Spring Courses and Workshop will be held in the City of Hollwood, Florida 4/10-13/2012
MORE INFO HERE: http://fipaonline.com/training.htm IP certification level A, B & C and Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) Inspector classes will be available Tuesday through Thursday and our Friday workshop will cover a wide variety of topics of interest to both municipal and private sector wastewater and IP Professionals. Training classes, discussions and presentations are led [...]
CORE Week Info
CORE is holding a cooking oil competition. The CORE committee has been working so hard on making this a success. This will be the first FIPA sponsored Semi-Annual Residential Cooking Oil Collection Competition! The municipality that collects the most residential cooking oil during Environmental Education Week, April 15-21, 2012, will be awarded for their hard [...]
Tour of Grassy Waters Preserve the day before the Workshop
Workshop and a Tour… What a deal. $ 40.00 Members, $70.00 Non Members. Tour of Grassy Waters Preserve If you missed the Tour of Grassy Waters Preserve in 2009 I have good news for you! You spoke. We listened. That is right. We are bringing it back just for you. The best part is that [...]
FIPA Spring 2012 Classes and Workshop will be in Hollywood, FL during the week of April 13th.
IP certification level A, B & C and Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) Inspector classes will be available Tuesday through Thursday and our Friday workshop will cover a wide variety of topics of interest to both municipal and private sector wastewater and IP Professionals. Training classes, discussions and presentations are led by FIPA Certified Instructors, [...]
CORE Week
By: FIPA News CORE is excited to announce the first Semi-Annual Residential Cooking Oil Collection Competition! The municipality that collects the most residential cooking oil during Environmental Education Week, April 15-21, 2012, will receive an award. The award will be presented to the winning municipality at a local Commission meeting. The winning municipality will also [...]
Jawing About Mercury
by: Kevin Shropshire, Environmental Specialist City of Orlando, Environmental Control Section Dental Amalgam has been found to be a source of Mercury (Hg) in municipal waste streams. As we learned from the Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) representative at the May 2010 FIPA conference, possible dental amalgam regulations are in the future for EPA and FDEP. [...]
FDEP, Pretreatment Department Notes
By: Tom Shiflett, P.E., FDEP Pretreatment Coordinator I am happy to announce that Andres Lastra has joined the pretreatment staff here in Tallahassee. Andres is replacing Randi Peddie and will be assuming responsibility for her programs. Andres recently received his Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Florida State University. I wanted to let everyone know [...]
Biodiesel By Products
By Lex Wahl, Pretreatment Coordinator, Panama City Many municipalities have adopted a fats, oils and grease programs to protect collection systems and prevent sanitary sewer overflows. You have heard of CORE, right? (FIPA’s model Cooking Oil Recycling Effort.) This program, and others, are very well intentioned. On the surface recycling used cooking oil seems like [...]
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