Water Resources

NCASI’S Water Resources program focuses on providing NCASI member companies and facilities with expert advice and technical assistance related to mill operations, wastewater treatment, effluent chemistry and toxicity, and receiving water ecology. Program objectives include:

• Maintaining NCASI’s reputation in the academic and regulatory communities as an expert and credible resource regarding mill operations, wastewater treatment, effluent and effluent constituents, treatment system and water quality modeling, toxicity testing, and surface water ecology.
• Ensuring the industry’s ability to make reliable measurements of constituents in effluents, residuals, sediments and water, and to assess effluent toxicity.
• Maintaining comprehensive knowledge of wastewater treatment system operations for managing conventional pollutants and non-conventional constituents and characteristics.
• Maintaining a current understanding of effluent constituents and their effects at relevant biological scales to address concerns related to surface water integrity.
• Informing the scientific basis of proposed standards and regulations related that affect effluent permit limits and receiving waters.

Outcomes from Water Resources technical studies and staff assistance help ensure efficient and effective wastewater treatment operations that support facility’s environmental and sustainability goals.

Co-led by Camille Flinders, Program Director and Regulatory Lead – Water Resources, Western Regional Coordinator, and Jim Palumbo, Senior Program Manager – Water Resources