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Neglecting utility employee wellhead training can lead to disaster! [whiteboard video]

Posted By Mary Atkins on April 03, 2014

Attention Public Drinking Water Utilities!

Wellhead Training

Have your employees been trained recently on your Wellhead Protection Plan? Did you know that it’s a requirement to document and keep a record of the training?

When you submit your Phase II Wellhead Protection Plan or a 5-year plan update to IDEM, they may ask you to produce the training documentation. Be prepared by having your employees trained and the required documentation in your recordkeeping files. 

The Wellhead Protection Program protects ground water drinking supplies from pollution and implements management strategies for municipalities to prevent the contamination of the drinking water source. We all know, though, that a protection plan is only as good as the implementation.

In this whiteboard video, you will learn which utility employees may need training and why this training is an important part of implementing your wellhead protection plan management strategies. The transcript is included below this video for your convenience. 

  

 

Hi my name is Mary Atkins, and I am an engineer with Wessler Engineering. I am going to talk to you today about wellhead protection training, and I wanted to start by asking you a few questions about your drinking water source.

Does the drinking water in your community come from a groundwater source where the water is pumped up through the ground, through wells, and these wells might be located within your community? If this is the case, then your community has what is called a wellhead protection plan. And, as a part of this plan, the utility employees are required to be trained on how to secure the wells and then how to prevent spills from happening around the wells. And then, if there is a spill or contamination within your wellhead protection area or within your drinking water distribution system, how do those utility employees respond to that type of spill or contamination?

Wessler Engineering has a free webinar that includes training on the wellhead protection action items. We want you to think about where your wells are located and who is working around those wells. It may be your wells are located in a park and maybe there is grass around your wells that needs to be mowed, so your Parks Department employees may need the training. If there are streets near your wells and the street department is doing street maintenance or applying de-icing chemicals around those wells, they need to have training. And then your water utility employees, who are working around the wells and working in your water distribution system, they definitely need this training.

So round up your employees and check out our free webinar. There is information below.

[Free Webinar] Do your employees need to be trained? If so, you can review our recorded webinar here. 

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