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Missouri Smallflows Organization

Course Descriptions

MSO provides a series of seminar classes that allow registered onsite wastewater professionals earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) while learning about new technology and methods.

Below are the current course descriptions:

Operation and Maintenance of Advanced Treatment Systems

Missouri Smallflows Organization is offering a two-day seminar that will cover in-depth the Maintenance of Onsite Wastewater Systems. This course is offered to current professionals to further their education on the maintenance aspects of wastewater treatment but can also be used as a training course for future professionals entering the onsite wastewater treatment and systems maintenance industry.

Course Outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day

Lunch: Lunch on your own

CEUs: General CEUs: 13

Basic Installers: 10, Advanced Installers: 11, Inspectors/Evaluators: 12, OSE: 3.5,

and Percolation Testers: 2

Cost: $260 for both days ($100 per day and $60 workbook)

Course Content: Implementing an O&M Service Contract, Introduction to Wastewater, O&M Service Provider Program Introduction. System Evaluation Forms, Safety, Business and Industry Ethics, Site Assessment, Pretreatment Components: Tanks, Pump Tanks, Pumps, and Controls, Aerobic Treatment Units, Constructed Wetlands, Chlorine Disinfection, Ultraviolet Light Disinfection Units, Lagoons, Media Filters, Drip Distribution, Gravity Distribution, Low-Pressure Drainfields (LPD)

Troubleshooting for Onsite Systems

Course Outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs = 6

Basic Installers: 6, Advanced Installers: 6, Inspectors: 6, OSE: 0, and Percolation Testers: 0
Cost: $100 per day

Course Content:

The purpose of this course is to teach people how to systematically identify problems with malfunctioning onsite wastewater treatment systems. The concept of flow charts is used and will help anyone involved in analyzing problems with onsite treatment systems including installers, regulators and private inspectors. A visit to an out door training facility may be included if time and weather allow.

Hydraulics for Onsite Systems

Course Outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs: 6

Basic Installers: 6 CEUs, Advanced Installers: 6 CEUs, Inspectors: 6 CEUs, OSE: 0 CEUs,

and Percolation Testers: 0 CEUs.

Cost: $100 per day

Course Content:

An increasing number of onsite treatment systems today utilize pumps (LPP, drip dispersal, etc.) and associated components such as float switches, control panels, timers, alarms, etc. This course will teach how these components work together to make a safe and properly operating pressurized system. This information will be useful to anyone who designs, installs or inspects pressurized onsite systems.

Drip Irrigation Design & Installation

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own

CEUs: General CEUs = 6

Basic Installers: 3.5, Advanced Installers: 6, Inspectors and Evaluators: 6, OSE: 3.5,

and Percolation Testers: 0

Cost: $100 per day

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to give an overview of the history, benefits, terms, costs, regulations, components, installation, designing the system, operations and maintenance.

Onsite Pumps, Panels & Electrical

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs = 6

Basic Installers: 6, Advanced Installers: 6, Inspectors and Evaluators: 5, OSE: 0,

and Percolation Testers: 0

Cost: $100 per day

Course Description: This course covers all aspects of pumps and panels including horsepower, pump choice, reading the pump curve, time dose panels, volume dose panels, elapsed time meters and cycle counters. The course will also cover basic electric current, safety, voltages and how to read an electrical schematic and a multi-meter.

Drain Fields & Water Management

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs: 6

Basic Installers: 4.5, Advanced Installers: 6, Inspectors and Evaluators: 3.5, Onsite Soil Evaluators: 6,

and Percolation Testers: 4.5

Cost: $100 per day

Course Description: This class will cover soil properties effecting water movement and treatment, gravity distribution, low pressure distribution, drip dispersal and diversions. Principles of water lowering strategies in soil landscapes will be covered, along with curtain drains, french drains and interceptor drains.

Earthen Structures

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs: 6

Basic Installers: 5, Advanced Installers: 4, Inspectors and Evaluators: 3.5, Onsite Soil Evaluators: 3.5,

and Percolation Testers: 3.5

Cost: $100 per day

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to discuss soil and water characteristics in depth and go over the principles of soil compaction. All aspects of sewage lagoons will be discussed including design, cuts and fills, layout and staking, overflow and controlled irrigation. Constructed wetlands, at-grade, and interceptor drains will also be covered.

High Strength Wastewater in Onsite Systems

Two Day Seminar

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs: 12.5

Basic Installers: 10, Advanced Installers: 12.5, Inspectors/Evaluators: 11.5, Onsite Soil Evaluators: 4.0,

and Percolation Testers: 2.5

Cost: $240 (2 day seminar + $40 workbook)

Course Description: This course was developed to directly address one of the challenges facing the wastewater industry: wastewater treatment systems that malfunction as a result of hydraulic and organic overloading. The ability to evaluate wastewater sources to determine if they are delivering loads that exceed system treatment capacity is fundamental to meeting this challenge. The purpose of the course is to provide class participants with methods for troubleshooting systems by analyzing the source for excessive hydraulic and organic loading. The class begins with fundamental topics that lay the groundwork necessary to progress to more detailed discussions in later chapters. The materials presented in the first day of the course are basic concepts: types of treatment systems; wastewater treatment concepts; basic sampling and monitoring techniques; examples of hydraulic and organic loading. The emphasis is on principles and practices of evaluating residential facilities.

Aerated Treatment Systems

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs: 6

Basic Installers: 3.5, Advanced Installers: 6, Inspectors and Evaluators: 3.5, Onsite Soil Evaluators: 1.0,

and Percolation Testers: 1.0

Cost: $100

Course Description:

Welcome and Introduction – The introduction provides background information on onsite wastewater treatment system parameters and practices. The wastewater characteristics are described to facilitate greater understanding of the interaction between a mechanical aerobic treatment unit and the user of the treatment system. The impact of a potential wastewater source will be described with respect to the microbial population providing wastewater treatment within a mechanical aerobic treatment unit.

Mechanical Extended Aeration Treatment Systems – The components of a mechanical aerobic treatment unit will be described. Typically, a mechanical aerobic treatment unit has five treatment processes. The function of each process will be described with respect to providing effective wastewater treatment. Several different configurations of mechanical wastewater treatment units will be discussed to facilitate a greater understanding of how the critical treatment processes are assembled within specific manufacturer’s products.

Installing and Starting Mechanical Aerobic Treatment Units - The installation practices will be presented for assembling an aerobic treatment unit. Construction techniques that facilitate system stability, accessibility, and long-term performance will be discussed. Start-up procedures and critical information that should be recorded at the time of installation is presented along with the recommended documentation.

Operation and Maintenance of Mechanical Aerobic Treatment Units - Operation and maintenance is critical to the performance of all advance treatment systems. The operation and maintenance practices necessary for proper function are described to facilitate understanding by practitioners interested in maintaining the treatment units. The recommended documentation for tracking system performance will be presented.

Selling the System to Fit the Site

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs: 6

Basic Installer: 4.5, Advanced Installer: 6.0, Inspectors/Evaluators: 1.0, Onsite Soil Evaluators: 5.5,

Percolation Testers: 1.0

Cost: $100

Course Description: This course covers the essentials of first, the general soil and site conditions which influence the type of decentralized wastewater technology which will be selected for a long-term sustainable onsite system. Second, an overview of different pre-treatment and treatment technologies are covered as well as the diverse soil placement and effluent delivery technologies are discussed. This information package is presented to assist the installer in portraying to the homebuilder and homeowner why their wastewater system may be different than their neighbor's.

Media Filters

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs: 6.5

Basic Installers: 1.0, Advanced Installers: 6.5, Inspectors and Evaluators: 6.5, Onsite Soil Evaluators: 1.0,

and Percolation Testers: 1.0

Cost: $100

Course Description: Media Filters will cover the following topics: what is BOD?, the importance of onsite wastewater treatment systems, media filter operation, types of media filters including sand and recirculating systems, manufactured prepackaged media filters, peat filters, media filter controls and other information, and maintenance of media filters.

Fundamentals of Soils for Decentralized Systems

Course outline:

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch: Lunch on your own
CEUs: General CEUs: 6.5

Basic Installer: 6.5, Advanced Installer: 6.5, Inspectors/Evaluators: 0.5, Onsite Soil Evaluators: 6.5,

Percolation Testers: 5.5

Cost: $100

Course Description: Topics will include: what is soil, role of soil in decentralized wastewater systems, role of soil evaluator, identification of soil and site conditions and their relationship to treatment of wastewater, identification of soil and site conditions and their relationship to water movement in the soil, identification of soil and site conditions and their relationship to water movement in and on the site, discussion of how and why installation processes must not alter key soil properties, and discussion of how and why installation processes must not alter key site conditions.