Northern Michigan Operators Seminar

BIOSOLIDS COMPONENTS IN MIWATERS

PROGRAM UPDATE

Mike Person

Michigan Biosolids Program – Miwaters 1 Year anniversary

• BS program -First year focused on just 2 External user components • Annual Reports

• Submission of New /updated site packets • Eventually will have all sites will be mapped and

boundaries delineated.

• All sites /boundaries will be visible to the public

Michigan Biosolids Program – Miwaters 1 Year anniversary

• BS program -First year focused on just 2 External user components • Annual Reports

• Submission of New /updated site packets • Eventually will have all sites will be mapped and

boundaries delineated.

• All sites /boundaries will be visible to the public

MiWaters - What We Were Promised

MiWaters - What We Got

MiWaters – It’s Getting Better

2015 - Biosolids AR form

First WRD SOC report due after role out

Lots of headaches

Relatively few issues, overall fairly smooth

2016 AR

No big changes, few tweaks to make it easier to

understand.

Due October 30, SOCs become available August

30 (60 days before due date)

Submission of Biosolids Annual Reports

- Report Year -Oct 1 to Sep 30

- Due October 30

Submission of Biosolids Annual Reports -step by step process / common issues

Pick your site

Facility Rep with Certifier Status must complete / submit report

Apps Requests and Reports

Select new and draft comp reports

Select 2016 Annual Report

Begin Form Entry

Enter tonnage here

Enter landfill or incineration tonnage

If you have zero tons reported complete each question on this page, then click

through remaining sections and submit.

Common AR mistakes – Land App Site info

Fail to include land App Summary sheets

- Template is optional if you include contractor sheets

DEQ template is optional if you include your contractors

land app sheets

BS DMR Reminder

You still need to upload electronic copies of Analytical data sheets here

Common AR mistakes – Analytical Data

Another BS DMR Reminder

Common AR mistakes – BS DMR

Drop Down Box – BS DMR has already been submitted BS DMR has not been submitted yet, but I know I am supposed to I don’t have to submit because this is a previous year AR

Do you know what your RMP says?

Common AR mistakes – RMP Certification

Hold on … Your not quite done yet.

Don’t forget the Biosolids DMR

Why? … No it wasn’t my idea!

View DMRS

Pick your site

Apps Requests and reports

Find the bs dmr. Clue- it says annual and dates 10/1/2015 -9/30/2016 Open

Defaults to Daily. Open Summary

All Issues need to be resolved to submit

If zero tons reported this year, click no discharge

Submitting Biosolids Site Packets – External users cannot submit sites through Miwater … Yet!

►Presently all new and amended site packets are submitted to DEQ staff as attachment to email

►Submisson of site packets in Miwaters will be available within a year

Submit Site

packets to your

DEQ biosolids

staff person

Site ID # Numbers

• There is only one format! • Town, Range, Section – 2 initials of owner, 2 digit # (preferably sequential)

• ie. 03s02w35-JH01 • This is James Howe’s first field in Section 35 of Spring Arbor Township

• Send a single pdf if possible

• Name the attached pdf precisely • DWSD WWTP 03s02w35-JH01.pdf (New Site) • Transfer DWSD WWTP 03s02w35-JH01.pdf • Repermit DWSD WWTP 03s02w35-JH01.pdf • Split DWSD WWTP 03s02w35-JH01-05.pdf

Make sure your using the correct naming convention

33 34

03s02w33-LP01 03s02w34-LP-01

Clearly delineate site demensions

labeled with site ID number

Common Site ID Numbering Problems

• Ownership is Strange • City of Litchfield CL

• Mike and Jan Bauer MB or JB

• Mike Bauer and Jim Timms MB or JT

• Jan Bauer Trust JT or BT

• MDOC SM, MI or DC

• MDOT SM, MI or DT

Acreage update

Don’t forget all the Site Packet Attachments

• Plat Map with clear site

location

• Aerial Photo

• Soil Surveys

• Soil Test Data

• Analytical Data

• Land Owner Agreement

• County HD Notification

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Eventually all biosolids sites will be submitted through

Miwaters. Within the year

Exact site deminsions will be delineated with fewer mistakes. Less

chance of permitting an existing bs site.

Send a single pdf if possible

Questions regarding Miwaters?

Biosolids program update

GLWA /NEFCO

DWSD hired NEFCO to build /operate North

Americas Largest biosolids palletization Plant

Began meeting with NEFCO – on land

application plan –late 2014 /2015

Approved RMP March 12, 2015

Initiated land application September 2015

GLWA / NEFCO Summary

FY 15 - -- DTs Land applied (July – Sept)

FY 16 –

23,385 DTs Land applied (Oct – Jun)

Approx 115 sites

6 - 7000 Acres treated

FY 16 total -projected to be over 30,000 dt pellets

land applied in Michigan

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Michigan 10 year summary – Residuals Mgt

Questions?

Mike Person

989-297-0779

personm@Michigan.gov