Previous Trainings

In the afternoon session, participants will walk through a structured cybersecurity assessment process. Topics include identifying and protecting cyber assets, detecting malicious activity, responding to incidents, and planning for recovery. The workshop also highlights common gaps in Incident Response Plans (IRP), Business Continuity Plans (BCP), and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP).

Running a small utility system comes with unique operational, regulatory, staffing, and financial challenges. This interactive workshop explores practical collaboration strategies—sharing services, regional partnerships, and other cooperative approaches—to help systems improve efficiency, strengthen resilience, and better serve their communities.

Wastewater math is essential to ensure wastewater plans and processes are running properly. Along with a strong understanding of proper process characteristics, understanding and being able to perform wastewater calculations allows operators to optimize and make proper adjustments to their wastewater processes. Operators and other wastewater workers will develop the skills they need during this 2-day workshop to perform the required math in their everyday duties.

This 2-day virtual workshop covers methods to conduct inspection and condition assessment of the collection system and to develop targeted approaches to prioritize and plan future rehabilitation and replacement activities.

This 2-day virtual workshop covers concepts and mathematics needed to conduct activated sludge wastewater treatment process control.

This class provides a comprehensive overview of the surface water treatment process which includes coagulation, flocculation, filtration, sedimentation, and disinfection. Attendees will also be introduced to relevant compliance regulations and essential mathematics and processes for chemical dosing, equipment operation, and process control of surface water treatment plants.

This class provides a comprehensive overview of factors which influence water quality within distribution systems and highlights key practices that operators use to protect public health and maintain water quality.

This class covers concepts and mathematics needed for wastewater treatment process control.

This class provides a comprehensive overview of the surface water treatment process which includes coagulation, flocculation, filtration, sedimentation, and disinfection. Attendees will also be introduced to relevant compliance regulations and essential mathematics and processes for chemical dosing, equipment operation, and process control of surface water treatment plants.

This 2-day class provides attendees with asset management best practices including strategies to prioritize the use of resources, methods to improve asset data, and a targeted capital improvement plan to create an effective infrastructure plan for the future.