U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Environmental Technology Veri
September 2008
Water Quality Protection Center
An Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Organization
What is ETV?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
established the Environmental Technology
Verification (ETV) Program in 1995 to verify the
performance of innovative technical solutions
to problems that threaten human health or the
environment. ETV's mission is to accelerate
the use of new environmental technologies in
the domestic and international marketplaces.
ETV provides third-party, quality-assured
performance data so buyers and users of
environmental technologies can make informed
decisions about the purchase and application
of these technologies. Various groups are
actively involved in ETV, including stakeholders,
technology buyers and users, vendors, permitters,
technology experts, consulting engineers, and
investment companies. All test protocols, test
plans, verification reports, and verification
statements are available on the ETV Web Site at
www.epa.aov/etv.
What Does the Center Do?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
partner in the ETV Water Quality Protection (WQP)
Center is NSF International, a not-for-profit, non-
governmental organization providing public health
and safety-based risk management solutions
and protection of the environment. The goal of
the WQP Center is to verify commercial-ready
environmental technologies that protect ground
and surface waters from contamination. New and
innovative environmental technologies provided
by participating vendors are evaluated by a third
party organization, following technically sound
test procedures, appropriate Quality Assurance/
Quality Control, and a managed process, to provide
purchasers, specifiers and permitters with credible and
relevant data. Verification protocols are developed
for specific technology areas following an open
process with broad-based stakeholder input. The
protocols then serve as templates for developing test
plans for the evaluation of individual technologies
at specific locations. Verification reports detailing
the results of the technology evaluations are made
publicly available to assist in marketing, purchase
and permitting of the technologies. Verification
statements, executive summaries of each verification
test, are also provided. Technologies addressed by
the WQP Center include:
• Watershed Protection Technologies
• Wet Weather Flow Technologies
• Urban Infrastructure Technologies
• Decentralized WastewaterTreatment
Technologies
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program
Decentralized Wastewater
Treatment Technologies
» Wastewater treatment technologies
» Nutrient reduction technologies
> Watershed Protection Technologies
» Ship ballast water treatment technologies
for aquatic invasive species
» In-drain treatment technologies
» Mercury amalgam removal technologies
» Animal waste treatment technologies
» UV disinfection technologies for secondary
effluent and reuse applications
>• Urban Infrastructure Technologies
» Rehabilitation technologies for water
conveyance and wastewater collection systems
» Condition assessment technologies
Wet Weather Flow Technologies
Stormwater treatment devices
High-rate disinfection (induction mixers
and UV disinfection)
High-rate solids separation
Flowmeters
Zebra mussels are one example of aquatic
invasive species for which ballast water
treatment technologies will be evaluated.
The Triton TS-5000 Separator is one of three solids
separation technologies evaluated by the Water
Quality Protection Center for the treatment of
flushed swine waste.
Information on the WQP Center, such as testing activities, verification reports and statements,
and meeting announcements may be found on the EPA ETV Web Site (www.epa.gov/etv) and
the NSF Web Site (www.nsf.org/etv).
Contacts:
Tom Stevens
NSF International
789 Dixboro Rd.
Ann Arbor, Ml 48105
(734) 769-5347
Email: stevenst@nsf.org
http://www.nsf.org/etv
Ray Frederick
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2890 Woodbridge Ave. (MS-104)
Edison, NJ 08837-3679
(732)321-6627
Email: frederick.ray@epa.gov
http://www.epa.gov/etv
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