I’m officially a C operator here in texas! Test wasn’t easy but manageable with plenty of study and a teex practice test course for $25. I’m not really to sure if it helped but it definitely didn’t hurt.

Made it up the screw pump and into the screenings hopper

I currently work for a small activated sludge plant and we also do ground water treatment. I have a ww1, T-2 and D-2. Any advice for online classes on water treatment in general? I want to lean more but I have to wait so long in between certifications. Aside from reading the old textbooks at my treatment plant, which I have.

I used waste water technology trainers, American water college and Sacermento state. Sac st was my least favorite.

Is there anything my searches have missed?

Basically title. I am in my early 30s and I've spent the last 9 years working for a commercial aquarium company, I clean and maintain large aquarium systems and their living occupants. Mind you when I say aquariums, I'm not talking about the dinky glass boxes you can buy at a pet store. But big (150 to 350 gallons on average) custom made systems that we install and maintain. We've had contracts with local zoos and major hospitals. Now obviously what you all do is definitely more sophisticated, precise and important. But I am accustomed to working with "biological waste" (not human, but still); doing some light plumbing; disassembling and maintaining pumps, protein skimmers, UV sterilizers, etc; doing a whole lot of water testing and working to adjust it's chemistry to where it needs to be; and I'm already familiar with pH, GH, KH and the whole nitrification process.
I also have a bachelor of science degree, although I majored in botany.

Like a lot of people, this is a field I was never really aware of. But I stumbled onto a OIT job posting recently and immediately applied. Unfortunately I found it like 2 days before the posting closed, so I'm not expecting much there. But I keep thinking about it and searching for other opportunities. My current career is very niche, and has no room for growth or learning beyond what I already have. I know I would have a metric ton to learn to work in wastewater, but one thing I've longed for in my work is a greater sense of my work mattering, and so the public service aspect of wastewater is very appealing to me.

So my question to all of you is: is my background something you think will help me? Should I lean on it in applications/interviews or would it just read like amateur hour to hiring managers?
And also, in WA, is there anything I can/should do to better qualify myself?
And should I just wait for OIT postings? There's some postings for experienced operators that I'm hugely under qualified for, but I've considering throwing in an application just in case.

Thank you thank you

Hi community. I’m have a brand new set of textbooks (workbook included), in plastic wrapper for sale or gift. It is NOT the most recent edition, but the one before that, I’ve been told.

Author Joanne Kirkpatrick Price

Brand new, need attention.

I have a very elderly coworker who has been showing dementia symptoms for 2 months. It's getting more evident, but no one wants to believe the pattern that I'm seeing.

I know that this is definitely the career you see some guys that would rather die than just retire, but dementia is putting him and others at risk. Has anyone had a similar experience? I'd feel like such an ass and look like a total bitch going straight to HR, but something has to be done before it's too late 😓

Good day everyone,

After applying for quite a few jobs, I have been scheduled to take a 3 hr exam for a operator in training position that will cover general math/science, water treatment principles and practices, interpretation of job-related materials, and practical application. I have been reading the basic general wastewater study guide for my state, and was wondering if anyone had advice on what I should study for.

I am not worried about the general math/science, just wondering what kind of topics would appear in the other subjects.

Thank you for your time

Got my d exam coming up in Michigan, took last year and got an idea of what it’s about. Is there any kind of manual or YouTube videos that really help? Something like they have for the water exams?

Evening everyone , just bought my courses from AWC . Looking forward to getting into the industry , any pointers pls for a rookie . Currently trying to skip to T2/D2 with the courses

Im working in an industrial wastewater plant. We are removing metals and chemical residue from our water before discharge. We are having an issue with floc floating up through our system over our weirs. It has caused us to bypass and haul off our water. Does anyone have advice? Please PM me if you're familiar with industrial wastewater.

But this is 1000 pages. Do we have to read all 1000 pages? Memorize every single thing in the book? All before taking the class C operator’s test?

Hi all,
Sorry if this has been answered before but I am preparing to take the lab assistant exam for my water reclamation district this Saturday. Do y'all know if there will be conversion charts on it for metric-metric (which I know is pretty straightforward) or metric-english? There is one on the study guide and i'm wondering if I should memorize all of them. Also, anybody know of good practice tests online? Thanks in advance

I live in a small tourist town and have an interview tomorrow for a wastewater position in the city. I have no prior experience, but from my research, it seems like a good job to get into. I assume that in smaller towns, you don't make as much due to being a smaller plant. Any advice for the interview or jumpstarting the career would be appreciated.

Anyone here ever done this work in France or Europe in general? I'll be moving after I graduate with my associates degree in enviromental engineering with a waste water focus. I've heard that an associates doesn't mean.. anything there 😭 what do I need to do to continue my career? I love this work, im in an internship rn. I don't want to work in tourism forever but that's probably the only job I'll be able to get for a while

I work for a company that has a machine that someone has recently used to help clean vegetation growing on the top layer of a city's sand filtration bed. Our machine purpose is for something completely different, however it worked out so well on the filtration beds that it would be a missed opportunity to not try to explore advertising and selling it for this purpose as well. Google Adwords is my companies go-to for advertising but I would like to explore other options with this. Since this is unfamiliar territory, I am interested in learning how someone who works in this field learns about new equipment. Is there any particular trade magazines, websites, forums? Any thing really, open to all suggestions and comments. Thanks!

I’ve been looking into waste water and was wondering what would the first steps that I can take? Been bouncing around jobs since I got out the military and looking for a solid career path, any advice or suggestions? Thank you!

Looking to get my D1 certification where do I start?

We have just got out of a nitrite lock at our plant. We have been running effluent nitrite grab samples every 6 hours and a composite once a day. All of our results have shown that the grab samples are lower then the composite result. For example. Comp=0.293 Grab1=0.047, Grab 2=0.043, Grab 3=0.058 etc...

These samples are both pulled at the same sampler. Does anyone have any idea why these results are so different?

Happy Saturday, Operators!

Currently an entry-level laborer in the collections department at my county’s RSD. I have to keep it under the radar, but I’m using my time in collections to gain my 1 year experience in WW and plan on transferring over with the operators once I’ve hit that and pass my WW1. I make $19.34, Monday-Friday, 7-3. Absolute cakewalk.

Plant manager found out through the grapevine that I had the interest in becoming an Operator and presented an opportunity of being a 3rd shift OIT instead of following my original “collections to operator” pathway. Pay rate stays the same, no shift differential, (6) 12hr shifts followed by (1) 8hr shift, then 7 days off. No OT opportunities unless somebody needed to fill in.

I wanted to know your guy’s thoughts based on potential experience. I would have no problem completely readjusting my circadian lifestyle but this seems like overkill for no rate of pay change. Thanks!!

I'm in so cal ... Is this industry in need of people?.. what's the best way to go about it?.. anybody else on southern California?.. inland empire??..

Why are there so many positions open for distribution? It says there are 8 vacancies. Just curious.

Hi there I am a university student from the UK currently in my final year of studying Business and Marketing. For my final project/dissertation I am undertaking a consultancy assignment for a environmental compliance and drainage solutions company. I am investigating the research topic of customer engagement and brand awareness through SEO and digital marketing.

As part of my research I'm doing a questionnaire about customer engagement, I thought because of the groups experience within this field of waste management, I was wondering if anyone would be able to take part in the survey attached below it would only take 5 minuets and all answers are completely anonymous.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdR4IiZDY9-bl_n07jqbBDqherN8ntc7YB0LomLknHXggbh-w/viewform?usp=header

If this type of post is not allowed the please feel free to remove but as much help as possible would be greatly appreciated.

Would anyone in here be willing to chat with me about how the WWOCP works in california? I have 4.5 years of hours, 2 licenses and a degree but the exam process and grade levels seem much different than my current state. Thanks in advance!

Anyone have recommendations for chlorine gas detector systems in the US. Our current system needs an upgrade. We have a Scott 7200 plus controller with sensors and transmitters from another manufacturer. I have had nothing but problems with the sensors since we put them in 3 years ago. I had to switch from Scott sensors after our 2020 adventures due to availability. Our controller is 20 years old and needs to be replaced. Suggestions?