Onsite Wastewater Treatment Short Course
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.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:00 pm
Introduction to Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems
Introduction to onsite wastewater
Wastewater quality and quantity
Soil and site evaluations
Landscape position
Linear loading rates
Septic Tanks
Design
Sizing
Construction
Operation and maintenance
Alternative Treatment Technologies
Aerobic treatment units
Sizing aerobic treatment units
Subsurface drip irrigation systems
Sizing drip irrigation systems
Choosing the System to Fit the Site
Gravity flow distribution
Basic pressure distribution
Advanced pressure distribution
Elevated mound systems
Credits
Architects
6.0 HSW Contact Hours
6.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.0 Contact Hours (PDHs)
Onsite Wastewater Operators
Kansas CE Approval Pending
6.0 Missouri CEUs
Contractors
Non-Mandatory Cont. Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects and 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Kansas.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885).
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida and is deemed an approved 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.
HalfMoon Education has applied to the Kansas Bureau of Water, Operator Certification Program for course approval for all operators. The application is under review. Course approval is also applied for and pending for Missouri onsite sewage system installers. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has approved 6.0 total CEUs for this event (Basic Installers: 3.25 SU/2.75GU; Advanced Installers: 6.0 SU; Inspectors/Evaluators: 1.75SU/4.25 GU; Onsite Soil Evaluators: 1.75SU/4.25 GU; Percolation Testers: 6.0GU).
This seminar provides a continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been submitted to any state contractor licensing board for continuing education approval.
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
Tom Fritts
Vice President Residential Sewage Treatment Company (RSTC)
Mr. Fritts is vice-president of Residential Sewage Treatment Company, Inc., in Grandview, Missouri where they design, sell and service alternative onsite wastewater systems. He is past president of the Missouri Smallflows Organization (MSO), the Kansas Small Flows Association (KSFA) and the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA). He is an approved instructor for NOWRA, the Consortium of Institutes for Decentralized Wastewater Treatment, and for several states across the country. Mr. Fritts is the 2016 recipient of the NOWRA “Dick Otis Industry Achievement Award” and the 2015 Kansas Small Flows Association “Raymond Peat Industry Achievement Award.”