USU Professor Judith L. Sims has been elected to the National Wastewater Recycling Association. Go to Article in Utah State Today .
The 8th Annual Conference of the Utah On-Site Wastewater Association will be held February 12-13, 2008 at the E-Center in West Valley. Please plan to attend!
Since 1998, the Utah On-Site Wastewater Treatment Training Program, located at Utah State University’s, Utah Water Research Laboratory, has provided training to health department staff, site evaluators, general contractors, engineers, system designers and others in on-site wastewater treatment. In 2001, the state initiated a certification program for on-site wastewater treatment professionals and the Utah State training program has provided training workshops in support of that certification program.
There is a lack of public education and awareness, as well as installation and operation training that contributes substantially to misuse and failures of on-site wastewater treatment systems. There is a need for those involved in the development of new housing sites, including system designers, installers, regulators and city and county planners to be trained in correct principles of planning, design, material and systems selection, and system installation for on-site wastewater treatment systems currently allowed under Utah code.
Mission of the Utah On-Site Wastewater Treatment Training Program:
"To provide formal classroom and field training as well as technology transfer to Utah and other Rocky Mountain region regulators, consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders in on-site wastewater treatment systems."
Funding
Funding generously provided by the Huntsman Environmental Research Center and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.
"[We are] committed to conserving resources and to acting as guardians for the environment."
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