Diving into Drinking Water Systems with Ron Perrin

Ron Perrin Biography:

Since 1992, Ron Perrin has been involved with the inspection and cleaning of potable water storage tanks, serving over 500 utilities in Texas and six other states. He is a former Master Peace Officer and Security Consultant, licensed in the state of Texas.

Ron was one of the first to develop diving potable water tanks as a cleaning method in Texas by originating a company called TDI (Tank Diver Inspections) in 1992. By 1994, Ron had become one of the original principals at U.S. Underwater Services (later purchased by Neptune). At U.S. Underwater Services, Ron served as Director of Marketing and was promoted to Director of Operations during his last year at the company.

In 1997, Ron established Ron Perrin Water Technologies. The company use’s Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) to inspect water storage tanks. To date, Ron Perrin Water Technologies has inspected over 8,000 water storage tanks. The methods Ron has developed to inspect and clean potable water storage tanks and towers have saved millions of gallons of treated drinking water and have improved the quality in hundreds of water systems. In 2013 Ron Perrin became an OSHA outreach trainer and is currently an authorized construction trainer.

In 2015 Ron was contracted by the Environmental Training Institute at the University of Texas at Arlington to develop a training program to safely inspect water storage tanks. WTR 308 Water Storage Inspection Techniques was offered for the first time in the 2015 summer catalog. One of the techniques is the proper use of remote underwater cameras and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) to inspect water storage tanks and towers.

See: www.ronperrin.com
Certifications:
Specialist in Safety and health (SSH) 2013
Certified Safety and Health Official (CSHO) 2014
Safety and Health Environmental Professional (SHEP) 2015

Published Works:
Inspecting and Cleaning Potable Water Storage (Second Edition Due out in 2018)
By Ron Perrin. 158 page book. SBN 10: 1-4415-3244-7

Municipal Sewer & Water magazine: September 2010 edition; Pages 94-95;
Article title: Look Inside - Inspection & Cleaning of potable water storage tanks

Texas Water Utility Journal; August 2014 edition; Pages 20-22 Article title:
Record High Temperatures May Activate Hidden Microbes in Your Water Distribution System- What’s hiding in your distribution system

Texas Water Utility Journal; October 2015 edition; Pages 22-23 Article title:
Is Microbial Growth a threat to Your Water System?

Web sites: www.ronperrin.com http://www.watertankinspection.com
Blog: www.tankdiver.us Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RonPerrin
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ronperrinwatertech
I have posted multiple articles on linked in:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-perrin-40609522

Ron Perrin Television Interviews:

http://www.ronperrin.info

http://video.chron.com/CBS-11-ITeam-Looks-At-Whats-In-Your-Water-Tower-28175822?playlistId=15450

POSTED 10:35 PM, MAY 8, 2017, BY CHRIS HAYES,
UPDATED AT 03:24PM, MAY 8, 2017
http://fox2now.com/2017/05/08/town-with-brown-water-has-no-record-of-cleaning-its-water-tower/

Since 2011 I have served on the Educational Advisory Board for The Ocean Corporation commercial diver and ROV educational program.