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- 2021.02.17 JEA Announces New Leadership Team
- 2021.03.11 JEA Receives First Place Safety Award from Florida Municipal Electric Association
- 2021.06.15 JEA Names Theodore B. Phillips Chief Financial Officer
- 2021.07.13 JEA Announces New COO and VP of Financial Services
- 2021.08.17 JEA Builds Out Leadership Team with Hiring of Chief External Affairs Officer
- 2021.09.15 JEA Names New Chief Information Officer, VP of Technical Services
- 2021.09.30 Ricky Erixton, JEA Vice President of Electric Systems, Named to SERC Reliability Board of Directors
- 2021.09.30 Ricardo “Rick” Morales III Appointed to JEA Board of Directors
- 2021.11.03 JEA Receives Statewide Recognition for Programs that Build Community
- 2022.01.06 JEA Names its First Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- 2022.01.07 JEA Reducing Carbon Emissions with Closure of Plant Scherer Coal-fired Unit
- 2022.01.17 Statement on Holiday Road Sewer Overflow
- 2022.01.27 JEA Names Mark Stultz Vice President, Communications
- 2022.02.11 JEA Honored as Outstanding Utility by Florida Urban Forestry Council
- 2022.04.08 Steven Selders Promoted to JEA Vice President, Application Delivery and Enterprise Architecture
- 2022.04.26 JEA Managing Director & CEO Jay Stowe, Appointed to Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council
- 2022.06.01 JEA Partnering with Customers to be Ready for 2022 Hurricane Season
- 2022.06.08 JEA Announces Next Generation of Customer Experience Delivery
- 2022.06.13 JEA Presents Environmental Stewardship Award to Evoqua Water Technologies
- 2022.07.26 JEA to Suspend Electric, Water Disconnections During Peak of Summer Heat
- 2022.08.27 Precautionary Boil Water Advisory Remains in Effect for Sandalwood Area as JEA Continues Testing
- 2022.08.28 JEA Lifts Boil Water Advisory for Sandalwood Area
- 2022.09.26 JEA Prepares for Hurricane Ian, Response Procedures in Place
- 2022.09.27 JEA Prepared to Respond to Hurricane Ian Impacts
- 2022.09.28 JEA Welcomes Mutual Aid Response to Hurricane Ian
- 2022.09.29 JEA Crews Restoring Power Throughout Jacksonville
- 2022.10.03 JEA Names Pedro Melendez Vice President, Planning, Engineering & Construction
- 2022.10.20 JEA Honors Local Agency Partners for Their Work in the Community
- 2022.11.04 JEA Receives Statewide Recognition for Community Work in Northeast Florida
- 2022.11.08 JEA Prepares for Subtropical Storm Nicole
- 2022.11.11 All Storm Restorations Continue Today; JEA to Lift Limited Emergency Operations
- 2022.12.12 JEA Women's, Men's Teams Win Top Honors at Statewide Water Competition
- 2022.12.20 JEA Offers Tips in Advance of Severe Cold Weather
- 2022.12.24 JEA Offers Tips During Severe Cold Weather
- 2023.01.10 JEA Receives Statewide Recognition for Mutual Aid Work
- 2023.03.06 JEA Receives Statewide Recognition for Safety
- 2023.03.07 New JEA HQ Customer Center to Open April 10
- 2023.04.06 JEA Lineworkers Earn Top Honors at International Lineman’s Rodeo
- 2023.04.25 Community Invited to May 25 Public Forum on Northeast Florida’s Energy Future
- 2023.05.01 JEA Receives Recognition for Commitment to Urban Tree Management
- 2023.05.18 JEA's Long-Range Clean Energy Plan Available to Public
- 2023.05.26 JEA Ready for 2023 Hurricane Season, Offers Tips to Help Customers Prepare
- 2023.06.05 Helen Materazzi Named JEA Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness
- 2023.06.14 JEA Upgrading Water Meters for All Customers
- 2023.06.15 JEA Crews Heading to Tallahassee to Assist with Storm Restoration
- 2023.06.26 JEA Presents Environmental Stewardship Award to 29 Local Companies
- 2023.07.14 JEA Launches Fleet Vehicle Electrification Program
- 2023.08.22 JEA Issues Precautionary Boil Water Advisory for South Philips Highway and Nocatee Area, Encourages All Customers to Conserve
- 2023.08.22 Chief Human Resources Officer, VyStar Credit Union
- 2023.08.23 Precautionary Boil Water Advisory Remains in Effect for South Philips Highway, Nocatee Area, JEA Continues to Encourage All Customers to Conserve
- 2023.08.24 JEA Lifts Precautionary Boil Water Advisory for South Philips Highway, Nocatee Area
- 2023.08.28 JEA Prepares for Tropical Storm Idalia Encourages Customers to Be Ready
- 2023.08.30 JEA Responding to Customers Due to Hurricane Idalia
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Commercial Imaging Guide to the Code of Management Practice
The Commercial Imaging Guide to the Code of Management Practice is a set of recommended operating procedures designed to reduce both the amount of silver and the overall volume of photographic processing solutions discharged to the drain. This guide has been written for pre-press operations, micrographics and other commercial imaging facilities.
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JEA Silver Code of Management Practices
The JEA Silver Code of Management Practices (CMP) was designed to comply with environmental regulations, prevent pollution, and assist photo processors in the proper management of silver and silver laden waste in their day-to-day activities.
Silver dischargers have two options in regards to managing their silver laden waste. One is to have an onsite recovery system. For small dischargers, their onsite recovery device must maintain a 90% silver recovery. For medium dischargers, their recovery device must maintain a 95% silver recovery. The second option is to collect your silver laden waste and hire a vendor to pick it up preform off-site silver recovery.
JEA created the Preferred Hauler Silver program to streamline this second option. Silver dischargers can hire a vendor from the Preferred Hauler list to handle the collected waste and perform off-site recovery. After the recovery has been calculated, a certification form will be sent from the hauler to JEA which will keep the silver discharger within compliance.
Limitations
The Commercial Imaging Guide to the Code of Management Practice does not supercede existing local regulations. Use this Guide only after the local municipality has adopted the Code of Management Practice for Silver Dischargers (CMP) into regulation. Use of this Guide where the CMP has not been adopted may cause the commercial imaging facility to be out of compliance with local regulations. Before using the Guide, each commercial imaging facility should check with the local government agency to determine its regulatory requirements. For more information contact The Silver Council.
Introduction
Photo processing effluent is a by-product of processing film. After silver recovery, this effluent is generally discharged to the drain where it goes to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW) for treatment and eventual release back to the environment. Processing solutions must not be discharged to a septic system.
Silver is the component of film and paper that makes it possible to form an image. While it’s not an ingredient of fresh solutions, during processing the silver is removed from the film and paper and goes into the solutions. Silver should be recovered from silver-rich solutions before they are discharged to the drain because:
- silver is a non-renewable resource,
- some sewage treatment plants (POTWs) and states restrict the amount of silver that can be discharged, and
- silver has economic value.
A silver-rich solution is a solution that contains sufficient silver that cost-effective recovery can be done either on-site or off-site. Silver-rich solutions include fixers and may include water from recirculated washwater systems.
Effective silver recovery requires equipment that is appropriate to the size and activities of the commercial imaging facility. It also requires implementing a sound preventive maintenance program for silver recovery equipment. Providing you with this information is the primary focus of the Commercial Imaging Guide to the Code of Management Practice.
The principal elements of the Commercial Imaging Guide to the Code of Management Practice is a set of recommended operating procedures designed to reduce both the amount of silver and the overall volume of processing solutions discharged to the drain.
The other element of the Guide is voluntary pollution prevention. In addition to recovering silver efficiently, commercial imaging processors should be concerned with minimizing the amount of waste they create. Waste solutions are literally money down the drain. In cases where the solutions can’t be discharged to drain, such as when the processor discharges to a septic system, it costs money for off-site disposal. That’s why it makes sense to minimize waste in the first place. The second half of the guide details several activities a commercial imaging processor can voluntarily undertake to reduce waste and save money.
The Commercial Imaging Guide to the Code of Management Practice is a guide of industry recommended practices. It is NOT a legal requirement. It was written by people just like yourselves—people who manage imaging operations.
The Guide takes the guesswork out of determining the specific silver recovery configurations and preventive maintenance activities you need.
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Industrial Pretreatment
JEA Industrial Pretreatment is responsible for administration of the National Pretreatment Program in areas that discharge wastewater into JEA-owned wastewater facilities. JEA has been recognized for its robust pollution prevention programs, community outreach efforts, and internal process improvements and controls leading to dramatic reductions in pollutant loadings to JEA Water Reclamation Facilities.
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Local Discharge Limits
Local discharge limits are established to protect against pass-through and interference. No person shall discharge wastewater containing in excess of the following data.
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