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Monitoring, Sampling, and Data Management for NPDES Compliance | Recorded on June 30, 2026

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In this recording of our live webinar "Monitoring, Sampling, and Data Management for NPDES Compliance," viewers will receive a practical overview of wastewater monitoring, sampling, and data management as they relate to NPDES permits. We explored common compliance challenges and reviewed best practices for collecting and managing discharge monitoring data. We also reviewed publicly available resources on NPDES compliance and demo our search tools on WaterOperator.org.

This webinar series from WaterOperator.org covers topics relevant to wastewater operators, including funding, asset management, compliance, and water quality. Certificates of attendance will be delivered upon request to live attendees but are not available for watching this replay. 

 

 

Recordings of our previous webinars:

June 30, 2026 By Laura Schultz Compliance Monitoring, Regulations, Wastewater NPDES, NPDES compliance, NPDES monitoring, NPDES sampling, POTW, treatment works, wastewater, wastewater monitoring, wastewater sampling, wastewater treatment, wastewater webinar, webinar 0 0 Comment Read More »

Featured Video: Wastewater Treatment Process Control Testing

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This week’s featured video was produced by the Athens Wastewater Treatment Plant. The plant serves a small town of approximately 1,050 people in West Virginia. In an effort to educate their small town and others across the country, Athens WWTP has developed a series of videos. In this particular recording, the plant will demonstrate several process control tests they use to evaluate their wastewater conditions. You’ll learn how Athens performs a settleometer test and monitors pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, oxygen reduction potential, mixed liquor suspended solids, and volatile suspended solids.

Tests likes these are valuable for troubleshooting the dynamic environment of wastewater treatment processes and meeting regulatory compliance. As such, it’s important for sampling to be performed accurately, consistently, and in a location that is representative of the wastewater quality as a whole. The types of tests you perform, the number of samples taken, and the laboratory methods used to analyze these samples will depend on your system’s treatment type, chemical usage, equipment, and raw water quality. Results from the analysis will promote process optimization. A detailed copy of your facility’s sampling and testing procedures should be accessible in the utility Operations and Maintenance Manual for reference.

To provide more information on process monitoring, we’d also like to recommend:

November 29, 2019 By Jill Wallitschek Small System O&M, Wastewater featured document, process control, process monitoring, wastewater sampling 0 0 Comment Read More »