Small Drinking Water Webinar Series 2024 Recap 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. January 3, 2025 By Katelyn McLaughlin Drinking Water, Small System O&M, Small Systems O and M small drinking water system, webinar series 0 0 Comment Read More »
Small Drinking Water Webinar Series 2023 Recap 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. January 5, 2024 By Katelyn McLaughlin Drinking Water, Small System O&M, Small Systems O and M small drinking water system, small drinking water systems webinar series, webinar series 0 0 Comment Read More »