The Quick Tour

1. The Quick Tour To explore a Technical Assistance Center, CLICK ON A STATE

2. Alaska Technical Assistance Center The Alaska Training/Technical Assistance Center (ATTAC) is headquartered at the University of Alaska SE Sitka Campus. ATTAC provides training and technical assistance to small public water system owners and operators. Water, wastewater, utility and sanitary survey workshops are offered throughout the state of Alaska. ATTAC staff is also addressing disinfection by-product formation and removal in Alaska’s small water systems and performing demonstration projects to investigate, under full operating conditions, alternative and innovative drinking water treatment technologies.

3. Technology • Alaska TAC research areas: • Watershed characterization • Source water identification • Water use, treatment and storage practices • Contaminants in rainwater catchments • Monitoring and operation of advanced treatment technology • Arsenic occurrence in AK drinking water sources survey • Evaluation of point of use treatment systems for arsenic removal • Evaluation of point of entry treatment systems for arsenic removal • Coagulation and filtration as an arsenic removal technology • Evaluation of the potential of capacitive desalination technology for water treatment in AK • Survey of lead and copper corrosion problems in AK and effective solutions

4. Training • ATTAC Training: • Instrumentation • Operator math • Regulatory workshops • Sanitary survey training • Very small water system classes • Water/Wastewater certification workshops • ATTAC Services: • Educational materials for high school classrooms • Lending library • Public education presenters and materials • Small water system interactive CD • Small water system manuals http://uas.alaska.edu/attac

5. Contact info for ordering materials: Product Distribution Call 907-747-7756

6. Illinois Technology Assistance Center The Midwest Technology Assistance Center for Small Public Water Systems (MTAC) is comprised of a consortium led by the University of Illinois and the Illinois State Water Survey, in partnership with the land grant universities of Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. MTAC uses a combination of an open competitive grants process, directly funded applied research, training, and a variety of outreach efforts to enhance the capability of small systems to meet emerging technical challenges and maintain a solid managerial and financial base.

7. Technology • MTAC has sponsored a variety of technical projects to address priority topics for small systems in the Midwest (some are ongoing): • Arsenic Treatment & Remediation • Source Water Protection • Virus Removal • Financial Benchmark Development • Sulfur Limestone for Denitrification • Coagulation Pretreatment for • Membrane Filtration • Water Supply and Demand • Projections through 2025 • Cylindrospermosis detection • Watershed Management • Minimizing Pesticide Impacts • Final Reports and PDF documents are available for all completed projects.

8. Training • Disinfection Profiling • Financial Benchmarking • Emergency Response Planning • Vulnerability Assessment • IT Security Training • Rate Maker Workshops • Water Operator Short Course • Arsenic • Chloramines and Nitrification MTAC has sponsored a variety of training opportunities for small system operators, managers, and administrators

9. For more information or project reports Product Distribution http://mtac.sws.uiuc.edu/

10. Kentucky Technical Assistance Center The Kentucky Technical Assistance Center is headquartered at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In the Bluegrass state 31% of the population receive their water from small water systems and we assist these small water systems in providing safe drinking water. We ensure that these small systems acquire and are able to maintain the technical, financial, and managerial capacities necessary to provide safe drinking water. The goal of the CWRS is to conduct research, outreach, education, and assistance for the protection of public health through the provisions of safe drinking water and clean water. Contact information: 270-745-8895 http://water.wku.edu

11. Technology • The Kentucky TAC is involved in many projects directly dealing with ways to help our local small water systems and eventually these techniques may be used nationwide. Following are some of the projects CWRS has been involved in. • Innovative technical assistance • Database management system and • information tools • Source water protection program • Monitoring and assessment to • determine the environmental risks of • wastewater. • Small water systems circuit rider • program

12. Introduce your website here: Training • Geared towards educating the public about water quality issues. • Free wastewater utility management classes. • Outreach through the circuit rider program to individual systems. http://Water.WKU.edu

13. Contact info for ordering materials: Product Distribution We offer various products for use by small water systems. Here are a few that are available: • ARC Explorer CD Set • Kentucky Tools Set • National Tools Set • ArcExplorer for Kentucky • Emergency Response Assist • Water Loss Calculator Call 270-745-8895

14. Mississippi Technical Assistance Center • The Southeastern Regional Small Public Water Systems Technical Assistance Center (SE-TAC) is headquartered at the GeoResources Institute at Mississippi State University. SE-TAC administers a regional competitive grants program designed to address small system issues. The SE-TAC advisory board helps to translate EPA priorities into priorities for the Southeast and provides strategic guidance in developing the RFP and evaluating the proposals. This cycle’s funding priorities are: • Small Public Water System Security • Training and Technology Transfer • Capacity Development • Source Water Protection Implementation • Distribution System Operation and • Maintenance

15. Technology SE-TAC has funded 28 competitive projects since its establishment in September 2002. More than $900,000 in SE-TAC awards have generated over $1 million in matching support. In addition, 12 demonstration projects developed and implemented by state water resources research institutes received SE-TAC funding. http://www.gri.msstate.edu/se-tac

16. Training • SE-TAC’s mission is to build partnerships among water utility organizations, state primacy agencies, technical assistance providers, and universities throughout the Southeastern Region of the United States to protect public health by enhancing small water systems’ capacity to protect and provide safe drinking water. • Completed projects include: • Development of D-Well Correspondence/ • Internet Course • Technical Literature to Assist Rural Churches • Cross-Connection Issues Training • Preventing Bacterial and Pesticide Contamination • Training • Customized Mobile Classroom • Energy Efficiency in Water Utilities • Strategic Management Training • Planning for Regional Water Source Alternatives • Computer Capacity Development Training

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18. Missouri Technology Assistance Center MOTAC Missouri Technology Assistance Center For Small Public Drinking Water systems • Pilot and field testing of innovative technologies • Technical assistance • Study of possible new contaminants

19. Focus of the Center MOTAC • Focus of the Center • Technology Assessment • Study of New Contaminants • Reports Available in the following areas: • Disinfection By-Products • Cyanotoxins • UV • GAC UV Lab – Collimated Beam Apparatus

20. Facilities MOTAC Facilities Test site at Water Treatment Plant. (Shows two UV Systems being tested). Varian Saturn 2000 GC-MS Pilot Plant Pilot Plant Schematic

21. University of Missouri Technology Assistance Center for Small Public Drinking Water Systems Contact Tom Clevenger, PhD Director & Associate Professor Civil Engineering University of Missouri-Columbia College of Engineering E2509 Engineering Building East Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: 573-882-4638 Fax: 573-884-2766 Karen Turner Office Manager Water Resources Research Center E-Mail: turnerk@missouri.edu WEB: http://www.missouri.edu~motac

22. Montana Technical Assistance Center The Montana Technical Assistance Center (Montana Water Center) is headquartered at Montana State University – Bozeman. They specialize in the development of interactive training tools for small public water systems operations. These programs are engaging, self-paced, and available in several formats. Montana also uses university-based expertise to research promising technologies that benefit small systems. The Center has already conducted more than twenty evaluations of innovative treatment technologies for small systems.

23. Technology • The Montana TAC is active with a diversity of research projects. Recent projects include: • Arsenic Treatment • Biofilm Disinfection and Removal • Ceramic Microfiltration Membranes • Cryptosporidium Detection • Iron and Manganese Removal • On-site Wastewater Treatment • Lead and Copper Corrosion Control • Microbial Risk Assessment • Ultraviolet Disinfection • Findings are often incorporated directly into training programs and summary PDF documents of findings are available on our website.

24. Our training tools are available free online: Training http://water.montana.edu/training

25. The National Drinking Water Clearinghouse is our primary distributor of CD-ROMs Product Distribution Call 800-624-8301

26. New Hampshire Technical Assistance Center The New England Water Treatment Technical Assistance Center is headquartered at the University of New Hampshire within the Civil Engineering Department as part of the Environmental Research Group. The NE-WTTAC specializes in the evaluation and comparison of drinking water treatment technologies for small public water systems. A technical training CD and web site have been developed to assist engineers in designing treatment systems for small water systems.

27. Technology • The New England Water Treatment Technology Assistance Center has been involved with many research projects evaluating and comparing treatment technologies. Recent projects include: • Assessment of riverbank filtration as a viable treatment process • Enhancing arsenic removal using innovative absorbents • Costing summaries for slow sand filtration and ceramic media pressure filtration • Ozone vs. hydrogen peroxide/UV pretreatment for slow sand filtration • Project summary reports are available at www.tacnet.info and www.unh.edu/erg/wttac.

28. Training • Engineer Training Guides for Small Public Water Systems • Slow Sand Filtration • Iron and Manganese Control • Arsenic Removal • Limestone Contactors • Ultraviolet Disinfection http://www.unh.edu/erg/wttac

29. Contact info for ordering materials: Product Distribution CD-ROM Distribution through the National Drinking Water Clearinghouse Call 1-800-624-8301 Project Summary Reports available at http://www.tacnet.info Call 603-862-1412

30. Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Center The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Center is headquartered at Penn State Harrisburg in Middletown,PA. Our main emphasis is operator training for water and wastewater utilizing a hands-on approach. We have a vast array of equipment as well as a pilot water plant where all the units are visible. We provide training from financial management to emerging technologies for mangers, consultants and regulatory personnel. We have been involved in several research projects recognizing treatment concerns for small system. We have a vast knowledge concerning Disinfection Byproducts from source to the consumer.

31. Technology • The Pennsylvania TAC research activities continue to built on each other in order to meet the variation of needs for the water system, whether its at the facility, in the distribution system or at the tap. Areas of research are: • Disinfection Byproducts studies • Arsenic Testing Kit Evaluations • POU/POE devices Evaluations • POU management • Membrane Filtration • Our research is used to help many small systems we have been working with meet compliance with new regulations. We also use the information we gather in our workshops.

32. Visit our website: Training The Pennsylvania TAC main methodology used in operational training is to ensure that the operator not only receives instruction but has the opportunity to pit into practice what he has learned. We offer programs in chlorination, chemical feed pumps, centrifugal pumps, confined space, chlorine safety, electricity, instrumentation, computer, fire hydrants, water meters, pipe tapping, valves, water analysis, jar testing, conventional filtration treatments, turbidity optimization, security, rate setting, capital improvements planning, and math. www.hbg.psu.edu/etc

33. For more information about our courses on CD-Rom or our resource library Product Distribution Visit our website:www.hbg.psu.edu/etc Borrow from our library Ask about workshops on CD-ROM Call 717-948-6388