East Logan Water District recently held its annual Customer Appreciation Day on the front lawn of the utility’s office located in Auburn, KY. The summer humidity and heat didn’t deter the nearly 700 customers who filled the many tables arranged under the big tent, all decorated with red, white and blue mums and American flags. The patriotic decorations with American flags flying in the warm summer breeze made for a perfectly sweet summer day. The red, white and blue balloons were flying high as the dog days of …

Early on a spring morning in the town of Damascus, in northeastern Pennsylvania, the fog on the Delaware River rises to form a mist that hangs above the tree-covered hills on either side. A buzzard swoops in from the northern hills to join a flock ensconced in an evergreen on the river’s southern bank.

Stretching some 400 miles, the Delaware is one of the cleanest free-flowing rivers in the United States, home to some of the best fly-fishing in the country.

The Kentucky Division of Compliance Assistance (DCA) is offering a free e-newsletter to anyone who is interested. Produced by the Environmental Compliance Assistance Program (ECAP) in DCA, SNIPS newsletters provide current information about regulations, environmental issues and opportunities to improve performance, particularly for regulated entities. If you would like to receive the weekly issue, sign up by sending your e-mail request to envhelp@ky.gov

Register Now to learn how your water utility can reduce arsenic contamination through well management.

The National Rural Water Association and the Ground Water Protection Council are offering this exclusive on-line training opportunity at 2 p.m. on July 14. A $45 registration is required and space is limited.

The hot, hazy days of summer can spell trouble for those who work outdoors in direct sunlight or in hot environments, making them susceptible to heat-induced illnesses such as heat stress, heat exhaustion or the more serious heat stroke.
Working in extreme temperatures is not only uncomfortable, it can be life-threatening!  As we move into the summer months, it is important for workers to minimize the chances of heat-induced illnesses, and imperative that they recognize the signs of heat stress and take proper precautions to reduce the chances of illness or …

Washington, DC — Existing technology can produce biodiesel fuel from municipal sewage sludge that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with conventional diesel refined from petroleum, according to an article in ACS’ Energy & Fuels. Sludge is the solid material left behind from the treatment of sewage at wastewater treatment plants.
David M. Kargbo points out in the article that demand for biodiesel has led to the search for cost-effective biodiesel feedstocks, or raw materials. Soybeans, sunflower seeds and other food crops have been used as …

(June 7, 2010) Gov. Steve Beshear’s groundbreaking e-transparency website, Kentucky’s Open Door, has again earned recognition from a national taxpayer watchdog group for being one of the best e-transparency sites in the nation.  Kentucky’s Open Door, online at www.OpenDoor.KY.gov, is an easy-to-use, searchable website with a wide range of spending information.

Continues on their exorable march toward crafting a policy or recommendation on defining a climate ready water utility. Rural water is represented on the panel by our tireless traveler Paul Whittemore with Granite State Rural Water Association who will attend the next EPA meeting in Colorado in July (see agenda).

Pursuant to the notification requirements in KRS 13A, the Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) wishes to inform you of an amended regulation filed with the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) on June 4, 2010.

The public hearing for this proposed administrative regulation is scheduled for July 27, 2010. Individuals may submit written comments that identify anticipated effects through August 2, 2010.

If the May storms and flooding left you entangled in a legal issue, free Disaster Legal Services may be able to help.

Anyone in the 61 Kentucky counties designated for Individual Assistance by the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management (KYEM) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may use free Disaster Legal Services, a federally funded assistance program operated by the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division.