This year’s Pumper & Cleaner education program offers 84 seminars given by industry experts covering a full range of topics for environmental service professionals.
The lineup includes instruction on industry-specific in-field techniques as well as sound business and management practices of interest to any business owner. Once again, the lineup for Education Day (Wednesday, March 2) is broken into tracks hosted by leading industry associations.
Seminars on Thursday and Friday, March 3 and 4, provide more learning opportunities and include an expanded lineup of sessions presented in Spanish. Here is a brief look at the education program. For more information on seminar times, locations and speakers, visit www.pumpershow.com.
EDUCATION DAY
Leaders Resource Network
This series of seminars emphasizing business skills attracts large crowds every year. Sessions include:
Profile of a Successful Business
Successful Business Best Practice Discussion
Successful Business Profile sessions (three)
Panel discussion with couples in business together
These seminars dispense general business knowledge but have a special focus on portable restroom and septic system service companies.
Southern Section Collection Systems Committee
These sessions are of special interest to sewer service contractors and municipal managers in charge of collection systems. Sessions include:
Sewer Collection System History and the Evaluation of Pipeline Materials and Problems
Combo Vacuuming: A Forgotten Art
Keeping Your Standard CCTV Inspection Program Relevant
Growing Your Business by Building Your Company Image
Pump Station and Lift Station Fundamentals and How to Achieve Maximum Service and Reliability
Making Sense out of Nozzle Nonsense
NASSCO
This track provides insights on the finer points of pipeline inspection, evaluation, and rehabilitation, especially with trenchless technologies. Seminars include:
Grout: Its Use and Application for the Total Collection System
Look Ma, No Hands: Using Automated Controls in Temporary Bypass Pumping Applications
Pipe Bursting Tools for Everyday Utility Installations
How Will You Know if You Need to do a Sewer System Evaluation Survey (SSES)?
Laser Profiling Applications for Documenting Piping System Conditions
Advancements in UV Technology for Curing CIPP
National Environmental Health Association
This series covers a broad range of topics of interest to professionals who install, inspect and service onsite wastewater treatment systems. Seminars include:
The Qualified O&M Service Provider: An Opportunity to Do Well While Doing Good
Effluent Screens and Filters for Onsite Applications
Develop Champions for Your Decentralized Wastewater Projects by Harnessing the Smart Growth Concept
The Business of Management
Developing O&M Inspection Actions in Partnership to Improve the Quality of O&M
Building a Successful O&M Program: Working with Regulators, Regulations and Industry
National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association
This track covers more topics related to the design, installation and management of onsite systems. Seminars include:
Pumps: A Basic Understanding
Selling the System to the Site Conditions
Effluent Dispersal and Water Management Around Soil Absorption and Treatment Systems
Troubleshooting Our Modern Waste Stream
System Remediation: Why, What, When, Where and How
Sampling Sewage Treatment Systems
WaterJet Technology Association
These sessions cover topics of interest to professionals in the high-pressure cleaning and industrial vacuum sectors. Seminars include:
Estimating the Vacuum Job for Fun and Profit
How to Maximize the Power of Your Waterjetter Through Tip and Hose Selection
Waterjetting: Financial Startup Considerations and Real-World Application
Portable Sanitation Association International
Two sessions in this track highlight keys to profitable operations in the portable restroom industry. Seminars include:
Understanding Your True Cost Per Service For Special Events
Understanding Your True Cost: PSAI panel of experts
Safety Management Systems
A single session is offered: Avoiding Violation Fines & Tickets with DOT Safety Compliance Required.
National Association of Wastewater Transporters
NAWT presents six sessions dedicated to professionals in septic system pumping, operations and maintenance, grease pumping, waste treatment and system installation. Seminars include:
So You Think You Want to Own a Waste Treatment Facility?
Grease as a Resource
Resource Recovery: Methane and Septage
O&M Problems on Drip Distribution Systems
O&M Problems We Have Seen
O&M Problems With Media Filters
Scott Hunter
Here is a special series of five seminars on building leadership skills and establishing a strong and prosperous business, given by motivational speaker and business coach Scott Hunter. Seminars are:
The Mindset of Leadership, Part One
The Mindset of Leadership, Part Two
The Mindset of Leadership, Part Three
Creating an Outrageously Successful Organization, Part One
Creating an Outrageously Successful Organization, Part Two
THURSDAY, MARCH 3
Business Track
45 Marketing Tips in 45 Minutes
The Benefits of Vehicle Routing Software in Today’s Economy
Unleashing the Power to Profit and Freedom
Liquid Waste Track
The Evolution of Effluent Filters
Life Cycle: From Waste to Windfall
Take Confined Space Seriously: A Matter of Life and Death
New Business Opportunity Track
Centripipe (Centrifugally Cast Concrete Pipe)
Valve Exercising and Fire Flow Testing for a Reliable Water Distribution System
The Basics of Buying and Selling a Septic or Sewer Business Company
Municipal Track
Think Like Grout: For Better Point Repair of Below Grade Structures
CCTV Inspections Evolve to Unparalleled Heights
Manhole Chimney Section Rebuilds
Installer Track
Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Technology for Decentralized Wastewater Systems
Shallow Pressurized Drainfields for Soil-Based Effluent Dispersal
Onsite System Solutions for Shallow Installations
Spanish Track
Técnicas Corrientes de Limpieza de Tuberías (Current Pipeline Cleaning Technologies)
Avances en la Evaluación de Tuberías y Tecnologías sin Zanja para Rehabilitación de Tuberías (Latest Advances in Pipeline Assessment, Pipeline Rehabilitation and Trenchless Technologies)
La Elección de Boquillas en la Limpieza de Drenajes (The Selection of Nozzles for Sewer Cleaning)
Advanced Installer Course
Introduction and Site Evaluation
System Sizing and Basic Design Principles
Pumping to Systems
Installations of ATUs
Installing for Management
Troubleshooting Systems
FRIDAY, MARCH 4
Municipal Track
Large Pipe Inspection
Chemical Grouts & Grouting Methods
Sectional CIPP Repairs Per ASTM F2599
Business Track
Save Money – Go Paperless
Marketing Your Septic/Drain Service Business
Evolving Your Business with Digital Solutions
Spanish Track
Abriendo Caminos - Pathways
Efficient Cleanup Operations of Any Latin American Sewer Network
Rodding Equipment and Simple Tools for Sewer Cleaning
Liquid Waste/Installer Track
Grease Interceptor 101
Data Logging for Onsite Septic System Diagnosis
Belt Press Performance Optimization
Sewer & Drain Cleaning Track
InLine Cutting Tools – Taking Science to the Sewer
Waterjetting: Impact on Drain Cleaning
Jetters: Don’t Underestimate Your Cable Machines
Portable Restroom Track
Routing Efficiency and Analysis
Give Me 3 Reasons Why I Should Advertise My Portable Restroom Company
Pathways.
Early registration costs just $40 per person (until Jan. 28). At-the-door registration is $60 for the full program. To find out more, visit www.pumpershow.com or call 866/933-2653.
