POTWs – What Does Your Permit Say? (Part 1)
Training Video
This presentation covers how to read and understand a NPDES permit, and things permittees should do to ensure that permit requirements are met. The presentation will also include a discussion of some of the most common reporting requirements in NPDES permits.
Date of Recording: January 22, 2024 (1-2:30 pm Eastern)
Presenter
Dan Connally has 22 years of experience in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System or NPDES permit development and the enforcement Clean Water Act regulations. Currently, Mr. Connally is a vice president of ERG Group and manages PG Environmental’s or PG’s operations and provides technical oversight for PG’s NPDES programmatic support. Throughout his career, he has provided NPDES program support to the EPA and numerous states and US territories. Mr. Connally has personally been involved in the development of over 250 municipal and industrial NPDES permits and provided oversight of a permitting team that has assisted with the development of nearly 1,000 NPDES permits. He has authored numerous complex permits for the discharge of industrial storm water, municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s), and wastewater that have required the application of unique and technologically innovative operational and treatment controls. He has extensive knowledge in federal and state wastewater regulations, industrial and municipal wastewater treatment, best management practices, and pollution prevention measures. Mr. Connally currently serves as one of the lead instructors for EPA’s NPDES Permit Writers’ Training course, and provides advanced NPDES permit writer training ranging from mixing/dilution to the development of technology-based effluent limitations using best professional development. He also serves as a credentialed NPDES compliance inspector and has direct experience evaluating wastewater treatment, wastewater control measures, and best management practices. In addition, Mr. Connally has extensive experience conducting storm water inspections, sanitary sewer overflow inspections, and MS4 Inspections.