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.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the factors that compromise sewer capacity and can lead to overflows.
• Explain the importance of flow monitoring and hydraulic modeling.
• Describe the components and importance of effective sewer management tools and resources.
• Explain how sewer agencies use benchmarking to improve performance.
• Identify the benefits and key elements of a proactive operation and maintenance program.
• Explain the factors involved in 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.