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Water Quality (TLC)

16.0

Drinking Water

Technical Learning College

Melissa Durbin

info@tlch2o.com

866 557-1746 Ext.

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Water systems monitor for a wide variety of contaminants to verify that the water they provide to the public meets all federal and state standards. Currently, the nation's community water systems (CWSs) and nontransient non-community water systems (NTNCWS's) must monitor for more than 83 contaminants. The major classes of contaminants include volatile organic compounds (VOC's), synthetic organic compounds (SOC's), inorganic compounds (IOC's), radionuclides and microbial organisms (including bacteria). Testing for these contaminants takes place on varying schedules and at different locations throughout the water system. Transient non-community water systems monitor less frequently and for fewer contaminants than CWS's. Because these types of systems serve an ever-changing population, it is most important for them to monitor for contaminants such as microbiologicals and nitrate than can cause an immediate, acute public health effect. Water systems also monitor for a number of contaminants that are currently not regulated. This monitoring data provides the basis for indentifying contaminants to be regulated in the future.

Basic thru Intermediate

* Explain various definitions, symbols and characters used in the laboratory * Define and utilize various water and wastewater sampling techniques * Define and explain chain of custody form and sampling security * Explain various microbiological preservation techniques * Define microbiological MCLs and heterotrophic plate count * Identify the history of the microbiological life sciences and disease research * Define and explain various biological and complex microbiological processes * Define, identify and explain the difference between bacteria and viruses * Define, identify and explain protozoan life * Identify and explain various waterborne disease germs or microbes * Define and explain various waterborne disease symptoms and illnesses * Define and explain various waterborne disease removal or disinfection techniques * Define and explain various waterborne disease testing and identificati

Water distribution, well drillers, pump installers and water treatment operators. The target audience for this course is the person interested in working in a water treatment or distribution facility and wishing to maintain CEU's for certification license, meet education needs for promotion, or to learn how to do the job more safely and effectively.

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