The Small Water System Technical
Assistance Program is designed for the Bureau
of Safe Drinking Water (BSDW) to assist small
public water systems serving less than 10,000
persons by 1) providing for free group training
sessions, 2) conducting outreach site visits,
and 3) conducting sampling that is not part
of a system’s routine monitoring to
detect problems or deficiencies that would
otherwise go unnoticed.
BSDW has contracted with the New Jersey
Water Association (NJWA) to conduct free
group training sessions in the Northern,
Central and Southern Regions of New Jersey
on such topics as Basic Accounting, Consumer
Outreach, Distribution Planning and Safe
Drinking Water Act Requirements. NJWA has
also provided training sessions on other
topics of immediate interest to small water
systems. These training sessions also provide
operators of small water systems with continuing
education credit needed for license renewal.
Registration information for training sessions
is available at www.njwater.org or
contact NJWA at (609) 242-7111.
BSDW conducts free one on one site visits
giving priority to public water systems (PWS)
with:
- acute violations,
- monitoring and reporting problems or
other Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) violations
(including all Significant Non-Compliers
(SNCs)), and
- the smallest and/or poorest communities
or Non-Transient, Non-Community (NTNC)
water systems.
Site visits should include the following:
- Review of system operation and maintenance
- Review of certified operator status and
provision of information on certified operator
training
- Review of system sampling schedule and
sampling techniques
- Guidance on specific compliance related
water quality or treatment problems
- Review and recommendations on financial
records
- Review of system's source and distribution
system protection
- Review of data required for issuing a
Consumer Confidence report
- Guidance in selecting appropriate technologies
for small system needs
- Guidance on SRF and other available financial
assistance
- Review of recordkeeping
These site visits can only be completed
with the cooperation of the water system.
If you wish to arrange a site visit please
contact either Joseph Durocher or Alan S.
Dillon at the Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
(609) 292-5550.
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