Visit USD's booth at Fremont's Earth Day Celebration Saturday, April 20, 2019 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is at Washington Hospital - Washington West, 2500 Mowry Avenue. Pick up a free grease scraper to help you keep Fats, Oils, and Grease out of your sewer. Trade in your mercury thermometer for a free, non-hazardous version. We'll also recycle other mercury-containing devices for you! For more information about these and other ways to protect San Francisco Bay, call us at (510) 477-7637, or visit our Disposal of Wastes web page.

The District will honor 28 Tri-City Industries with Certificates of Merit on May 2, 2019 for achieving 100% compliance with water quality requirements in the 2018 calendar year. The District annually awards Certificates of Merit to those permitted industries within its service area that maintain 100% compliance with all wastewater discharge requirements. In addition, these industries consistently implement pollution prevention measures, maintain a cooperative working relationship with the District, and demonstrate continuing awareness and understanding of environmental issues and requirements. Several of the recipients have received this honor for consecutive years of continued compliance.

USD is responsible for permitting, inspecting, and monitoring many industries that discharge to its sewer system to ensure compliance with Federal, State, and Local environmental regulations. This is done not only to protect the treatment plant from toxic discharges, but also to protect the water quality of San Francisco Bay.

East Bay Dischargers Authority is pleased to announce the appointment of Jacqueline T. Zipkin to the position of General Manager following the retirement of long-tenured General Manager, Michael S. Connor, PhD.

East Bay Dischargers Authority is a public agency that provides wastewater treatment services for approximately 900,000 residents of southern and eastern Alameda County. EBDA’s member agencies include Cities of Hayward and San Leandro as well as Oro Loma, Castro Valley, and Union Sanitary Districts. Through a separate agreement, EBDA also provides services to the Cities of Livermore and Pleasanton and Dublin San Ramon Services District.

Ms. Zipkin, a resident of Alameda, comes to EBDA with more than 15 years of experience in water and wastewater engineering and management, environmental policy development, and regulatory compliance, both in the public and private sectors.

Most recently, Ms. Zipkin served as Manager of Environmental Services at East Bay Municipal Utility District, where she managed the District’s source control, wet weather, and resource recovery programs. Ms. Zipkin also led the District’s negotiation of a long-term wet weather Consent Decree with EBMUD’s tributary cities, the Environmental Protection Agency, State and Regional Water Boards, and several non-governmental organizations.

Prior to joining EBMUD, Ms. Zipkin was an environmental consultant with CH2M HILL, serving as Global Technology Leader for Water Portfolio Management, and assisting water and wastewater agencies with a variety of projects including regulatory negotiation and compliance, water recycling, watershed management, and biosolids and odor management. Ms. Zipkin is also active in professional organizations, having served on the Board of Directors of the California Association of Sanitation Agencies and on committees for the Water Environment Federation and Bay Area Clean Water Agencies.

Ms. Zipkin holds a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science, both from Stanford University. She is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer in California. 

Dr. Connor, a resident of Oakland, has served as the EBDA General Manager since 2008. During his tenure, EBDA maintained an excellent compliance record, thanks to the excellent performance of the four treatment plants operated by the EBDA member agencies and the treated flows arriving from Livermore/Amador Valley. Dr. Connor has been a leader in the industry, driving policy and projects to protection of San Francisco Bay, particularly in the realms of climate resilience and nutrient management. While at EBDA, Dr. Connor is active in numerous professional organizations and serves on the Board of Directors of the Water Environment and Reuse Foundation.

The Alameda Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) is accepting applications for the public member seat. The deadline for filing an application is Friday, February 2, 2018 at 5:00 p.m.

LAFCo is responsible for coordinating logical and timely changes in local government boundaries, conducting special studies that review ways to reorganize, simplify and streamline governmental structure, and establishing planning spheres of influence for each City and Special District within the County.

The public members represent all Alameda County citizens in an objective and impartial manner. Applicants must be residents of Alameda County, and cannot be a current board or council member, officer, or employee of Alameda County, a City, or Special District in Alameda County.

To read the public notice regarding applications, click here. If you have questions or would like a copy of the application mailed to you, please contact LAFCo at (510) 271-5142, or sandra.hou@acgov.org. For more information about LAFCo or to download the application, visit www.acgov.org/lafco.