The California Department of Health Services is offering an Online TMF Tune-up. It is intended to assist Public Water Systems in determining their technical, managerial, and financial (TMF) capacities of their water system.
 

SOME FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

 1.    What is TMF?

TMF stands for the technical, managerial, and financial (TMF) capacities that a water system needs to be able to provide drinking water to its customers that meet all of the standards for many years to come.

 2.    What is the TMF Tune-up?

The TMF Tune-up is an online diagnostic tool that individual public water systems in California can use to determine their relative strengths and weaknesses with regard to the TMF elements.

It has been developed with funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) under the Capacity Development Program. This program strives to show water systems how they can manage their systems as well as fund needed capital improvements over time in order to provide safe drinking water to their customers.

3.  What can I gain from completing the TMF Tune-up?

An Individualized Development Plan (IDP) will be provided to your water system upon completion of the TMF Tune-up. This IDP will include a series of relative scores for your system in each of the TMF categories as well as pertinent combined scores. In addition to the scores, the IDP will provide a list of resources including free workshops, technical assistance, the expense reimbursement fund as well as links to various organizations and agencies that specialize in providing materials and services to drinking water systems.

4.    How long will it take to complete the TMF Tune-up?

If you know the answers to the questions as they pertain to your water system and do not need to take time to look up information, then the actual TMF Tune-up should only take you about 15 to 20 minutes to complete. The scores and IDP will be provided instantly.

5.    How will the California Department of Health Services use the information?

California Department of Health Services (CDHS) will use the information provided by water systems for statistical purposes in order to plan for future types of assistance that could be provided to water systems by the SRF Capacity Development Program. Neither your completed TMF Tune-up responses nor your IDP scores will be provided to the regulators. This TMF Tune-up is intended to be a tool that individual water systems can use to identify areas where improvement is needed and to offer suggestions as to the resources that are available in order to enable the water system to make those improvements.

6.    If I have further questions regarding the TMF Tune-up, how can I obtain assistance?

You can email the SRF Technical Support Unit at SWS-TMF@dhs.ca.gov with any further questions.

Or you can follow the link in this article for information on the TMF Survey as well as links to Iris Connection, Inc. or an authorized professional pump dealer for assistance.