Valley Operators customizes the level of services for each client. In some cases we are able to provide support and direction to a client’s existing staff, allowing the client’s staff to perform the majority of the day-to-day tasks. This includes interim operators as clients search for permanent operators. Other clients prefer a turn-key operation where Valley Operators provides full-time staffing and operation of a facility. We tailor this level of involvement to best suit your needs.
We have extensive experience operating the following types of drinking water treatment systems. We also operate water distribution systems and provide dead-end main flushing. We also operate smaller water systems consisting of a single well pump with or without storage tanks.
We provide a variety of services for:
- Municipalities
- Water Districts
- Community Service Districts
- Residential Developments
- Homeowners Associations
- Property Management
- Mobile Home Parks
- Commercial Water Systems
We offer the following services:
We have significant experience helping wastewater plants that have been deemed out-of-compliance become compliant. This can happen to facilities that are not aware of what their regulatory requirements are, had a change in ownership, or weren’t being operated properly. If you’ve been notified by a regulatory agency that you are non-compliant you may be at risk for fines and/or penalties.
Several of our clients have the need for interim Chief Plant Operators (CPOs). If you are a regulated wastewater facility and your CPO retires, resigns, or takes a leave of absence we are able to supply you with a licensed operator to temporary fill your vacancy while you recruit for a permanent replacement.
We provide the routine reporting for all the systems we operate. We have good working relationships with many of the regulatory staff and we use those relationships to help ensure that our clients stay in good standing with the appropriate regulatory agencies.
We have significant experience operating the following types of drinking water treatment systems: We operate smaller water systems consisting of a single well pump with or without storage tanks. We also operate water distribution systems and provide dead-end main flushing.
- Conventional surface water treatment plants
- Pressure filtration systems for the removal of iron, manganese, arsenic, etc.
- Chlorination
- Chloramination
We have significant experience operating the following types of wastewater treatment systems:
- Pond systems
- Activated sludge systems including:
- Extended aeration
- SBR’s
- Conventional activated sludge
- Nitrification/denitrification (BNR) processes
- Tertiary filtration (cloth and conventional media)
- Disinfection
- Chlorine (liquid and gas)
- UV
- Dechlorination
- Sulfur dioxide
- Sodium bisulfite
We can help you prepare your Sanitary Sewer System Plan (SSMP), and if you already have an SSMP in place, we can help you comply with the Plan by performing regularly scheduled cleaning of your collection system pipelines and pumpstations.
Depending upon a client’s needs, services we provide range from processing monthly billing, interfacing as a liaison for customer questions and complaints to performing general customer service communications.