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Time to Act PFASt!
Next Meeting – Joint Virtual Meeting with IWEA – February 16, 2022
Treatment Solutions to an emerging Contaminant of Concern
IWEA/IWWSG Joint Event
Date/Time: February 16, 2022 12:00 PM CST - 01:00 PM CST
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of manmade chemical compounds are emerging contaminants that have attracted substantial attention from consumers, water professionals, and regulators due to their abundance in soil and drinking water sources and their potential health effects. Accordingly, local regulation is already in effect in many states, and the EPA is taking measures to control the manufacturing, use, and exposure to PFAS and PFAS waste.
Presented by IWEA's Industrial Pretreatment Committee and IWWSG
Please register with the link below: (also available on IWWSG's website under Calendar of Events)
https://www.memberleap.com/members/evr/reg_event.php?orgcode=IWEA&evid=29243361
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2022 Kick-Off Meeting Recap – January 19, 2022
During IWWSG’s well-attended Zoom “2022 Kick-Off Meeting” on January 19, Joseph Kearney, Dean of the Marquette University Law School and co-author of the book “Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago”, presented a fascinating summary of Chicago’s lakefront evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the twenty-first.
He discussed how Chicago, a city known for commerce, came to have such a splendid public waterfront – its most treasured asset. He presented a story of social, political and legal conflict in which private and public rights clashed repeatedly over time, only to produce, as a kind of a miracle, a generally happy ending.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
IWEA March 8, 2022 Lunch & Learn Meeting
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IWWSG Virtual Meeting– March 16, 2022
Little Calumet River Conservation Action Plan
The Metropolitan Planning Commission/Field Museum/Openlands
Our Great Rivers: Achievements & Priorities, 2016-2020
IWWSG Election of Officers
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IWWSG May 18, 2022 Virtual Meeting
Reducing Chloride Discharges to Surface Water & Groundwater:
A Menu of Options for Policymakers
David A. Strifling, Director, Water Law & Policy Initiative and Adjunct Professor of Law
Marquette University
IWWSG’s final meeting of the ‘21-’22 season, on May 19, will feature Professor David Strifling, Director of Marquette Law School's Water Law and Policy Initiative. Using an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, the Initiative seeks to assess the legal and regulatory aspects of water policy, to pursue opportunities for information exchange and collaboration, and to provide the means for interested persons to become better informed on legal and policy aspects of critical water issues at the local, national, and global levels. Professor Strifling recently published a paper entitled “Reducing Chloride Discharges to Surface Water and Groundwater: A Menu of Options for Policymakers”, which evaluates legal and policy options for policymakers to address high chloride concentrations in area waterways likely caused by the excess application of salt for winter deicing, in combination with other sources such as water softeners. The paper examines the underlying causes of unsustainable chloride pollution from a scientific and engineering perspective and it explores the relative strengths of various alternative options, and links the scientific underpinnings to the legal and policy dimensions. The presentation will be supplemented with any pertinent regulatory updates from the IL PCB and/or MWRD.
Date/Time: May 18, 2022 Noon - 1 PM
Hybrid/In Person with Virtual Option Meeting Location TBD
DEP Award Presentation to follow
Registration Information coming soon!
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