Renew Your Rhode Island Drinking Water License
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The daily operations of all community and non-transient non-community public water systems are required to be under the supervision of an individual who has obtained the appropriate certification from the Rhode Island Board of Certification of Operators of Drinking Water Supply Facilities. Certified drinking water operators perform and oversee daily operations at public water systems and play an important role in public health. There are two types of drinking water operator licenses—treatment and distribution—and five levels of certification. For treatment licenses, those levels coincide with the complexity of the facility and for distribution licenses, those levels coincide with the size of the population served. A very-small-system (VSS) license is for operators working at systems with fewer than 500 served.
All operators must obtain a license within one year of being hired to work in a treatment facility or on distribution system operations. To become fully certified, an operator must meet education, experience, and exam requirements. To receive an operator-in-training (OIT) license, the operator must only meet the education and exam requirements.
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How to Renew Your Rhode Island Drinking Water Operator License
Rhode Island Drinking Water Operators are required to complete 2 - 30 contact hours every two to three years for renewal.
- License Renewal Deadline: Every two or three years by the license expiration date
- VSS Operators = 3 hrs / 3 yrs (OIT = 2 hrs / 2 yrs)
- Class I and II Operators = 15 hrs / 3 yrs (OIT = 10 hrs / 2 yrs)
- Class III and IV Operators = 30 hrs / 3 yrs (OIT = 20 hrs / 2 yrs)
- A minimum of 50% of the renewal hours must be on technical topics and a maximum of 25% of the renewal hours can be on health/safety and supervisory skills related topics.
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