Operations & Management
About TCW
Tri-County Wastewater Management, TCW, is an Inspection, Operations & Management, firm for the Decentralized Wastewater Industry. TCW provides light service and O&M to meet the wastewater needs of not only the individual single-family homeowner but also the large community systems. We assist developers in finding options for the wastewater needs for land tracts and new development, thus tailoring the technology to their overall land plan. TCW assembles teams to meet the engineering, distribution, and construction for the new projects. TCW then provides the long term inspection needs for the project. Tim Bannister started the company in 1993. He had been installing and servicing wastewater systems several years prior to that time.
Currently TCW serves several thousand customers with inspection services in the Piedmont region of the state. These systems range in size/type from single-family residences with simple septic systems to large community systems utilizing reuse technologies such as biological package plants, ATU’s, and drip/spray dispersal. TCW has over 50 years of employee experience to compliment its services. The company is dedicated to the research of new technologies and the use of Best Management Practices in an order to meet the growing concern for environmental protection and ‘green’ building.
Personal Information
Timothy L. Bannister, the principal for TCW, currently serves on many state boards, commissions, and committees for North Carolina’s Wastewater Industry, which includes the following:
Innovative and Experimental Wastewater Systems Committee (State approval advisory committee for all new products and systems applying for use in NC and the approval for any change or modification to current approvals)
NC Wastewater Operators Governing Commission
Subsurface Operator Training Curriculum Committee
NC Subsurface Rules Rewrite subcommittee
Point-Of-Sale Home Inspectors Certification Curriculum Committee for wastewater systems
Subsurface Operators Multi-Grade Level Establishment Committee
Annual On-Site Wastewater Conference Committee
Union County Extensions Advisory Board
In addition to serving on the various committees, he serves as an instructor for NC State’s Soils and Onsite Training Academy along with teaching at the annual NC Biological Wastewater School. He has also been a participant in many workshops in both North and South Carolina for “Wastewater Solutions for small town planning and development”.
Tim has participated as a reviewer for NC State on the development of two national wastewater curriculums for O&M Service Providers and Installers as part of a CIDWT (Consortium of Institutes for Decentralized Wastewater Treatment) project. He has recently started serving another CIDWT project on the development of a national spreadsheet software designed to assist planners and developers in choosing the right decentralized wastewater technology to match their land plan and to forecast their initial building and life cycle costs. In 2005, he was invited to participate in a national EPA sponsored workshop in California to discuss models on the long-term management of decentralized and distributed water resource infrastructure and how they can be organized. TCW Wastewater was used as one of the models for the project. The purpose was to explore the long term viability and sustainability of these models and assess how well each meets the needs and interests of the public. This workshop was sponsored by the Coalition for Alternative Wastewater Treatment, the EPA-funded National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project (NDWRCDP), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and the Water Environment Federation Small Community Committee.
