This webinar will look at the technology, operation and maintenance of water systems that create new or expanded water for a community.  By nature, these sources tend to be locally controlled.  In the case of ground water, it can have contaminants such as iron or manganese, nitrate, or water that is brackish that make it unsuitable for drinking water unless some advanced treatment technology is used.  We will also look at re-purifying waste water being treated for purple pipe, ground water recharge, and lake augmentation.  We will look at the example of the world’s largest water re-purification system:  Orange County Ground Water Recharge System (GWRS).  This webinar will look at the advanced treatment choices and show the GWRS as a model for other projects. This webinar is 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm on September 29 and September 30. Earn up to 6 contact hours. Instructor: Henry Palechek Member $80 / Non-member $100 Online registration for this webinar closes on September 27.  

The EPA's Office of Research and Development invites you to a free webinar! As part of their water research webinar series the US EPA invites you join them for a discussion of SARS CoV-2 in Wastewater Monitoring: Linking Research and Application to Meet Immediate Needs. Widespread studies conducted national and globally indicate that genes specific to SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus that causes COVID-19) can be detected in wastewater. The ability to collectively sample both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals has lead dozens of states, cities, and universities to actively monitor wastewater to inform public health decisions. The clarity of the reflection of community prevalence of infection within the mirror of wastewater can be distorted by several factors, including variation in analytical detection methods, decay and dilution of viral genes during wastewater transport, and imprecision in relating the wastewater signal to other imperfect measures of community infection rates. This webinar will focus on the following collaborative efforts of EPA's SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring research team to reduce uncertainties: • Method development within the lab. • Application in sewersheds with distinctive levels of industrial and stormwater impacts–in coordination with the Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District. • Development of a wastewater surveillance systems in Ohio–in support of the […]