Location: Montana State University – Northern (Cowan Classroom); 300 13th St W, Havre, MT 59501

Description: This workshop provides attendees with an overview of the chlorine disinfection of drinking water. Topics include how chlorine disinfection works, handling and storing chlorine safely, operation and maintenance of disinfection equipment, chlorine residual in the distribution system, disinfection math, and other topics.

Training Objectives:

• Introduce attendees to the concept of disinfection and why systems typically use chlorine
• Discuss various aspects of chlorination, such as chemical processes and equipment used
• Provide information on disinfection that operators can utilize at their facility and help them pass certification exams
• Provide examples of when math is used in the disinfection process
• Quiz attendees so they can assess their understanding of chlorine disinfection
• Demonstrate how chlorine feed pumps function and how to measure chlorine residual
• Provide attendees with additional resources to further learn about aspects of disinfection

Please Note: This training will run from 8:30–12:00 PM, followed by a lunch break from 12:00 PM–1:00 PM. The session will resume from 1:00–4:30 PM, for a total of 7 hours of instructional time

Trainers: Tucker Colvin, Research Scientist, and Matt Ziegler, Tribal Program Director, Southwest Environmental Finance Center

CECs: This training is approved for 0.7 CECs (7.0 hours of Drinking Water credit) by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.

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