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Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) 2012

Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) 2012. Overview. What is CWNS?. The CWNS is a comprehensive assessment of the capital needs to meet the water quality goals set in the Clean Water Act. Every four years, the states and EPA collect information about:

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Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) 2012

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  1. Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) 2012 Overview

  2. What is CWNS? The CWNS is a comprehensive assessment of the capital needs to meet the water quality goals set in the Clean Water Act. Every four years, the states and EPA collect information about: • Publicly owned wastewater collection and treatment facilities • Stormwater and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) control facilities   • Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution control projects  • Decentralized wastewater management facilities (septic and cluster systems)

  3. What is a Need? • The unfunded capital costs -- as of January 1, 2012 -- of a project that addresses an existing or projected (within next 20 years) water quality or water quality related public health problem

  4. Why is CWNS important? This information is used by EPA to document national needs in a Report to Congress. The Report provides Congress, as well as state legislatures, with information to make informed budget decisions. The data is also used to: • Assist state governments to identify communities that need technical and financial assistance • Inform local and state governments to implement water quality programs • Help to measure statewide and nationwide environmental progress • Contribute to academic research   • Provide information to the public  

  5. What information is collected? Information collected about facilities and projects includes: • Description of the water quality or water quality related public health problem • Proposed solution and estimated costs to the problem • Documentation detailing the problem, proposed solution, and its cost • Location and contact information for facilities and projects • Wastewater facility populations served, flow, effluent, and unit process information

  6. What type of documents are used? Documents that are commonly used to detail needs and costs: • Capital Improvement Plans (CIP) • Unfunded State and Federal Loan and Grant Applications • Facility Plans • Preliminary Engineer's Estimates • Final Engineer's Estimates • State-Approved Area-wide or Regional Basin Plans • Sanitary Surveys • Watershed-based Plans

  7. 2012 Planning Schedule • Ongoing: Gathering data & documentation • January 2012: Official data entry begins. • October 2012: Official data entry period ends • January - December 2012: EPA reviews state data • Late 2013: EPA delivers CWNS 2012 Report to Congress and data is publicly available

  8. How can you help your state accurately report needs? • Communities can: • Review and update Community Fact Sheets to document that needs in previous CWNS have already been met; and update facility descriptions, population information and discharge information. • Complete and send in CWNS Survey Forms for wastewater, storm water and non-point source needs; • Submit documents to document costs associated with these needs; • Encourage your consulting engineers to assist in re-documenting existing needs if those needs still exist.

  9. How can you help your state accurately report needs? • Consulting Engineers can: • Work with your clients to complete and send in CWNS Survey Forms; • Help document costs for wastewater, storm water, and non-point source needs on the Small Community Survey Form; • Help re-document needs and costs for documents that are over ten years old if those needs still exist.

  10. How can you help your state accurately report needs? • Health Department County Environmentalist can: • Complete sanitary survey forms to document conditions of un-sewered communities on site wastewater treatment facilities; and • Re-document expired Sanitary Survey Forms used in previous CWNS.

  11. How can you help your state accurately report needs? • Other State and Federal Funding Agencies can: • Provide MEQ with copies of funding applications received for wastewater treatment, collection and rehab projects. How can you help your state accurately report needs?

  12. Support & Contact Information Tom Webb CWNS Coordinator MS Dept of Environmental Quality P O Box 2261 Jackson MS 39225-2261 Telephone Number: (601) 961-5136 Email Address: Tom_Webb@deq.state.ms.us

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