Thursday Nov. 4th
7:30-3:30 • 4 CEUs
Glendale Civic Auditorium
1401 N Verdugo Rd., Glendale
Enter lot from Mountain Street.
Free parking! Vacuum trucks welcome.
LA’s meeting for collection systems workers, managers and superintendents – and anyone else who loves to talk wastewater collections! Featuring Jim Fischer SSO Office, SWRCB on SSMP audits and what the State is looking for. Hands-on training includes: truck safety, rodders, cleaning nozzles and more. Compliance case studies, live overflow simulation, SSO responses & SSMPs. Vendor training, great BBQ lunch and lots of great door prizes!
$55 CWEA member/$65 non-member
Click here for event flyer and registration form (event might sell out). Exhibitor booths welcome.
***Update: New! Buy 3, get 1 free registration!***
P&ID 101 – An engineering bootcamp to help you with reading, designing and understanding process & instrumentation diagrams.
Wednesday, Sept. 29th
11:00am – 3:00pm
Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
Conference Rooms E & F
1955 Workman Mill Road, Whittier
Please check in with Security in the main lobby.
$50 CWEA members, $60 non, $25 students/retired. 3 CWEA contact hours. Pay at the door cash or checks, sorry NO credit cards or purchase orders.
Register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/79Z6VY9
Training Summary
Pick-up the critical skills necessary to understand P&ID documents in our increasingly high-tech and automated industry. Participants will acquire skills needed to differentiate between the interconnection of process equipment and the instrumentation used to control the process. Modules in the seminar are designed to allow participants to learn how to read and interpret the standard set of symbols used in processes instrumentation drawings and their applications in process system design.
Instructor: Joe Chapman
Joe Chapman of Los Angeles Trade Tech frequently teaches on P&ID topics.
Audience:
Environmental engineers, technicians, operators, mechanics, environmental compliance inspectors and vendors.
See flyer for more information!
Register Online or Send in Your Registration
When and Where:
Tuesday, May 4 – Fresno/Clovis RWRF – Fresno – 1-5pm
Thursday, May 6 – Humboldt MUD – Eureka – 1-5pm
Tuesday, May 11 – City of Riverside – Riverside – 1-5pm
Thursday, May 13 – Ulatis Community Center Vacaville – 8am – 12noon
Earn up to 4.8 CWEA Contact Hours
Who Should Attend: Operators, maintenance personnel, design engineers, facility mangers and supervisors who would like more information about power and control systems used for the operations and monitoring of pumps.
What You Will Learn: It is important for operations and electrical maintenance personnel to fully understand the electrical system at each of the pump stations for which they are responsible. You should understand the function and operation of the overall system.
Discussion Topics will Include:
- Typical power distribution
- Various types of pump motor control including: variable speed and soft start
- Trouble shooting and preventive maintenance
- Station communication – status and alarms
- Various methods for achieving optimum utilization of status and alarm conditions
- The importance of understanding the operation of station’s electrical and control system by using the information available in the electrical and instrumentation operation systems
Need CEUs or test prep classes for T1-4 and D1-4? Joshua Casey offers classes to help attendees prepare for taking California Department of Public Health Operator Certification Exams.
Fee includes materials, instructor time and lunch. See Flyer for more details.
Recycled Water: What Goes Around… Comes Around
Attendees for this one-day workshop will gain a better understanding of recycled water issues and trends, upcoming regulations in California, and key factors for successful implementation of water recycling programs.
Northern California:
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Bay Café Clubhouse and Restaurant
1875 Embarcadero Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Paul Friedlander, Carollo Engineers, Moderator
Southern California:
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
1955 Workman Mill Rd
Whittier, CA 90601
Phil Ackman, LACSD, Moderator
Featured speakers:
- Fran Spivy-Weber, SWQCB
- Heather Collins, CDPH
- Andrew Salveson, Carollo Engineers
- Rich Nagel, West Basin MWD
- Shivaji Deshmukh, OCWD
- George Tchobanoglous, UC Davis
Earn up to 6.2 CWEA and/or Calif. Dept of Health Contact Hours!
Enrollment is now open for UCLA Extension Engineering PE Review classes. To enroll, go to www.uclaextension.edu. Select the “Quick Enroll” tab and enter the Reg#. For more information, call 310-825-4100.
Joshua Casey Corporate Training in Anaheim is offering December classes for drinking water and wastewater operators who need to certification credits before the end of the year. Joshua Casey is certified by the Calif Department of Public Health.
Flyer Link
Apply by November 31st for computer based testing - January 1 to March 31.
Applications available at www.cwea.org/cert or call 510-382- 7800 #119 to have one mailed to you.
To learn more about the computer based testing system visit www.cwea.org/cbt.
All day workshop features complimentary lunch. Workshop leader: Dr. Patti G. Trahern, Ph.D., P.E.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
City of Los Angeles
Industrial Waste Management Division
2714 Media Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065
(turn left at the guard shack and go to the far building at the end)
Based in Arizona, Dr. Trahern works with municipalities, wastewater authorities, and other consulting firms providing technical expertise and direction on pretreatment programs, wastewater process design and analysis and regulatory issues. While working at Malcolm Pirnie Dr. Trahern managed numerous local limits projects for municipalities and authorities in USEPA Region 9.
Dr. Trahern concurrently developed local limits guidance materials for USEPA Region 9. Recent projects include development of pretreatment programs for the City of Prescott, AZ and the City of Surprise, AZ and local limit updates for the City of Mesa, AZ and the City of Hopewell, VA. Dr. Trahern earned her Master’s and doctorate at Virginia Tech University.
- Introduction to Local Limits
- Establishing Needs and Understanding the Process
- Identifying Pollutants of Concern
- Conducting A Preliminary Analysis
- Safety Factors
- Characterizing Flows & Loads
- Evaluating Allocation Methods
- Calculating Allowable Headworks Loadings
- Developing Control Strategies for Toxic and
- Conventional Pollutants
- Updating Pretreatment Ordinances
Attendees are requested to print and bring a copy of the EPA guidance manual to the workshop. The manual can be downloaded free as a pdf file from: www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/final_local_limits_guidance.pdf
CWEA needs Collection System Maintenance volunteers of different grade levels to review and revise the current test content areas (what’s on the CSM cert tests). There are two ways to be involved:
- Post a comment on our revalidation wiki page. Create quick username and password and post on discussion boards. Other members can also add to your discussion
- Be part of the revalidation panel. Fill out this short application form and become part of at least 20 experts who will be reviewing CSM test content area.
