Details Emerging for 2017 Waste Treatment Symposium

Details Emerging for 2017 Waste Treatment Symposium
NAWT elected new leadership during the Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show in February. Officers, from left, are Jeff Rachlin, treasurer; Jamie Miller, vice president; Kim Seipp, education committee chair; Gene Bassett, president; and Tom Ferrero, secretary. (Photo by Jim Kneiszel)

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The National Association of Wastewater Technicians 8th Waste Treatment Symposium will be held Aug. 23-24, 2017, in Apollo, Pennsylvania.

If one of the following scenarios describes something that has gone on with your business in the past year, you need to attend NAWT’s Waste Treatment Symposium:

• You’ve had a long-standing relationship with the local municipal sewage treatment authority to accept your septage, as long as you utilize one of the designated dump sites at an agreed upon price which has been factored into your business plan. But now the price is going up due to necessary upgrades at the sewage plant, or your business has grown faster than you anticipated, and you are buying additional trucks and hiring technicians to keep up. Your disposal costs have gone beyond $300,000 per year and you see that if you can reduce those costs your business can expand further.

• You’ve been notified the local plant is near capacity and you will no longer be able to deliver septage there. You must make arrangements to take it to a different facility that adds 50 miles round trip, and fuel costs put a huge dent on the profit side of the ledger.

• You’ve received word from two farmers who accept your septage that they are selling out to developers, so you will be losing your land application sites.

 All of these are real situations NAWT has heard about recently. That’s why NAWT offers the Waste Treatment Symposium to help determine if you should invest in a facility of your own and what it takes to get you there. At the event, you will meet individuals who share your unique problems and situations. It is the opportunity to see demonstrations and talk directly with people who have used treatment technologies. You will get a clear picture of what you need to do to establish a facility.

The Waste Treatment Symposium will be held at McCutcheon Enterprises Inc., Apollo, Pennsylvania. Classroom discussions will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Pittsburgh. Additional details will be posted on the NAWT website in the coming months.

Educational sessions will cover evaluating whether a facility is the way to go, what regulatory people are going to need and how to select an engineer to create a plan. You will learn from industry members already running successful facilities. You will explore treatment processes, review case histories, understand the economics of unit processes and tour an operating facility. Equipment manufacturers will be on hand to demonstrate treatment technologies and process actual septage.

There will be coffee breaks, lunches, exhibits and an evening reception to provide networking opportunities. You cannot afford to miss this!

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES EXPANDING

NAWT recently held training sessions in Saskatchewan, Canada, and Vermont focusing on inspection and systems. If you are interested in partnering with NAWT to conduct similarly tailored training sessions in your area please contact us at 800/236-6298. 

If you are interested in serving on a NAWT committee or have questions regarding NAWT please call the NAWT office, email info@nawt.org or visit www.nawt.org.



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