• Meet local collection system managers; local vendors;  and collection system professionals
• SWRCB update – Jim Fisher (confirmed), Russell Norman or Victor Lopez (confirmed)
• LARWQCB update – Hugh Marley
• Four tracks of training including collection systems certification, maintenance and management seminars.
• Hosts: City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works,  Bureau of Sanitation

Register by mail – hurry seminar may sell-out.
$40 CWEA member
$50 non-member

Nov 3, 2011, 7:30-3:30
Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant
12000 Vista Del Mar
Los Angeles, CA 90293
(see flyer for detailed parking info)

Sample classes:
• SWRCB update – Jim Fisher (confirmed), Russell Norman,  Victor Lopez
• Regulatory updates con’t – Hugh Marley, LARWQB
• Evolving your maintenance program
• Sewer system success - Adel Hagekhalil, City of Los Angeles
• Collection systems safety
• Sewer bypassing class – Anthony Gaddie, Rain for Rent
• Quality assurance and sewer cleaning – Robert Potter, City of Los Angeles
• Submersible pump maintenance – Randy Cowden, ITT FLygt
• VFD maintenance – Art Yee, Industrial Technical Services
• Overflow class including volume estimates – Duane Johnson, SSCSC
• Collection Systems Math Class – Pettit/Lopez (be sure to bring your CS study guide)
• Plant Maintenance Math – Bernard Rogers, City of Los Angeles  (be sure to bring your PM study guide)
• Hyperion Treatment Plant Tour

Questions?

Attendees or volunteers:  Alec Mackie, LABS alecm@jwce.com,  (714) 428-4614
Volunteer speakers/trainers:  Michael Flores, LABS MFlores@rmcwater.com
Exhibitors: Jim Aanderud, SSCSC, jaanderud@AOL.com

Click here for the event flyer >

Hosts:
City of Los Angeles,
Department of Public Works,
Bureau of Sanitation

See flyer for more information

Date: Friday, September 9, 2011
Time: 4 to 8 pm
Location: Los Coyotes WRP – 16515 Piuma Ave, Cerritos, CA 90703 (upstairs Maintenance Building lunch room)
RSVP: Email Kent McIntosh at kmcintosh@lacsd.org (as soon as possible)

The topics included in this seminar address some of the most relevant solids handling issues facing treatment plants today – from maximizing and treating digester gas to dewatering equipment maintenance and handling struvite problems. If math interests you more than one of the process-related topics, you can also choose to attend one or both of the math sessions scheduled in the morning and early afternoon.

Operations and maintenance personnel involved with biosolids processes at wastewater treatment plants will benefit from attending this training session and are encouraged to register early. Register Early to Guarantee Entry in the SARBS Door Prize Giveaway!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Phoenix Club
1340 S. Sanderson Avenue
Anaheim, CA 92806

See flyer for more information

All existing GREEN participants should bring your GREEN Training Binders to this next event.  You will also be given the next set of training materials for your GREEN library.  If you do not have a GREEN binder, one will be provided for you at the workshop.

If you know of any company or individual that can use and/or benefit from this much needed IIPP training, please invite them to attend this next training event.

Please contact Steve Katnik at 562-463-7501 or email me at skatnik@riohondo.edu if you have questions.

Map to South Whittier Education Center

The course is Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:00pm to 10:00pm, and it will be taught by the supervisors from the LA County Sanitation Districts solid waste department.

Your instructors will also take you on field trips to the various solid waste sites. The class received great reviews last Spring.  Please try to pre-register, but if you are having difficulty adding the class, please feel free contact me at (562) 463-7501 or skatnik@riohondo.edu

ET 240: This course is designed to provide individuals, who are working in or seek employment in the solid waste management field, with an overview of the solid waste industry and its components. Emphasis is placed on the various aspects of integrated waste management including: waste prevention, recycling, composting, incineration, landfilling, environmental sampling and monitoring, facility siting and permitting, and compliance with environmental, health and safety regulations.

CWEA offers four grade levels for ECIs through their technical certification program (TCP). Join Bill to enhance your knowledge of wastewater treatment processes, laboratory procedures, mechanical equipment, industrial processes, safety codes, budgeting principles, regulations and management strategies as you prepare to achieve the next ECI grade level.

No cost or pre-registration but send an email Bill Garrett at bgarrett@lacsd.org to sign up for the review session.

Location:
Los Coyotes WRP
16515 Piuma Av
Cerritos, CA 90703
(upstairs in the Maintenance Building lunch room)

See flyer for more information

Each year CWEA’s Technical Certification Program (TCP) will be revalidating and updating tests for one of the 24 vocations tested. After TCP completes the new KSAs, the CPTF takes the new KSAs and updates the study guides for that vocation. This year, the CPTF reviewed and updated 328 pages of Collection System Maintenance Study Guide content!  

The CPTF is now working on updating the CSM Moderator Guides due to be released January 2011. These guides outline the curriculum for study session instructors. If your local section is planning a study session, be sure to get a moderator guide. You can contact Director of Member and Leader Services Chris Lundeen at clundeen@cwea.org or 510-382-7800 x104 for more information about getting a Moderator Guide. As the moderator guides will not be available until January, the CPTF would be happy to bring your study session instructors up to speed on any changes in the meantime. Just let Chris know and he can set-up a meeting or conference call with your instructor and members of the CPTF.  

Many Thanks to the Collection System Maintenance Study Guide Update Team!  

Certification Prep Task Force Co-Chairs:
Gina Cloutier, Victor Valley WRA
Joanna De Sa, City of Sunnyvale

Drive on Mountain St.
JUST PAST Verdugo St
On your right hand side is the parking lot
Glendale Auditorium entrance to the lot is under the trees. City of Glendale staff will be on hand to direct you.

That makes the parking lot address for Glendale Civic Auditorium:
1519 E Mountain St, Glendale, CA  91207

>> Click here for flyer and registration form

Thursday Nov. 4th
7:30-3:00 • 4 CEUs

Glendale Civic Auditorium
1401 N Verdugo Rd., Glendale

2-freeway
Exit Mountain St., go down the hill
CROSS Verdugo Road
1 block on right hand side
Enter parking 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!

Nearly 200 people from dozens of Los Angeles agencies are attending including: Long Beach, Torrance, Burbank, Hawthorne, Glendale, Pasadena, Monrovia, Palmdale, Lancaster, IEUA, Simi Valley, LACSD and more! Register for collection systems training today!

$55 CWEA member/$65 non-member

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!