Wastewater Compliance Workshops

In 2025, over EIGHTY agencies and consulting firms participated in the Wastewater Compliance & Enforcement Training and Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshops, with rave reviews! After receiving numerous requests for additional dates and venues, we will be adding more locations in 2026, adding a new SERP update component and designing a new workshop for MS4 permittees.

2026 Workshops

WASTEWATER COMPLIANCE & ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP

Enforcement Policy Review (Collections & Treatment)
Water Board Policies/Permits
Clean Water Act Claims
Compliance Guidance

Biosolids/Land Application

Water Board Resources
Includes 2-hour SERP Update and Field Exercise

February 24 - Thousand Oaks

March 18 - San Luis Obispo

9am-3pm (6 contact hours)

$499

This six-hour workshop is designed for managers, supervisors, and operators of wastewater collections and treatment systems, as well as laboratory managers and environmental compliance staff. With over 50 years of combined water quality and regional water board experience, Jim Fischer and Tamarin Austin will guide participants through numerous hands-on modules highlighting key aspects of the Water Boards' Enforcement Policy as applied to collection system spills and wastewater treatment permit violations, resulting in a memorable training and strategies you can use to keep your system in compliance. This workshop includes the NEW SERP Update and Field Exercise.

SANITARY SEWER WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS WORKSHOP

Sanitary Sewer WDR Compliance

Sewer System Management Plans

Collection System Audit

Resources for Capital Improvements

Spill Response Strategies

Water Board Resources

February 25 - Thousand Oaks

March 17 - San Luis Obispo

9am-3pm (6 contact hours)

$499

2026 is a key audit year for most systems. Are you ready? This workshop is designed for sanitary sewer collections system and environmental compliance staff. Whether your goal is to fine-tune your collections system or overhaul it completely, this workshop will help you understand the Water Boards' Sanitary Sewer Waste Discharge Requirements, emphasizing new requirements and deadlines. A practice audit and numerous interactive exercises will prepare you for spill response, sanitary sewer management plan updates, creating or updating SOPs, and give you strategies and resources to successfully implement capital improvements.

SPILL EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN UPDATE & FIELD EXERCISE

Review Requirements for SERPs
Strategies for SERP Compliance
SERP Enforcement Scenarios
Practical Field Application

Feb 24 Thousand Oaks

March 18 San Luis Obispo

12:30-3pm (2 contact hours)

$299

This April, Spill Emergency Response Plan updates are due with system audits. This new module will prepare managers to update SERPs as well as provide a field exercise refresher for both managers and field staff. The SERP Update and Field Exercise is INCLUDED in the Wastewater Compliance & Enforcement Workshop, and appropriate for both managers and field staff, who may register for this session as a stand-alone module.

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SANITARY SEWER WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS WORKSHOP

SPILL EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN UPDATE AND FIELD EXERCISE

Why Should You Listen to Us?

James Fischer, P.E., Fischer Compliance, LLC

•Over 30 years of professional regulatory experience

•Former environmental and regulatory engineer for the State Water Board’s Office of Enforcement

•12 years as statewide lead inspector for sanitary sewer WDRs

•Fischer Compliance, LLC assists sanitary sewer agencies with self-audits and compliance

Tamarin Austin, Austin Clean Water Advisors, Inc.

•12 years litigating on behalf of water purveyors

•12 years as counsel in the State Water Board’s regional board unit

•Consulting on behalf of public/private entities

•Compliance and cleanup issues

•Permitting and project strategy

READY TO REGISTER?

Wastewater Compliance & Enforcement Workshop - $499
Sanitary Sewer Waste Discharge Requirements Workshop - $499
Spill Emergency Response Plan Update and Field Exercise - $299*

*The SERP Update and Field Exercise is included in the Wastewater Compliance & Enforcement Workshp.

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