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CASA Submits Public Comments On EPA’s Biosolids Draft Risk Assessment On August 14, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) public comment period on its pending Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS) (Draft Risk Assessment) ended. The Draft Risk Assessment outlines the Agency’s most up-to-date scientific understanding of the [...]

Meet the CASA Board: 2025-2026 CASA Vice President, Rita Duncan Rita Duncan currently serves on the Oro Loma Sanitary District Board of Directors Chair of the Solid Waste Committee and a member of the Board’s Finance Committee. Appointed in January 2016, she is the first African American to serve on the District’s Board in its [...]

Meet the CASA Board: 2024-2025 Board Vice-President Tony Trembley Tony Trembley is in his ninth year on the Camarillo City Council. First elected in 2016, he served as Camarillo’s Mayor in 2020 and 2024. Tony has practiced law since 1983. Prior to his retirement from private practice in 2021, he was general counsel for over [...]

House Passes “Do Not Flush” WIPPES Act On June 23, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the WIPPES Act (H.R. 2269) on an overwhelming bipartisan voice-vote, sending the bill to the Senate. If enacted into law, the bill would establish national “Do Not Flush” labeling mandate for non-flushable wipes packaging to stop the flushing of [...]

Partnering For Impact Event On June 3rd, CASA and CWEA co-hosted the 5th Annual Partnering for Impact (PFI) for California at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA. Approximately 70 attendees from across the clean water industry (agencies, academic researchers, consultants, and technologists) gathered for a one-day event to discuss two issues that will no doubt [...]

July is Flush Smart Month July is Flush Smart Month and our friends at the Responsible Flushing Alliance (RFA) are bringing the campaign to life with “Potty Training for Grown-Ups.” They have created social media assets for you to use during the month (and beyond) with the important message of only flushing the flushable and [...]

Meet the CASA Board: 2024-2025 Board President Craig Murray Craig Murray completed his undergraduate degree at UC Santa Barbara in 1990, during the onset of an economic downturn. Recognizing that careers in the wastewater sector were largely recession-proof, he began his professional journey with the Goleta Sanitary District, where he focused on pretreatment and environmental [...]

SB 682 Advances Following Key Fiscal Hearing CASA’s co-sponsored legislation to ban PFAS in consumer products advanced to the Senate Floor after being passed off the Senate Appropriations Committee’s “suspense file” last Friday. As a condition of passage, the committee included several author’s amendments to streamline the proposed petition process for essential use determinations, but [...]

Senate Committee Advances ‘Do Not Flush’ Labeling Legislation Last week, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation favorably reported out the WIPPES Act (S.1092), as amended, on a voice-vote. The legislation now heads to the Senate Floor where it awaits to be scheduled for consideration and a vote. Importantly, the amendment to S. 1092 [...]

CVWD Wastewater Microorganism Stickers In the spring of 2024, the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) launched the Wastewater Microorganism Stickers project. Developed in-house by the CVWD Communication and Education team, the stickers were carefully designed to accurately represent the microorganisms involved in the wastewater treatment process. The stickers have proven to be both educational and [...]