Rural Community Assistance Partnership

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February 2012

Sample Job Description: Certified Water Operator

A sample document that you can use as a template for your system.

Sample Job Description: Certified Water Operator

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Format: 
Template
Topic: 
Workforce
Source: 
RCAP
Audience: 
Operator
Board/council member
Mayor/town manager/elected official (local)
Plant manager

Sample Job Description: General Manager

A sample document that you can use as a template for your system.

Sample Job Description: General Manager

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Format: 
Template
Topic: 
Workforce
Source: 
RCAP
Audience: 
Board/council member
Mayor/town manager/elected official (local)
Plant manager

Sample Standard Operating Procedures

A sample document that you can use as a template for your system.

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Format: 
Template
Topic: 
Finance
Operations (technical)
Management
Customer relations/service
Source: 
RCAP
Audience: 
Operator
Board/council member
Mayor/town manager/elected official (local)
Financial manager/accountant/bookkeeper

Ten Tips to Help Communities Hire an Engineer

This list was developed by Great Lakes RCAP. A couple of the points speak of the situation in Ohio, but the tips can be applied in other states as well.

Format: 
Checklist/how-to
Topic: 
Construction
Source: 
RCAP
Audience: 
Board/council member
Mayor/town manager/elected official (local)
Project (construction) manager

Tool to start conversation with community leaders about protecting sources of drinking water

The Source Water Collaborative (SWC) has created Your Water. Your Decision. , a guide you can customize for your community to provide members and others interested in protecting drinking water with a tool for starting a conversation with local officials about what can be done in their community to protect sources of drinking water.

The SWC is comprised of federal, state, and local partners (including RCAP) which come together to protect America's drinking water at the source - in the lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers we tap for drinking purposes.

Format: 
Template
Topic: 
Source water
Source: 
Other nonprofit/organization
Audience: 
Board/council member
Mayor/town manager/elected official (local)
State/federal decision-maker

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Consumer Confidence Reports

The eBulletin is back!

The eBulletin has returned! The Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP), through the Safe Drinking Water Trust, had brought you useful security- and management-related information for your drinking water or wastewater system every three weeks.

Format: 
Magazine/newsletter (single article)
Topic: 
Regulations
Customer relations/service
Source: 
RCAP
Audience: 
Operator
Board/council member
Mayor/town manager/elected official (local)
Plant manager

RCAP testifies at Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill

A former small-town mayor from Colorado testified Feb. 15 at a Senate hearing on behalf of the Rural Community Assistance Partnership.

Security Product Guides from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Recent events have created a heightened awareness of security surrounding the nation's critical infrastructure, including its drinking water and wastewater systems. These systems are potentially vulnerable to different kinds of natural disasters and terrorist threats. EPA has developed a series of Security Product Guides to assist treatment plant operators and utility managers in reducing risks from, and providing protection against, possible natural disasters and intentional terrorist attacks.

These guides provide information on a variety of products:

Format: 
Website (with more resources)
Topic: 
Security/emergency-response planning
Source: 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Audience: 
Operator
Board/council member
Mayor/town manager/elected official (local)
Plant manager

EPA blog: From coast to coast, skills for American workers

Nancy Stoner, acting Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Water, blogged about her visits to Atlanta and San Francisco, where she toured environmental education and green building centers.  In the post, Stoner discusses the opportunities these centers provide for new skills and career possibilities.

Read Stoner's post