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Do’s and Don’ts in Operating an NPDES Laboratory: Common Mistakes and Ways to Improve Results

This webinar discusses common misconceptions and misunderstandings found in NPDES laboratories, how to identify and rectify them in your laboratory, and how to improve your analytical testing and results.

Get Flexible - Low Cost Compliance Solutions For Small Wastewater Treatment Systems

Webinar topics include solving some of the following issues: effluent suspended solids, effluent ammonia, poor flow splitting, high influent flow, wasting, disinfection, as well as cheap, easy and effective process control suggestions.

Optimizing Nutrient Reduction in Small Wastewater Treatment Plants

The webinar covers troubleshooting and correcting denitrification and phosphorus removal issues in small mechanical activated sludge wastewater treatment plants.

Strategies for Small POTWs Handling High Strength Influent

This webinar will cover noncompliance problems caused by pass-through or interference from industrial users that small POTWs may encounter and what they can do to protect their plants and personnel.

Sampling: Dos and Don'ts

This webinar will provide instruction on when, where, and how to take measurements and sample wastewater in public owned treatment works.

Microbiology of Wastewater Treatment

This webinar will introduce the audience to the microorganisms that thrive in activated sludge.

Flow Measurement

This webinar will cover some of the basics of how flow is typically measured at an NPDES discharge point.

NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule – Phase 2 Extension

provides states and EPA additional time to implement electronic reporting for certain Clean Water Act discharge permitting requirements

Best Management Practices for POTW Compliance: Critical Elements of Successful Wastewater Treatment - Part 2

Creating and implementing effective SOPs, Managing your WWTP to promote compliance, finding technical assistance programs and resources

Best Management Practices for POTW Compliance: Critical Elements of Successful Wastewater Treatment - Part 1

Sampling and Monitoring - Compliance v. Process Control, Implementing a Process Control Plan and Making Operational Adjustments, Managing Effective and Educated Operators

Asset Management 101 – Finding Financial Assistance for Infrastructure Upgrades

This webinar provides a high level orientation to the core concepts of asset management, how to prioritize system needs, how to secure funding

When Small POTWs Should Establish a Pretreatment Program

This webinar starts with a brief explanation of the basic principles of pretreatment, then it covers what operators need to know in terms of the plants’ treatment capabilities, what to look for that may indicate pass-through and interference

Optimizing Performance of Aerated Wastewater Lagoon Systems - Part 2

Training on optimizing performance of wastewater lagoons

Discharge Monitoring Reports - Avoiding Common Mistakes

This orientation level webinar presents helpful information for NPDES permittees on how to calculate typical permit parameters from sampling data, including weekly and monthly averages, monthly flow and pollutant load.

Biosolids Part 1: Overview of Wastewater Treatment Sludge and Clean Water Act Regulatory Structure

the first part of a two-part biosolids series which discusses the history and regulatory framework of the Biosolids Rule, touches on the EPA Biosolids Center of Excellence and data entry of compliance monitoring data into EPA’s Compliance Database: NetBIO.