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The Canadian Drinking Water Quality Guidelines are supported by the "Guideline Technical Documents". These documents provide detail to support Maximum Acceptable Concentration (MAC) limits for parameters within the Health Canada guidelines for Water Quality.

OETC's: Technical Guideline Review courses are a series of training courses aimed at providing the operator an in depth understanding of drinking water parameters of interest.

Understanding Chlorine - Reviewing the Canadian Technical Guidelines for Water Quality

In this course, we will review the Guideline Technical Document for Chlorine under the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality. The manual for this course was developed by Health Canada and includes a summarization of information used to support the current Health Canada Guidelines related to chlorine in Drinking Water in Canada.

We focus on Chlorine as a chemical, the uses of chlorine in water treatment and the health effects related to exposure to chlorine in drinking water supplies. This Guideline Technical Document forms the bases for the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality perimeter related to chlorine in drinking water. This is not a health and safety course related to chlorine nor does it focus on disinfection math.

This course is not currently available for enrollment

Currently under regulator review for CEU approval

Skill Level: Intermediate