North Carolina Environmental Health State of Practice

Since 1981

2023 Onsite Wastewater Repair Workshop

May 10 & 11, 2023 (10.75 hours)

  • STAFF
  • Kevin Neal, LSS, REHS, MS, Retired from NCDHHS OSWP
  • Scott Greene, NCDHHS OSWP, LSS, REHS
  • Tim Crissman, NCDHHS OSWP, REHS, MS
  • Patrick Eaton, Durham County Health Dept., REHS
  • Trish Angoli, NCDHHS OSWP, PE
  • John Kase, Wake County Environmental Services

Day 1

8:30 to 9:00 Registration

9:00 to 9:30 Participant and team issues

Three individual issues, consolidated to 6 to 8 team issues

9:30 to 9:45 Introduction to workshop and course outline

9:45 to 10:30 Team presentation of their posted issues

10:30 to 11:00 What is and is not a repair. What is maintenance.

11:00 to 11:15 Break

11:15 to 11:45 Teams evaluate a failing system (an initial scenario)

11:45 to 12:15 Best professional judgement – a concept and definition

12:15 to 1:30 Lunch – on your own

1:30 to 3:30 Systemic process for failure analysis

Repair process overview

Flowchart scenario (facilitators at each table, each table responds to chart questions and review)

3:30 to 3:45 Break

3:45 to 4:30 Permit nightmares – Fixing real world problems

4:30 Adjourn (6 hours for this day)

Day 2

9:00 to 9:30 Permit nightmares – Fixing real world problems (continued)

9:30 to 9:45 Present how scenarios will be done

Six sites selected from a list of scenarios

9:45 to 10:45 Exercise 1 –

10:45 to 11:15 Solutions to fix failing system

11:15 to 12:30 Lunch – on your own

12:30 to 1:30 Exercise 2

1:30 to 2:00 Solutions to fix failing system

2:00 to 3:00 Legal remedies

3:00 Adjourn (4.75 hours for this day)