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Harmful Algal Blooms, or HABs, occur in water bodies across the United States and can result in negative impacts to drinking water, local business, and community recreation opportunities. In this webinar, you will learn how to recognize a harmful algal bloom and the underlying causes, as well as receive a brief overview of watershed management strategies aimed at preventing HABs. Additionally, you will hear lessons learned from New York State experts in HABs monitoring and key takeaways for local governments and drinking water utilities. Presenters: Nick Willis, Program Manager, Wichita State University EFC and Aimee Clinkhammer, Watershed Coordinator, Finger Lakes Water Hub, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

This is the EPA's 17th annual free drinking water workshop, held in partnership with the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA), will take place on September 1-3, 2020 with in-depth training offered on August 31. The workshop will be virtual this year and will provide in-depth information and training on solutions and strategies for handling small drinking water system challenges with a focus on monitoring, distribution, source, and treatment topics. The workshop speakers and group leaders will be experts in their fields from EPA and other federal agencies, state and local agencies, academia, associations, and the private sector. The technical sessions of the workshop include topics such as disinfectants and disinfection byproducts, contaminants of emerging concern (including PFAS and algal toxins), pathogens and disinfection, source water quality and protection, corrosion and lead, contaminant removal and management, methods and analytics, implementing innovative treatments, and distribution system best practices. The in-depth training will include sanitary surveys, corrosion control treatment, and distribution systems and treatment models training. Technical breakout focus group discussion sessions are being offered for primacy agency staff and communication and outreach focus group discussions are being offered for all attendees. Atendees will have the option to receive a certificate of attendance […]

This webinar will look at how a conventional water treatment plant works.  It will look at AWWA best practices, plant optimization and energy management.  It will also address issues that may arise such as water quality problems, aging treatment plant infrastructure and knowledge transfer. This webinar is 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm on September 8 and September 9. Earn up to 8 contact hours. Instructor: Henry Palechek Member $80 / Non-member $100 Online registration for this webinar closes on September 6.

Median household income can inform how managers and utility staff make financial and managerial decisions, and can also be an important data point for potential funders and loan programs. In this 1-hour webinar, you will learn: How to determine if your system could benefit from an income survey How it could help you develop a stronger capital improvement plan How to determine who conducts the survey, and who’s going to pay for it Presenter: Jean Thompson, Environmental Finance Center at the Rural Community Assistance Corp, RDS III  

Median household income can inform how managers and utility staff make financial and managerial decisions, and can also be an important data point for potential funders and loan programs. In this 1-hour webinar, you will learn: How to determine if your system could benefit from an income survey How it could help you develop a stronger capital improvement plan How to determine who conducts the survey, and who’s going to pay for it Presenter: Jean Thompson, Environmental Finance Center at the Rural Community Assistance Corp, RDS III

This webinar will look at how a conventional water treatment plant works.  It will look at AWWA best practices, plant optimization and energy management.  It will also address issues that may arise such as water quality problems, aging treatment plant infrastructure and knowledge transfer. This webinar is 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm on September 8 and September 9. Earn up to 8 contact hours. Instructor: Henry Palechek Member $80 / Non-member $100 Online registration for this webinar closes on September 6.

Drinking water utilities face multiple challenges—including aging infrastructure, water quality concerns, pipe breaks, uncertainty in supply and demand, natural disasters, environmental emergencies and terrorist attacks. All of these have the potential to disrupt service to customers and damage critical infrastructure. Increasing resilience to these types of hazards is essential to improving water security. Simulation and analysis tools can help water utilities predict how their system will respond to expected and unexpected incidents and help inform decisions to make water distribution systems more resilient over time. EPA, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, developed the Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR), an open source Python package, to integrate critical aspects of resilience modeling for water distribution networks into a single software framework. WNTR can help water utilities investigate the resilience of their water systems to a wide range of hazardous scenarios and evaluate emergency response actions and long-term resilience‐enhancing strategies. The software estimates potential damages from disaster scenarios; predicts how damage to infrastructure would occur over time; evaluates preparedness strategies; prioritizes response actions; and identifies worse case scenarios, efficient repair strategies, and best practices for maintenance and operations. This webinar will provide an overview of WNTR along with a few case […]

Join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a live demonstration of the Water Utility Response On-The-Go mobile app on September 17, 2020 at 1:00 pm EST. The demonstration will be approximately 15 minutes and will include a live Q&A session. This presentation will include a live demonstration of the EPA’s Water Utility Response On-The-Go mobile app – also known as Response OTG. Released in 2015, the app provides information and tools that water utilities can use to prepare for, respond to, and recover from an emergency. It includes tools that allow the user to track severe weather, contact response partners, assess damage, and complete incident action checklists. The app is able to access location data to give the user up-to-date information about local emergencies and enhance coordination on all response levels. It is available for free on the App Store or Google Play Store (instructions to download below). Please download the app to your phone prior to the demonstration so that you can follow along as we go through the app’s features and interface.   Get started by downloading the FREE Response On-The-Go App: 1. Navigate to the App Store or Google Play Store on your mobile device. 2. […]

This webinar will look at how instrumentation and control systems are used by a water utility.  It will look at controlling motors, VFDs and energy management.  The webinar will have math problems related to the topic of instrumentation and control.  It will identify four main building blocks of a SCADA system and have examples, usage and configuration option.  Finally, it will show real world examples of SCADA screens and discuss how water operators interact with SCADA technology. This webinar is 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm on September 22 and September 23. Earn up to 8 contact hours. Instructor: Henry Palechek SWRCB approved. Member $80 / Non-member $100 Online registration for this webinar closes on September 20th