Wastewater Curricula
Wastewater/ Drinking Water Curricula
Drinking Water Curricula
Solid Waste Curricula
Environmental Management Curricula

Assessing Wastewater Options for Small Communities
Target audience: local officials

This curriculum helps local officials evaluate their community's current and future wastewater treatment needs and implement appropriate solutions. Topics include: introduction to wastewater, facility development, viability and assessment of a treatment system, regulatory requirements, selecting and working with consulting engineers, selecting wastewater technologies, project financing, and project commitment. The appendices for this training course contain overhead masters, system assessment instruments, information on wastewater technologies, plus additional resources. The training package has a Trainer's Manual, a Participant Guide, and a Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation. The Trainer's Manual and the Participant Guide are 426 pages in length. The presentation is available in electronic form on a 3 1/2" floppy diskette in both PC and Mac formats..

Complete Package TRTPCD06...$102.70
Trainers Manual TRTGCD33...$58.50
Participants Guide TRPMCD34...$59.80
Powerpoint Disk TRSWCD35...$10

PowerPoint Presentation | Descriptions | Viewable Slides

This package contains a trainer's manual, a trainer's resource pack, and an operator's manual. The trainer's manual provides information about program design and offers three program delivery options. The operator's manual provides technical information needed by trainers and operators. Topics covered include onsite systems, operator responsibilities and duties, principles of onsite systems, system components, operation and maintenance, and mathematics. The trainer's resource pack contains 139 transparency masters and nearly 400 color slides.

Complete Package TRTPCD09...$299
Operator and Trainer's Guides TRTGCD10...$55.90
Trainer's Resource Pack TRRPCD12...$265.10

This package is designed to assist participants in reducing hazardous material entry into community wastewater collection systems and minimize negative impacts on treatment plant operations, sludge quality, and public worker health and safety. Topics are divided into four modules: federal regulatory requirements, hazardous material recognition and concerns, site inspection procedures and considerations, and corrective action programs. The student manual contains case studies, sample letters, inspection forms, and appendices, including a glossary, sample ordinances, and a copy of the federal pretreatment regulations. The trainer's manual includes all of this plus module summaries, instructor's notes, transparency masters, and slides.

Complete Package TRTPCD16...$111.80
Participant's Guide TRPMCD18...$55.90
Trainer's Guide TRTGCD17...$66.30

This package is designed to help wastewater operators troubleshoot treatment processes. It covers nutrient removal, lagoons, attached growth, and activated sludge processes. The four modules are designed for a two-day training course with the goal of helping operators troubleshoot and optimize treatment processes to achieve regulatory compliance and minimize environmental impacts. Each module includes an Instructor Guide with overhead transparency masters, a Participant Workbook, and a Reference Text. The workbooks use case example activities to help participants develop troubleshooting skills. The Reference Text contains information that covers all four modules. It also includes additional information on management, communication, and team building to address problems not directly related to process control. The curriculum also introduces participants to the use of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Handbook, Retrofitting POTWs. The handbook provides a systematic method for evaluating and improving the performance of existing, non-complying wastewater treatment facilities.

Complete Package TRTPCD32...$232.70
Activated Sludge TRTPCD27...$98.80
Nutrient Removal TRTPCD28...$98.80
Attached Growth TRTPCD29...$98.80
Lagoons TRTPCD30...$94.90
Reference Text TRTPCD31...$52

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Water and Wastewater Training Modules
Target audience: small system water and wastewater operators

These modules examine treatment processes and operational skills for operators and managers of small water and wastewater treatment systems. Sixteen training modules cover a wide variety of water and wastewater topics, including process control basics and laboratory skills. These training modules are offered separately and can be taught by a trainer or through self-study.

Activated Sludge TRTPEP01...$120
Aerobic Digestion TRTPEP02...$110
Anaerobic Digestion TRTPEP03...$110
Concepts of Biological Treatment TRTPEP04...$117
Centrifuge Test TRTPEP05...$60
Chlorine Residual DPD Color Comparator Method TRTPEP06...$55
Introduction to Disinfection TRTPEP07...$97
Introduction to Water Distribution Systems TRTPEP08...$100
Depth of Blanket TRTPEP09...$90
Facultative Lagoons TRTPEP10...$88
Fecal Coliform-Membrane Filtration Procedure TRTPEP11...$95
Introduction to Groundwater Sources TRTPEP12...$90
Bacteriological Sampling in Distribution Systems TRTPEP13...$85
Settleometer TRTPEP14...$55
Introduction to Surface Water Sources TRTPEP15...$100
Introduction to Water Treatment TRTPEP16...$82

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This package contains a trainer's manual that can be used to teach participants how to conduct effective meetings, design and develop workshops, utilize small community outreach programs, write more effectively, and understand barriers to training. It also covers training techniques, plans, aids, group expectations, class logistics, discussion methods, and evaluations. A participant's workbook includes exercises covering various topics. Drinking water issues receive emphasis in the materials.

Trainer and Participant's Materials TRPMCD08...$64
Train-the-trainer Manual TRTPCD07...$48.10

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Reducing Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste
Target audience: community solid waste managers and any others who are responsible for community solid waste reduction programs

This package can be used as a trainer's guide to teach small community solid waste managers how to work with local businesses and industries to reduce solid waste. Topics covered in the participant's manual include solid waste reduction strategies and methods, building public/private relationships, organizing a business or industry waste reduction program, and conducting a solid waste assessment. Topics covered in the trainer's guide include training skills, characteristics of adult learners, methods of instruction, and workshop delivery.

Complete Package TRTPCD13...$93.60
Participant's Manual TRPMCD15...$52

This package can be used to train officials to work with groups and deal with conflict situations more effectively. A trainer's manual covers group management topics, such as meetings, basic facilitation skills, roles, group processes, and interventions for process problems. It also covers conflict management topics, such as causes, differentiating, and mitigating/resolving conflict. In addition, the trainer's manual covers adult learning theory, and how to conduct interactive training exercises, critique evaluation forms, and promote group and conflict management workshops. A participant's manual includes exercises and worksheets. A video is included. Solid waste issues are used as examples throughout the packsge.

Complete Package TRTPCD05...$91

This package is designed to help recycling coordinators in small communities understand and critically evaluate the key conditions responsible for the effective design, operation, and marketing of recycling services. The curriculum has five modules: characteristics common to small communities, markets and marketing, local market development, costs and benefits of operating and expanding recycling services, and improving efficiencies and reducing costs for recycling programs. In addition to a participant's manual, the package contains a trainer's manual with training tips, notes and suggestions, and transparency masters.

Complete Package TRTPCD19...$85.80

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Basics of Environmental Systems Management
Target audience: local officials

The package can be used to introduce local officials to small community drinking water, wastewater, solid waste management, and decision-making processes. It uses lay terms and basic technical information to cover physical and chemical processes, regulations, and treatment and disposal options for environmental systems. The complete package consists of a 300-page trainer's manual and 16 participant booklets. The trainer's manual can be used in its entirety, or tailored to the needs of an audience using the four topical areas and 16 booklets. Included are 182 transparency masters. The trainer's manual also covers adult education, effective presentations, program measurement and evaluation, and marketing strategies.

Complete Package TRTPCD01...$113.10
16 bound booklets TRBLCD02...$36.4
16 loose booklet masters for duplication TRBLCD03...$26.80

Designed to help engineers evaluate appropriate environmental technologies and management systems for small communities, this package provides an overview of the political, economic, and environmental challenges facing small communities. Topics covered include starting out right, working with small communities, community needs assessment and technology, financing, and alternative technologies. The package includes an instructor's manual and participant's materials. Trainer materials include lesson plans, learning outcomes, time estimates, icebreakers, case studies, games, transparency masters, and other activities. Participant's materials include information resources helpful to engineers who plan to set up practice in small communities.

Complete Package TRTPCD04...$79.30

The social and economic factors that influence small community decision making and the financial management options for wastewater, drinking water, and solid waste services are discussed in this package. Included is information about institutional and political structures, decision-making processes, the elements of sound financial management style, and assessing the financial health of small community utilities.

Complete Package (with slides) TRTPCD20...$96.20

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