6 articles
Learn how the Safe Drinking Water Act regulates public water systems, including EPA standards, MCLs, MCLGs, treatment techniques, disinfectant limits, primacy, and operator compliance responsibilities.
Learn the operator fundamentals of the Revised Total Coliform Rule and Ground Water Rule, including coliform monitoring, E. coli, repeat sampling, assessments, sanitary surveys, source monitoring, and corrective action.
Learn the operator fundamentals of the Surface Water Treatment Rules, including filtration and disinfection treatment techniques, Giardia and virus control, turbidity, CT calculations, disinfectant residuals, and compliance monitoring.
Learn Lead and Copper Rule fundamentals, including corrosion control, tap sampling, 90th-percentile compliance, action levels, service line inventories, public education, and the transition to the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements.
Learn Stage 1 and Stage 2 DBPR fundamentals, including TTHM, HAA5, bromate, chlorite, disinfectant MRDLs, LRAA compliance, operational evaluations, DBP formation, and microbial-DBP balancing.
Learn drinking-water compliance monitoring, reporting, Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 public notification, Consumer Confidence Reports, records, deadlines, and operator response to violations.