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Your Little Rock Wastewater provides several functions along
with multiple layers of services within each.
The Environmental Assessment Division is the enforcement officer
for industrial and commercial users, as well as for the LRW
itself. The division has the overall role of sampling, inspecting
and tracking environmental data to comply with applicable
federal, state and local regulations. Stan Suel, Director
of Environmental Assessment, heads up the three departments
that make up the division: Central Laboratory, Industrial
User Relations and Commercial User Relations/Sample Collection.
Daily activities performed by the division include protecting
the biological treatment units at the LRW's two treatment
plants; regulating the discharge from industrial and commercial
customers, and assessing the Environmental Protection Agency’s
(EPA) compliance requirements on the effluent discharge from
the treatment plants. A few of the specific accomplishments
in 2003 were:
- The division conducted and analyzed
a total of 34,055 tests with 83 percent conducted on the
treatment plants and 17 percent for industrial and other
miscellaneous requests.
- No deficiencies were found during
the annual inspection by the Arkansas Department of Environmental
Quality.
- The division traced several unauthorized
discharges, such as wax debris and other chemicals, from
the treatment plant back to industrial users resulting
in the implementation of corrective measures by the industrial
user.
In regulating industrial and commercial users, the division
not only enforces regulations but also recognizes users with
good compliance records by sending excellence and merit awards
to those industries. Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc.
received the 2003 Pollution Prevention Award through a division
program which has provided environmental recognition to industrial
customers for the past six years.
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STONE WARD