Site Supervisor Training Workshop

Guidelines for Successful Recycled Water Use

As part of our commitment to customer use of recycled water, South Bay Water Recycling provides a short course for site supervisors. The workshop includes information to assist in the effective operation and management of a recycled water irrigation system. Property owners and facility managers whose sites are served with recycled water are responsible for their on-site recycled water systems. Each site must have a certified site supervisor. Site supervisors become certified by attending one of these workshops to fulfill their recycled water permit requirements.

Training Workshop Schedule

Workshop Topics

The workshops focus on the importance of recycled water, the site supervisor's role, guidelines for recycled water use, and an overview on how to develop and successfully manage landscapes using recycled water.

Site supervisors should:

1. Be knowledgeable about recycled water and how it is manufactured.
2. Be the contact person at your site.
3. Be knowledgeable about the practices and procedures of using recycled water.
4. Be responsible for the safe and efficient use of recycled water.
5. Provide training to operations personnel.
6. Maintain drawings of your site.
7. Communicate all recycled water rules and regulations to operations personnel.
8. Inform your retail water agency of all failures.

Some basic guidelines for recycled water use include: avoiding cross connections; maintaining proper signage; and completing annual self-inspection reports. Additional guidelines are provided in the Customer Information Manual that attendees of the workshop receive. At the workshop, SBWR staff review specific landscape development and maintenance issues, provide examples and suggestions, and answer questions.

South Bay Water Recycling must be notified of the recycled water site name, site address and meter number(s) of sites for which you will be the site supervisor. Please provide this information on the day of the workshop.

Register online for the next training!

Download the registration form (MS Word Document, 77 KB)

Fax or mail it in to the number and address on the form.

For questions regarding future workshops and registration information please call or email Tina Gonterman, Site Supervisor Training Workshop Coordinator, at (408) 363-4717; tina.gonterman@sanjoseca.gov.

Updated 2/1/10

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