This document provides an introduction and overview for a training on wastewater management and protecting drinking water sources. The objectives of the training are outlined, including understanding threats from wastewater like septic systems, wastewater treatment options, project planning activities, and attracting stakeholders. The training overview lists topics that will be covered such as wastewater treatment, onsite wastewater systems, advanced treatment options, and characterization of problems. Additional resources are also listed to supplement the training. Tips are provided for effective training delivery, including knowing the audience, using examples and exercises, and making the content locally relevant. Potential audience types for the training are also outlined.

1. Introduction to
Wastewater Management

8. Protecting Drinking Water
through Strategic Wastewater
Planning
Section I
Introduction

9. Wastewater Segment Objectives
1. Understand why and how to identify potential
threats to source water from wastewater,
especially onsite septic systems
2. Understand the mechanics of wastewater
treatment and how septic systems can threaten
ground and surface water supplies
3. Gain familiarity with a range of technical and
management options for addressing threats from
wastewater contamination
4. Gain familiarity with local and technical resources,
including RCAP

10. Wastewater Segment Objectives
5. Understand the major categories of project
planning activities
6. Appreciate the importance of viewing water supply
protection and water resource management from a
watershed, regional or multijurisdictional
perspective
7. Understand the importance of recording data in a
retrievable, useable and shareable format
8. Gain familiarity with techniques for identifying and
attracting stakeholders to the planning process, re:
application of social marketing

11. Wastewater Segment Overview
1. Introduction
2. Protecting Drinking Water from Wastewater
Contamination
3. Introduction to Wastewater Treatment
4. Onsite Wastewater Treatment Overview
5. Advanced Treatment
6. Problem Characterization / Moving to Action
7. Maintenance and Management
8. Exercises

12. Additional Tools
1. Sample Residential Wastewater Surveys
2. Sample Wastewater Survey Report
Spreadsheet
3. EPA FRD-10 Onsite Systems PP
4. Onsite Regulations Matrix
5. Primacy Agency Spreadsheet
6. CCE Homeowner Recordkeeping Guide
7. RCAP Solutions Articles

13. Training Tips
• Know your audience
• Ice breakers
• Use a scribe
• Use pictures and diagrams
• Don’t get too busy with slides
• Verbally present material slightly differently than is
shown on slide
• Ask questions of the audience often
• Use multiple examples and interactive exercises
to make it “real”
• Don’t use big words or acronyms without defining

14. Training Tips
• More about the audience
• Presentations are guidance
• Pick and choose
• Make it locally relevant
• Add local and other case studies

15. More about the audience
• Septic Professionals
• Licensed Operators
• Elected Officials
• Homeowners Associations
• Homeowners and Landowners
• Special Interest and Civic Groups
• Watershed Groups
• Non-Community Water Systems

16. Acknowledgements
• Anish Jantrania, VA Dept. of Health
• Consortium of Institutes for Decentralized
Wastewater Treatment (CIDWT)
• NESC
• NY Onsite Wastewater Treatment Training
Network (OTN)
• RCAP Solutions
• Skaneateles Lake Onsite Demonstration Project
• US EPA