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Transitioning from Permit Compliance to Wastewater Excellence

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The speaker discusses low-cost opportunities for improving nutrient removal generally exist but often aren’t implemented for various reasons.

Among the strategies for implementing operational solutions to be discussed are the following:

  1. embracing “wastewater excellence” as a management strategy as contrasted to traditional, conservative “permit compliance"
  2. exploring well-intended regulatory policies and procedures that discourage operators from making operational changes
  3. finding funds for “pennies on the dollar” operational improvements

Date of Recording: April 28, 2022 (11-12:30 pm Eastern)

Presenter

Grant Weaver

Grant is a licensed wastewater operator and professional engineer. He was born in Kansas and educated at state schools before sneaking into MIT for a post-Graduate education in Environmental Toxicology. Grant’s MS is in Bio-Environmental Engineering (Oklahoma State University)and his BS is in Biology (Kansas State University).

He has spoken to wastewater operators across the county in countless classroom and webinar presentations. Grant is a contrarian who gets pleasure from empowering wastewater operators to make treatment plants work better than those who design and regulate them believe they can.

In this regard, he has visited and worked with the staffs of over 150 North American municipal wastewater treatment plants to realize significant improvements in nitrogen and phosphorus removal.

Grant currently lives in Connecticut and is president of Grant Tech, Inc.

Supplemental Materials

  • Transitioning from Permit Compliance to Wastewater Excellence Presentation (pdf) (8.79 MB)

Optimizing Nutrient Removal and Wastewater Excellence Mini-Series

  • Optimizing Nutrient Removal in Oxidation Ditches
  • Optimizing Nutrient Removal in Sequencing Batch Reactors
  • Optimizing Nutrient Removal in Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Plants
CWA-NPDES Permit Compliance Technical Assistance Webinar Series

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