Cheryl MacKelvie

Excellence in Advocacy Achievement Awarded to CASA Board Member The WateReuse Association has awarded CASA Board Member and Orange County Sanitation District General Manager, Jim Herberg the Excellence in Advocacy Achievement Award for his contributions to water reuse, the wastewater industry, and the environment. The award was announced at the 37th Annual WaterReuse Symposium in [...]

LIHWAP Webinar Recording, Web Form Link & Enrollment Package On February 15 and 16, the CA Department of Community Services and Development held an informational webinar regarding the disbursement of the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP) funds. For those unable to attend, we wanted to pass along several items of interest including the [...]

  After we made the tough decision to cancel the CASA Winter Conference this January, CASA staff got to work crafting an alternative so members could still have access to the timely and important information we were planning as part of the program. Starting next Monday, March 7, 2022, and running through June 2022, we [...]

CASA Concludes Successful Washington D.C. Policy Forum Just this week, CASA celebrated a successful return to Washington D.C. as we hosted our 18th annual Policy Forum. Attendees heard from Congressional staff on key Committees of jurisdiction, several high level USEPA representatives, national association partners, as well as Representative John Garamendi. Thank you to all our [...]

Hundreds of Bills Introduced Before State Legislative Deadline Friday, February 18th was the bill introduction deadline for the 2022 Legislative Session.  In the weeks leading up to the deadline all bills that will be considered this year were introduced and assigned bill numbers. Now every bill must remain in print for 30 days before they [...]

White House Publishes Guidebook for IIJA Infrastructure Implementation The White House has published the “Building a Better America” guidebook for states, local governments, and Territories to assist in the understanding and coordinating the implementation Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), commonly known as the bipartisan infrastructure law. Over the coming weeks, the Administration will publish [...]

New Scholarship Available The CASA Education Foundation, East Bay Dischargers Authority, and the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies are proud to present the Bruce Wolfe Memorial Scholarship which honors the former Executive Officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, an impactful steward of the Bay environment and supporter of expanding diversity [...]

IERCA Recognized as Large-Scale Compost Manufacturer of the Year The Inland Empire Regional Composting Authority (IERCA) was recently recognized as the Large-Scale Compost Manufacturer of the Year at the United States Composting Council’s (USCC) Annual Conference and Tradeshow. This award is presented to a commercial-scale U.S. composting facility that produces more than 10,000 tons of [...]

Funding for County-wide and Regional Funding Programs The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) has opened a County-wide and Regional Funding Solicitation for counties or eligible partner entities to receive funding to implement county-wide or regional programs that address drought-related and/or contamination issues for state small water systems and domestic wells serving disadvantaged communities and low-income households. [...]

PIPES Act Introduced in House Last week, Representatives Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) introduced the "Protecting Infrastructure and Promoting Environmental Stewardship Act" (PIPES Act, H.R. 6591) to codify a flushability certification process for the marketing of single-use "flushable" wet wipes. The PIPES Act is complementary to the WIPPES Act (HR 4602) that requires [...]