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Michigan DEQ has approved 11, One Hour Continuing Septage Education Credit classes which may be taken via our real time, interactive distance learning classroom.
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  Beginning May 29, 2012, WasteWater Education will be hosting a Master Class Series of online, public information, presentations.
There is no charge to attend but space is limited to the first 45 reservations.
To register please RSVP to info@wastewatereducation.org.
Each presentation will last approximately one hour with ample time for Q&A
New Concepts for Rural,
Urban and Suburban Water Reuse
Using Distributed Systems
Victor D’Amato. Senior Engineer Tetra Tech Research Triangle Park, NC
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New, more sustainable water infrastructure systems are emerging in rural, suburban, and urban communities across the United States and abroad. These new infrastructure models integrate decentralized systems within traditional, centralized conveyance and treatment networks in an approach called distributed management. Communities are recognizing that these strategies—which integrate water management at the individual site scale, to residential neighborhoods and small communities, to an entire watershed or region—are more efficient and effective across a triple bottom line of environmental, social, and economic considerations.
The research project, When to Consider Distributed Systems in an Urban and Suburban Context, analyzed 20 case studies where distributed approaches are being used to provide integrated water services across a range of community-specific situations and management frameworks in the United States and Australia.
This project was sponsored by the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) and the National Decentralized Wastewater Resource Capacity Development Project (NDWRCDP) to help planners, utility managers, engineers, developers, regulators and other decision-makers determine whether they should consider using a distributed approach in areas where users might normally be served by centralized systems.
In addition to providing information about the available products of the project, relevant case studies will be presented representing a cross-section of situations where distributed management approaches are currently being implemented. The project team also developed a simple decision-support tool that can help those who are considering a distributed approach assess their preference for decentralized or centralized systems by rating the relative importance of their community objectives and goals and working through various community-specific environmental, economic, and social attributes associated with various options.
There is no charge to attend but space is limited to the first 45 reservations. To register please RSVP here.
Victor D’Amato is a registered professional engineer with over 18 years of water quality engineering experience spanning design, planning, research and program/project management. Although he has worked on wastewater systems ranging in size from 360 gpd to 420 MGD, Vic has specialized expertise in distributed and decentralized systems.
He currently serves as a Senior Engineer out of Tetra Tech's Research Triangle Park, NC office where he helps governments, communities, and utilities plan and implement sustainable strategies that decrease capital and recurring costs, increase energy efficiency, and effectively address emerging challenges.
Mr. D’Amato holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Penn State University and a Masters of Science, Environmental Engineering in Water Resources Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Please check the basic requirements for accessing our real-time, distance learning events
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 Online Distance Learning Seminar
The Case For Affordable Wastewater Management Districts And Loan Programs: 2 Exemplary Case Studies. (more....)
Session One
Sara Heger. Extension Engineer Specialist University of Minnesota. Water Resource Center. Onsite Sewage Treatment Program.
Otter Tail Water Management District - An exemplary program of affordable, responsible, individual wastewater system ownership and management.
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Session Two
Terry Hull, Manager, Hood Canal Septic Loan Program. Enterprise Cascadia.
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Cascadia Septic Loan Program
UPCOMING: Public Education Course
Flushed With Success!! The Course will be available on demand.
(7 clasess total)
If you own your own septic or mound system, or are considering a new advanced treatment system, Wastewater Education has a course just for you!
Subtitled "everything you've always wanted to know about the joys of owning a septic system" this 6-week community education class will be taught entirely via the web and in real time. So curl up in your bedroom slippers, sit back, ask questions, and learn some valuable tips on how to save money plus save the heartache of seeing your lunch come back to haunt you! This course will inform and entertain you as it covers the wonderful world of ‘what goes in’ to owning your own wastewater treatment system and how you can help preserve our clean water environment!
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PURPOSE
To provide education which increases public awareness of the link between clean drinking water, safe recreational waters, environmentally sustainable surface and groundwater with watershed based, best management practises related to appropriate wastewater systems, technology, treatment and management.
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