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Small Drinking Water Webinar Series 2024 Recap

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EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Water (OW), in collaboration with the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA), host this free webinar series to communicate the latest information on solutions for challenges facing small drinking water systems. The series topics vary each month and are primarily designed for state, territory, and tribal staff responsible for drinking water regulations compliance and treatment technologies permitting. We have compiled the webinar recordings that were released in 2024 as part of this series below:

Tools, Training, and Technical Assistance to Increase Water System Resilience | January 2024

Presentation 1: Creating Resilient Water Utilities
Presentation 2: EPA's Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR)

Lead Service Line Inventory Guidance | February 2024

Presentation 1: EPA Lead Service Line Inventory Guidance
Presentation 2: Colorado Lead Service Line Inventory Guidance

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) | March 2024

Presentation 1: Establishing an Algal Toxin Rule and Regulatory Program in Rhode Island, an Informal Case Study
Presentation 2: Insights on HABs Dynamics in Urban Lakes and Introduction to Benthic Sample Preparation

PFAS Drinking Water Regulation and Treatment Methods | April 2024

Presentation 1: Overview of EPA’s Final PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation
Presentation 2: Removal of PFAS Compounds from Drinking Water: Fundamentals and Applications

Technical Assistance for Lead | May 2024

Presentation 1: Lead Service Line Identification, Replacement Planning, Community Engagement, and Funding Technical Assistance Programs
Presentation 2: Service Line Inventory Technical Assistance for Small Community and Non-Community Water Systems in Wisconsin

Inorganics Treatment: Arsenic and Nitrate | June 2024

Presentation 1: Biological Nitrate Treatment: Innovations and Challenges
Presentation 2: Arsenic Refresher
Presentation 3: An Arsenic Case Study in California: Oasis Mobile Home Park

Drinking Water System Resilience | July 2024

Presentation 1: America's Water Infrastructure Act Section 2013
Presentation 2: Water Laboratory Alliance’s Resources to Improve Contamination Incident Resilience

Planning and Consolidation, Partnerships, and Regionalization | August 2024

Presentation 1: Mapping the Nations Community Water Systems: Linking Drinking Water Data to Consumers
Presentation 2: Drinking Water consolidations and Partnerships in California: Evolving Solutions to Achieve the Human Right to Water

PFAS: National Primary Drinking Water Regulation, Occurrence, Analytics, and Risk Communications | September 2024

Presentation 1: PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation: Initial Monitoring Requirements and EPA-State Implementation Workgroup
Presentation 2: EPA Drinking Water PFAS Analytical Methods and the PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation
Presentation 3: Implementing a Proactive PFAS Program Using "Emerging Contaminants in Small or Disadvantaged Communities" Grant Funding
Presentation 4: Broad-Spectrum PFAS Study to Characterize the Class of PFAS in California
Presentation 5: Communicating Risks and Engaging Communities on PFAS

PFAS: Rule Implementation and Treatment | October 2024

Presentation 1: PFAS Treatment Requirements in New Jersey
Presentation 2: PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation Implementation in Kentucky
Presentation 3: Decision Trees for PFAS Mitigation Selection: What to Do After PFAS Exceedances Detection
Presentation 4: PFAS Breakthrough and NOM Effects from Pilot-Scale AEX Columns
Presentation 5: EPA’s Open-Source Treatment Performance Modeling Tools for PFAS Treatment

Lead Reduction Updates and Lead Service Line Identification (LSLID) and Replacement | December 2024

Presentation 1: EPA Lead Reduction in Drinking Water Updates
Presentation 2: Technical Assistance Projects on LSLID
Presentation 3: New and Emerging Technologies for LSLID
Presentation 4: Predictive Modeling for LSLID Using Machine Learning Tools
Presentation 5: Water Sampling for LSLID

The Small Drinking Water Systems Webinar Series is scheduled to continue in 2025. Some of the subjects that are likely to be featured this year include lead chemistry, emergency response, disinfection byproducts, and many other topics.

Small Drinking Water Webinar Series 2023 Recap

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EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Water (OW), in collaboration with the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA), host this free webinar series to communicate the latest information on solutions for challenges facing small drinking water systems. The series topics vary each month and are primarily designed for state, territory, and tribal staff responsible for drinking water regulations compliance and treatment technologies permitting. We have compiled the webinar recordings that were released in 2023 as part of this series below:

Pathogens | February 2023

Presentation 1: Microbial and Disinfection Byproducts (MDBP) Rules Revision Update
Presentation 2: Challenges and Perspectives of Studying Water Storage Tank Ecosystems in Distribution Systems

Lead and Copper | March 2023

Presentation 1: EPA's Lead Service Line Inventory Guidance
Presentation 2: Corrosion Test Methods

Manganese | April 2023

Presentation 1: Manganese Interference with Disinfectant Residual Methods
Presentation 2: Management of Manganese and Small System Considerations

Harmful Algal Blooms and Algal Toxins | May 2023

Presentation 1: HAB Technical Assistance in El Salvador
Presentation 2: Cyanobacterial Blooms Dynamics as Determined by Nucleic Acid Based Techniques

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law | June 2023

Presentation 1: EPA Water Technical Assistance Opportunities
Presentation 2: Supporting the Selection and Implementation of Technologies to Remove PFAS from Drinking Water and from Treatment Residuals
Presentation 3: Applied Research and Technical Assistance Project on Lead Service Line Identification Technologies

Wildfire Impacts on Drinking Water | July 2023

Presentation 1: Wildfire Implications for Drinking Water Systems
Presentation 2: Wildfires Can Increase Drinking Water Contamination: Nitrate, Arsenic, and Disinfection Byproducts

Cybersecurity | August 2023

Presentation 1: Tools and Resources to Help Your Small Systems Build Cyber Resilience
Presentation 2: Water Distribution System Operational Technology Cybersecurity Research at the Water Security Test Bed

Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) and a Spotlight Presentation on EPA's Fraud Awareness | October 2023

Presentation 1: Update on the Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5)
Presentation 2: EPA Fraud Awareness
Presentation 3: PFAS Drinking Water Methods: Past, Present, and Future

Risk, Crisis, and General Communication | November 2023

Presentation 1: Conversations With Customers: What We’ve Learned from Talking with Them
Presentation 2: Drinking Water Risk Communication Toolkit
Presentation 3: EPA Flint Water Response: Risk Communication Case Study

The Small Drinking Water Systems Webinar Series is scheduled to continue in 2024. Some of the subjects that are likely to be featured this year include Lead Service Line Inventory Guidance, PFAS Treatment, Disinfection Byproducts, and many other topics.