Last Modified on 10/12/2010 07:48:54This Wastewater Monitoring Program collects water quality samples in support for the following uses: Wastewater Monitoring
- Industrial user compliance
- Wastewater treatment plant compliance monitoring, including biosolids
- Groundwater monitoring at the wastewater treatment plants
- Water reclamation plant compliance monitoring
- Local Discharge limit calculation
- Sewer user charge verification (sewer billings)
- Sewer capacity flow studies
- Multi-City sewer user charges and compliance
- Tres Rios Westlands project
- In stream (river) monitoring downstream of the wastewater treatment plants
- Special projects, studies and emergency response
Contact Chief Water Quality Inspector Peggy Parma at (602) 534-9523 or at peggy.parma@phoenix.gov.
Sampling crews frequently conduct sampling operations in hazardous locations such as confined spaces, streets where traffic conditions must be considered, and in the Salt and Gila Rivers. Sophisticated, computerized sampling and measuring equipment in addition to manual sample collection techniques are used to collect samples, which are then analyzed by the City's Water Services Laboratory.
Inspectors on the wastewater monitoring crew help develop and participate in the sampling classes of the Compliance Academy.