14. Capacity Assurance, Management, Operation, and Maintenance (CMOM) Objectives
Following completion of Chapter 14, students should be able to prepare and implement a CMOM program for their collection system utility. The CMOM program should contain elements on how to:
- Manage a collection system.
- Enforce their legal authority.
- Administer their utility's finances.
- Recruit and motivate personnel.
- Promote training and certification.
- Support the safety program.
- Maintain warehouse and inventory.
- Design collection system facilities.
- Construct and inspect facilities.
- Perform a sewer system evaluation survey (SSES).
- Conduct a system capacity assurance program.
- Supervise and evaluate a water quality monitoring program.
- Schedule maintenance.
- Manage a collection system O&M program.
- Supervise a sewer cleaning program.
- Control and monitor hydrogen sulfide.
- Operate and maintain lift stations.
- Inspect and rehabilitate manholes.
- Televise collection system sewers.
- Reduce infiltration/inflow (I/I).
- Conduct smoke testing and dyed water flooding.
- Repair and rehabilitate sewers.
- Maintain right-of-ways.
- Minimize SSOs and CSOs.
- Comply with their NPDES permit and applicable rules and regulations.
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