THIS SESSION IS BEING HELD FROM 11 A.M. TO NOON, MOUNTAIN TIME

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

CEU Information pending.