California Water Treatment Certification

To work on a drinking water treatment system distribution system or in a wastewater treatment plant you must have a valid operator certificate or an operator in training certificate from the state water board.
California water treatment certification. Cwea educates and certifies water quality professionals disseminates technical information and promotes sound environmental policies. Application for examination or re. Additionally the wwocp classifies wastewater treatment plants. Page 1 of 2.
Cwea is a proud member association of the water environment federation and we are a nonprofit tax exempt 501 c 3 organization. The dwocp is responsible for the testing and certification of approximately 35 000 water treatment and water distribution operators throughout the state of california. For the next cycle the wastewater treatment plant operator certification examinations will include both formula sheets. Proposedexamination equivalents and formulas sheet the wastewater operator certification program wwocp will be updating the examination equivalents and formulas sheet.
Effective july 1 2014 the responsibility for california s operator certification program for operators of public water systems was transferred from the cdph to the state water resources control board state water board. Swrcb 8629 6 2020 treatment exam application. This course is designed to give operators an overview of wastewater treatment plants and safe plant procedures and to train operators to safely and effectively operate preliminary and primary treatment processes as well as lagoon systems. You may use wastewater experience gained outside california provided you were a certified wastewater operator and performing duties that would require certification in california.
State of california state water resources control board. The wastewater operator certification program wwocp administers wastewater treatment plant certification examinations certifications grades i to v and certification renewals. The transfer was accomplished by means of the addition of new section 116271 to the health and safety code. This means that on completion of this course you ll meet the minimum qualifications needed to take the california grade 2 water treatment license exam in california.