Please note: The test order is now open to the general public.

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No actual tickets will be provided when you order your exam using Purplepass. The "Will Call" delivery option means that you need to check in at the designated testing room on the test date no later than 1/2 hour before the test time with your accepted photo ID. A registration confirmation email will be sent to your confirmed email address used in the Ticket Holder information.

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ADEQ’s Operator Certification Program establishes guidelines to ensure that only certified operators make decisions about process control or system integrity that affects public health. The program establishes minimum standards for certification and re-certification of the operators of drinking water and wastewater systems.

Operators must hold the lower grade level certificate for one full year (365 days from your effective date), prior to sitting for the next grade level exam.  Operators may check the effective date of their certificate(s) by using the Operator Certification Database ( https://legacy.azdeq.gov/databases/opcertsearch_drupal.html )

Testing early (before 365 days from your effective date) requires ADEQ approval prior to sitting for the exam. For more information, go HERE.

http://www.azdeq.gov/OperatorCertification 

GateWay Community College proctors the ADEQ Operator Certification exams. GateWay offers the exams on campus and throughout Arizona. For more information and scheduled test dates, visit our registration website below.

This is a 3-hour exam with 100 multiple-choice questions. YOU CAN ONLY ORDER ONE TYPE OF EXAM PER TEST PERIOD. The only payment option to order the tests is with a credit card (all other options are not accepted). The test order is final and no test cancellations are available. In addition, no test fee reimbursements are provided. So make sure that you order the right type of test and that you have cleared your test date with your supervisor.

Note for Supervisors: Purplepass will allow to use the same credit card to order the test for several operators, if needed. HOWEVER, each operator must  have to have a separate test order (i.e., no more than ONE test type per order). Only one test type per test session for each operator. Remember that ALL orders are final: no cancellations, no reimbursements, and no change of test type once you have placed the order. Please email to operatorcert@gatewaycc.edu if you have any questions.

GateWay Contact Information:

Please note: the best way to contact the GateWay-ADEQ Operator registration program is by email operatorcert@gatewaycc.edu.

GateWay proctors are available TUESDAY through THURSDAY from 9 am to 3 pm to help you with your test registration process:

602-286-8105

ADEQ Operator Certification Testing Group

Water Resources Technologies

GateWay-ADEQ Operator Certification Program

GateWay Community College

108 N. 40th Street

Phoenix, AZ 85034

You can check the ABC's Need to Know Criteria documents (Version 2017) to see what you are required to know to pass the exams ( http://www.abccert.org/testing_services/need_to_know_criteria.asp ). You can also download the conversion tables used at the exam so you can familiarize yourself with them ahead of time. However, you cannot take those to the exam. GateWay will provide those to you at the testing site. You can also take a sample exam so you can become familiar with the testing format.

“As of July 1, 2016 anyone who passes an operator certification exam must submit the operator certification new certificate application, a copy of their individual mastery report (IMR) and the fee to ADEQ in order to receive their certificate. For more information, go HERE."