Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
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Session Overview |
| Date: Saturday, 11/Sept/2021 | |
| 12:00pm - 5:00pm |
PNCWA Board Meeting |
| Date: Sunday, 12/Sept/2021 | |
| 10:00am - 11:30am |
Historic Walking Tour Meet at 10:00am at The Grove Plaza This 1.5-hour guided walking tour through 150 years of history and architecture in Boise is a great way to kick off your time in Boise at PNCWA2021. This tour is complimentary for the first 12 conference attendees to show up. This is also a great way to support Move For People! This docent lead tour will include historical stories and feature key information about the architecture that makes downtown Boise like no other place. This tour is great way to learn about how Boise's vibrant downtown developed and the people who made it happen. Tour Highlights Include:
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| 11:00am - 7:00pm |
Registration Desk is Open Location: Main Lobby |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm |
Precon Workshop 3: Organics Diversion is Coming – from these Challenges come opportunities Location: Virtual Organics Diversion is Coming – from these Challenges come Opportunities - Virtual 1: Brown and Caldwell; 2: West Yost |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Meet & Greet: First Time Attendees & New Members Location: Main Lobby |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Meet & Greet: All Attendees Location: Main Lobby |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
President's Dinner (by invitation only) Location: 420 AB |
| Date: Monday, 13/Sept/2021 | |||
| 7:00am - 8:15am |
Breakfast—Monday Breakfast Location: Room 400A |
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| 7:00am - 5:00pm |
Speaker Ready Room is Open Location: Room 110C1 |
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| 7:00am - 6:30pm |
Registration Desk is Open Location: Main Lobby |
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| 8:30am - 10:00am |
00B Opening: Keynote Presentation - Livestream Location: Room 400BC Dr. Dan Prinzing, Executive Director of the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights & Tai Simpson, Organizer for the Indigenous Idaho Alliance |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Monday Morning Break |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 01A: Planning & Regulatory - Livestream Location: Room 400BC One Doesn’t Just Walk into a Proactive Rehabilitation Program: SPU’s Strategic Quest. 1: Seattle Public Utilities; 2: Blue Cypress Consulting, LLC 11:15am - 12:00pm Klamath Falls Evaluates What to Do With Its Final Effluent Carollo Engineers, Inc., United States of America |
Session 02A: Social Equity - Livestream Location: 120AB How Do We Make Outreach More Equitable? A Case Study at Murraysmith + Quincy Murraysmith, United States of America 11:15am - 12:00pm Walking a Mile in Our Communities' Shoes The Formation Lab, United States of America |
Session 03A: Wastewater Process: Planning & Compliance - Livestream Location: Room 430AB What? When? How Sensitive? Evaluating Capacity At King County’s Three Regional Plants 1: Brown and Caldwell, United States of America; 2: King County Wastewater Treatment Division, United States of America 11:15am - 12:00pm Dairy Cows Speak a Different Language: Jerome’s Journey to Wastewater Compliance 1: Keller Associates, Inc., United States of America; 2: City of Vancouver, Washington |
| Session 04A: Resource Recovery Location: 410ABC Beyond Net Zero – Reaching the Next Level of Renewable Energy through Beneficial Use of Food Waste 1: Jacobs; 2: The City of Gresham, Oregon 11:15am - 12:00pm Linking Anaerobic Digester Microbiomes With Resistance To Organic Overloads Oregon State University, United States of America |
Session 05A: Stormwater Location: 110AB Advanced Stormwater Treatment Innovation for Materials Recovery Facilities Clear Water Services, United States of America 11:15am - 12:00pm Cold Climate Impacts on Green Stormwater Infrastructure Mead & Hunt, United States of America |
Session 06A: Facility Operations Location: Room 130 Operations and Maintenance Initiatives in the Water Environment Federation Clean Water Services, United States of America 11:15am - 12:00pm “Plan the Work, Work the Plan” Start up of the Tri-City Solids Handling Improvement Project Water Environment Services, United States of America |
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
Lunch—Monday Networking Luncheon Location: The Grove Plaza |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Recorded Facility Tour Location: 420 AB Piece County Tour 1:00pm - 2:00pm Pierce County’s Cascadia Wastewater Treatment Plant is a state-of-the-art MBR facility, serving the Employment Based Planned Community of Tehaleh in Bonney Lake Washington. Currently operating in the midst of a phased construction plan, the plant treats an average of .35 MGD to the highest standards in the Pacific Northwest, with plans for much more! Some of the unique highlights of Cascadia include:
Follow along with Jon Kercher as we tour the facility and learn more about what makes Cascadia and Tehaleh unique. |
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| 1:15pm - 2:45pm |
Session 01B: Risk Assessment/Stormwater - Livestream Location: Room 400BC Boise’s SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Dataset and the Future of PCR Testing at WRFs 1: City of Boise; 2: HDR 2:00pm - 2:45pm Beavers Improve Water Quality in an Urban Watershed City of Gresham, Oregon, United States of America |
Session 02B: Workforce Development - Livestream Location: 120AB Be the Catalyst: How Individuals Can Shape an Organization and Transform the Water Workforce Brown & Caldwell, United States of America 2:00pm - 2:45pm Sharing Your Privilege – the Criticality of Advocacy in Diversifying the Pacific Northwest Water Industry Leeway Engineering, United States of America |
Session 03B: Wastewater Process: Nutrient Removal - Livestream Location: Room 430AB How a Full-Scale Pilot Guided a WRRF Path to Chemical P Removal 1: Stantec, United States of America; 2: City of Englewood - South Platte Renew 2:00pm - 2:45pm Pilot Testing Nuvoda’s Mobile Organic Biofilm at the Edmonds WWTP 1: BHC Consultants; 2: City of Edmonds, WA; 3: Jacobs; 4: Nuvoda; 5: University of Washington |
| Session 04B: Energy Recovery Location: 410ABC The Future of Meeting Permit with Energy Efficient Operations is Here Cascade Energy 2:00pm - 2:45pm Lewiston, Idaho Revamps their Aeration Basins to Save Energy and Improve Process Control Keller Associates, Inc., United States of America |
Session 05B: Stormwater Location: 110AB Characterization and Application of Hydraulic Modeling to Assess Instream Enhancement Clean Water Services, United States of America 2:00pm - 2:45pm Rapid and Efficient Modeling of Citywide Urban Flooding for Extreme Storms Brown and Caldwell, United States of America |
Session 06B: Facility Operations Location: Room 130 Creating an Electronic O&M Manual for Pierce County’s Chambers Creek WWTP 1: Brown and Caldwell; 2: Pierce County Planning and Public Works 2:00pm - 2:45pm CFD Modeling for Trickling Filter/Activated Sludge Secondary Clarifier Optimization 1: Hazen and Sawyer; 2: City of Salem, OR |
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| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Tours: Lander Street Water Renewal Facility Location: 420 AB Lander Street Water Renewal Facility hosted by Jesse Hartman The Lander Street Water Renewal Facility (LSWRF) is in Northwest Boise near State Street and Veterans Memorial Parkway near the Boise Greenbelt. Lander Street was built in 1948 and currently treats 10-12 million gallons each day. LSWRF is comprised of the following treatment processes:
The Lander Street Facility has a seasonal Total Phosphorus limit of 1.0mg/L May-September that is met using enhanced biological phosphorus removal. The facility produces high quality effluent that consistently meets effluent TSS, BOD, and Ammonia limits. |
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| 2:45pm - 3:00pm |
Monday Afternoon Break |
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| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
Session 04C: Facility Operations Location: 410ABC Development and Deployment of Gamified Simulation Software for Training Wastewater Operators - Cancelled Maia Analytica, Portland, OR, USA 3:45pm - 4:30pm Improving Operations at an Aging and Overloaded WWTP Wallis Engineering |
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Session 01C: Alternate Delivery/Leadership/Wastewater - Livestream Location: Room 400BC Transforming Design-Bid-Build to Improve Collaboration and Teamwork Keller Associates, Inc., United States of America 3:45pm - 4:30pm Panel Discussion: Leadership Perspectives from the Future Workforce 1: HDR, United States of America; 2: Carollo; 3: City of Meridian, Idaho; 4: Jacobs Engineering Group; 5: CivilWest Engineering Group; 6: HDR; 7: University of Idaho 4:30pm - 5:15pm Screen Capture Efficiency Sampling & Testing Protocol for Waste Water Treatment Plant Screens at Start-up Ovivo USA, LLC, United States of America |
Session 02C: Stormwater - Livestream Location: 120AB A Scalable Decision-Making Framework For Stormwater Retrofit Investments 1: King County; 2: Robin Kirschbaum Inc. 3:45pm - 4:30pm A Greenhouse Evaluation of Stormwater Remediation Of Heavy Metals And PFAS By 10 Native Oregon Plants Oregon State University, United States of America 4:30pm - 5:15pm Emerging Technologies for Stormwater: A CMAC Pilot Project 1: Osborn Consulting, Inc.; 2: City of Redmond |
Session 03C: Wastewater Process: Biological Intensification - Livestream Location: Room 430AB CFD Modeling Provides Insights into Granular Sludge Separation Devices 1: Carollo Engineers, United States of America; 2: NEWhub; 3: HRSD; 4: UOSA; 5: DC Water 3:45pm - 4:30pm Experience With Densified Mixed Liquor And Nutrient Removal At Two WWTFs In Washington RH2 Engineering, Inc, United States of America 4:30pm - 5:15pm Advanced Aeration Control with Densification Achieves BNR Intensification: A Full-scale Demonstration of the Ntensify Process Brown and Caldwell, United States of America |
| Session 05C: Regulatory Challenges Location: 110AB PFAS in Biosolids Products - What To Do Next? Jacobs, United States of America 3:45pm - 4:30pm Water Quality Modeling and Monitoring to Support an Update of the Tualatin River Phosphorus TMDL Clean Water Services, United States of America 4:30pm - 5:15pm Seeing the Whole Picture – Addressing Puget Sound Nitrogen Regulation Uncertainty as part of Biosolids Planning at Bellingham, WA 1: Carollo Engineers; 2: Brown and Caldwell; 3: City of Bellingham |
Session 06C: Wastewater Process Location: Room 130 Meeting Stringent Ammonia and Disinfection Byproduct Limits with Preformed Monochloramines 1: Jacobs, United States of America; 2: Clean Water Services, Oregon 3:45pm - 4:30pm BNR Conversion of the Oro Loma/Castro Valley Water Pollution Control Plant Kennedy Jenks, United States of America 4:30pm - 5:15pm Primary Sludge Fermentation: A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy Clean Water Services, United States of America |
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| 4:30pm - 5:45pm |
Women’s Networking Reception Location: The Grove Plaza |
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Exhibitors Opening Reception Location: Exhibit Hall |
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| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
Dinner—Monday Night Dinner Location: Room 400A |
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| 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
Networking Night Location: The Grove Plaza New this year – PNCWA is excited to host a Monday Night Networking evening in lieu of separately hosted consultant events. This will serve as a chance for all PNCWA members and attendees to get together and celebrate being together after the last year and a half and build excitement for the future. The combined event will be open to all conference attendees, creating an open and inclusive event that aligns with our vision as an organization. Through this event, we’ll be extending Monday Night Football beyond the exhibit hall floor! Join us outside on the Grove Plaza for the networking event of the evening! We will have screens available for viewing the game, light appetizers, and tons of networking. Each attendee will receive 1 complimentary drink ticket from PNCWA to use at the beverage tent. We are looking forward to bringing everyone together after a challenging year. |
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| Date: Tuesday, 14/Sept/2021 | ||||
| 7:00am - 8:00am |
Breakfast—Tuesday OPERATORS Breakfast (ticket required) Location: Room 420B |
Wassmuth Center Coffee PNCWA is excited to welcome Dr. Dan Prinzing, Executive Director of the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights as the keynote speaker for this year's conference. Join us on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 for a special coffee hour at the Wassmuth Center. Dr. Prinzing will be hosting our group beginning at 7:30am for coffee and a short tour of the center. Drip and Cold Brew Coffee will be available beginning at 7:00am from local coffee shop Neckar Coffee.
The Wassmuth Center for Human Rights was founded in 1996 for the purpose of constructing a memorial to human rights. That vision became a reality when the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial opened to the public in 2002. The Memorial is a world-class educational park inspired by Anne Frank’s faith in humanity. A living, vibrant interactive classroom for Idaho’s school children, it inspires people of all ages to contemplate the moral implications of their actions and the scope of their civic responsibilities. We will be meeting at 7:00am in the lobby of The Grove Hotel and walking to the Wassmuth Center (.8 mile).
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| 7:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast—Tuesday Breakfast Location: Room 400A |
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| 7:00am - 5:00pm |
Speaker Ready Room is Open Location: Room 110C1 |
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| 7:00am - 6:30pm |
Registration Desk is Open Location: Main Lobby |
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| 8:00am - 9:30am |
Session 07A: Construction & Alternate Delivery/Risk Assessment & Resiliency - Livestream Location: Room 400BC Changing the Airplane Engine Mid-flight: Best Practices to Manage Construction at Operational Facilities. Jacobs, United States of America 8:45am - 9:30am Assessing Future Coastal Flood Hazards to Water Infrastructure with the Puget Sound Coastal Storm Modeling System (PS-CoSMoS) 1: United States Geological Survey; 2: Brown & Caldwell; 3: City of Bellingham Public Works |
Session 08A: Wastewater Process: Deammonification Location: 110AB Zeolite-anammox Deammonification Of Biosolids Dewatering Recycle Stream: A Public Domain Technology Jacobs, United States of America 8:45am - 9:30am Sidestream Deammonification MABR Development and Performance in Bench-Scale Reactor Treating Anaerobic Digester Dewatering Centrate HDR |
Session 09A: Resource Recovery - Livestream Location: Room 430AB Thermal Energy from Wastewater – A New Role of Wastewater Utilities in the New Energy Economy Tetra Tech, United States of America 8:45am - 9:30am Truly Sustainable Biosolids Management For a Waste Free Future Bioforcetech Corporation, United States of America |
Session 10A: Utility Planning - Livestream Location: 120AB Being “Smart” Is Essential For The Utility Of The Future: Understanding What Is Hard To See In The Data Brown and Caldwell, United States of America 8:45am - 9:30am The City of Vancouver Has Reduced Significant Utility Risk and Improved Use of Enterprise Data Through Re-design and Replacement of the Wastewater Control System IT Infrastructure 1: Jacobs, United States of America; 2: City of Vancouver, Washington |
| Session 11A: Planning Location: Room 130 Use of Integrated Planning to Facilitate an NPDES Permit Renewal 1: Clean Water Services, United States of America; 2: HDR Inc 8:45am - 9:30am Regionalization for Economic Development and Watershed Protection Keller Associates, Inc., United States of America |
Session 12A: Collection & Conveyance Location: 410ABC Pump Station Systems Design – How they can vary by Agency 1: Murraysmith, United States of America; 2: Clark Regional Wastewater District 8:45am - 9:30am How the COVID-19 Challenge Illuminated Opportunity Transformational Change With Collection System Maintenance ADS Environmental Services, United States of America |
Session 13A: WateReuse: Planning & Partnerships Location: Room 420A Virtual Speakers 8:00 am to 8:45 am Sharon Napier & Ashley Harper The National Water Reuse Action Plan (WRAP) and what it means for the Pacific Northwest The National Water Reuse Action Plan (WRAP) adopts a proactive approach to strengthening the security, sustainability, and resilience of our nation’s water resources. It builds on more than four decades of water reuse expertise and promotes a growing collaboration among federal, state, local, and private sector reuse efforts. The first iteration of the WRAP was released in February 2020 and included over 80 partners who reflect a diverse cross section of the water user community. The WRAP collaborative continues to grow through the addition of new partnerships and actions that address challenges and barriers and fulfill state, tribal, and water sector needs related to water reuse. More than 100 organizations are currently driving progress on over 40 actions across 11 strategic themes (e.g., finance support, policy coordination, integrated research) which demonstrate the meaningful advancements that action leaders and partners have made across the sector. Progress on action implementation is highlighted through the WRAP Online Platform, which promotes transparency and accountability by reflecting the current implementation status for all WRAP actions. The success of the WRAP is directly tied to contributions and collaborations from members of the water community. Ultimately, the effort seeks to ensure that water reuse is accessible, straightforward to implement, and sensitive to local needs. This session will focus on WRAP progress that addresses barriers to reuse across a range of topics including technical, institutional, and financial and will demonstrate cross-action collaboration, identify potential gaps, and exemplify the evolving nature of the WRAP. The session will also recognize and highlight the diversity of action leaders and partners and invite involvement from participants. A standing goal of the WRAP is to enhance and grow partnerships across the water user community to facilitate integrated action and daylight progress and examples of water reuse. 8:45 am to 9:30 am Nick Smith, Jacque Klug and Holly Tichenor State focused partnerships towards advancing reuse in Idaho, Oregon and Washington This session will focus on showcasing results form a series of three professionally moderated workshops held in each state (Idaho/Oregon/Washington) with industrial, agricultural, utilities and municipal reuse stakeholders. The workshops provided opportunities for the participants to network and share various needs and challenges including operational and maintenance, permitting/regulatory, funding and public perception concerns. The workshops culminated in a series of recommended actions for WRA-PNW teams and interested groups from each state. These action items are part of an overall effort to support operators, policy makers, utility manager and interested parties involved in water reuse as a water. |
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Break on Exhibit Floor Tuesday Morning |
Exhibit Tours Location: Exhibit Hall |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 07B Planning Location: Room 400BC City and County Collaboration – Solving Wastewater Concerns Together 1: Keller Associates, Inc., United States of America; 2: Boundary County, United States of America 11:15am - 12:00pm Investigating Nitrogen Removal Strategies to Reduce Carbon Footprint University of Idaho, United States of America |
Session 08B: Wastewater Process Location: 110AB Designing your Plant for Electrical System Reliability 1: HDR; 2: LOTT Clean Water Alliance 11:15am - 12:00pm Advancing CSO Treatment – Piloting of OVIVO® RapidStorm™ Membrane Treatment 1: King County Wastewater Treatment Division, Seattle, WA; 2: Ovivo, Round Rock, TX; 3: Tetra Tech, Inc., Seattle, WA; 4: Parametrix, Seattle, WA |
Session 09B: Climate Science & Stormwater - Livestream Location: Room 430AB Pinpointing and Prioritizing I&I Impact with Climate Change 1: SmartCover Systems, United States of America; 2: South Suburban Sanitary District, OR 11:15am - 12:00pm And the Rains Came: Characterizing Rainfall for Climate Impacts 1: Brown and Caldwell, United States of America; 2: City of Shoreline, Washington, United States of America |
Session 10B: Utility & Assessment Management - Livestream Location: 120AB Strategic Planning to Define the 4P’s – People, Policies, Pricing, and Projects Brown and Caldwell, United States of America 11:15am - 12:00pm Boise City’s Integrated Plan for Long-term IPDES Permit Compliance 1: City of Boise; 2: HDR |
| Session 11B: Industrial Pre-Treatment Location: Room 130 Trading Futures for Long Position on BNR Performance 1: City of Boise; 2: HDR 11:15am - 12:15pm Development of Facility-Specific Zinc and Copper Nitrification Inhibition Thresholds for Local Limits Analysis Clean Water Services |
Session 12B: Collection & Conveyance - Pumping Systems Location: Room 410ABC Decoding Water Hammer: Comparing Real Measurements With Modeling Predictions Brown and Caldwell, United States of America 11:15am - 12:15pm Challenges and Opportunities Presented by Diversion Pump Stations 1: Murraysmith, United States of America; 2: City of Vancouver, WA; 3: Clean Water Services |
Session 13B: WateReuse: Hopping Over Hurdles Location: Room 420A Virtual Speakers 10:30am - 11:15am Pat Heins, Shawn McKone, and Tressa Nicholas So you need a permit in the Pacific Northwest…now what? Regulators from Idaho, Oregon and Washington will discuss the steps for obtaining a permit to use recycled or reclaimed water in their state. 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Jay Irby Water Reuse: Waste of Time or Innovative Opportunity? 21 years ago, a small community located just North of Boise decided to lay down some roots. 7 years later, another planned community sprang up. As we all know, there are some rather large obstacles immediately North of Boise that create some interesting infrastructure challenges that would be far too costly for these small communities to encumber. As luck would have it, there was an option. Hidden Springs and Avimor both made a bold decision to build and operate their own wastewater renewal facilities and find beneficial uses for the renewed water onsite as opposed to piping several miles and lift stations to the nearest municipal treatment plant or becoming point source dischargers. These decisions created incredible growth potential as it allowed the communities to reduce treatment costs for their residents, it allowed builders to build without exorbitant connection fees, and it helps keep irrigation costs low because they didn’t have to purchase irrigation water from the municipal supplier. This presentation will take a look at the current situations for both of these communities, some lessons that have been learned over the years, and provide insight for any engineers or operators looking to pursue reuse, and how both parties should work together to accomplish the needs of their constituents.
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
Lunch—Tuesday Business Luncheon Location: Room 400BC |
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Session 14A: Resource Recovery/Collection & Conveyance - Livestream Location: Room 400BC Full-scale Digester Micro-Aeration Study to Reduce Hydrogen Sulfide in Biogas 1: JACOBS, United States of America; 2: LOTT Clean Water Alliance, United States of America 2:00pm - 2:45pm Clackamas Water Environment Services and the City of Gladstone Oregon – Joining Forces in the Fight Against I/I Clackamas Water Environment Services, United States of America |
Session 15A: Wastewater Process: Nutrient Removal Location: 110AB Planning for Nitrogen Removal in King County 1: Brown and Caldwell; 2: King County WTD 2:00pm - 2:45pm Construction, Commissioning and Start Up of the World’s First Advanced Biological Nutrient Recovery (ABNRTM) Facility at the Village of Roberts, WI CLEARAS Water Recovery, United States of America |
Session 16A: Facility Operations & Lessons Learned - Livestream Location: Room 430AB Remotely Designed: Lessons Learned Designing during a Pandemic 1: HDR; 2: LOTT Clean Water Alliance 2:00pm - 2:45pm Lessons from the Startup of Meridian WRRF’s New Primary and Secondary Treatment Systems 1: Brown and Caldwell; 2: City of Meridian, Idaho |
Session 17A: Construction & Alternate Delivery - Livestream Location: 120AB Digital Delivery - "Tools" For Optimized Project Delivery, Not "Gadgets" Of The Future Slayden Constructors Inc., United States of America 2:00pm - 2:45pm Startup and Commissioning of Biological Nutrient Removal Facilities Jacobs, United States of America |
| Session 18A: Utility Planning Location: Room 130 Your Crystal Ball – How Cloud-Based SCADA Allows Operators To See The Future – And Avoid Problems XiO 2:00pm - 2:45pm Is your Utility Looking to Improve? There’s a WISE way to join your Peers! Clean Water Services, United States of America |
Session 19A: Workforce Development Location: Room 410ABC Who is in Your Circle of Trust? HDR, United States of America 2:00pm - 2:45pm How to be an Inclusion Champion HDR, United States of America |
Session 20A: WateReuse: Reuse in the Community Location: Room 420A 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm Todd Miller Launching Community Recycled Water Use Through Collaborative Planning for Multiple Drivers The Eugene/Springfield Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC) is preparing to launch its first-ever outside-the-fence recycled water use. This milestone is being reached after a decade-long planning process to explore, study, and collaborate on “the right water at the right time at the right place.” The MWMC is now looking to break ground on construction of Class A recycled water facilities combining creative use of existing infrastructure, partnerships to demonstrate meaningful and growth-oriented applications, and establishing the MWMC as community water resource partner with an eye toward future regulatory compliance and climate resiliency assets. 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Jacque Klug Using Research to Inform Community Decisions about Recycled Water Use Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) is the term applied to a broad array of trace chemicals that come from consumer, commercial and industrial products that are measurable in the environment. CECs are generally unregulated. Wastewater effluent and recycled water has been identified as a potential source of CECs. This session will describe CEC research projects being done to examine CEC presence in recycled water and the risk of CEC exposure from uses of recycled water for food crop irrigation and groundwater recharge. The research study design will be presented along with preliminary research results. The session will describe how research is being shared within the community and informing community discussions about the future of reuse in the respective regions. These presentations will provide a research and communication framework for communities that can be applied in discussing CECs and risk.
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| 2:45pm - 3:00pm |
Break on Exhibit Floor Tuesday Afternoon |
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Session 14B: Pump Performance/Wastewater Treatment - Livestream Location: Room 400BC Pump Performance Assessment; A Panacea for Predictive Maintenance? Parametrix, United States of America 3:45pm - 4:30pm CFD in Wastewater Treatment: A Useful Design Tool or Design Dollars Down the Drain Osborn Consulting, Inc., United States of America |
Session 15B: Wastewater Process Location: 110AB Disrupting the Paradigm of Primary Treatment Lakehaven Water and Sewer Authority, United States of America 3:45pm - 4:30pm Optimizing Polymer Mixing and Activation: Following the Science UGSI Solutions, United States of America |
Session 16B: Collection & Conveyance - Intelligent Collection Management - Livestream Location: Room 430AB Artificial Intelligence, Real Solutions. Identifying Sewer Defects with AI Burgess & Niple 3:45pm - 4:30pm Real Time – Decision Support Systems For Intelligent Watershed Management Xylem Inc., United States of America |
Session 17B: Construction & Alternate Delivery - Livestream Location: 120AB Rethinking Risk Management Approaches in Design-Bid-Build Projects Jacobs, United States of America 3:45pm - 4:30pm Between a Lake and a Hard Place: Constructability Constraints & CIPP Lining Murraysmith, United States of America |
| Session 18B: Utility Planning Location: Room 130 Affordable Housing and Tiered Development Impact Fees Water Environment Services, United States of America 3:45pm - 4:30pm Five Things to Know About Saving Ratepayers Millions of Dollars with WIFIA Murraysmith, United States of America |
Session 19B: Workforce Development Location: Room 410ABC Stepping into Management During a Pandemic: What have we learned? Murraysmith, United States of America 3:45pm - 4:30pm Developing New Tools for Virtual Outreach LOTT Clean Water Alliance, United States of America |
Session 20B: WateReuse: Making Reuse "Cool" Location: Room 420A Virtual Speakers 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm Bob Davis Case Study for Datacenter Cooling Water Reuse The Quincy Water Reuse Utility (QWRU) has just been commissioned by the City of Quincy to treat non-contact cooling water for reuse back into a portion of the Quincy datacenters. Microsoft, Washington Department of Ecology, US Bureau of Reclamation, and the Quincy-Columbia Irrigation District have played major roles in the success of this utility; the first of its kind in the State of Washington. Non-contact cooling water blowdown is treated to remove cations and anions that reduce the efficiency of evaporative cooling and helps to reduce the volume of cooling water used. In the past, potable water has been used for cooling water; however, this water is very hard and contains high levels silica. Both components negatively impact the cooling equipment; requiring additional equipment maintenance to retain the equipment’s cooling efficiency. The QWRU treats the cooling water to remove hardness and silica before being pumped back to the datacenters for cooling water. Cooling requires make-up water to replace from 60 to 80 percent water loss due to evaporation. Make-up water is provided by USBR M&I Water, potable water and, in the future, municipal Class A water. The QWRU consists of 10 distinct and specific water treatment unit processes to provide reuse water suitable for cooling. The QWRU is capable of providing from 2,304,000 to up to 3,600,000 gallons of treated water per day. Residuals from the treatment system is managed with on-site evaporation ponds and sludge management systems. The QWRU saves a precious potable water resource in an arid region of Washington State and will save up to 398,000,000 gallons of potable water in a year; enough to provide 5,450 residents potable water for a year. 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm Haili Matsukawa Strategic Planning: the key to internal alignment and program momentum Can't seem to reach agreement? Often times, project progress is stifled by a difference of opinions. How can we create alignment among technical professionals, management, elected officials, and ratepayers? Meaningful engagement, clear goals, consistent communications can create the synergy needed to get complex programs off the ground and the momentum required to carry them out. Even within a divided community, strategic planning can identify common threads, shared values, and a desired vision of the future. Using regional and interstate case studies, we will discuss how strategic planning, inclusive communications, and two-way engagement create alignment, public trust, and confidence in water reuse solutions. This interactive session will provide you with the tools and tactics needed to turn barriers into breakthroughs. |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Exhibitors Closing Reception Location: Exhibit Hall |
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| 4:45pm - 5:30pm |
InFLOW Awards Location: Room 440 |
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| 5:00pm - 5:30pm |
WFP Meet Up: Water for People Meet Up Move for Water in-person meet up with Halley @ 5:00-5:30pm - meet at The Grove. https://conference.pncwa.org/water-for-people |
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| 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
Dinner—Tuesday Night Awards Banquet Location: Room 400BC The livestreaming of the awards ceremony will begin at 7:15pm MT. |
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Breakfast—Wednesday Breakfast Location: Room 400A |
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| 7:00am - 11:00am |
Speaker Ready Room is Open Location: Room 110C1 |
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| 7:00am - 12:00pm |
Registration Desk is Open Location: Main Lobby |
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| 8:00am - 10:15am |
Session 21A: Facility Operations - Livestream Location: Room 400BC Exploring an Alternative Alkalinity Source - Full Scale MBR Pilot Using Ultra-Fine Calcium Carbonate 1: Jacobs, United States of America; 2: Columbia River Carbonates, Woodland, WA; 3: Heimburger & Company, Blaine, WA 8:45am - 9:30am Septage: Regional Water Quality and Practical Considerations in Managing and Treating High-strength Wastes HDR, United States of America 9:30am - 10:15am Return Activated Sludge Rate Impacts to Biological Phosphorus Removal 1: T-O Engineers; 2: University of Idaho |
Session 22A: Innovation & Technology Location: 110AB Installation, Startup, and Operation of World’s First Regenerable Resin System for PFAS Removal 1: ECT2; 2: Ahtna Engineering Services, LLC 8:45am - 9:30am A Pilot Scale Evaluation of Coagulant Selection and Dose on HF UF Membrane Performance at the West Boise Water Renewal Facility 1: Carollo Engineers Inc, United States of America; 2: City of Boise 9:30am - 10:15am The Facility of The Future for the Utility of the Future Cascade Energy, Inc., United States of America |
Session 23A: Construction & Alternate Delivery: Collaboration & Communications - Livestream Location: Room 430AB Building Resilient Communities Through Building Resilient Teams 1: City of Boise; 2: Jacobs; 3: Brown and Caldwell; 4: McAlvain Companies, Inc. 8:45am - 9:30am Pumping Up Communication Through Progressive Design Build 1: Kennedy Jenks Consultants; 2: City of Bend 9:30am - 10:15am Going Beyond Expectations: Collaborating to Deliver an Award-Winning Facility 1: Carollo Engineers, United States of America; 2: City of Oak Harbor |
| Session 24A: Risk Assessment & Emergency Response - Livestream Location: 120AB Assessment of Critical Dependencies for Rapid Disaster Recovery 1: Carollo Engineers; 2: City of Eugene, OR; 3: SEFT Consulting Group 8:45am - 9:30am Seismic Resilience and Implications on Critical Infrastructure GRI, United States of America 9:30am - 10:15am Regional Water System Risk Analysis and Planning 1: Stantec Consulting Services Inc., United States of America; 2: City of Hermiston, Oregon |
Session 25A: Collection & Conveyance Location: Room 420A Corroded Manhole Assessment, Rehabilitation Design, and Construction 1: Jacobs, Boise ID; 2: Eagle Sewer District, Eagle ID 8:45am - 9:30am Bringing Spiral Winding Rehabilitation to the Pacific Northwest 1: Brown and Caldwell, United States of America; 2: City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services 9:30am - 10:15am Implementation of Telemetered Water Quality Sensors in the Sanitary Collection System Clean Water Services, United States of America |
Session 26A: Reuse Location: Room 410ABC Guiding Regional Reuse Options – A Distributed Systems Approach California Urban Water Agencies (CUWA) 8:45am - 9:30am Formalizing the Role of Urban Water Agencies in Distributed Water Infrastructure 1: Isle Inc.; 2: Broadview Collaborative 9:30am - 10:15am Strategically Balancing Effectiveness and Implementation of Water Reuse Options to Manage Water Consumption 1: Kennedy Jenks; 2: City of Seattle, Seattle Parks and Recreation |
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PNCWA Past Presidents Breakfast Location: Room 200 |
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Wednesday Morning Break |
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Session 21B: Collection & Conveyance: Rehabilitation - Livestream Location: Room 400BC Rehabilitation Analysis Of The 100-Year Old Whatcom Creek Trunk Main Carollo Engineers, Seattle, WA 11:15am - 12:00pm Planning for Seattle’s Future – The Wastewater System Analysis Episode 1: Murraysmith, United States of America; 2: Seattle Public Utilities |
Session 22B: Resource Recovery Location: 110AB Applied Planning for Pocatello's Biosolids Reuse and Recovery 1: Stantec Consulting Services Inc., United States of America; 2: City of Pocatello, ID 11:15am - 12:00pm Novel Alternative Management of Data Center Industrial Wastewater 1: J-U-B Engineers; 2: City of Umatilla Oregon |
Session 23B: Construction & Alternate Delivery - Livestream Location: Room 430AB Outfall Fallout – Using the CM/GC Process for A WRF Outfall Replacement 1: J-U-B ENGINEERS, Inc.; 2: City of Post Falls, Idaho; 3: McMillen Jacobs Associates |
| Session 24B: Utility Planning & Asset Management - Livestream Location: 120AB Co-Creating a Combined Sewer Plan – A Tool that Reports Infrastructure Costs and Benefits in Real Time to Facilitate Community Based Planning 1: Seattle Public Utilities; 2: Herrera Environmental Consultants; 3: Davido Consulting Group, Inc. 11:15am - 12:00pm Asset Management Shifts Utility Management from Reactive to Proactive 1: Kennedy Jenks Consultants; 2: Portland Bureau of Environmental Services |
Session 25B: Regulatory Challenges: Thermal Compliance Location: Room 420A A Clean Water Act Approved Strategy for Temperature Compliance: City of Boise Clean Water Act 316(a) Thermal Variance Demonstration Project, V2. 1: City of Boise; 2: HDR 11:15am - 12:00pm Taking a Watershed-Based Approach to Developing and Optimizing a Thermal Compliance Strategy Clean Water Services, United States of America |
Session 26B: Wastewater Process: Solids Location: Room 410ABC Effect of Fat, Oil and Grease (FOG) on Digested Sludge Dewaterability Clean Water Services, United States of America 11:15am - 12:00pm The Future of Biosolids Handling Biolynceus LLC, United States of America |
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