Sewer Rehabilitation Strategy
Workshop
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Housekeeping
• Health and Safety
– Restrooms
– Emergency Exits
– Breaks
– Smoking
• Administrative
– Sign-in and evaluations
– Class materials
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Instructors
• George Kurz, P.E., D.E.E.
– Senior Technical Leader
– Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc.
• Brett Ward
– Utility Operations Consultant
– UT-MTAS
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Learning Modules
• Module 1-
Current assessment of I/I status
• Module 2-
Successful implementation of I/I reduction
• Module 3-
Strategy and steps to reduce I/I
• Module 4-
Plans for reducing I/I in your community
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Course Objectives
• Identify what cities are currently doing in
reducing I/I.
• Recognize that I/I can be done
successfully in small and large cities.
• Describe a 10 point strategy and practical
steps that it takes to reduce I/I.
• Develop plans to reduce I/I in their
community.
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#1, Current Assessment
• Personal Introduction:
– Name, Position and City
• Current I/I Strategy:
– What are you doing to reduce I/I?
– How is it working?
– How do you know it’s working?
– How are you measuring it?
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EPA Statement
• Spring of 1977, EPA review of performance of
sewer rehabilitation work concluded that:
“Sewer rehabilitation doesn’t work.”
• Winter 2007, EPA and Tennessee regulations
show that they expect utilities to make it work.
Pollutant percent removal, Overflow reporting, Orders, CMOM
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Strategies for
Success
Measures
of
Success
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