INSIDE THIS
ISSUE:
DWA EXPANDS USE OF
WEB CONFERENCE
TECHNOLOGY TO
DELIVER TRAINING
SMALL SYSTEM
SECURITY VIDEOS
ADDED TO DWA
SANITARY SURVEY
SERIES
MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCT
OFFERINGS FROM THE
DRINKING WATER
ACADEMY
DWA, REGION 4 DELIVER
MULTIPLE WORKSHOPS
DRINKING WATER
ACADEMY CONTACTS
TRAINING COURSE
SCHEDULE
DRINKING WATER
ACADEMY BULLETIN
DRINKING
WATER
ACADEMY
DWA
Winter 2004
DWA PLANS NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT (PDA) AND
TABLET PC TECHNOLOGY
Organizations that use
Personal Digital Assistants
(PDAs) or Tablet PCs to
conduct sanitary surveys,
support water security
activities, and enhance other
environmental programs are
being invited to a national
technology conference to be
hosted by the DWA and the
Association of State and
Territorial Drinking Water
Administrators (ASDWA) on
May 26 and 27, 2004, in
Austin, TX.
Tablet PCs and PDAs can
enhance implementation of
the drinking water and
underground injection control
programs and water security
to promote public health
protection.
DWA's conference will help promote the use of PDAs and
Tablet PCs in SDWA implementation activities such as sanitary
surveys and UIC Class V well inventories.
The conference will bring
together organizations to
share their experiences using
the hand-held electronic
devices. The goals of the
conference are to explain
how PDAs and Tablet PCs:
(* Promote the secure use of
PDAs and Tablet PCs for
successful implementation
of the SDWA.
(* Strengthen water security
awareness and oversight
through the use of these
small computers.
(* Identify opportunities for
expanding their use to
securely support water
security activities and
SDWA programs.
The idea for the conference
grew out of the DWA's
ongoing efforts to develop
software so that PDAs and/or
Tablets can be used during
sanitary surveys to record the
findings from the inspections.
In working on this project, the
DWA became aware of other
agencies and organizations
using PDAs to enhance their
inspection capabilities.
ASDWA and the DWA hope
the conference will be
attended by sanitary survey
and underground injection well
inspectors and program
managers and by state water
security program managers.
The conference will allow
participants to interact with
the speakers and each other
to share their experiences,
relate lessons learned, and get
new ideas on how to use
PDAs and Tablet PCs to
perform their jobs more
efficiently.
For more information about
the conference, or to register,
go to www.asdwa.org or
www.epa.gov/safewater/
dwa.html for a link to the
registration page. (*
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Winter 2004
DWA EXPANDS USE OF WEB CONFERENCE
TECHNOLOGY TO DELIVER TRAINING
In an effort to provide training
that is cost effective (i.e.,
reaches the greatest number
of people for the money
spent), the Drinking Water
Academy will use Web
conference technology for
much of the training it
provides in Fiscal Year 2004.
Web conferencing allows
students to participate
individually from their desks,
or join with others in a
conference room where a
computer and digital projector
are available. The video
portion of the conference is
accessed through a Web site
and the audio portion is
accessed by telephone using a
toll-free number. Web
conference technology also
allows students and instruc-
tors to interact. Students can
pose questions by typing them
in online or by asking them
over the telephone. The
instructor can respond in the
same ways. He or she also
can present multiple-choice
questions to which the
students can respond online.
DWA's course schedule calls
for a number of courses to be
presented over the World
Wide Web. They include the
Academy's introductory
courses (Safe Drinking Water
Act, Public Water System
Supervision Program, Source
Water Protection Program,
and Underground Injection
Control Program), Risk
Communication Principles,
Capacity Development, and
Security Considerations for
Sanitary Surveys. For more
information about the Web
conference schedule, contact
your DWA representative
listed on the last page of this
bulletin or at www.epa.gov/
safewater/dwa/workgroup.
html, i*
SMALL SYSTEM SECURITY VIDEOS ADDED TO
DWA SANITARY SURVEY SERIES
A small water system can be
easily overwhelmed by all the
security jargon floating around
these days: VSAT, design
basis threat, RAM-W, ERP. To
help these systems make
sense of such terms, and to
help them evaluate and
mitigate their potential
vulnerabilities, the DWA
recently released new videos
on small system security.
The Drinking Water Academy
is helping small systems
understand how to evaluate
and mitigate their potential
vulnerabilities.
Security Considerations: Small
Water Systems is the ninth
video in the DWA's sanitary
survey series. It highlights key
security issues ranging from
childhood pranks to malicious
terrorism. The video is
designed for operators of
water systems serving fewer
than 10,000 connections. A
different version of the video
is available for state sanitary
survey inspectors.
Two additional videos were
also completed recently to
help very small systems
conduct vulnerability assess-
ments. One video focuses on
small systems that serve
between 3,301 and 10,000
persons, which are required to
conduct vulnerability assess-
ments.
The second video is for
systems serving fewer than
3,300 persons. Although
systems whose service
populations total less than
3,300 persons are not
re
al
ments, the video will help
ensure that they understand
what they can do to protect
their security and encourage
them to take measures to
protect the water that they
supply to their customers.
Another video addressing
emergency response plans for
small systems is currently
under development. See page
3 for information on ordering
the videos, j*
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Winter 2004
MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCT OFFERINGS FROM THE DRINKING WATER ACADEMY
The DWA is known for its traditional classroom training on a variety of SDWA topics. However, the DWA also offers a number of
products that can be obtained on the Web or in other electronic formats. The table on this page lists those products and their
availability.
Product or Service
CD/DVD
CWA Web Site
Other
Sanitary Survey Products
Learner's Guide to Conducting Sanitary Surveys
Drinking Water Inspector's Field Reference: Ground Water
Drinking Water Inspector's Field Reference: Surface Water
Learner's Guide to Security Considerations for Small Drinking
Water Systems
Learner's Guide to Conducting Sanitary Surveys (Spanish)
Electronic sanitary survey software
Sanitary Survey "Before You Begin" videos (8 videos)
Security Considerations: Small Systems
Security Vulnerability Self-Assessment Guide for Drinking Water
Systems Serving Populations of Fewer than 3,300
Security Vulnerability Self-Assessment Guide for Drinking Water
Systems Serving Populations of 3,300 • 10,000
Troubleshooting Guide for Small Ground Water Systems (EPA
816-C-00-002)
Cross-Connection Control manual
Conducting Sanitary Surveys of Public Water Systems • Surface
Water and GWUDI Systems
A DVD with all 8 videos can be
ordered at: www.ehs-training.org/
PDFs (orderform.pdf
Contact EPA Water Resource
Center at (202) 566-1729 or
center.water-resource@epa.gov
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwaespanol/recursos.html
www. epa. gov/ saf ewater/ dwa/ pdf s/vulnerability. pdf
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwa/pdfs/
vulnerability3300-10000.pdf
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwa/pdfs/gw-tsg.pdf
www.epa.gov/safewater/crossconnection.html
www.epa.gov/safewater/mdbp/pdf/sansurv.pdf
Hard copy can be ordered at:
www.ehs-training. org/PDFs
/orderform.pdf
Contact Jamie Bourne at:
bourne.james@epa.gov
Videos can be ordered at:
www.ehs-training.org/PDFs
/orderform.pdf
Outreach Materials
DWA Bulletin
DWA Fact Sheet
Course catalog
Training calendar
Resource CD
DWA Web site
EPA 816-C-02-002
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwa/bulletin.html
www. epa. gov/ saf ewater/ dwa/ pdf s/
dwa-factsheet.pdf
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwa/course.html
www. epa. gov/ saf ewater/ dwa/ calendar, htm I
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwa.html
Given to trainees
Spanish-Language Materials
Learner's Guide to Conducting Sanitary Surveys
Manual for UIC Inspectors
Introduction to the PWSS Program
Introduction to the Source Water Protection Programs
Spanish Web site
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwaespanol/recursos.html
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwaespanol/
present ations/spanishuicmanual. pdf
www. epa. gov/ saf ewater/ dwaespanol. htm I
Classroom training
salazar.mario@epa.gov
Classroom training
salazar.mario@epa.gov
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DWA AND EPA REGION 4 DELIVER THIRTEEN WORKSHOPS ON
SOURCE WATER PROTECTION
The DWA and EPA Region 4
recently completed a series of
workshops on the use of best
management practices (BMPs)
to protect drinking water
sources. The 13 workshops
were held in Tennessee,
Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, and Florida.
Partnering with County
Conservation Districts,
Regional Development
Centers, State Rural Water
Associations, State Water and
Environmental Protection
Agencies, the Seminole Tribe
of Florida, and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
(USDA), the DWA trained
more than 300 individuals on
the concepts and components
of source water assessment
and protection and on BMPs
and other measures to control
and manage more than a
dozen sources or potential
sources of contamination that
threaten source water.
Alanna Conley of EPA Region
4 coordinated the workshops;
EPA Headquarters' Drinking
Water Program provided the
funding. Bill Ward and Chi Ho
Sham of The Cadmus Group,
Inc. provided training support
at the workshops. Participants
included staff from state and
county agencies, water
system operators, consultants,
source water protection
technicians from Rural Water
Associations, EPA staff, and
agricultural experts.
The training sessions dis-
cussed the various major
source water protection
programs under the Safe
Drinking Water Act and other
legislation such as the Clean
Water Act. They also de-
scribed funding and informa-
tion sources available from a
variety of federal agencies.
Before focusing on the design
and use of various BMPs to
protect drinking water quality,
the various types of protective
measures in general were
covered.
DRINKING WATER ACADEMY CONTACTS
Contact
Jackie LeClair
Norma Ortega
Rick Rogers
Janine Morris
Bill Spaulding
Bill Davis
Stephanie Lindberg
Dan Jackson
Barry Pollock
Bill Chamberlain
Mark Anderson
James Weddell
Stew Thornley
Murlene Lash
Mario Salazar
James Bourne
Location Telephone E-mail
EPA Region 1 (617)918-1549 leclair.jackie@epa.gov
EPA Region 2 (212)637-4234 ortega.norma@epa.gov
EPA Region 3 (215)814-5711 rogers.rick@epa.gov
EPA Region 4 (404) 562-9480 morris.janine@epa.gov
EPA Region 5 (312)886-9262 spaulding.william@epa.gov
EPA Region 6 (214)665-7536 davis.williamh@epa.gov
EPA Region 7 (913)551-7423 lindberg.stephanie@epa.gov
EPA Region 8 (303)312-6155 jackson.dan@epa.gov
EPA Region 9 (415)972-3563 pollock.barry@epa.gov
EPA Region 10 (206)553-8515 chamberlain.william@epa.gov
Virginia (804) 786-5569 manderson@vdh.state.va.us
Texas (512)239-4798 jweddell@tnrcc.state.tx.us
Minnesota (651)215-0771 stew.thornley@health.state.mn.us
EPA HQ (202)564-3818 lash.murlene@epa.gov
EPA HQ (202) 564-3894 salazar.mario@epa.gov
EPA HQ (202) 564-4095 bourne.james@epa.gov
Course materials addressed a
range of common contaminant
sources, from storm water
runoff and on-site wastewater
disposal systems to agricul-
tural activities, animal wastes,
and deicing practices. The
workshop covered where each
source can be found, why it
should be managed, and what
are the best or most-used
management practices. Time
was also provided to discuss
the source water assessments
themselves and the types of
source water protection
measures already being used
by workshop participants.
These training sessions were
very well received. EPA
Region 4 has gotten thank-you
notes from Kentucky's Boone
County, the Tennessee Rural
Water Association and
Department of Environment
and Conservation, the Georgia
Mountain Region Development
Center, the Alabama Rural
Water Association, the USDA
facility at Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, and the Seminole
Tribe in Florida praising the
workshops' comprehensive
presentations and materials.
For more information about
the DWA's source water
protection training workshop,
contact Steve Ainsworth at
ainsworth.steve@epa.gov or
Jamie Bourne at bourne.James
@epa.gov. f*
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TRAINING COURSE SCHEDULE
Course Title Audience
Drinking Water Puerto Rico
Treatment santiary survey
Troubleshooting inspectors
Water Quality Standards New water
Academy Basic Course program staff
Schedule Location
Feb. 23 - 27, 2004 San Juan, PR
Apr. 4-6, 2004 Washington, DC
Contact
Dave Parker
(404) 562-9460
parker.david@epa.gov
www.glec-online.com/
form. htm
Sanitary Survey Training Hawaii sanitary Feb. 23 - 25, 2004 Honolulu, HI
survey inspectors
Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.james@epa.gov
Sanitary Survey Training Alaska sanitary Feb. 24 - 27, 2004 Anchorage, AK
survey inspectors
Nicole Duclos
(907) 747-7756
nicole.duclos@uas.alaska.edu
Electronic Sanitary
Survey Training
Hawaii sanitary Feb. 26 & 27, 2004 Honolulu, HI
survey staff
Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.iames@epa.gov
Security Considerations Hawaii sanitary Mar. 1 & 2, 2004
When Conducting a survey inspectors
Sanitary Survey
Honolulu, HI
Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.iames@epa.gov
Sanitary Survey Training Minnesota
sanitary survey
inspectors
Apr. 19 & 20, 2004 St. Cloud, MN
Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.james@epa.gov
Sanitary Survey Training Minnesota
sanitary survey
inspectors
Apr. 21 & 22, 2004 Brainerd, MN
Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.james@epa.gov
Introduction to the Public EPA and state
Water System drinking water
Supervision (PWSS) staff
Program
May 5, 2004
Web Conference dwaweb.conference@epa.gov
Water Quality Standards New water
Academy Basic Course program staff
May 17 - 21, 2004 Washington, DC
www.glec-online.com/
form.html
American Government New federal
Roles employees
June 8 & 9, 2004 Washington, DC
Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.james@epa.gov
Overview of the Clean
Water Act and the Safe
Drinking Water Act
Assessing Capacity
through Sanitary Surveys
Developing Water
System Managerial
Capacity
New federal
employees
Regional and
State drinking
water staff
State drinking
water staff
June 15-17, 2004 Washington, DC Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.james@epa.gov
June 23, 2004 Web Conference dwaweb.conference@epa.gov
July 7, 2004 Web Conference dwaweb.conference@epa.gov
Introduction to EPA's
Drinking Water Source
Protection Programs
State source Sept. 15, 2004
water protection
staff
Web Conference dwaweb.conference@epa.gov
Introduction to the Safe
Drinking Water Act
EPA and State Sept. 29, 2004
drinking water
staff
Web Conference dwaweb.conference@epa.gov
Continued on next page.
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Winter 2004
TRAINING COURSE SCHEDULE (CONTINUED)
Course Title
American Government
Roles
Audience
New federal
employees
Schedule
Nov. 2 & 3, 2004
Location
Washington, DC
Contact
Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.james@epa.gov
Security Considerations
When Conducting a
Sanitary Survey
State sanitary
survey inspectors
Nov. 10, 2004
Web Conference dwaweb.conference@epa.gov
Overview of the Clean
Water Act and the Safe
Drinking Water Act
New federal
employees
Dec. 7-9, 2004
Washington, DC
Jamie Bourne
(202) 564-4095
bourne.james@epa.gov
DWA courses may be presented as requested. See the course catalog on the DWA Web site for more information (www.epa.gov/
safewater/dwa/course.html).
Office of Water (4606)
EPA 816-N-03-004
www.epa.gov
Winter 2004
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