Ohio Septic System Short Course Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:15 pm
Septic Systems
Sewage disposal historical background
• Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio perspectives
What a basic septic system is composed of and how it works
Septic tank design and how they work
Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems
System design
Siting
Construction
Alternative Treatment Technologies
Mound systems
Sand bioreactor systems (aka sand filter systems)
Media filters – peat, textile
System Management
System inspections
Regular maintenance
Troubleshooting
Credits
Architects
6.0 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
6.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Construction Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This live lecture presentation is open to the public and offers 6.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects and 6.0 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for mandatory continuing education credit.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Dr. Karen Mancl
Professor of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Water Quality Specialist at The Ohio State University
Dr. Mancl has published over 50 journal articles and 80 Extension publications on rural infrastructure and outreach initiatives. She is a nationally known expert in onsite wastewater treatment, having conducted research, written and taught the subject over 30 years.
Dr. Mancl is the past-president and now vice-president of the Ohio Onsite Wastewater Association. In 2013, Dr. Mancl constructed a teaching facility at a slaughterhouse in southwestern Ohio to teach low-cost, low-energy treatment of food processing wastewater. At this outdoor teaching and research facility, Dr. Mancl teaches designers, installers and regulators the science and technology of sand bioreactor wastewater treatment systems.
She is originally from Wisconsin where she received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Mancl has a master’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Texas, and received her PhD degree in Water Resources from Iowa State University.
In 2010, she received a second MA Degree in East Asian Studies and conducts research and teaches wastewater treatment in rural China. In 2019, she received her third MA Degree in Public Policy and conducts research at the Woodrow Wilson Center – China Environment Forum on environmental policy in rural China.