Wastewater Education, in partnership with NOWRA, will offer two web-based, interactive and real-time distance learning seminars on June 13. Both seminars will be case studies of innovative approaches to addressing problems many communities face: How to manage onsite wastewater systems in their jurisdictions, and how to help homeowners finance repair or replacement of failing systems.
The first seminar will look in depth at the Otter Tail Water Management District, a small regional program in western Minnesota that is an example of an affordable and effective program for managing individual and cluster systems. This session, June 13 at 1:30 p.m. EST, will be led by Sara Heger, an extension engineer with the University of Minnesota Water Resource Center (and past chair of NOWRA's Education Committee).
The second seminar, June 13 at 2:45 p.m. EST, will examine Enterprise Cascadia’s Hood Canal Septic Loan program. This region-wide effort serves several counties on Washington’s Hood Canal and provides a straightforward way for low- and middle-income homeowners to secure grants or loans to repair or replace failing systems. Terry Hull, who runs the septic loan program, will lead the session and offer suggestions about how to replicate it elsewhere. This seminar will be held June 13, 2011 at 2:45 pm EST.
