Transitioning from Permit Compliance to Wastewater Excellence
Training Video
The speaker discusses low-cost opportunities for improving nutrient removal generally exist but often aren’t implemented for various reasons.
Among the strategies for implementing operational solutions to be discussed are the following:
- embracing “wastewater excellence” as a management strategy as contrasted to traditional, conservative “permit compliance"
- exploring well-intended regulatory policies and procedures that discourage operators from making operational changes
- finding funds for “pennies on the dollar” operational improvements
Date of Recording: April 28, 2022 (11-12:30 pm Eastern)
Presenter
Grant Weaver
Grant is a licensed wastewater operator and professional engineer. He was born in Kansas and educated at state schools before sneaking into MIT for a post-Graduate education in Environmental Toxicology. Grant’s MS is in Bio-Environmental Engineering (Oklahoma State University)and his BS is in Biology (Kansas State University).
He has spoken to wastewater operators across the county in countless classroom and webinar presentations. Grant is a contrarian who gets pleasure from empowering wastewater operators to make treatment plants work better than those who design and regulate them believe they can.
In this regard, he has visited and worked with the staffs of over 150 North American municipal wastewater treatment plants to realize significant improvements in nitrogen and phosphorus removal.
Grant currently lives in Connecticut and is president of Grant Tech, Inc.