Wastewater Management (WWM) is dedicated to protecting, restoring, and improving the environment. They also focus on keeping people who work, live, and visit Fairfax County healthy and safe. The Environmental Management System (EMS) is a key part of this effort. This program helps WWM make good decisions by looking at how their actions affect the environment and finding ways to improve. The main goal is to follow environmental rules and find more ways to help the environment and make things sustainable.
WWM has been part of this program since 2003 and has kept an E4 status since 2006. In 2023, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) Virginia Environment Excellent Program (VEEP) renewed WWM’s E4 status. According to the Virginia DEQ, E4 status is given to facilities that have a complete EMS program and are dedicated to ongoing and sustainable environmental progress and community involvement.
Benefits of EMS
Each of these programs and initiatives demonstrates the benefits of the EMS systems. These benefits include a commitment to protecting the environment, saving money and improving efficiency, fostering better relationships with regulators, and enhancing worker health and safety.
Examples of the improved environmental benefits include:
