The Wastewater Enthusiast
Welcome! I’m a California Grade 5 Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator and Chief Plant Operator. I also hold a CA D3 Drinking Water Distribution Operator Certificate and a CA T2 Drinking Water Treatment Plant Operator Certificate.
This channel is here to help you become a certified wastewater treatment plant operator. I share insights from real-world plant experience, process control, and test taking strategies to help you pass your exam and start your career.
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The Wastewater Enthusiast
As I build next week’s Wastewater Terminology Exam Prep I’m seeing I can go one of two ways with it. I can either do one long livestream that covers grades 1 through 3 terminology, or I could do two smaller streams. In that scenario, next week would cover grades 1 and 2 (entry level) and then grade 3 (journey level) at a later time, probably in March. Which would you prefer? Vote below!
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The next Wastewater Exam Prep Livestream will be January 22 from 12PM to 1PM Pacific Time! We will be doing a Wastewater Terminology flashcard style study session. This is free and open to everyone! The Grades V/Class A one I’m planning to do the 2nd or 3rd week of February. That will also be free and open to everyone! As usual, if you can’t make it, then the replay will be available to watch. Hope to see you there!
1 week ago | [YT] | 29
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Hey All! I’m letting my viewers (and anyone else who might see this) know that I’m presenting a FREE 1 hour webinar on Solids Handling January 13 from 8:15-9:15AM PST. I will be covering Thickening, Digestion, and Dewatering. It will be in a different platform called Training Link. Again, it’s free and open to everyone. The link is below and I hope to see y’all there!
www.dkf-traininglink.com/registration-link/webinar…
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 35
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You all overwhelmingly voted for Wastewater Terminology as the next livestream. This will be flashcard style, free, and open for everyone! I’m looking at the last 2 weeks of January and it’ll probably be an hour long. Those who wanted Grade V / Class A exam prep, fear not! That one is coming 2-3 weeks after the terminology one. So for Wastewater Terminology, vote below on which day works best for you! (Worth noting that the replay will be available if you can’t make it!)
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 21
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Planning the next wastewater exam prep livestream (free and open to everyone!), and I’ve been getting requests from viewers to do terminology rather than the Grade IV/V (Class A). I also know some folks are looking forward to the Grades IV/V prep. Vote below on which one you’d like to see in late January. Whichever one comes in second I’ll do in February. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 16
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New video coming out Monday the 22nd at 9AM PST all about centrifugal blowers and their many roles in wastewater treatment! It includes a Grade V / Class A math problem.
Separately I also have a fun livestream planned for Tuesday at 12PM PST for the Chief Operator members!
4 weeks ago | [YT] | 52
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I’m stoked to share that the State of Oregon DEQ has approved the final edit of our “How To Get Certified” wastewater operator collaboration video. I plan to post it tomorrow so keep an eye out! Happy to have Oregon join this channel’s list of tutorials!
1 month ago | [YT] | 31
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Hey All! I’m looking at Tuesday 12/22 as our first member live stream! I will be going into detail about what happened at the plant last week when a chamber on our MBR foamed over (thankfully just soufflé level foaming - no violations just a bit of cleanup!). I’ll have pictures and I’ll share what happened leading up to it, what we did to mitigate it as we saw it getting bad, how we diverted flow on the plant so we could keep processing water, and what the long term solution ended up being. Of course any member questions about exams and career prep will be answered. As we get closer to the date, I’ll share the timing - I’m thinking around noon and we’ll go for 30-45 mins. This is for the Chief level membership only. The replay will be available for members if you can’t make it.
Wanna join us? Sign up for the Chief Member level here:
youtube.com/channel/UCc2RZhder1-THc_-rlGSAMA/join
1 month ago | [YT] | 17
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The Grade III Wastewater Exam Prep Livestream is built and ready to roll! It’s THIS Thursday 12/4 12PM - 2PM PST, but will prob run longer than 2 hours. It’s free and open to everyone! Am I posting the replay immediately afterwards for everyone to use for studying? You betcha! Bring your calculators for the math, and your thinking cap for the true/false and multiple choice segments. The live chat will be open for questions. See you then!
1 month ago | [YT] | 28
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So this happened today. We hit 3,000 subscribers! Thanks to you all for your support. Onward to 4,000!
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