Upcoming training events

Upcoming online and in-person training available

We have an assortment of trainings to share with you from the division's Local Assistance Unit and our training partners.

CDPHE - in-person and virtual training

You and your water utility personnel are invited to receive FREE training. For each training, follow the registration button and click on the date that you would like to attend. We offer courses all year long! Fill out the associated registration form. After you register, the department will send an email with information on how to access the online platform or the in-person location of the training.

Building Resilience in Your Water/Wastewater System

Upcoming offerings:

Webinar 3/21/23

Western Slope (location tbd) 6/8/23

Training to build resilience in your water sector and your community. Operators who participate can earn up to .4 TUs.

The training aims to:

• Create, implement, and build upon your emergency management plans.
• Improve your system’s security measures.
• Take stock of your current financial situation.
• Plan for your financial future. 
• Navigate State Revolving Fund (SRF) funding opportunities.

CDPHE - Lead and Copper Rule Revision

Upcoming offerings:

Webinar 5/4/23

Webinar 6/14/23

Webinar 6/22/23

Durango, CO 7/20/23

Training on the upcoming requirements for the Lead and Copper Rule Revision. Operators who participate can get .2 training units.  Our goal is that you will leave this training:

• Prepared you to comply with Lead and Copper Rule Revision
• With tools, templates, resources
• With a plan of action to create a Lead Service Line Inventory and a Lead Service Line Replacement Plan
• With a plan of who will be carrying out action items
• A timeline to develop your inventory and plan by October, 2024

Please use the button below to register. Click on the date that you would like to attend, and fill out the associated registration form.

Contact

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Rocky Mountain Section AWWA (RMSAWWA) - Action Now Seminars for 2023

About this seminars:

Action Now seminars are geared toward providing water industry personnel with current information and training addressing relevant issues in the water industry. They also provide an excellent opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and problem-solve with fellow associates. CO Certification Training Units (TU's) for attending this program will be issued on the CCWP Portal after the completion of this seminar. 0.65 TUs are offered for this seminar – pending approval by CCWP. Topics are subject to change: PRV’s and Control Valves, Mandatory Regulatory Training, Fluoride in drinking water, Seals – Pumps and Motors, Pipe construction and tapping, sanitary survey prep, and lead and copper rule revision.

Dates & locations:

• April 20 - Sterling
• May 18 – Durango
• June 15 – Buena Vista
• July 20 – Glenwood Springs
• August 17 –Trinidad (*NEW location)
• October 19 – La Junta
• November 16 - Grand Junction

Registration rates:

Price: $120 (during early bird pricing) – Breakfast & Lunch included

National Rural Water - Protecting Your Water Utility From Cyberattacks

About the webinar:

Rural water utilities face cybersecurity challenges and technical vulnerabilities that are unique unto them. This webinar will discuss navigating these challenges; managing cyber risks; and recommended steps to protect systems, including examining high-profile rural cyberattacks. Speakers: Cody P. Bann, Edward Noyes, Eric Conder

Date:

March 23, 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT

Registration rates:

There is no charge to attend this event but registration is required. 

EPA - Applying Principles of Asset Management to Lead Service Line Inventories

About the webinar:

EPA established the Lead and Copper Rule to protect public health and reduce exposure to lead and copper in drinking water. The most common sources of lead in drinking water are lead pipes and plumbing components. There are still an estimated 6 to 10 million lead service lines in cities and towns across the country, many of which are in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. New rule requirements are targeting these lead pipes, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and its provisions appropriated $15 billion specifically for lead service line inventories and replacements.

During this webinar, EPA will present how the core concepts of asset management can help utilities build their lead service line inventories, as well as DWSRF funding mechanisms to help support lead service line inventories and replacements.

Date:

March 27, 2023 at 11:00 am MDT 

Registration rates:

There is no charge to attend this event but registration is required. 

EPA - Cybersecurity Assessment Training for Public Water Systems Webinar

About the webinar:

This two-part webinar series for Public Water Systems (PWS) will demonstrate how to use the cybersecurity checklist to assess their program, information on how to address vulnerabilities, and available resources. Attendees are encouraged to attend both Part One and Part Two of the Series

Dates:

Part 1: March 21, 2023 at 10:00 am - 1:00pm MDT 

Part 2: March 23, 2023 at 10:00am - 1:00pm MDT

Registration rates:

There is no charge to attend this event but registration is required. 

CISA - Region 8 Emergency Action Plan Webinar

About the webinar:

The DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is hosting a 1-hour webinar to provide tools and resources to assist with emergency action planning.

Organizations of all types and sizes, including businesses, critical infrastructure owners and operators, and community partners face a variety of security risks and threats. Thorough planning for these threats lays the foundation for effective response and recovery from an incident or disaster.

The Emergency Action Plan Webinar will provide an overview of considerations and resources to develop and implement emergency action plans that support integrated preparedness planning efforts. The topics will include information on forming a planning team, conducting risk assessments, establishing goals and objectives, drafting a plan, and conducting training and exercises to review and improve preparedness.

For more information about emergency action plans email CISA Region 8 at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Date:

March 21, 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT

Registration rates:

There is no charge to attend this event but registration is required. 

CISA - Introduction to Network Diagramming Webinar

About the webinar:

To protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an agency’s network and the data contained therein, cybersecurity professionals must be able to identify their network enterprise accurately and completely. Network diagrams are essential and serve to help visualize what is on the network, how the overall network is structured, and how all the devices on the network are connected. Every organization should build and maintain current and accurate network diagrams to help manage their network architecture and ultimately determine how to best mitigate potential or realized risks and vulnerabilities. This webinar is accessible to a non-technical audience and beginning incident responders. 

This webinar includes the following information and more:

• Importance of Network Diagrams: Students will learn the importance of creating and maintaining network topology diagrams. Students will also understand the importance of identifying data flows and storage, identifying remote access points and external connections, and network segmentation for security.
• Key Guidance for Organizations: CISA provides guidance on what to include in network diagrams. 
• Knowledge check: The course concludes with a brief knowledge check section to reinforce key concepts and takeaways.

Date:

March 23, 2023 9:00am - 10:00am MDT

Registration rates:

There is no charge to attend this event but registration is required. 

CISA - Defend Against Ransomware

About the webinar:

Ransomware attacks hit a new target every 14 seconds—shutting down digital operations, stealing information and exploiting businesses, essential services, and individuals alike. This one-hour webinar provides essential knowledge and reviews real-life examples of these attacks to help you and your organization to mitigate and respond to the ever-evolving threat of ransomware. This webinar is accessible to a non-technical audience and beginning incident responders. 

This webinar includes the following information and more:

• Common attack methods: Learn the definition of ransomware, summary of its large-scale impacts, and how these attacks have developed over time. The webinar will discuss common signs of a ransomware attack and how to respond if an attack is suspected.
• Key Guidance for Organizations: CISA provides guidance for how to mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks and recover in the  event of an attack.
• Case studies: Explore the methods and impacts of real-life cyber-attacks, and how the victims responded and recovered. 
• Knowledge check: The course concludes with a brief knowledge check section to reinforce key concepts and takeaways.

Date:

April 6, 2023 9:00am - 10:00am MDT

Registration rates:

There is no charge to attend this event but registration is required. 

CISA - Preventing Web and Email Server Attacks

About the webinar:

Participants will be introduced to common web and email vulnerabilities, as well as the technologies of encryption and authentication to enhance web and email security. This course uses active participation to facilitate realistic technical training and interaction opportunities for learners.

Experience these benefits and more:

• Practice in a realistic environment: Analyze network and host-based artifacts and implement remediation changes for the identified vulnerabilities. 
• Learn how to implement CISA guidance: Course exercises include implementation of the recommendations in BOD 18-01.
• Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in real time: Students will identify common web and email vulnerabilities and mitigate them by reconfiguring the web server and DNS settings.
• Expert facilitation and peer discussion: Throughout the course, expert cybersecurity engineers will moderate discussion and conduct a recovery debrief for the exercises. Participants are also encouraged to help one another and address peer questions.

This exercise is a step-by-step, facilitated experience that uses a keyboard approach to understand these topics in a realistic technical environment.

• This course is ideal for those working in cybersecurity roles who are interested in learning technical incident response skills and requires active engagement from all participants. The course assumes a mixed audience (e.g., from disparate teams and organizations) of mixed capability.

Date:

April 13, 2023 7:00am - 11:00am MDT

Registration rates:

There is no charge to attend this event but registration is required. 

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2022-2023 Water Quality Improvement Fund Grant Request for Applications - Category 1

Stormwater management training and best management practices training to reduce pollution in state waters

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control Division (WQCD), is now accepting applications for the Water Quality Improvement Fund (WQIF) Grant - Category 1. The deadline for submitting applications is 2:00 p.m. MDT on April 20, 2023. Interested parties may access the request for applications (RFA) at WQCD Water Quality Grants.

Questions regarding the RFA must be submitted no later than 2:00 p.m. MDT on April 3, 2023, using the Google form in the Request for Applications.

The RFA consists of a total of $200,000 awarded for Category 1 Projects, as defined by Regulation 55.3, with each project initially receiving at most $100,000. Additional funding may be extended to awarded projects that received funding through this RFA for up to two additional years, with a possible total of $300,000 available each in year two and year three, with no project receiving more than $100,000 per fiscal year. 

Eligible entities include governmental agencies; publicly owned water systems; private, not-for-profit public water systems; not-for-profit watershed groups; not-for-profit stormwater program administrators in accordance with 25-8-802 Colorado Revised Statutes; not-for-profit training providers; and private landowners impacted by a water quality violation are eligible to apply for grant funds.

The WQIF program includes five types of project eligibility (Categories 1 - 5) as outlined in Regulation 55. This RFA solicits applications only for Category 1. RFA for the remaining categories is anticipated to run at a later date, subject to funding availability.

Instructions for applying, including the complete details for eligibility requirements for all funding and the project point ranking used for ranking and scoring applications, are included in the 2022-2023 WQCD Water Quality Improvement Fund RFA document.

cdphe.colorado.gov/water-quality

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