THIS SESSION IS BEING HELD FROM 10 A.M. TO NOON, MOUNTAIN TIME

Overview:

This lesson focuses on main breaks and cross connections, describes how these events can compromise water quality in the distribution system and provides solutions to the most common challenges from the field.

 Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this lesson, participants should be able to:

• preserve water quality when responding to a water main break
• explain the difference between proactive and reactive responses
• define what a cross connection is, and recognize its occurrence
• explain how cross-connections can impact public health
• describe requirements for cross-connection control
• outline emergency responses for backflow events

This training is from 10 am to 11 am

Overview:

This lesson focuses on the importance of flushing in maintaining water quality. A well planned and systematically executed flushing program can decrease water age in dead ends of a distribution system, can restore chlorine residuals, can remove sediments and other deposits, and result in overall improvement in water quality.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this lesson, participants should have the ability to:

• Be able to describe the importance of flushing
• Prepare a simple checklist for flushing a hydrant
• Identify the components of developing a flushing program

This training is from 11 am -Noon

CEU Information pending.