Clear Water Legacy
Training Modules
Clean Your Pipes / Regain System Efficiency and Protect Water Quality
Director Approved training curriculum
Trainer: Sheldon Thomas, qualified training provider meeting requirements of Guidelines 4.2 and 4.3 of O. Reg. 128/04
Course duration: full day
The course will focus on:
- The many ways that drinking water systems can become dirty
- The consequences of ignoring dirty pipes, tanks and reservoirs; consequences that include threats to pipeline hydraulic efficiency and contaminant threat to water quality throughout the water system
- Wide variety of methods and technologies currently available to clean pipes and reservoirs, from non-aggressive methods to aggressive to-the-metal technologies best left to specialized crews and contractors
- How to set up and accomplish unidirectional flushing (UDF) of water systems. Trainees will be shown how to design a UDF program to ‘channel’ clean water throughout the system, pushing sediment and marginal water ahead and out of target piping
- Several subject-related videos
Pre-requisites: Trainees should be engaged in water distribution system operation or water treatment
Target group: Water distribution management and field staff, contractors, consultants, water system design personnel, water treatment personnel; city council members encouraged
Method of instruction: Power point presentation / discussion / training handout
Written multiple-choice test upon conclusion of training, pass 70%
CEU value: 0.7
Water Distribution System Operator Training
