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COWRA
Septic
Installer School 2012

COWRA will be holding our Installer School on six consecutive Thursdays: January 12, 19, 26, 2012 and February 2, 9, 16, 2012, with a snow date of February 23, 2012.  Students enrolled in the Installer School are automatically enrolled in the Pumper / Cleaner School, as the Pumper / Cleaner information is part of the 2012 Installer exam.

Topics included are Septic Tanks: design, structure, function; Watersheds and drainage profiles, Soils: physical characteristics, profiles and types, identification; Site Conditions: deep hole and percolation testing, plumbing and pipe configuration; Distribution Systems; Leaching fields; trenches, dry wells, galleries; Curtain Drains; Biomat; Septic Failures; Transit work and surveys; Septic Design: MLSS, plans and sketches, forms, etc.


The school will cover all sections of 19-13-B103 and 19-13-B100a of the CT Public Health Code, Technical Standards and the Design Manual for subsurface sewage disposal systems. Example questions of the type encountered on the installer’s exam will be covered. Practical exercises will be assigned for class work and field encountered problems will be discussed.


Materials

Materials you will receive: updated CT Public Health Code 19-13-B103 & Technical Standards for Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems (SSDS), Design Manual for SSDS, a Study Guide & other handouts.


Cost:
$215.00 tuition fee for COWRA members & their employees.  Non-members tuition fee is $375.00
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COWRA
Pumper / Cleaner School 2012


COWRA will be holding its pumper/Cleaner School on Thursday February 16, 2012.  The snow date will be February 23, if needed.

Topics included are Septic Tanks, design, structure, function; Watersheds and drainage profiles. Outlet filters, Port-o-lets, etc.

The school will cover specifically sections of the CT Public Health Code 19-13-B103 General Provisions (pages 5 and 6 in the code) and 19-13-B100a. as well as the Technical Standards Section V. on Septic Tanks (pages 28-32 in the code) Chapter 9 on Septic Tanks and Grease Traps from the Design Manual. There will be example questions of the type encountered on the State Cleaner/Pumper’s exam offered by DPH.  Practical exercises will be assigned for class work and field encountered problems will be discussed. The vast majority of the questions on the cleaner exam come from the parts of the code, the technical standards and the Design Manual.

Materials

Materials you will receive: updated CT Public Health Code 19-13-B103 & Technical Standards for Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems (SSDS), Design Manual for SSDS, a Study Guide & other handouts.


Cost:
$80.00 tuition fee for COWRA members and non-members


Briggs Geddis, New Canaan Health Director and COWRA Instructor, discusses installations with a student at the Installers School.
Instructor, and Civil Engineer, Doug DiVesta discusses installations with a student at the Installer School.
Jon Skipper and Drew Gilbert, Pumper Cleaner School Instructors.
COWRA Installer School ApplicationCOWRA Pumper / Cleaner School Application
COWRA Policy on Course Withdrawal
2012 State Exam Schedule
CT Installer License ApplicationCT Cleaner License Application

Schools are held at Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.


Directions to Wesleyan

Wesleyan Campus Map

COWRA   PO Box 116    East Hampton CT  06424
860-267-1057 or  860-638-8188
fax 860-267-1557
info@cowra-online.org 
www.cowra-online.org

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