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Asset Management: A New Frontier for Utilities
Small water and wastewater utilities around the country are implementing the asset management
process to provide continuous, high-quality service to their customers.
Sidebars include:
- EPA defines asset management
- Financial subjects are major training
needs
- Need more information about asset management?
Environmental Trainers Address Need For Asset Management Training
The current push by the U.S. EPA and Congress to have water and wastewater utilities implement asset management
is creating new opportunities for environmental trainers. Jean Holloway, training manager for the Environmental Finance Center
at the University of Maryland, and Carl Brown, a trainer with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, share their
perspectives on asset management training.
New Report to Document Small Community Environmental Training Needs
A report soon to be released by NETCSC takes an in-depth look at the environmental training needs of small
communities and offers some valuable conclusions and insights that will be useful to those who work with small communities.
“Regulatory Update” Web Site Can Help Small Communities
NETCSC has compiled information about drinking water and wastewater rules, regulations, and policies
that affect small communities on its “Regulatory Update” Web site.
Analysis Identifies Available Training, Possible Training Needs
NETCSC's “National Training Analysis” examines the drinking water and wastewater training
provided by four major environmental training networks in the U.S.
2004 Environmental Training Institute Assists Environmental Professionals
NETCSC's fifth annual Environmental Training Institute featured 17 different training sessions
taught by nationally respected faculty in four different training tracks-drinking water, wastewater, managing
and protecting assets, and finance.
Training Resources
The following NETCSC training resources are profiled:
- A Collection of Solid Waste Resources
- Making Solid (Waste) Decisions with Full Cost Accounting
- Waste Transfer Stations: Involved Citizens Make the Difference
- Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 2001 Fact and Figures Executive Summary
NETCSC Products List
The four-page insert lists all of the products and resources available from NETCSC.
New additions to the list are highlighted.
E-news
Included in this section are:
- NESC offers two free onsite wastewater videos
- New EPA guide helps wastewater utilities develop EMS
- New ERP guidance document available from WERF
- RCAP offers free e-Bulletin subscription services
- NETCSC training resources catalog available online
- NESC Web site offers links to drinking water resources
- NESC seeks qualified contractors
- Calendar of events
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Winter
2004
Preparing For the Unexpected...
Security Training Materials Now Available
The National Environmental Training Center
for Small Communities’ (NETCSC) newest training package
focusing on security for small water systems is now available
for purchase by trainers, technical assistance providers,
and others interested in security–related issues.
Preparing for the Unexpected: Security for Small Water Systems
is designed to provide tools and strategies to assist communities
in complying with new federal regulations concerning vulnerability
assessments and emergency response plan requirements for public
water systems, as well as to assist small systems in improving
security and emergency management capabilities.
Sidebars include:
- Field tests uncover small system security
issues
- Training package at-a-glance
- How to order
2004 Environmental Training Institute
for Small Communities
NETCSC’s 2004 Environmental Training Institute for Small
Communities will be held July 27 to 30 in Morgantown, West
Virginia.
NETCSC offers new security resources
NETCSC is offering several new products designed to help small
water and wastewater systems deal with security concerns.
These include:
- Security and Emergency Planning Resources
for Small Water and Wastewater Systems
- ASSET: Automated Security Survey and
Evaluation Tool
- Protecting Your Community's Assets:
A Guide for Small Wastewater Systems
- Preparing for the Unexpected: Security
for Small Water Systems
Experts share their perspectives on
effective technical assistance
Five experienced technical assistance providers
share their thoughts on the TA field by answering the following
questions:
- What is technical assistance?
- How do you know when TA has been effective?
- What can TA providers do to be effective?
- What can be done at the national level
to foster effective TA?
Sidebars include:
- Meet our technical assistance experts
- TA expert urges providers to document their
successes
- TA provider helps Minnesota town turn sewer
system failure into success
NETCSC’s Web site features new “Links”
page
NETCSC’s new “Links” section provides more
links and is better organized. The site now includes 50 water
and wastewater site links, approximately 30 each of training
and education sites, public health, and assistance organization
links, plus a dozen solid waste and litter links.
NETCSC Products List
This four-page listing provides a complete list of the resources
available from NETCSC and information about how to order.
New additions to the list are highlighted.
E-News
Included in this section are:
- RCAC, NETCSC offer wastewater
management workshop
- Calendar of Events
- NETCSC hosts terrorism,
WMD preparedness workshop
- New On Tap issue explores
groundwater
- Utility Management Institute
training targets system managers
- NSFC offers free Wastewater Products
Catalog
- NSFC listserv provides
information on wastewater resources
- NDWC
publishes new Products Catalog
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Small systems get help in meeting VA, ERP requirements
EPA and other assistance organizations are working to help
the nation’s approximately 7,500 small drinking water
systems meet the security requirements of the “Public
Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response
Act of 2002.”
Sidebars
include:
• EPA resources abound to help systems
• Need help preparing a VA or ERP? Call NESC . .
• FEMA deadline approaches for disaster mitigation
plans
• EPA offers information, advice for submitting VAs
and ERPs
NETCSC offers
new security resources, link
NETCSC is offering several new products designed
to help small water and wastewater systems deal with security
concerns. These include:
• Emergency
Response Planning Resources for
Small Water and Wastewater Utilities
•Due Diligence: Small Water System Security (Training
Module)
•Emergency Response Planning Pack
•Supplement Resources for “Preparing for
the Unexpected: Security for Small Water Systems”
NESC welcomes
longtime NETCSC Associate to staff
Lorene Lindsay joins the NESC staff as an engineering scientist.
Letter to the Editor
The 104(g) Program has a long history of providing technical
assistance to wastewater systems.
2004 Environmental Training
Institute for Small Communities
Special insert includes the schedule and full program details
for NETCSC’s 2004 Environmental Training Institute for
Small Communities will be held July 27 to 30 in Morgantown,
West Virginia.
E-news
Included in this section are:
• NDWC offers free POU reverse osmosis training CD
• NESC hosts WMD preparedness workshop for small systems
• NETCSC’s regulations Web site updated
• New NETCSC catalog online
• E-train readership survey: We want to hear
from you!
• NSFC seeks qualified contractors
• Calendar of events
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