CONN. WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT ASSOC.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

Present: Carl Almquist – President, Janet Marineau – Secretary, Arnie Bevins - Treasurer, John DeGioia, Terry Smith, Mike Bisi, Roy Fredricksen, Frank Smith - board members. Absent Steve Demetri, Bob Dusza, Curly Richard.

Meeting was held at the Glastonbury WPCF. Called to order at 9:55 am.

Agenda items were discussed as follows:

• Minutes: Motion was made by Dave to accept the minutes, seconded; Frank, vote: to accept.

• Committee Reports: a). Certification – John DeGioia: John reported that the lab certification would probably be under the control of the CAC and possibly the collection system certification also. Arnie mentioned that he was in contact with NEWEA and that it looks like anyone who has the NEWEA collection system certificate will be grandfathered.

b) NPDES Committee – Bob Dusza was not in attendance and Carl gave report. Carl spoke to Rep. Stranton from the House of Representative Environmental Committee. Rep. He gave CWPAA version with amendments to the Senate Bill #36. Major change is with setting up the board that has to do with nitrogen trading (see sec. 3a, 3b). Changing the Advisory Board to a NtirogenManagement Board.

c) Trade Show: Arnie stated that 44 booths out of 78 have been taken. Cut off date is the end of the month. Everyone who participated in the last three years was sent a application to the show. Arnie asked if anyone would like to come with him to make the final arrangements with the hotel. Terry and Mike said they would join Arnie. Mike has the box with the raffle tickets, hole punches, meal tickets, etc. Mike mentioned that we need new placards for the show. The ones we use with the raffle boxes look really bad. It was felt that this was a good idea, and that possibly we could get one of the vendors to do them for us. It was suggested to contact Peter Gross from Fuss & O’Neill. Mike said he would do this. Terry stated that he would get new table numbers. It was also mentioned to have a placard made announcing the Operations Challenge teams and have it at the show.

d) Re-Organization: Mike stated still working on with Arnie. Arnie has the work we’ve done on the by-laws on a disc and will get together with Mike and bring is lap top to make final revisions and get it to the board.

e) Operator Exchange: Dave Carfo reported that this year’s operator exchange would be with VT. He already has an operator who is interested, Everett Weaver. Dave asked if the ad would be a part of the next newsletter for one more month.

Action Items: a) Approve/select Mew Board Members. Frank Wood was welcomed as the newest member of the CWPAA and also the coach of the Operators Challenge Teams. He can contact Rob Scott. Rob offered his help with the operators challenge team. Jan stated that she received another letter from an operator who wanted to become a board member. Everett Weaver from the Manchester WPCF. It was brought to the attention of the board that he is from the same plant as Bob. Bob will be contacted to see if this will be a problem. Also, Ron Jennings and Art Enderele have sent in their dues. A question was asked if the by-laws specify a maximum number of board members the CWPAA could have. It was stated that there is not specific number. Motion was made by Mike stating that we should accept all three candidates for the board, seconded – John, discussion: when contacted state that they will be put to work on a committee right away. Vote: All in favor. Carl will contact all three.

Items for discussion: Arnie stated that Larry Knight would like to do a seminar in May on odor control. Arnie wanted to know if there will be any interference with the course going on at the Stratford WPCF that same month. No problem is seen. Arnie will contact Larry and then e-mail Jan with the information for the newsletter. Arnie stated that Tom Holmberg – Royce is very pleased with the response he received for the seminar on March 15. There will be approxiamently 61 in attendance. Arnie stated that one of his operators might be interested in helping Bob with our web site. He’ll get back to the board on that.

6. Information Items:

a) Meeting w/CCM: Carl stated there have been on going meetings with CCM, CWPAA, and DEP. It seems EPA is putting pressure on DEP for action with the TMDL’s. EPA is pushing for a waste load allocation to all plants. DEP is looking at breaking it down into watersheds. With EPA putting the pressure on, this is not good for the plants.

b) Meetingw/Rep Stranton &CWPAA – see 3b.

7.

a) Deer Island Tours: Working on. There is a problem due to the fact Chris Shea isn’t working closely with the project anymore. Malcolm Pernie is more involved. Arnie will contact them to see if they would set up a tour.

b) Sewer Open: Larry Knight has volunteered again to be in charge.

8. Next meeting date: Next meeting will be on April 6, 200. A week before the product show. Place

for the meeting is not set. Carl will contact everyone by fax.

9. Adjournment: 11:55am

Respectfully submitted,