Septic System Design, Construction and Maintenance Seminar
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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 – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:30 pm
Overview of Onsite Wastewater Treatment System Components
Source
Collection
Treatment
Dispersal
Onsite Wastewater Treatment System Regulations,
Rules and Permitting
Overview of federal, state and local rules and jurisdictions
Discharging vs subsurface
Permitting regulations
North Carolina
South Carolina
Onsite wastewater treatment system permitting differences
Surface discharges
Sub-surface discharges
On-site/Decentralized/Distributed
EPA report
Advantages/disadvantages
Traditional Septic System
Description and function
Levels of treatment for wastewater treatment systems
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Advanced Treatment System Overview
Extended aeration
Recirculating sand filters
Aerobic filters
Peat
Packed bed trickling filters
Sequencing batch reactors (SBR)
Moving bed biological reactors (MBBR)
Fixed film reactors
Membrane biological reactors (MBR)
Vegetated & constructed wetlands
Nitrogen Cycle, Nutrient Removal and Soils Analysis
and Dispersal
Sources
Concentrations
Treatment processes
Nitrogen issues
Denitrification process
Anoxic reactors
Soil testing
The “perc test”
Options for subsurface disposal
Conventional
Alternatives
Low pressure pipe (LPP)
Aerobic drip
Anaerobic drip
Managing, Monitoring On-site Wastewater Systems and System Failures
Maintenance schedules
Maintenance issues
Remote monitoring
Failing system
What constitutes a failure?
Why do systems fail?
How to repair a failing system
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW contact hours to architects in all states, excluding Florida architects. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education provider for North Carolina engineers.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Activities approved by the AIA qualify for North Carolina architects. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York.
This event offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors.
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
William Fenner
AquaPoint LLCRegional Sales Engineer, AquaPoint LLC, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Mr. Fenner is a professional engineer licensed in North Carolina. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, with a BS degree in Civil Engineering. Mr. Fenner has a varied working career including serving in the 82nd Airborne Division as a sergeant/demolition specialist, a field engineer in South America/Middle East for a French firm in the oil and gas exploration industry, a project engineer for NCDOT in the roadway design and traffic engineering branches, and a professional engineer on the North Carolina Outer Banks preparing plans, specifications and construction inspection services for real estate development projects. Since 2001, he has been focused on providing wastewater treatment approaches for small flow systems (less than 1.0 MGD) in the community distributed sewer approach and on-site treatment systems for schools campuses, shopping centers, mixed use developments, breweries, restaurants and other high-strength applications throughout the southeastern United States.