Private Water Supplies

14th - 15th October 2010, Aqua Enviro Training Suite, Wakefield

Sponsored by Severn Trent Services - Analytical Services

The 2009 Private Water Supplies Regulations introduced a radical new regime for private water supplies. Reliance on end-testing was replaced by comprehensive risk assessment confirmed by monitoring. Once supplies have been established as unwholesome, local authorities are required to take action to ensure the supplies provide consistently safe drinking water.  This will involve source protection and treatment identified through the risk assessment process.

One of the major challenges for local authorities is organising these risk assessments and ensuring local authority staff are “competent” to carry them out as required by the regulations.
This course has been designed to provide that competency. To aid this process this we have prepared a structured training course involving on-site risk assessment for both private supplies and the newly introduced private distribution networks.  The course will also cover competent sampling supported by Water Company staff.

 

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Programme

Day One - Thursday 14th October
09.30  Welcome and introduction to course
10.00  Background to the requirements of the new Private Water Supplies Regulations
11.00  Introduction to Risk Assessments
11.30  Morning coffee
11.45  Water sampling and field testing with Yorkshire Water
12.45  Lunch
13:30  Field trip
14.45  Risk Assessment and sampling from site - springs
16.30  Leave site
17.00  Afternoon tea 
17.30  Microbiological analysis of water samples (lab session)
19:00  Evening Meal
Evening Social and branch meeting

Day Two - Friday 14th October
09.00  Completion of risk assessment forms and discussion
10.00  Morning coffee
10.15  Field trip
10:45  Risk Assessment  - surface water & boreholes 
11:45  Risk Assessment  - private distribution network
12:15  Leave site
12.45  Lunch
13:30  Visit to the new SLT laboratories
14.45  Faecal indicator bacteria and the statistic of counting
15.30  Counting faecal coliforms (lab session)
16.15  Risk assessment assessment
17.00  Course Round Up, presentation of certificates and Close

The course is based around the highly successful University of Leeds/Aqua Enviro Water Monitoring Field Course that has been running since 1990 and which has been restructured to take into account the new challenges. The updated course comprises two days of intensive practical work both in the classroom but mainly in the field and laboratory.

This course is suitable for a range of environmental health practitioners from beginners to managers who need to be quickly brought up to speed on the practicalities of the new regulations.

This event comprises a mixture of formal lectures, practical classes and field trips. Delegates will receive appropriate certification, a comprehensive printed book of the course notes together with all the associated presentations and an extensive selection of support material on memory stick.  Evening entertainment is provided on the first and second night of the event with ample opportunities for networking, sharing experience and best practice.  

"I really enjoyed the course at Aqua Enviro. It was very informative, the lecturers were all very good speakers, very well informed and all had a great sense of humour. The food was excellent as was the venue." Kiran Patel, STL Coventry
  

Trainers

The trainers on this course are recognised both for their expertise in the area of private water supplies and also their communications skills in the delivery of information to technical audiences.  They will be on hand throughout the course to share their knowledge and answer any technical questions you may have. They comprise:

David Clapham –Principal Environmental Health Manager, Bradford Met Council.
David has been teaching environmental health staff for over 14 years.

John Murphy – Springhead Water Consultancy
John has been involved in specifying, installing and repairing private water supply and rural sanitation treatment system for many years.

Dr Nigel Horan – Reader in Public Health, University of Leeds
Nigel has been involved in training environmental health staff for many years and has a unique range of experience in the academic, governmental and professional area of water quality and wastewater disposal.

Accommodation

The Premier Inn Wakefield South is located within a 2 minute walk of the training suite. If you are registering for the course we would advise that you book directly with the hotel ASAP.
Contact details are: Tel: 0870 111 2964 Fax: 0870 111 2965, www.premierinn.com

Please note: this is not a residential course and you will need to arrange your own accommodation.

Fees

The 2-day delegate rate is £265 (+VAT) = £311.38

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