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Onsite Wastewater Practitioner Training (OWTS)

Build expertise and open the door to new opportunities in the onsite wastewater industry. Walk away with the technical knowledge, practical skills, and field experience required to work in the industry.

The Western Canada Onsite Wastewater Management Association (WCOWMA) provides an excellent industry training program through its provincial chapters for Onsite Wastewater Practitioners:

This training is recognized in the Western Provinces through the New West Partnership Agreement (formerly TILMA). It is also recognized federally through the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). 

WCOWMA’s provincial chapters also offer individual field training days and workshop opportunities for individuals seeking to continue their education. Students may use these training opportunities toward needed experience quotas, and/or professional development credits, if required. 

Information on field training/workshop opportunities can be found below or on each provincial chapter’s training webpage.

WCOWMA: Provincial Chapters
Training Registration:

The OWTS Program Offers Ongoing Registration — START ANYTIME

Visit our provincial chapters for more information and to register.

For questions, contact our office:

1 780 489 7471
1 877 489 7471

training@wcowma.com

Field Training / Workshops

SOP Update

Site & Soils Evaluation Field Days

Mound Installation Field Day

Pressure Distribution Workshops

Treatment Field Installation Field Day

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Standard Of Practice Update

Current Status:

At this time, there are no additional Standard of Practice updates required beyond the 2021 update.

Please stay tuned for future updates should new revisions to the Standard of Practice or additional training requirements be introduced.

Site & Soils Evaluation Field Days

Site and Soils Evaluation Field Days provide an opportunity to learn more about performing detailed site visits and designing systems for difficult situations and soils.  This training workshop will provide information on assessing soil structure, texture, and consistence as well as assessing site conditions and constraints, logging information and applying that knowledge to the design of onsite systems.

Available training dates are available on each province’s online store.

Mound Installation Field Day

Mound Installation Field Days provide instruction for those interested in learning more about designing and installing mounds. Registrants participating in this training session will focus on the following outcomes:

Dates to be Announced

  • Understand the basic principles of how mounds work – treatment in sand layer and dispersal horizontally. Apply soil evaluation information. Understand ground water mounding.
  • Learn mound design configurations and materials
  • Basic knowledge of utilizing topography of installation site.
  • Know factors in locating the mound – slope vs. level, clearance separations, vertical separations, fill materials for raised bed.
  • Ability to design pressure distribution laterals for mound, orientation of orifices, spacing, preferred vs. cost.
  • Knowledge of and ability to apply regulatory requirements
  • Ability to interpret mound design worksheet
  • Ability to complete mound design worksheet
  • Ability to describe construction practices.
  • Ability to perform clarity test on sand.
  • Identify typical mound failure.
  • Ability to apply soil characteristics at site to mound design, identify key material requirements and calculate mound size.

Pressure Distribution Workshops

Pressure Distribution workshops provide instruction on how to plan a pressure distribution system.  Students will learn how different sizes and types of pipes and pumps affect the pressure distribution system, how to calculate friction loss and pressure head and how to plan a system that takes into account the loading constraints of the site it will be installed on.

Dates to be Announced

Treatment Field Installation Field Day

Participants in this field day will review the design for a pressure distributed field and then apply that design in a field situation. Participants will excavate the field, set the pump, build and test the pressure distribution system, install the chamber system or piping and rock and complete the system to complete cover and commissioning.

Dates to be Announced

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