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

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

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is offering a free webinar as part of their small systems monthly series.  A certificate of attendance will be offered for this webinar as well.  The toxins released by wildfires can make their way into the water system, and in light of the current environment the information is more useful than ever.  There will be an optional Q&A session from 3:00 to 3:30. You can register here: attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2152789201095229455 Detritus material in forest watersheds is the major terrestrial source of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and disinfection byproduct (DBP) precursors in water bodies used as drinking water sources and is also a fuel that can ignite wildfires. In these watersheds, hot temperatures and dry conditions increase the likelihood of high-severity wildfires.  To help reduce this risk, low-severity prescribed burning is used as a forest management practice to reduce fuel loads from forest floor detritus material. In either high- or low-severity fires, DOM exported to source waters from managed watersheds is likely to have different characteristics and treatability compared to DOM exported from unburned watersheds. These potential source water quality changes may require that drinking water utilities adapt their treatment processes to account for these changes. Modeling […]

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.

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 […]