West Virginia University’s National Environmental Training Center for Small Communities is hosting the seventh annual Environmental Training Institute for Small Communities will be July 25-28, 2006, at the WVU Mountainlair training and conference facility in Morgantown, W.V.
This successful series of training Institutes benefits anyone interested in small community health, environmental management, water, and wastewater by providing affordable training.
Courses run concurrently and they are described below are tentative and subject to change.
Hurricane Katrina Recovery Panel: Lessons Learned (1) a panel discussion; Asset Management Track (2) will be presented in two or three separate but interrelated courses on financial management aspects of running small drinking water and wastewater systems responsibly; Assessing Wastewater Options (3) provides an overview of wastewater treatment options for communities with 10,000 or fewer people; Incident Command (4) builds on the Katrina Panel in greater detail; Integrated Compliance with Drinking Water Regulations (5) provides information and strategies for effectively complying with challenging regulations that are most likely to conflict; Wastewater Treatment Plant Tour (6); Working Effectively in Small Communities (7) concerns engineers and small communities; Drinking Water Treatment Plant Tour (8); Measuring Impact/Outcomes (9) for technical assistance providers outlines strategies and procedures; Storm Water 101 (10) covers regulations on how storm water is managed in small communities.
An event brochure and registration form will soon be available.
To find out more, visit the National Environmental Services Center’s Web site at www.nesc.wvu.edu
Source: WVU
