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Miscellaneous

• Ensuring a Sustainable Future: An Energy Management Guidebook for Wastewater and Water Utilities
• Environmental Planning for Small Communities - A Guide for Local Decision-Makers
• Glossary of Water Related Terms
• Key Regulatory Dates - Rule Implementation Milestones and Requirements
• National Primary Drinking Water Standards
• USEPA Poster: Removing Multiple Contaminants in Drinking Water
• Water Distribution System Analysis: Field Studies, Modeling and Management. A Reference Guide for Utilities

Arsenic

• 12 Steps to Arsenic Compliance
• Arsenic and Your Distribution System
• Arsenic in Your Drinking Water - Just the Facts for Consumers
• Complying With the Revised Drinking Water Standard for Arsenic: Small Entity Compliance Guide
• Environmental Technology Verification Report: Removal of Arsenic in Drinking Water - Delta Industrial Services, Inc. CampWater Porta-5 System
• EPA Arsenic Compliance Tools
• Implementation Guidance for the Arsenic Rule Drinking Water Regulations for Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contaminants Monitoring
• National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contaminants Monitoring Final Rule
• Summary Report: Evaluation of Point of Use Treatment Technologies to Remove Arsenic from Private Wells in West Anchorage
• UAA Guidelines for Selecting a Home Arsenic Treatment System

Asset Management

• Asset Management: A Best Practices Guide
• Asset Management for Local Officials
• Building an Asset Management Team
• EPA's Asset Management Web Site

Best Practices Guides

• Cross-Connection Control: A Best Practices Guide
• Distribution Systems: A Best Practices Guide
• Talking to Your Decision Makers: A Best Practices Guide
• Water System Operator Roles and Responsibilities: A Best Practices Guide
• Water System Owner Roles and Responsibilities: A Best Practices Guide

Consumer Confidence Reports

• CCR iWriter
• Preparing Your Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report Revised Guidance for Water Suppliers
• Top Ten Tips to Improve Your Consumer Confidence Report

Cross Connection Information

• Cross-Connection Control Manual
• Introduction to Cross Connecton Control

Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts

• Complying With the Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule: Basic Guide
  -Supplement A
  -Supplement B
• Implementation Guidance for the Stage 1 Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule
• National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts; Final Rule
• Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule Fact Sheet
• Stage 1 Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule - Frequently Asked Questions
• The Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule - What Does it Mean to You?

• Complying with the Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule: Small Entity Compliance Guide
• Consecutive Systems Guidance Manual (DRAFT)
• Fact Sheet: Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
• Microbial and Disinfection Byproducts Rules: Implementation Activities
• Operational Evaluation Guidance Manual (DRAFT)
• Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts (DBP) Rule Compliance Help
• The Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule (Stage 2 DBPR) Implementation Guidance and Appendices

Drinking Water

• A Plain English Guide to Alaska Drinking Water and Wastewater Regulations
• Best Management Practices for Rainwater Catchment Systems in Alaska
• Building Water Systems Capacity: A Guide for Tribal Administrators
• Drinking Water Chlorination: A Review of Disinfection Practices and Issues
• Drinking Water From Household Wells
• Emergency Disinfection for Drinking Water
• FACTOIDS: Drinking Water and Ground Water Statistics for 2002
• GROUNDWATER: A Source of Alaska's Drinking Water
• It's YOUR Drinking Water: Get to Know it and Protect it!
• Preventive Maintenance Tasks for Tribal Drinking Water Systems Guide Booklet
• Preventive Maintenance Tasks for Tribal Drinking Water Systems Log Cards
• Protecting Drinking Water: A Workbook for Tribes
• State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation 18 AAC 80 Drinking Water as amended through January 11, 2006
• TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE For Small Ground Water Systems with Hypochlorination
• Water Testing and Interpreting Your Results

Filter Backwash Recycling

• Filter Backwash Recycling Rule: A Rule Summary for Systems
• Filter Backwash Recycling Rule: Technical Guidance Manual
• National Primary Drinking Water; Filter Backwash Recycling Rule; Final Rule

Funding Opportunities

• 2004 Resource Guide for Drinking Water and Wastewater Systems in Alaska
• Funding Opportunities: A Directory of Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Protection Assistance Programs

Groundwater and Groundwater Rule

• Complying with the Ground Water Rule: Small Entity Compliance Guide
• Consecutive System Guide for the Ground Water Rule
• EPA Ground Water Rule Page
• Ground Water and the Rural Homeowner
• Ground Water Rule Fact Sheet
• Ground Water Rule Finalized
• Ground Water Rule Source Water Monitoring Guidance Manual
• Guidance on the Ground Water Rule
• National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Ground Water Rule; Proposed Rules
• Sanitary Survey Guidance Manual for Ground Water Systems (DRAFT)

Lead and Copper

• Draft Regulatory Guidance: Lead and Copper Rule Short-Term Revisions and Clarifications
• Lead and Copper Monitoring and Reporting Guidance for Public Water Systems
• Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions Fact Sheet for Public Water Systems that Serve 3,300 or Fewer Persons
• Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions Fact Sheet for Public Water Systems that Serve 3,301 to 50,000 Persons
• Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions Fact Sheet for Public Water Systems that Serve More Than 50,000 Persons
• Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions Fact Sheet for State Primacy Agencies
• Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions Fact Sheet for Tribal Water System Owners and Operators
• Lead and Copper Rule: Summary of Revisions
• Lead in Drinking Water Regulation: Public Education Guidance
• Monitoring Waivers under The Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions for Systems Serving 3,300 or Fewer People
• National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper; Final Rule
• Revised Guidance Manual for Selecting Lead and Copper Control Strategies
• State Implementation Guidance for the Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions

Point-of-Use

• Point-of-Use or Point-of-Entry Treatment Options for Small Drinking Water Systems

Public Notification

• Corrections to the Public Notification Rule
• PNiWriter - EPA developed the PNiWriter to allow water operators or other designated personnel to enter data to generate a public notice that meets federal requirements.
• Public Notification Handbook

Quick Reference Guides

• Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Monitoring Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• Consumer Confidence Report Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• Filter Backwash Recycling Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• Lead and Copper Rule: A Quick Reference Quide
• Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• LT2 Quick Reference Guides:
  LT2: A Quick Reference Guide For Schedule 1 Systems
  LT2: A Quick Reference Guide For Schedule 2 Systems
  LT2: A Quick Reference Guide For Schedule 3 Systems
  LT2: A Quick Reference Guide For Schedule 4 Systems
• Radionuclides Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• Record Keeping Rules: A Quick Reference Guide
• Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule: Laboratory Quick Reference Guide
• Stage 2 Quick Reference Guides
  Stage 2 DBPR: A Quick Reference Guide For Schedule 1 Systems
  Stage 2 DBPR: A Quick Reference Guide For Schedule 2 Systems
  Stage 2 DBPR: A Quick Reference Guide For Schedule 3 Systems
  Stage 2 DBPR: A Quick Reference Guide For Schedule 4 Systems
  
• Standardized Monitoring Framework
• The Public Notification Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• Total Coliform Rule: A Quick Reference Guide
• Variances and Exemptions

Safe Drinking Water Act

• EPA's SDWA Web Site
• Small System Guide to Safe Drinking Water Act Regulations

Security

• 14 Features of Active and Effective Security
• A Water Security Handbook: Planning for and Responding to Drinking Water Contamination Threats and Incidents
• Emergency Response Tabletop CD-ROM Exercises for Drinking Water and Wastewater Systems
• EPA's Water Security Web Site
• Improving Security through Capacity Development: Capacity Self-Assessments
• Security Vulnerability Self-Assessment Guide for Small Drinking Water Systems
• Using Technical, Managerial, and Financial Capacity to Improve System Security — Suggestions for States

Source Water Protection

• How to Manual: Update and Enhance Your Local Source Water Protection Asssesments
• Source Water and Wellhead Protection
• Source Water Assessments Fact Sheet
• State Source Water Assessment and Protection Program Guidances

Surface Water Treatment Rule

• Complying with the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule: Small Entity Compliance Guide
• Fact Sheet - Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
• Implementation Guidance for the Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
• Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule Fact Sheet
• Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule - Frequently Asked Questions
• LT2 Compliance Help
• LT2 Rule Fact Sheets
  LT2ESWTR Source Water Monitoring for Systems Serving At Least 10,000 People Factsheet
  LT2ESWTR Source Water Monitoring for Systems Serving Less Than 10,000 People Factsheet
  LT2ESWTR Data Collection and Tracking System Factsheet
  LT2ESWTR Laboratory Factsheet
• LT2 Rule Cryptosporidium & E. coli Sample Collection Recommendations - Pocket Guide
• LT2 Training Modules
• Membrane Filtration Guidance for LT2
• National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment; Final Rule
• National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Final Rule
• Small System Compliance Technology List for the Surface Water Treatment Rule
• The Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule - What Does it Mean to You?
• The Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR) Implementation Guidance and Appendices

Total Coliform Rule

• A Small Systems Guide to the Total Coliform Rule

Wastewater

• A Plain English Guide to Alaska Drinking Water and Wastewater Regulations
• Municipal Wastewater Technology Fact Sheets
• Wastewater Calculators

Watershed

• Watershed Academy Web - Online Training in Watershed Management
• Watershed Handbook