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Install Training Field Days

This two day workshop will focus on the design and installation of a pressure distributed system.  Students in the classroom will utilize the results from a site and soils evaluation to design a pressure distribution system and apply it to a trench system design.  It is recommended that participants also attend the Site & Soils Day Workshop, which takes places at the same site on September 21, 2015.

The expected outcomes for this training are listed below, and a registration form is attached. You may register for this hands-on training by fax, email, or online. Please contact the WCOWMA office with any questions you may have.

 

Install Training Workshop Outcomes

Pressure Distribution

  • Basic understanding of Pressure Distribution method and able to design basic system:
  • Recognize difference between pressure distribution only to head of treatment field laterals and of distribution through entire lateral length.
  • Know the advantages and disadvantages of pressure distribution.
  • Understand and able to determine orifice size/spacing from tables.
  • Able to determine desired/required dose volume
  • Understand benefits of timed interval dose volumes over demand dosing
  • Calculate piping friction loss pressure head, total head and apply to piping and pump selection
  • Ability to use related tables in SPM
  • Know the basic advantages of pressure distribution and able to design basic pressure distribution lateral systems and determine pump performance requirements.

 

Seepage Trench system

  • Understand basic principles of how trench systems work – incl dispersal horizontally. Apply soil evaluation information.
  • Learn trench system design configurations and materials; sand layer, fill, gravel, chambers.
  • Basic knowledge of utilizing topography of installation site.
  • Know factors in locating the trench system– slope vs. level, clearance separations, vertical separations, fill materials for raised trench system.
  • Ability to design pressure distribution laterals for trenches, orientation of orifices, spacing, preferred vs. cost.
  • Knowledge of and ability to apply requirements of Standard Practice Manual:
  • Ability to interpret trench design worksheet
  • Ability to complete trench design worksheet
  • Ability to describe construction practices.
  • Ability to perform clarity test on sand.
  • Ability to apply soil characteristics at site to trench system design, and identify key material requirements.

Field Component – installation of all components of a trench system including but not limited to:

  • Installation of septic tank, effluent filter, pump chamber and distribution line.
  • Construction of trench
    • Excavation of site
    • Construction of pressure distribution system
    • Construction of monitoring ports
    • Connection to distribution line
    • Squirt test
    • Dose settings

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