Courses

There are various reasons why water would need to be stored in a distribution system. This course covers water storage principles.

This course covers cross-connection control. It is necessary that distribution operators have a working understanding of cross-connection control principles.

Hydrants and valves are an important part of the distribution system. This course covers a broad range of topics, from different types of hydrants to valve construction.

This course covers piping basics. Students will learn pipe selection considerations, construction material for pipe, and about pipe joints and their applications.

In this course students will learn about pumps and motors and how they are used in the distribution system. This course covers different types of pumps, and different types of motors that are commonly used in the distribution system.

This course covers water meters as they are used in the distribution system.

This course covers safety when working as a distribution system operator. It is essential that operators know and can apply trenching safety requirements, confined space requirements, and how to set up a traffic diversion.

Disinfection is the process that kills bacteria and other disease causing organisms. This course reviews disinfection principles as they relate to the distribution system.

In some small water systems, the only source of water is wells. This course will teach students about water wells.

This course covers the design and layout of a distribution system. Students will learn the different types of system designs, and which designs are best for which types of systems.

This course reviews the subject of corrosion control as is relates to water treatment.

The disinfection process of water treatment is the process that kills bacteria and other disease causing organisms. This course reviews disinfection principles.

After the coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation processes, filtration is used to filter out suspended particles not settled out during the sedimentation process. This course covers the basics of water filtration.

The sedimentation process is required in water treatment to allow suspended solids to settle out of the water. This course covers the basics of sedimentation.

Coagulation and Flocculation treatment processes are essential to conventional surface water treatment. In this course, students will learn coagulation chemistry basics, flash mixer concepts, principles of enhanced coagulation, along with other coagulation and flocculation topics.

Reservoirs are required to store water prior to it being treated at a water treatment plant. This lesson covers various reservoir topics such as thermal stratification of a reservoir, algae issues and controlling algae with copper sulfate.

Source water is the beginning of every treatment process. The different topics covered in this source water review course include evaluation of course water, contaminants in source water, the hydrologic cycle, and other topics.

This course compiles 8 individual lessons into one course. These 8 lessons are intended to be a review for operators in treatment plan operation. The course breaks down the topics covered into easy to understand concepts and principles.

This course covers the various types of math problems that may be necessary in a water quality laboratory. These common problems are daily calculations in the lab, and operators, as well as lab personnel should be knowledgeable in the principles required to accurately complete the calculations.

The math problems related to the disinfection process at a treatment plant can be complicated at times. This course shows students how to perform the needed calculations without the headache. Calculations discussed include chlorine dose, chlorine demand, chlorine use in pounds per day, and others.