Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Achieving Water Quality Standards Through Contaminant Trackdown Studies

Why Should You Take This Achieving Water Quality Standards Through Contaminant Trackdown Studies Course?

Meeting water quality standards in surface and ground water bodies, as well as discharge flows, can be complicated by the lack of adequate information on the sources of contamination. Making an incomplete or inaccurate assessment of sources contributing to the impairment of water bodies can be costly and time consuming, resulting in a failure to meet or maintain compliance with critical water standards.

This two-day Achieving Water Quality Standards Through Contaminant Trackdown Studies course provides an in-depth examination of problems that can be approached using contaminant trackdown studies. Participants will learn about methods for identifying critical sources of contamination such as nutrients, pathogens and toxins, in surface and ground water resources, and in municipal and industrial distribution systems. In addition, they will take away practical and realistic tools for saving time and money by using contaminant trackdown studies to tackle impaired water scenarios ranging from small-scale systems, such as lakes, to complex watersheds and municipal distribution systems.

Who Should Take This Course?

The course is desgined for decision makers and staff working in watershed organizations, conservation districts, municipalities and industries, watershed planning and land-use managers, water resource engineers, hydrologists, fisheries biologists, as well as consultants assisting these entities meet water quality standards.

Topics to be Covered Include:

• Overview of contaminant issues that impair water quality.
• Scenarios where use of a contaminant trackdown study can help development of solutions for impaired waters or contaminated effluents.
• Key issues in selection of appropriate tracers to target key contaminants, such as nutrients, pathogens, heavy metals and PCBs.
• Trackdown approaches that include use of characteristics inherent in the contaminants of concern, co-occurring contaminants, GIS, or intentional injection of non-toxic tracers.
• Critical aspects of contaminant trackdown studies, including correlation of tracer and contaminant transport and fate, sampling frequency and spatial distribution, and data analysis and constraints.
• Case studies and examples of real-world problems will be included throughout the course.
• Three breakout sessions will be included to provide hands-on exercises for participants.

Important: 

• Please bring a pen or pencil and notepad
• Drinks and snacks will be provided throughout the day
• Please wait to receive a course confirmation email (roughly one month prior to the class) before making any travel arrangements