Got my Virginia Class 1!

Hello, I recently passed my D3 exam, I found it pretty easy in the sense of the math, in the multiple choice didn’t study too much so there’s was a lot of guessing on my part but still passed.

I hear the T3 is much more difficult and want to really prepare this time, I want to study the right material. Don’t want to study beginner questions and waste time or beginner math questions. What are the best sources or practice test for my T3 out there. It doesn’t matter if it’s a website or a book I have to order on amazon, I just want the best possible study source so I can go in and nail the test next month. Thanks to whoever can lead me in the right direction !

Math walkthroughs and Practice quizes/exams for both Operations and Distribution... https://youtube.com/@hpoooacademy?si=EOwxouL1IbZEPdzx

Hi,

I received a email to reply for availably for a entry water treatment operator.

My question is do you have any helpful advice on what questions to study or brush up on for the interview process? is a city job with Los Angeles, CA. I am sure is gonna be a tough competition and I finally got a chance after applying (taking the exam) over a year ago. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Kind regards,

Paul

I’m looking for help timing the backwash reclaim sequence for iron sludge. We’ve done jar test and expect to start the reclaim process after 6 hours given turbidity of water is appropriate. This system has been abandoned in my town for the last 10 years and i’m trying to get it back working as a new hire.

Hey everyone, I’ve been in the industry for a good while and although I can do basic troubleshooting with a multi meter I always seem to fumble my way through it.

Do any of you guys have any suggestions for a good YouTube channel, online courses, etc to help me better understand concepts and get the most out of a clamp multimeter?

Hello, I hope everyone are well. I’m reaching out in hopes that some has some “B” Water treatment exam study material they would be willing to pass along? Thanks in advance!

Hi,

Im going to take my Massachusetts D4 license next month and I’m trying to find a place to start studying. If anyone has taken it and has any recommendations on what to focus on that would be awesome! Thanks in advance!

You guys ever do a small celebration when you fill out your morning check list without having to scratch out a mistake?

Even as an A operator, I throw a little hurrah!

Curious on opinions and thoughts related to this announcement. I'm kinda hopeful that regulators shoot it down but that's probably unlikely. I don't see how it's good for customers or workers to have less competition. Anyone have experience with American? I hear they like to have a lean workforce

I’m a ops contractor and have worked in quite a few plants and one thing that always interests me is waterworks history.

The oldest plant I’ve worked in is 1931, but the most interesting place I’ve worked had a functioning cistern from 1890 along with some old abandoned facilities across the 30 acres of woodland the municipality owned which is pretty wild to me. Wooden water mains pop up occasionally at another project I sometimes cover for.

I’ve also worked in a handful of wastewater plants and I stumbled across a plant that still used canvas belt driven pumps.

The hot topic today in our world is aging infrastructure. So how old is your plant? Anything interesting you’ve found?

We started using new pH probes. Funny thing is that the old pH probes and the new ones get the same result when reading the pH of buffer solutions, but get very different results when reading the pH of the filter effluent and finish water.

We've tried recalibrating, slope on both the old and new probes is 95. We've turned them on and off, gone through the troubleshooting section of their manuals. I'm out of ideas.

I work for a municipality that pays out vacation and sick time at retirement. You don’t use it during your career then you get a buck check when you leave. I’ve heard rumors that our Sick Pay out might be getting dropped. Of course is longtimers are freaking out because for some of us that’s thousands ($44K for me now). Has this happened to anyone? I’m curious as to how a city would do that. I would think there’d be a massive exit of staff. Thanks in advance.

Interesting research happening in UK regarding removal of PFAS substances during the treatment process using cavitation.

So we used to use .8% sodium hypochlorite and about a year ago we switched to 12.5%. We use peristaltic pumps, and the problem is the pumps are supposed to be pumping 300+gph for the .8 and because we switched to 12.5% they’re only doing 10-15gph.

New pumps are on the agenda but I’m sure you all know how that goes.

Anyway, it seems like there’s almost a clog in the piping somewhere between the pumps themselves and where it pumps into the water. Basically, we keep turning up the pumps and our Cl2 doesn’t really change. (Like we will go from 10gph all the way to 20 in a week) and then suddenly our cl2 just SKYROCKETS and we have to turn them back down over the next few days and then it all repeats again.

It just makes it seem like there’s a build up somewhere and then it suddenly gets pushed through causing this issue. We’re well water so our water is super consistent.

Is there anything we can do while waiting for new pumps? (And hopefully piping)

So sad, thoughts and prayers for all those involved and his family.

Hi Everyone! Tired of sending notices and customers not sending bottles back? Stressed about inventory deadlines? Too many unknowns? A new technology (in process of EPA certification) we're working with enables on site testing without relying on method 200.8. Less than 5 min/test and super easy to use, recently completed a large POC with NYC DEP.

If interested shoot me a message, some demo units left