coordination Network (RCN) Annual Meeting The National Science Foundation RCN for Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 and Emerging Public Health Threats, together with the Water Environment Federation, is hosting their annual meeting on August 2, 2023 from 9am – 11am. As COVID-19 loses urgency, research groups and public health agencies around the world are [...]

“Bingo”: USD Workers Recover Flushed Wedding Ring It’s a triple-crown win for Union Sanitary District (USD) Collection Services workers: They recently recovered a treasured ring thought to be lost in a sewer line – the District’s third ring rescued in recent years. Union City customer Bonhellita Ancona left the District a distraught voicemail noting she’d [...]

Water Board Releases Draft Direct Potable Reuse Regulations The California State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) released an advanced copy of the highly anticipated Direct Potable Reuse (DPR) regulations. The 45-day comment period and Administrative Procedures Act formally began on July 21. The Water Board is planning to conduct a workshop on the regulations [...]

AB 759 (Grayson) Signed by the Governor We are pleased to report that CASA’s sponsored bill, AB 759 (Grayson) relating to sanitary district accounting procedures was signed by Governor Newsom on June 29. This bill will become effective January 1, 2024, and updates the Sanitary District Act of 1939 to modernize the statutory accounting practices that require [...]

CASA Conference Keynote: PPIC President Tani Cantil-Sakauye Wrap-up summer with your colleagues in San Diego at CASA’s Annual Conference, August 9-11, with a chance to hear from Tani Cantil-Sakauye, president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California and former Chief Justice of California. Registration is still open! Register for the conference. CASA is [...]