Glacier Park & Small System Operator Training

Annual Glacier Park and Small System Training Workshop

West Glacier, MT – May 7, 2025

8:00am—8:10am   Welcome (Christine Maday, MRWS)

8:10am – 9:00am   Source Water Protection (Kyla Terry, MRWS)

• Importance of a source water protection plan
• How to implement a plan for your system [0.100 Water CECs]

9:00am—10:00am   Surface Water Monthly Compliance Report (Josh Seekins, MDEQ) [0.100 Water CECs]

 10:00am-11:00am   Importance of Tank Mixing (Bill Flannigan, Cogent) [0.100 Water CECs]

 11:00am-12:00pm   Basics of Pump and System Fundamentals (Bill Flannigan, Cogent) [0.100 Dual CECs]

12:00 – 1:00pm    —    >>>>>> Lunch on Your Own <<<<<<

 1:00pm— 2:00pm      Digital Liquid Analysis in Water/Wastewater (Brooke Pollock, Rustco)

• Digital vs analog instrumentation
• How digital instrumentation can improve plant management [0.100 Dual]

 2:00pm—4:00pm     Fire Hydrants (Leo Malinak, MRWS)

• Operation & maintenance
• Comparison of models
• Hands on demonstration of assembling & disassembling a hydrant [0.200 Water CECs]