Sanitary Sewers - Capacity, Management, Operation and Maintenance

In Sanitary Sewers - Capacity, Management, Operation and Maintenance, you'll learn ...

• Methods to increase a sanitary sewer system’s hydraulic capacity
• Sanitary sewer system management best practices
• Operation and maintenance strategies designed to provide a methodology to eliminate the causes of sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs)and address immediate problems as they occur

Overview

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Credit: 8 CPD

Length: 109 pages

This course covers a broad range of critical factors in regaining and maintaining sewer system capacity and other mitigating measures. It discusses planning tools, asset management, flow monitoring, hydraulic modeling, operation and maintenance and a range of other considerations toward solving sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and overall good practices for operating sanitary sewer collection systems. The course points to a holistic approach for Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) solutions.

This course compliments “Sanitary Sewers – Condition Assessment and Rehabilitation,” PDHengineer.com course number EN–5001.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Identification of the factors that compromise sewer capacity, which can lead to overflows
• Familiarization with the importance of flow monitoring and hydraulic modeling
• The components and importance of effective management tools and resources
• Insight on how sewer agencies “benchmark” for performance improvements
• Insight on the benefits of a proactive operation and maintenance program and the key factors that comprise an effective program
• A more comprehensive understanding of the many factors associated with reducing sanitary sewer overflows, and restoring and preserving flow capacity

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 50 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.