The National Environmental Services Center is a long-time partner of RCAP and offers assistance, solutions and knowledge.
For more than 30 years, NESC has helped thousands of small, rural communities with their drinking water, wastewater, environmental training, infrastructure resilience, and utility management needs--leading them to solutions to the problems they face.
Its staff of environmental specialists, engineers, certified operators, writers, editors, and trainers understands the latest technologies, regulations, and industry developments. They use this understanding to sort through journal articles, public relations media releases, personal interviews, and many other information sources so they can provide you with objective information and assist you in making intelligent decisions that affect your communities.
NESC is based at West Virginia University (WVU).
NESC's services include:
- toll-free technical assistance from a staff of certified operators, engineers, and scientists: (800) 624-8301
- a website [1] with free access to thousands of articles and other pieces of information
- electronic publications (On Tap, a magazine about drinking water; Small Flows, a magazine about wastewater treatment; and Pipeline, a newsletter about wastewater topics for the general public)
- training materials, such as our popular Tech Briefs
- more than 1,000 free and low-cost educational products [2]