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Overview

The Safe Drinking Water Act provides maximum limits for contaminants that must be met by public and private drinking water systems. Various conventional treatment technologies and alternative treatment technologies have been determined suitable by USEPA to meet these limits. These treatment technologies have been designated as optimum technologies for specific water contaminants by USEPA. Treatment techniques and their various costs for specific contaminant treatment are provided for small sized systems. Treatment terminology and drinking water limits are presented along with water chemistry for specific contaminant removal used with the treatment systems.

In this course the student will learn some of the basics of drinking water treatment for a variety of water contaminants regulated by USEPA. The course is suitable for a student with basic water treatment knowledge or for an advanced student that needs to brush up on water treatment basics.

The student is expected to read and review the material contained in the Water Treatment Primer for Communities in Need, Advanced Water Treatment Research Program Report No. 68, U.S. Dept. of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation.

The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of forty (40) questions at the end of this course to obtain PDH credits.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

  · General Requirements of the USEPA Safe Drinking Water Act
  · Water chemistry
  · Water treatment technologies
  · Cost associated with treatment technologies
  · Water Treatment terminology
  · Contaminants of concern for water utilities
  · Support information for choosing alternative technologies

State Board Acceptance

This course can be used by professional engineers to fulfill PDH requirements mandated by state and provincial licensing boards. Decatur Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing education in all states that pre-approve course providers. In all other states that mandate continuing education for engineers, it is the individual engineer's responsibility to determine the suitability of activities for PDH credit. The state boards typically accept online* courses that cover technical, managerial** or ethical content and which are relevant to the practice of engineering. The course must have a clear purpose or objective with a content that will maintain, improve or expand the skills and knowledge of the licensee's field of practice. For questions about your mandatory PDH requirements, visit the website of your state licensing board.

*Online courses are accepted by all state licensing boards that mandate continuing education. Other than New York (which limits online courses to 18 PDH) and Iowa (which limits online courses to 6 PDH), there are no limits placed by other states on the number of hours that can be earned through online continuing education. Consult with your state licensing board if you have any questions about the acceptability of online courses.

**The New York State Board of Engineers does not accept general office management courses, but will accept project management courses that are offered by an approved provider and that are technical in nature and contribute to the engineer's professional practice.