This course uses the following chapters from Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants, Volume 1:Chapter 1, “Introduction to Wastewater Operation” ; Chapter 2, “Safety” ; Chapter 3, “Preliminary Treatment” ; Chapter 4, “Primary Treatment”; and Chapter 8, “Lagoon Systems (Secondary Treatment)”. This course is designed to give operators an overview of wastewater treatment plants and safe plant procedures and to train operators to safely and effectively operate preliminary and primary treatment processes as well as lagoon systems.

This course uses the following chapters from Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants, Volume 1: Chapter 5, “Activated Sludge Processes (Secondary Treatment)” and Chapter 6, “Fixed Film Processes”. This course is designed to train operators to safely and effectively operate secondary treatment processes at wastewater treatment plants.

This course uses the following chapters from Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants, Volume 1: Chapter 7, “Disinfection” and Chapter 9, “Laboratory Procedures” as well as Appendix A, “Introduction to Basic Math for Operators”. This course is designed to train operators to safely and effectively operate disinfection processes, perform basic laboratory procedures at wastewater treatment plants, and use formulas and calculations to determine operating parameters and solve operational problems throughout wastewater treatment plants.

This course uses the following chapters from Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants, Volume 2: Chapter 1, “Introduction to Wastewater Treatment”; Chapter 2, “Nutrient Removal (Tertiary Treatment); and Chapter 3, “Solids Removal from Effluent (Tertiary Treatment)”. This course is designed to give operators an overview of wastewater treatment plants and to safely and effectively operate tertiary treatment processes.

This course uses the following chapters from Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants, Volume 2: Chapter 4, “Residual Solids Management” and Chapter 5, “Plant Maintenance”. This course is designed to provide operators with the knowledge and skills to properly and safely handle, treat, and dispose of residual solids and to maintain wastewater treatment plants and equipment.

This course uses the following chapters from Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants, Volume 3: Chapter 1, “Introduction to Wastewater Treatment”; Chapter 2, “Effluent Discharge and Reuse”; and Chapter 3, “Odor Control”. This course is designed to give operators an overview of wastewater treatment plants and effluent discharge and reuse processes as well as train operators to prevent and control odors from wastewater facilities.

This course uses the following chapters from Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants, Volume 3: Chapter 4, “Instrumentation and Control” and Chapter 5, “Introduction to Utility Management”. This course is designed to provide operators with the knowledge and skills to properly and safely use and maintain instrumentation equipment and to provide operators with an overview of the functions, responsibilities, and skills needed to manage wastewater utilities.

This course uses the following chapters from Industrial Waste Treatment, Volume 1: Chapter 1, “Introduction to Industrial Waste Treatment”; Chapter 2, “Treatment Facility Safety”; Chapter 3, “Industrial Waste Monitoring”; and Chapter 4, “Preliminary Treatment”. This course presents an overview of industrial waste treatment facilities and their safe operation, information and strategies for monitoring waste in industrial wastestreams, and procedures and practices for the safe and effective operation of preliminary treatment processes.

This course uses the following chapters from Industrial Waste Treatment, Volume 1: Chapter 5, “Physical and Physical–Chemical Treatment Processes” and Chapter 6, “Treatment of Metal Wastestreams”. This course is designed to provide operators with the knowledge and skills to properly and safely operate and maintain treatment processes and equipment that are used to remove contaminants from wastestreams generated by industrial processes.

This course uses the following chapters from Industrial Waste Treatment, Volume 1: Chapter 7, “Instrumentation and Control” and Chapter 8, “Facility Maintenance”. This course is designed to provide operators with the knowledge and skills to properly and safely apply instrumentation and control practices and strategies to industrial waste treatment processes and maintain industrial waste treatment facilities and equipment.

This course uses the following chapters from Industrial Waste Treatment, Volume 2: Chapter 1, “Introduction to Industrial Waste Treatment” and Chapter 2, “Fixed Film Processes”. This course presents an overview of industrial waste treatment facilities and their safe operation, information and strategies for monitoring waste in industrial wastestreams, and procedures and practices for the safe and effective operation of fixed film treatment processes, including trickling filters, rotating biological contactors, and submerged fixed film.

This course uses the following chapters from Industrial Waste Treatment, Volume 2: Chapter 3, “Activated Sludge Processes” and Chapter 4, “Nutrient Removal”. This course is designed to provide operators with the knowledge and skills to properly and safely operate and maintain activated sludge processes and nutrient removal processes.

This course uses the following chapters from Industrial Waste Treatment, Volume 2: Chapter 5, “Anaerobic Treatment” and Chapter 6, “Residual Solids Management”. This course is designed to provide operators with the knowledge and skills to properly and safely operate and maintain anaerobic wastewater treatment processes and residual solids handling and treatment processes used in industrial waste treatment.

This training manual has retired. Course enrollments will be available until March 31, 2025. For other training materials on wastewater treatment, explore our 3-volume Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants series and associated courses.

This course provides wastewater treatment system operators with the knowledge and skills needed to operate and maintain municipal membrane bioreactor facilities safely and effectively.

This course provides training in the safe and effective operation and maintenance of wastewater collection systems.

This course builds on the information offered in Volume 1 to provide operators with the knowledge and skills to properly install, inspect, operate, maintain, and manage wastewater collection systems.

This series of six video chapters, each about 30 minutes long, is contained on a single DVD. The series will enhance the training of new and experienced collection system operators for the safe operation and maintenance of both sanitary and combined sewer systems. This video series was developed to complement the current two-volume set of collection system operation and maintenance training manuals.

This course explains how to use collection system O&M program performance indicators, benchmarking data, and surveys to evaluate and improve system performance.

This course is designed to train operators to safely operate and maintain small wastewater collection, treatment, and effluent discharge systems.

This course is designed to train operators in the daily practices of safely operating and maintaining small wastewater treatment and disposal systems.

This course provides operators of facilities that treat the wastestreams generated from electroplating, metal finishing, and printed circuit board manufacturing with the knowledge and skills needed to operate and maintain those facilities safely and effectively, protecting workers, wastewater collection and treatment operations, the community, and the environment.

This course provides pretreatment facility inspectors with the knowledge and skills to safely sample, monitor, and inspect pretreatment facilities for pollution prevention and regulatory compliance.

This set of five training videos provides an excellent introduction to the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by new inspectors to effectively perform their jobs. Current inspectors will find helpful methods for improving their performance. Agencies that field tested and reviewed the video series use these videos to show industry professionals what to expect during a pretreatment facility inspection, as well as to show office personnel the tasks performed by inspectors during a facility inspection.

The struvite tool is designed to calculate the struvite precipitation potential for a facility based on water quality parameters input by the user.