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What Water Professionals Are Asking About

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Drinking Water

A.Y. McDonald Manufacturing Co.

Jay Cermenaro

jcermenaro@aymcdonald.com

6783581262 Ext.

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AY McDonald started an Innovation Center that works directly with customers to see what products can be improved and what new products can be developed to fit needs in the field. This Innovation Center opened up in 2015 and within the first year recognized Water Utilities had a clear need for training. Many utilities have a large portion of their work force at or near retirement age. They also heard that it was difficult sending staff to training events. Lastly they found that many utilities were not aware of products (some new and some existing) that could make things easier and in some cases less expensive. The training truck was born to offer training at these Utilities. To develop the training we worked with many Utilities and our customer service group, engineers, and Marketing group to come up with 100 bullet points of consistent questions, concerns and installation mistakes. The training was created to answers each of these bullet points and adds all the newest water works products. Donnie Lathem, our Eastern U.S. trainer retired from a large water utility after 27 years (Columbus OH) and personally learned new things while working with Engineers and Product managers developing the training. Whether you are new to the industry or a veteran – you will learn more about the various products as well as installation requirements.

Basic thru Advanced

What the Water Professional is Asking About This training is a direct result of over a hundred requests for training petitioned from the Water Industry Introduction (5 Minutes) • Introduction & Goals of the class o Even if you already know many facts – let us focus on "sharpening skills" o Training designed from Water Professionals feedback o Don’t discount your importance and take pride on delivering Water – it is Life Sustaining • History (Brass 1856 to Present) DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (25 minutes) Pipe Materials (DS1) • Three Categories (Transmission Mains, Water Mains and Services) o Definitions o Advantages and Disadvantages Repair (DS2) • Call Before You Dig • Safety and Traffic Control • Boil Water Advisory • Restraints and Concrete Backing • Repair Clamps and Sizing o Proper Installation demo (TECK Advantages) • Backfill (Importance at main and for corporation valve, service and curb box/meter box) o Proper goose neck of material out of corporation. Leak Detection and Non-Reven

Anyone in the water industry. Most attendees are field water distribution staff and inventory staff, but we also get a lot of Engineers and Admin-type personnel.

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