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Surface Water Treatment Course - Spring 2026
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's (EGLE) Drinking Water Operator Program is offering an in-person Surface Water Treatment course in Bay City, Michigan. This course will include question and answer opportunities with the course instructors.
This 2.5-day short course, previously branded as Water Treatment 1, will cover a variety of topic areas related to the treatment of drinking water. This course includes topics such as basic math, rules and regulations, source water, pumping systems, coagulation, mixing, sedimentation, fluoridation, disinfection and chlorination, direct filtration, membrane filtration, laboratory analysis, coagulation calculations, duties of operators, ethics, water storage, corrosion control, chemical feed systems, cybersecurity, filtration, softening, disinfection byproduct precursors, and filtration problems.
Registration Fee: $275
Registration/Cancellation Deadline: April 3, 2026
Continuing Education: Course provides 1.9 CECs in the Technical category for Drinking Water Operators. Course Code 348
Included Meals:
- Day 1: Lunch
- Day 2: Breakfast and Lunch
- Day 3: Breakfast
*Preliminary Course Agenda
*Subject to change
Day 1 - 8:30am - 5:30pm
Day 2 - 8:00am - 5:10pm
Day 3 - 8:00am - 12:10 pm
Day 1
- 8:30am – Registration and Check-In
- 9:00am – Basic Math
- 10:00am – Rules and Regulations
- 10:20am – Coagulation, Mixing and Sedimentation Part 1
- 10:50 – Break
- 11:00am – Coagulation, Mixing and Sedimentation Part 1
- 12:00pm – Lunch
- 1:00pm – Pumping Systems
- 1:30pm – Coagulation, Mixing and Sedimentation Part 2
- 2:30pm – Break
- 2:40pm – Filtration
- 4:40pm – Source Water
- 5:10pm – Water Storage
- 5:40pm – Dinner (On your own)
- 7:00pm – Problem Review (Optional)
Day 2
- 7:00am – Breakfast Buffet
- 8:00am – Disinfection and Chlorination
- 10:00am – Break
- 10:10am – Membrane Filtration
- 11:40am – Water Treatment Case Studies
- 12:00pm – Lunch
- 1:00pm – Duties for Operators
- 2:00pm – Alum/Coag Calculations
- 3:00pm – Break
- 3:10pm – Ethics
- 3:40pm – Corrosion Control
- 5:10pm – Dinner (On your own)
- 7:00pm – Problem Review (Optional)
Day 3
- 7:00am – Breakfast Buffet
- 8:00am – Fluoridation and Problems
- 10:00am – Break
- 10:10am – Chemical Feed Systems
- 12:10pm – Adjourn
One Wenonah Park Place
Bay City, Michigan, 48708
Start: April 15, 2026 8:30 AM
End: April 17, 2026 12:30 PM
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's (EGLE) Drinking Water Operator Program is offering an in-person Surface Water Treatment course in Bay City, Michigan. This course will include question and answer opportunities with the course instructors.
This 2.5-day short course, previously branded as Water Treatment 1, will cover a variety of topic areas related to the treatment of drinking water. This course includes topics such as basic math, rules and regulations, source water, pumping systems, coagulation, mixing, sedimentation, fluoridation, disinfection and chlorination, direct filtration, membrane filtration, laboratory analysis, coagulation calculations, duties of operators, ethics, water storage, corrosion control, chemical feed systems, cybersecurity, filtration, softening, disinfection byproduct precursors, and filtration problems.
Registration Fee: $275
Registration/Cancellation Deadline: April 3, 2026
Continuing Education: Course provides 1.9 CECs in the Technical category for Drinking Water Operators. Course Code 348
Included Meals:
- Day 1: Lunch
- Day 2: Breakfast and Lunch
- Day 3: Breakfast
*Preliminary Course Agenda
*Subject to change
Day 1 - 8:30am - 5:30pm
Day 2 - 8:00am - 5:10pm
Day 3 - 8:00am - 12:10 pm
Day 1
- 8:30am – Registration and Check-In
- 9:00am – Basic Math
- 10:00am – Rules and Regulations
- 10:20am – Coagulation, Mixing and Sedimentation Part 1
- 10:50 – Break
- 11:00am – Coagulation, Mixing and Sedimentation Part 1
- 12:00pm – Lunch
- 1:00pm – Pumping Systems
- 1:30pm – Coagulation, Mixing and Sedimentation Part 2
- 2:30pm – Break
- 2:40pm – Filtration
- 4:40pm – Source Water
- 5:10pm – Water Storage
- 5:40pm – Dinner (On your own)
- 7:00pm – Problem Review (Optional)
Day 2
- 7:00am – Breakfast Buffet
- 8:00am – Disinfection and Chlorination
- 10:00am – Break
- 10:10am – Membrane Filtration
- 11:40am – Water Treatment Case Studies
- 12:00pm – Lunch
- 1:00pm – Duties for Operators
- 2:00pm – Alum/Coag Calculations
- 3:00pm – Break
- 3:10pm – Ethics
- 3:40pm – Corrosion Control
- 5:10pm – Dinner (On your own)
- 7:00pm – Problem Review (Optional)
Day 3
- 7:00am – Breakfast Buffet
- 8:00am – Fluoridation and Problems
- 10:00am – Break
- 10:10am – Chemical Feed Systems
- 12:10pm – Adjourn