Stormwater and Wastewater System Inspection
Test Development and Supporting Organizations
Development of the program was initiated in 1999 at the request of the Five Cities Plus Regional Group representing metropolitan, county, and city-wide sanitary and wastewater district owners and consultants from Northern Kentucky Sanitary Dist. No. 1, Lexington-Fayette County, Louisville, and Fort Wright, Kentucky; Fort Wayne, Evansville, Terre Haute, and Indianapolis, Indiana; Columbus, Cincinnati, Lima, ORSANCO, and Dayton, Ohio; ALCOSAN (Pittsburgh); Wheeling, West Virginia; and St. Louis and Jefferson City, Missouri.
Through a practice analysis, a volunteer panel of subject matter experts identified engineering technicians' job tasks and responsibilities and categorized them into work elements. Volunteers then submitted and reviewed examination questions for each of the work elements. In the original, two-level program that launched in the summer of 2001, the inspection details were established by an oversight committee representing only the major Five Cities Plus Jurisdictions. The resulting program was therefore initially classified as a regional certification even though it was available to applicants throughout all regions of the United States. A third Level of certification was added in the summer of 2002.
Over the next few years, the Five Cities Plus Regional Group adjusted the program’s work elements to reflect a wider variety of Stormwater technologies, and a panel of subject matter experts from around the country validated the expanded program for use nationwide. The remodeled national, four-level program was launched in July of 2006.
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