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Monthly environmental utilities update: public-health sampling, school partnership and business outreach
Summary
Roseville's environmental utilities reported continued wastewater public-health sampling, an industrial pretreatment program audit in process, a new water-operator curriculum partnership with the Roseville Joint Union High School District, and a waste-services outreach program for businesses.
George Hanson, Roseville's water utility manager, presented the Environmental Utilities monthly report and highlighted several items of operational and community interest.
On wastewater monitoring, Hanson said the Dry Creek wastewater treatment plant has participated in voluntary public-health sampling since the COVID period and that the utility received a public health certificate of excellence from the state health department for providing wastewater samples for analysis. He described an ongoing update and state audit of the industrial pretreatment program; Tracy Mueller will present a fuller update next month. "The Dry Creek wastewater treatment plant has been participating in this program since then," Hanson said.
Hanson also described a newly approved partnership with the Roseville Joint Union High School District and Roseville Adult School to create a water distribution operator curriculum intended to build a local talent pipeline for technical utility jobs. "The goal is we want to help to build locally a talent pipeline here," Hanson said. Finally, he outlined a business outreach pilot from the waste services division to help local businesses right-size trash and recycling services.
The commission asked questions about laboratory partners and monitoring procedures; staff said Roseville uses state-certified contract labs and will notify the city and governing bodies if results exceed notification thresholds.
