Course Details
Course Details
Course ID
9775
Course Name
Management of Low Pressure in Distribution Systems WBT
Contact Hours
1.0
Approved Industry
Drinking Water
Partner Name
American Water Works Association
Primary Contact
Sarah Abeyta
sabeyta@awwa.org
3037343472 Ext.
Website
Description
To protect the distribution system, utilities focus on controlling cross-connections, maintaining a positive pressure, minimizing leaks, ensuring proper distribution system maintenance and flushing, maintaining an effective disinfectant residual, and other measures. However, a variety of normal water distribution system operations can result in pressure fluctuations that can possibly lead to the occurrence of low or negative pressures at various locations in the system.
Course Level
Basic thru Intermediate
Course Content
This course covers pressure transients, what they are, and how to optimize pressure management. Learners will then review pressure improvement plans, transient modeling processes, document tracking methods, and distribution system O&M. Throughout the course, learners will be tasked with making applications to their own system. This course includes the following modules:
Module 1: Low Pressure Transients
Module 2: Monitoring Pressures
Module 3: Introduction to Optimizing Pressure Management
Module 4: Pressure Performance Goals
Module 5: Pressure Improvement Plan
Module 6: Hydraulic and Transient Modeling
Module 7: Document and Track Improvements
Module 8: Distribution System Operation & Maintenance
Target Audience
Water Utility Professionals, Entry level thru intermediate operators, water utility employees.
Training Format
Virtual Asynchronous