Dave Leister - Training Specialist
The New Jersey Water Association (NJWATER) has several different programs that specialize in matters of water and wastewater. The Drinking Water Programs focus on assisting water utilities with training sessions, CCR development, facility maintence and productivity. The drinking water program also helps small water systems that may have questions about compliance, treatment techniques and license renewals. The assistance to rural or small community systems is met with the help of borrowing equipment for basic line location and leak detection. This program will also assist systems on-site if requested.

                       Source Water Protection          
                       Groundwater Protection  
The Source Water Program helps with every aspect of groundwater protection and environmental education. The Souce Water Protection program helps utilities take an active approach on protecting their groundwater and surface water supplies. Using a community-based approach this program helps to provide technical assistance in drafting a water systems SWAP or Wellhead Protection Plan. This information can then be crafted into a public relations tool or school outreach initive. This program has see great success in many communities throughout New Jersey!  These protection programs help with ordiance writting and system delineations. The Sourcewater Program utilizes current Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. This combined with data from a variety of state agencies yeilds the production of high quality, detailed and informative maps for  the participating water systems. All of this assistance is provided at no charge to the utility.  

Rod Lucas - Wastewater Specialist
The Wastewater Program assists small communities and municipalities with many issues in waste water management. This programs circuit rider travels the entire state assisting in effulent operations, maintenance programs, and troubleshooting. The use of our new lateral sewer camera can aid in finding blockages and obstructions in sewer lines. For more information on the Wastewater Program please clink the link above.  

Since the September 11th terriost attacks a special focus has been place on assisting small and large utilities in bolstering Security & Vulnerability of their systems inside and out. The 2002 Bioterrorism Response Act (PL 107-188) required  water systems to prepare and submit a Vulnerability Assessment (VA) and an Emergency Response Plan(ERP).This program assisted in helping complete those VA and ERP"s. This program is still available to all for security and vulnerability questions.

The  Equipment for Loan is a service that we provide giving access to tools useful in the water and wastewater trade. Some equipment includes ground penetrating radar, ZCor wireless loggers, and Trimble GPS. Also including any technical white papers, fact sheets, booklets, handouts from NJGS, NJDEP,EPA and NRWA. This and any other non-copyright protected information that may be useful in educational outreach, technical assistance or training. Please be aware that there are certain limitation regarding this service so please click the link to this site for more details.