by Sami Stroud | Jul 16, 2025 | General Management & Finance, Managerial & Financial Leadership, Utility Management
This podcast features Goleta Water District in Santa Barbara County, California. The district operates to provide water to over 87,000 people living in the greater Goleta Valley with an infrastructure of more than 270 miles of pipeline. GFOA worked with the Goleta...
by James Markham | Jul 3, 2025 | Decentralized Wastewater Systems, Uncategorized, Utility Management, Wastewater
In this podcast, host Danish Kumar speaks with Jennifer Egan, Program Manager at the UMD EFC about the pressing but often overlooked issue of wastewater management in mobile home parks and rural communities. They explore the challenges posed by aging septic systems,...
by Shannon Pepper | Dec 2, 2024 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Decentralized Wastewater Systems, Wastewater
In this podcast, Dawn Nall and A.J. Barney from the Southwest Environmental Finance Center discuss their recent experience providing technical assistance as part of the EPA’s “Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap” Pilot projects. They...
by Shannon Pepper | Jul 17, 2024 | Utility Management, Wastewater
In this podcast you will hear from Heather Himmelberger, Dawn Nall, and Mike Rivera on their perspectives of what you need to talk to your engineer about during both the planning and design phase of your project. Heather and Dawn are both engineers and Mike is a...
by Shannon Pepper | Jun 14, 2024 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Utility Management, Wastewater
Moonshot Missions (a partner of the EFCN) discusses the experiences they’ve had with the San Carlos Apache Tribe, one of the communities participating in EPA’s and USDA’s Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap Pilot Project. San Carlos Apache...