P3S21- Pretreatment 101 (Afternoon)
Recorded On: 03/10/2021
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Member: $25.00
Non-Member: $35.00
SWRCB Waste Water CEUs: 0.15
CWEA Contact Hours: 1.5 contact hours towards CWEA's Collection System Maintenance, Environmental Compliance Inspector and Laboratory Analyst certifications.
Industrial pretreatment programs operated by municipal agencies continue to be one of the most effective efforts for controlling toxic pollutants under the Clean Water Act. This training provides an introduction to national pretreatment program rules and regulations, a review of the basics of program implementation, and related current events.
Learning Objectives:
Describe pretreatment compliance and regulations.
Protect the environment and your wastewater treatment plant through effective industrial user oversight.
Use Pretreatment Compliance Audits and Inspections to showcase and enrich your program.
Jim Polek
Jim Polek Environmental Engineer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jim is an Environmental Engineer in EPA’s Pacific Southwest Regional Office (Region 9) in San Francisco. He has worked in the NPDES Wastewater Enforcement Office for nine years, conducting inspections of, providing compliance assistance to, and managing enforcement actions against industrial users and municipalities, with a focus on pretreatment. Prior to his NPDES Pretreatment work, he was an EPA hazardous waste inspector for nine years. Jim holds a B.S. in Mineral Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Amelia Whitson
Pretreatment Coordinator
US EPA, Region 9, San Francisco, California, United States
Amelia is the Pretreatment Coordinator for EPA's Pacific Southwest Regional Office (Region 9) in San Francisco. She has served as Region 9's Pretreatment Coordinator for ten years. As Pretreatment Coordinator, she is responsible for managing EPA’s oversight of industrial wastewater pretreatment in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and the Pacific Island Territories. Amelia received a B.A. in Environmental Earth Science from UC Berkeley.
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