The Colorado Rural Water Association has acquired a Mobile Training Unit, a 28-foot trailer that takes the training sessions to the state's rural communities, to assist them in bringing their water and wastewater systems up to their maximum potential. The unit was acquired by the CRWA with assistance from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
The "Team Rural Water" Mobile Training Unit will be on display outside the Western State College Union Thursday and Friday at the 33rd Colorado Water Workshop, open for visitors to see how the Association works "down on the ground" to fulfill its mission "to provide professional training and technical assistance to rural and small communities as they endeavor to maintain industry standards, meet regulatory deadlines, and attain multi-level certifications of their water and wastewater systems operators."
Recently, the "Team Rural Water" team got called into action above and beyond normal training requirements. When Alamosa had a major outbreak of salmonella cases, ultimately traced to their untreated drinking water, the CRWA mobile unit became a "Command Center" for the outside assistance brought in to help the Alamosa staff control and eventually eradicate the salmonella contamination. Assistance came from most of the major cities on the Front Range as well as the CRWA, and the Mobile Training Unit was used to train ad hoc field teams of volunteers who ranged through the city checking the results of efforts to flush the city of salmonella. For the full story, Click here.
The Colorado Rural Water Association provides technical assistance and training to Colorado's public and private water and wastewater systems serving populations less than 10,000, which includes about 98 percent of Colorado's 2,095 public water systems.
