The Susquehanna River Basin Commission will hold a System Finances, Funding, Preparing For Emergencies and Regulatory Updates Workshop on October 18 at the SRBC offices, 4423 North Front Street in Harrisburg from 8:40 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.

The workshop will cover these topics--

-- Hydrologic Extremes, The Elephant in the Closet-- Benjamin Pratt, P.E., C.F.M., SRBC; 

-- Preparing Your Water System:  Emergency Preparedness and Resiliency-- Patti Kay Wisniewski, Drinking Water Security Coordinator, US EPA Region III;

-- Water & Wastewater Emergencies: Help is Only a Phone Call (or text or email) Away-- Mike Snyder, PaWARN - Pennsylvania’s Water / Wastewater Agency Response Network; 

-- Safe Drinking Water Regulatory Update-- Dawn Hissner, PADEP Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, Environmental Program Manager, Operations, Monitoring & Compliance; Edgar Chescattie, PADEP Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, Environmental Program Manager, Training and Technical Services Division;

-- Panel Discussion - Funding Considerations for Public Water Suppliers-- Pennvest (Brion Johnson); USDA (Sue Gantz); SEDA-COG (Tyler Dombroski); Karen Fligger (USEPA) Water Finance Clearinghouse (Sonia Brubaker, Acting Director, USEPA Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center; and

-- Conducting AWWA Water Audits in PA DEP's Outreach Assistance Program: Initial Findings and Progress-- George Kunkel, P.E., PADEP Public Services Institute Instructor;

Conference approved for two contact hours for Pennsylvania Certified Water Operators (Drinking Water Contact Hours).

Remote online workshop participation is available; however, water contact hours are only available to classroom attendees. If interested, please click “Attend by Webinar” on the registration page.

Click Here to register or for more information.  Questions should be directed to Brent Bauman, Hydrogeologist, SRBC, by calling 717-238-0423 x1235 or send email to: bbauman@srbc.net.

The workshop is part of SRBC’s Public Water Supply Assistance Program.

For more information on programs, training opportunities and upcoming events, visit the Susquehanna River Basin Commission website.  Click Here to sign up for SRBC’s newsletter.   Follow SRBC on Twitter, visit them on YouTube.

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9/10/2018