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VIDEO. From the Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside (SAM) meeting on Monday, May 13th, 2024 at 7:00pm, as a hybrid meeting.
SAM’s Lead Operator, Aaron Gilbert, reports back from a recently attended 2024 CWEA (California Water Environment Association) Annual Conference.
Energy Recovery
- Capacity Re-evaluation
- Energy Production
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- Co-Generation Engines
- Mainspring Energy
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- FOG Receiving Station
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- Removes Grease from System
- Possible to remove other organic wastes from landfills and sewer lines
- Food Waste
- Brewery and other wastes and plug them into the digester itself
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Sustainable paths for managing solid and liquid waste from distilleries and breweries
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652617302688
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- Pre-treatments to enhance biogas yield and quality from anaerobic digestion of whiskey distillery and brewery wastes: A review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032119304897
- Pre-treatments to enhance biogas yield and quality from anaerobic digestion of whiskey distillery and brewery wastes: A review
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- Is there a Payback?
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- Low carbon fuel standard credits
- Renewable fuel credits
- Reduced Energy cost from PG&E
- Removing methane from the environment
- Improves the water quality coming into the plant:
- helps us treat the water better
- helps us fulfill our permit limits
- better quality water going to the ocean
- Less money spent on extra tests, overtime, chemicals, etc.
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- Grant Funding Mindset
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- Develop best project for SAM without reliance on grants (Economic Analysis)
- Align project with grant opportunities (BODR)
- Track grants and submit quality proposals (Design and construct)
- Results will Payoff -> Literally and figuratively
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- Funding
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- Clean Water State Revolving Fund (Green Project Reserve)
- California Energy Commission Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program
- Local Air Quality Management District
- Investment Tax Credit Made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022
- WIFIA
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- Guidance
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- Search all possible funding avenues early and follow the rules.
- Know that funding will add cost and time to the project
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- 20% Cost increase
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- Buying more domestic products
- Other caveats for the funding…
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- Time needed to apply for grants
- 20% Cost increase
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- You are never done with funding opportunities. Always be on the lookout.
- No guarantee that you will qualify for programs ( or the contractors)
- PG&E has a Self gen program: hire someone who knows how to navigate and get you through the system
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More on FOG (Fats, Oils, Grease) and BOD (Biologic Oxygen Demand) on Coastside Buzz
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Contact Us
Our regular office hours are 7:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. The Authority can be reached 24-hours a day at:
(650) 726-0124
Our Address is:
Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside
1000 Cabrillo Hwy N.
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
(650) 726-7833 (fax)
The Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside (SAM) provides wastewater treatment services and contract collection maintenance services for a population of approximately 24,000 in the following areas:
- City of Half Moon Bay
- El Granada
- Miramar
- Montara
- Moss Beach
- Princeton by the Sea
SAM Directors
SAM is a joint powers authority (JPA) created by its three member agencies: City of Half Moon Bay (City), Granada Community Services District (GCSD), and the Montara Water and Sanitary District (MWSD).
The JPA is a separate, independent, public agency created by the member agencies to perform functions and share powers common to the member agencies. Those powers are outlined in a joint exercise of powers agreement (Agreement). The Agreement creating SAM can be found on the Documents page.
Each Agreement identifies how the independent agency will be governed. In the case of SAM, each member agency appoints two members from its governing board to represent it on the SAM Board of Directors, for a total of six directors.
The Agreement also establishes the weight of each director’s vote. The vote by each representatives from the City is given the weight of two votes. The vote by each representative from GCSD and MWSD is given the weight of one vote. The total number of possible votes is eight. A quorum is a minimum of five votes and resolutions require at least six votes to pass.
2024 SAM Directors
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