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Session Overview |
| Date: Sunday, 10/Sept/2023 | |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
Water For People Run for Water 5K |
| 11:45am - 3:30pm |
PNCWA Board Meeting |
| 12:00pm - 5:00pm |
Registration Desk is Open |
| 1:00pm - 3:30pm |
Stormwater Committee Service Event |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
New Member Meet and Greet Location: 3rd Floor Prefunction |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
All Attendee Meet and Greet Location: 3rd Floor Prefunction |
| Date: Monday, 11/Sept/2023 | ||||
| 7:00am - 8:15am |
Breakfast—Monday Breakfast |
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| 7:00am - 6:30pm |
Registration Desk is Open |
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| 8:30am - 10:00am |
OGS: Opening General Session Location: Ballroom A/B/C 8:30am - 8:35am, Welcome and Opening Remarks - Lara Kammereck, PNCWA President and Andrew Matsumoto, PNCWA2023 Conference Chair 8:35am - 8:42am, Remarks from WEF Representative - Diego Rosso, Water Environment Federation Board of Trustees 8:42am - 8:57am, Remarks from WateReuse Association - Pat Sinicropi, WateReuse Association Executive Director 9:05am - 9:30am, Wine is Community, Water is Life: How Water from Wine is Addressing the Global Water Crisis - Jamie Ssenkubuge, Pat Tucker, and AnnaLee Zenkener - Water From Wine 9:30am - 9:37am, Technical Program Overview - Kristi Steiner, PNCWA2023 Technical Conference Chair 9:37am - 9:55am, Welcome to Tacoma - Marilyn Strickland, US Congresswoman 9:55am - 10:00am, Final Announcements - Andrew Matsumoto, PNCWA2023 Conference Chair |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Track 01A: Collaborative Delivery Location: Room 315 CM/GC or GC/CM and Progressive Design Build – What Are They, How Do They Work And Are They Right For My Project? 1: Jacobs AND Water Collaborative Delivery Association; 2: Water Collaborative Delivery Association |
Track 02A: Treatment Location: Room 316 Dialing in Regulatory Compliance and Cost-Effectiveness for CEPT 1: City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services; 2: Parametrix; 3: Hazen and Sawyer 11:30am - 12:00pm Using Augmented Dry Weather Flows for Performance Testing of a new Satellite Wet Weather Treatment Station Jacobs, United States of America |
Track 03A: Conveyance Systems Location: Room 317 Between a Park and Hard Place Inverted Siphon Installation Between a Lake Shoreline and a Wetland Buffer 1: Tetra Tech, United States of America; 2: Staheli Trenchless 11:30am - 12:00pm Geopolymer Rehab of an Arched-Shaped Storm Sewer Across I-5 1: Leeway Engineering; 2: Seattle Public Utilities |
Track 04A: DE&I Location: Room 318 A Rising Tide of Inclusion Lifts All Boats: A Small Business Panel Discussion 1: Principal, Leeway Engineering Solutions; 2: Principal and President, Osborn Consulting; 3: COO, Minority Construction Group LLC 11:30am - 12:00pm Beyond Relationships: Creating Positive Impact in Underserved Communities The Formation Lab |
| Track 05A: Utility Management Location: Room 407 Catalyzing Capital Improvement Plan Projects with WIFIA Financing 1: Underwriter, WIFIA Program, US Environmental Protection Agency; 2: Capital Finance Debt Coordinator, King County Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks, Wastewater Treatment Division; 3: Finance Director, City of Oregon City, OR 11:30am - 12:00pm Reimagining a Utilities CIP Budgeting Process 1: WSP USA, United States of America; 2: City of Bellevue Utilities |
Track 06A: PFAS Location: Ballroom A/B/C Impact of Several Biosolids Stabilization Technologies on PFAS Jacobs, United States of America 11:30am - 12:00pm PFAS – Understanding the Latest Regulatory Landscape, Treatment Approaches and Communications Challenges for Municipal Biosolids 1: Carollo Engineers, United States of America; 2: Consor Strategic Communications & Planning |
Track 07A: Resource Recovery Location: Ballroom D Rebranding Carbon: From Waste To Food Brown and Caldwell, United States of America 11:30am - 12:00pm Resource Recovery Success in Pima County, Arizona Greeley and Hansen, United States of America |
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
MON. BREAK 1: LUNCH Location: Exhibit Hall A |
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| 1:15pm - 3:15pm |
Track 01B: Collaborative Delivery Location: Room 315 A New Wastewater System from Scratch—Port Hadlock, Washington Tetra Tech, Inc., United States of America 2:15pm - 2:45pm Avoiding Pre-procurement Pitfalls Stantec Consulting Services Inc. 2:45pm - 3:15pm Progressive Design-build Procurement Tools for First Timers Jacobs, United States of America |
Track 02B: Wastewater Treatment Location: Room 316 Digital Twins for WWTPs DHI Water & Environment, USA 2:15pm - 3:15pm “Operator, Could You Help Me Make this Call” - Operations and Maintenance Staff Optimize Wastewater Treatment Plant Design with Invaluable Field Experience 1: Jacobs Engineering Group, United States of America; 2: City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services |
Track 03B: Wastewater Conveyance and Pumping Systems Location: Room 317 Emergency Repair Catalyzes Fast-tracked Improvements: The Bolton Pump Station Story 1: Consor, United States of America; 2: Clackamas Water Environment Services (WES) 2:15pm - 3:15pm Demonstrating Reduction of Inflow and Infiltration in Sandy, Oregon 1: City of Sandy, OR; 2: Leeway Engineering |
Track 04B: Community Resilience Location: Room 318 Art - For The Vitality Of The Puget Sound City of Tacoma, United States of America 2:15pm - 3:15pm Evaluating Resiliency: Protecting Lakewood and Existing Infrastructure from Floodwaters 1: City of Lakewood, United States of America; 2: Keller Associates, United States of America |
| Track 05B: Comprehensive Capital Planning Location: Room 407 How to Predict the Future: Developing Capital Budgets Through Project Formulation 1: King County Wastewater Treatment Division; 2: Jacobs 2:15pm - 3:15pm Comprehensive Planning for a Sound future 1: Brown and Caldwell; 2: City of Tacoma |
Track 06B: PFAS Location: Ballroom A/B/C Talking PFAS: Best Practices for Effective Engagement on Emerging Challenges Brown and Caldwell, United States of America 2:15pm - 3:15pm Dominant Sources of PFAS to WRRFs and Their Fate in Land-Applied Effluent and Biosolids Clean Water Services, United States of America |
Track 07B: Resource Recovery Location: Ballroom D Quality of Biogas Derived from Co-Digestion of Wastewater Solids and Organic Waste Kennedy Jenks Consultants, United States of America 2:15pm - 3:15pm Creating Partnerships with Local Sources of High Strength Wastes through a Co-digestion Program Clean Water Services, United States of America |
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| 3:15pm - 3:30pm |
MON. BREAK 2: AFTERNOON BREAK |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Track 01C: Wastewater Digestion Location: Room 315 Alternative Indicators of Stability and Capacity of Full-Scale Digesters in Operation Clean Water Services, United States of America 4:00pm - 4:30pm CFD Unlocks Internal Details of Digester Mixing Carollo Engineers, United States of America 4:30pm - 5:00pm Anaerobic Digester Startup Best Practices, with a Case Study 1: Carollo Engineers, Seattle, WA, USA; 2: Grants Pass Water Restoration Plant, Grants Pass, OR, USA |
Track 02C: Wastewater Treatment Location: Room 316 Evaluation of Mechanisms for Enhanced Reduction of Effluent Copper at Trace Levels Clean Water Services, United States of America 4:00pm - 4:30pm Modern Trickling Filters Solutions for the 21st Century 1: Brentwood Industries, United States of America; 2: John R Harrison Consulting; 3: Bethel Park Wastewater Treatment Plant 4:30pm - 5:00pm Filtering Through Different Tertiary Treatment Technologies BHC Consultants, United States of America |
Track 03C: Wastewater Conveyance and Pumping Systems Location: Room 317 The Capacity Thief - Base Infiltration, Methods to quantify it for maximum benefit ADS, USA 4:00pm - 4:30pm Designing a Lift Station Replacement within Tsunami and Sea Level Influenced Zones Carollo Engineers, United States of America 4:30pm - 5:00pm Holy Moly, My 1300 Foot TDH Recycle Wastewater Pumps Shake ! HDR, United States of America |
Track 04C: Stormwater Location: Room 318 Choosing a Water Quality Design Storm for Retention Brown and Caldwell, United States of America 4:00pm - 4:30pm What We Need vs. What We Get: Navigating Multi-use Stormwater Retrofits Consor, United States of America 4:30pm - 5:00pm Assessing Risk and Right-Sizing Design Using a Probabilistic Approach to Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling Parametrix, Inc., United States of America |
| Track 05C: Capital Projects Location: Room 407 Developing Equity in Design Frameworks for Public Infrastructure Projects 1: Brown and Caldwell, United States of America; 2: The Formation Lab, United States of America; 3: City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services, United States of America 4:30pm - 5:00pm Reality is Optionality - Using Real Options for Project Prioritization and Decision Making Tetra Tech Inc, United States of America |
Track 06C: Regulatory Location: Ballroom A/B/C Beating the Heat: Process Modeling and Pilot Testing to Develop Strategies for Effluent Temperature and Thermal Load Limit Compliance 1: Clean Water Services; 2: Carollo 4:30pm - 5:00pm Holistic Approach to Improved Nutrient Management – Water Research Foundation Project No. 4974 1: HDR, United States of America; 2: The Water Research Foundation (WRF) |
Track 07C: Resource Recovery Location: Ballroom D Increased Energy Recovery With The Microbial Hydrolysis Process Jacobs 4:30pm - 5:00pm Resource Recovery: A Case Study on How Thermal Processes and Beneficial Utilization Strategies Were Combined to Provide Best Solution for the Canoas WRRF in Bogotá, Colombia Greeley and Hansen, United States of America |
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| Date: Tuesday, 12/Sept/2023 | ||||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
EXH-1: Stormwater Exhibitor Showcase Location: Exhibit Hall Showcase Stage Stormwater Maintenance Frequency Assessment of a High-Rate Filter in King County, WA Oldcastle Infrastructure 8:20am - 8:40am Know Your Flow to See, Understand and Act ADS Environmental Services 8:40am - 9:00am Solving Infiltration and Corrosion Problems in Sanitary Sewer Structures CIP Construction Technologies, Inc. |
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| 8:00am - 9:30am |
Track 08A: PFAS Location: Room 315 PFAS 101 History, Regulation and Treatment Innovation. BioLargo Inc., United States of America 9:00am - 9:30am Designing and Implementing PFAS Projects Tetra Tech, United States of America |
Track 09A: Planning for Infrastructure Resiliency Location: Room 316 How Two Cities Improved Cybersecurity and Resilience through Holistic Funding Strategies 1: Jacobs Engineering, United States of America; 2: City of Gresham 9:00am - 9:30am Safe Reliable and Redundant Electrical Distribution at Tacoma’s Central Wastewater Treatment Plant 1: Carollo Engineers; 2: City of Tacoma |
Track 10A: Pipe Inspection Location: Room 317 Tips and Tricks for Cleaning And Inspection of Sanitary Sewer Siphons National Plant Services,Inc., United States of America 9:00am - 9:30am Advancing Sewer Management with Artificial Intelligence: Results from Pilot Testing AI Tools for Sewer Condition Assessments 1: Carollo Engineers; 2: City of Salem |
Track 11A: Wastewater Treatment Location: Room 318 Plastic Recycling? The Case for Integrated Fixed-film Activated Sludge in Today’s Suite of Process Intensification Technologies Jacobs, United States of America 9:00am - 9:30am Screenless IFAS System Eliminates Media Loss and Reduces O&M Costs for the City Of Peterborough WWTP 1: Entex Technologies Inc., United States of America; 2: R.V. Anderson Associates Limited (RVA); 3: City of Peterborough |
| Track 12A: Leadership & Workforce Development Location: Room 407 Empowering Your Staff - What Does It Really Mean? 1: Clean Water Management, United States of America; 2: Spokane County 9:00am - 9:30am One Plus One Equals A Common Goal: Discussions and Perspectives on Workforce Development From Two Sides of the Workforce 1: Carollo Engineers; 2: City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services |
Track 13A: WateReuse Location: Ballroom D Drivers for Reuse Across the Pacific Northwest 1: CEO, Envirospectives; 2: President, Catalyst Public Policy Advisors; 3: Water Reuse Program Manager, Clean Water Services 9:00am - 9:30am Water Reuse Association - National and Regional Update 1: Executive Director, WateReuse Association; 2: President, WateReuse Pacific Northwest Section |
Track 14A: Social Value and Environmental Justice Location: Ballroom A/B/C Adding the Human Component to the Water-Energy Nexus University of California, Irvine; WEF Board of Trustees 8:30am - 9:30am The Collective Impact of Environmental Justice 1: Consor; 2: Jacobs |
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| 9:00am - 9:40am |
EXH-2: Process Controls Location: Exhibit Hall Showcase Stage Drive Application for Pump Stations Danfoss Drives 9:20am - 9:40am Liquid Phase Measurement of Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) for Odor and Corrosion Control HACH Company |
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| 9:30am - 10:15am |
TUES. BREAK 1: MORNING BREAK ON EXHIBIT FLOOR Location: Exhibit Hall B |
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| 10:05am - 11:45am |
EXH-3: Solids Processing Location: Exhibit Hall Showcase Stage Meeting Today’s Challenges for Biosolids Treatment Cambi 10:25am - 10:45am Using Gravity to Solve Operational Problems Within Your Biological System 1: World Water Works; 2: TEC 10:45am - 11:05am Hungry for More: Leveraging High Solids Digestion Anaergia 11:05am - 11:25am Anaerobic Digestion with Nutrient Control - What if your Digesters Were the Sidestream? Thermal Process Systems, Inc. 11:25am - 11:45am V-Bank Transition Systems - Efficiencies with High Airflow Carbon Odor Control Systems Pure Air Filtration |
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| 10:15am - 11:45am |
Track 08B: PFAS Location: Room 315 Understanding the Fate and Destruction Mechanisms of PFAS Under Supercritical Oxidative Conditions 1: 374Water Inc, Durham, NC; 2: Duke University, Durham, NC 11:15am - 11:45am Some Like It Hot, but PFAS Does Not! Advancing Thermal Destruction of PFAS in Biosolids Brown and Caldwell, United States of America |
Track 09B: SCADA and Data Security Location: Room 316 Programmatic Approach to Understanding and Implementing Major SCADA Upgrades and Cyber Security 1: Clark Regional Wastewater District, United States of America; 2: Jacobs 11:15am - 11:45am Collaborative Data System Development Hazen and Sawyer, United States of America |
Track 10B: Asset Management Location: Room 317 Portland's Force Main Condition Assessment Program: $5M "turn-key" services for city-wide inspection and asset management 1: Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; 2: City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services 11:15am - 11:45am Catalyzing a Sound Future for Inspecting and Maintaining Piping Assets 1: Kennedy Jenks; 2: City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services |
Track 11B: Wastewater Treatment Location: Room 318 Mainstream Deammonification via Partial Nitrification- Denitrification-Anammox (PdNA/PANDA): From Pilot- to Full-Scale Applications Hazen and Sawyer, United States of America 11:15am - 11:45am The Power of Proactive - How Pre-Planning Set the Stage for Commissioning Success. Pre-dewatering and Thermal Hydrolysis Process (THP) Case Study in Dallas, Texas. MWH, United States of America |
| Track 12B: Leadership & Workforce Development Location: Room 407 To Thine Own Self Be True 1: Independent Consultant, WA State; 2: City of Arlington, WA; 3: Alderwood Water & Wastewater District, WA 11:15am - 11:45am Drinking Water Regional Internship Program (DRIP): Utility Providers Working Together to Create a Regional Industry Workforce Pipeline Carollo Engineers |
Track 13B: WateReuse Location: Ballroom D Talk to the People – Water Reuse Communications 1: Communications Manager, City of Boise, ID; 2: Program Manager/Associate Engineer, Brown and Caldwell 10:45am - 11:15am Water Reuse National Policy Update Policy Director, WateReuse Association 11:15am - 11:45am Showing What’s Possible – Water Reuse Demonstration Projects Recycled Program Manager, King County Wastewater Treatment Division |
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| 11:45am - 1:00pm |
TUES. BREAK 2: PNCWA BUSINESS LUNCH |
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| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
EXH-4: Liquids Processing Location: Exhibit Hall Showcase Stage Optimizing Bar Screen Screenings Removal Vulcan Industries 1:20pm - 1:40pm Basics of Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Technology and Recent Case Studies in NW KUBOTA Membrane USA 1:40pm - 2:00pm Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) for Treating PNW Surface Waters AWC Water Solutions 2:00pm - 2:20pm Sustainably Recovering Nitrogen & Phosphorus using Algae Gross-Wen Technologies 2:20pm - 2:40pm Nitrification Intensification with ZeeLung MABR Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions 2:40pm - 3:00pm On-Site Sodium Hypochlorite Generation: A Safe and Reliable Disinfection Alternative to Bulk Sodium Hypochlorite and Gas Chlorine Cleanwater1 |
Track 08C: Nutrients Location: Room 315 Full-Scale Pilot Testing of a Digital Twin Controller: The Water Research Foundation Advanced Nutrient Controller Project 1: Jacobs, Denver, Colorado; 2: Clean Water Services, Oregon; 3: Maia Analytical, Oregon 2:00pm - 3:00pm Puget Sound Nutrient Regional Technical Assistance Project Lessons Learned in Optimization and Nutrient Reduction Evaluation 1: Jacobs; 2: Association of Washington Cities |
Track 09C: Phosphorus Removal Location: Room 316 Inline Fermentation Enhances Biological Phosphorus Removal 1: Enviromix Inc; 2: South Granville Water and Sewer Authority; 3: City of Warren Water Recovery Facility 2:00pm - 3:00pm Genome-centric Insights Into Full-Scale Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal From Wastewater 1: Clean Water Services, United States of America; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology; 3: Maia Analytica |
Track 10C: Pressure Sewers Location: Room 317 The Industry Misunderstanding Of Low Pressure Sewer: Low Study and Analysis of Gravity vs Low Pressure Collection System First Utility District of Knox County, United States of America 2:00pm - 3:00pm From Septic to Sewer: Pressure Sewers as the Catalyst for Improving Water Security for Communities Environment One Corporation - A PCC Company |
| Track 11C: Watershed Management Location: Room 318 The Integrated Watershed: Managing the Big Picture Parametrix, United States of America 2:00pm - 3:00pm Restoring Arboretum Creek Through Partnerships and a Stormwater Park Jacobs Solutions, United States of America |
Track 12C: PNCWA WAVE: Leading the Future of Water Location: Room 407 PNCWA WAVE Program 1: Brown and Caldwell; 2: Asset Management Professionals LLC; 3: Parametrix; 4: Leeway Engineering; 5: PRR; 6: Osborn Consulting, Inc.; 7: Consor North America, Inc.; 8: Geosyntec Consultants; 9: City of Moscow Wastewater Treatment Center; 10: Minority Construction Group LLC; 11: Seattle University; 12: University of Washington; 13: Oregon State University; 14: Washington State University; 15: University of Idaho |
Track 13C: WateReuse Location: Ballroom D Contaminants of Emerging Concern through the Water Reuse Lens Professor Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (UW-Tacoma) and Civil and Environmental Engineering (UW-Seattle), University of Washington 1:30pm - 2:00pm Running an Advanced Water Treatment Pilot to Help Build a Successful Recycled Water Program 1: Recycled Program Manager, City of Boise, ID; 2: Water/Wastewater Infrastructure Engineer, Brown and Caldwell 2:00pm - 3:00pm Monitoring for Contaminants of Emerging Concern- Lessons Learned and Best Practices 1: Water Quality Planner, King County Water and Land Resources Division; 2: Research and Policy Project Manager, King County Wastewater Treatment Division; 3: Principal Engineer-Research and Innovation, Clean Water Services; 4: Principal-Environmental Engineer, CDM Smith |
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| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Track 14C: Wastewater Treatment Location: Ballroom A/B/C Wastewater Treatment Systems 101 Spokane County Public Works |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Tues. BREAK 3: AFTERNOON BREAK ON EXHIBIT FLOOR Location: Exhibit Hall B |
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| 3:30pm - 4:30pm |
EXH-5: Pumping Systems Location: Exhibit Hall Showcase Stage How a Pump Modification Bridged a Gap Between Costly FOG/Scum Problems in Lift Stations Landia, Inc. 3:50pm - 4:10pm Semi-Open, Non-Clog Impellers for Wastewater Pumping KSB Inc. 4:10pm - 4:30pm Compressed Gas Mixing for Optimized Nutrient Removal EnviroMix |
Track 08D: Emerging Contaminants Location: Room 315 Water Quality Modelling Support for the Phosphorus TMDL Update in the Tualatin River Clean Water Services, United States of America 4:00pm - 4:30pm Been There, Done That- Lessons Learnt from Nutrient and Emerging Contaminant Co-management Strategies Implemented in the East Coast 1: Hazen and Sawyer, United States of America; 2: Hazen and Sawyer, United States of America; 3: Hazen and Sawyer, United States of America |
Track 09D: Wastewater Treatment Location: Room 316 BPR Carbon Storage Insights and Questions: Adding a new tool to the box Clean Water Services, United States of America 4:00pm - 4:30pm Lower Your TIN with an Energy Win! High Efficiency, Low-DO Nitrogen Removal for Puget Sound 1: Parametrix; 2: LOTT Clean Water Alliance |
Track 10D: Biosolids Management Location: Room 317 Supercritical Water Oxidation: A Promising Alternative for Biosolids Management Hazen and Sawyer, United States of America 4:00pm - 4:30pm Solids Stabilization Evaluation In A Constrained Footprint For West Point Treatment Plant 1: Carollo Engineers; 2: Wastewater Treatment Division, Department of Natural Resources, King County |
| Track 11D: Collection System Planning & Resiliency Location: Room 318 Reimagining an Aging Sewer Network 1: WSP USA, United States of America; 2: City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services 4:00pm - 4:30pm Using the Entire Community Outreach Toolbox & More: Building Trust on the King County North Mercer Enatai Sewer Upgrade Project 1: Tetra Tech, United States of America; 2: Jacobs; 3: King County |
Track 12D: Leadership & Workforce Development Location: Room 407 Emerging Leaders Venturi-Style: A Case Study for Professional Development Consor, United States of America |
Track 13D: WateReuse Location: Ballroom D Reuse Regulator Session and Q&A 1: Oregon Reuse Regulator; 2: Idaho Reuse Regulator; 3: Washington Reuse Regulator |
Track 14D: Wastewater Surveillance Location: Ballroom A/B/C Coliphage Detection Methods and Full Scale Viral Quantification Clean Water Services, United States of America |
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| Date: Wednesday, 13/Sept/2023 | |||||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Track 15A1: Digital Tools/AI Location: Room 315 Demystifying Machine Learning for Water Professionals Clean Water Services, United States of America 8:30am - 9:00am A Novel Surrogate Process Control for Digital Microbial Source Tracking 1: Clean Water Services, Hillsboro, Oregon; 2: Hampton Roads Sanitation District, Virginia Beach, Virginia |
Track 16A1: Solids Processing Location: Room 316 Saving Millions through Operator-Friendly Thickening and Solids Dewatering Solutions at the Columbia Boulevard WWTP 1: Jacobs Engineering, United States of America; 2: City of Portland Bureau Of Environmental Services 8:30am - 9:00am Getting It To Fit – New screw press allows City to increase capacity without expanding 1: Keller Associates, Inc., United States of America; 2: HUBER Technology, Inc. |
Track 17A1: Chemical Treatment Location: Room 317 Advanced Dose Control: iCT-based Optimization of Disinfection Chemistries USP Technologies, United States of America 8:30am - 9:00am Can Rocks Replace Chemicals? Lake Stevens Sewer District Selection of Liquid Calcium Carbonate as New Non-Hazardous pH and Alkalinity Control Chemical 1: Columbia River Carbonates, United States of America; 2: Lake Stevens Sewer District; 3: Heimburger and Company |
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| 8:00am - 10:00am |
Track 18A: Wastewater Treatment Location: Room 318 Large-Scale Intensified Secondary Treatment at the Sand Island WWTP Stantec, United States of America 9:00am - 9:30am How Much Does Grit Cost You? Hydro International, United States of America 9:30am - 10:00am How High Velocity, Headloss, Flushable Wipes, Plastics and Grinders Affect the SCR Capture Performance of Headworks & Membrane Protection Screening Systems Ovivo USA, LLC |
Track 19A: Utility Management and Funding Opportunities Location: Room 405 Make it Rain (Stormwater Funding) Osborn Consulting, Inc. 9:00am - 10:00am Strategies for Effectively Communicating Utility Rate Increases WSC, United States of America |
Track 20A: Collaborative Delivery Location: Room 407 Using Progressive Design-Build to Achieve Cost Certainty and Manage Risk for a New, Large-Diameter Outfall 1: Jacobs Engineering; 2: Clackamas County WES; 3: Michels 9:00am - 10:00am How Owner Involvement In Progressive Design Build Led To Success On A $580M Wastewater Conveyance Rehab Program In The San Francisco Bay Area 1: Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, Inc., United States of America; 2: Silicon Valley Clean Water, United States of America |
Track 22A: Process Optimization Location: Ballroom D Using Dynamic Modeling to Design for Operations – Bridging the Design and Operations Gap 1: Jacobs, United States of America; 2: City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) 9:00am - 10:00am Nitrogen Removal Optimization for King County’s Wastewater Treatment Plants 1: HDR Engineering, Inc.; 2: King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, Wastewater Treatment Division |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Track 15A2: Digital Tools/AI Location: Room 315 Much Ado About Digital, But What’s Right for Me and How do I Adopt It? Stanley Consultants, United States of America 9:30am - 10:00am Mining for Lead: Tackling LCRR Unknowns with Collaborative Intelligence Trinnex, United States of America |
Track 16A2: Inflow & Infiltration Location: Room 316 No flow meter? No problem - Quantifying Benefits and Return on Investment for I&I Repairs Hazen and Sawyer 9:30am - 10:00am Deep Dive Into Deep Infiltration Oldcastle Infrastructure |
Track 17A2: Optimization for Nutrient Removal Location: Room 317 Water Research Foundation's Web-Based Tool to Expedite Nutrient Optimization at WRRFs HDR Engineering, Inc., United States of America 9:30am - 10:00am Process Optimization of a 30 MGD MBR WRF to Meet Strict Phosphorus Requirements 1: Stantec, United States of America; 2: City of North Las Vegas |
Track 21A: Phosphorus Removal Location: Ballroom A/B/C Understanding Sidestream EBPR: Fermentation rate testing and PHA measurements 1: Clean Water Services; 2: Stantec |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Wednesday Break: Wednesday AM Break Location: 3rd Floor Prefunction |
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| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Track 15B1: Model-Based Decision Making Location: Room 315 Model Based Decision Making: The Impacts of Re-development on Tacoma’s Collection System and Pump Station Operations 1: Carollo Engineers, United States of America; 2: City of Tacoma, Washington 11:00am - 11:30am Gothenburg’s Digital Twin – Helping Reduce CSOs And Flooding, Stabilize Wastewater Loads And Make More Efficient Use Of Existing Infrastructure DHI Water & Environment, Inc., United States of America |
Track 16B1: Utility & Asset Management Location: Room 316 The Boise Business Case Evaluation (BCE): Aligning Levels of Service with Capital Project Decision Making Criteria 1: Brown and Caldwell, United States of America; 2: Water Renewal Services, City of Boise, Idaho 11:00am - 11:30am From Independence to Integration: Building the West Point Capital Program 1: King County Wastewater Treatment Division; 2: Stantec |
Track 17B1: Water Policy Location: Room 317 Make Your Voice Heard at the State Level: Navigating the Legislative Cycle to Promote Better Water Policy 1: City of Post Falls, United States of America; 2: WSC, Inc. 11:00am - 11:30am The National Water Policy Fly-in: Two days of Policy and Sore Feet in DC 1: WSC, Inc; 2: Parametrix, Inc; 3: City of Post Falls, Idaho |
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| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Track 18B: Pollutant Modeling Location: Room 318 On-Demand Risk Assessment of Pollutant Spills in Open Water Bodies 1: DHI Water and Environment, Inc., Canada; 2: City of Toronto, ON, Canada; 3: Region of Durham, ON, Canada; 4: Region of Peel, ON, Canada 11:30am - 12:30pm Exploring Environmental DNA: Piloting a Novel Method for Monitoring Biological Characteristics of Surface Waters in the Tualatin River Watershed 1: Clean Water Services, United States of America; 2: University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA |
Track 19B: Stormwater Location: Room 405 Retrofitting Informal Right-of-Way through Collaborative Natural Drainage System 1: Jacobs, United States of America; 2: Seattle Public Utilities, United States of America 11:30am - 12:30pm Addressing Drainage Issues Through Root Cause Analysis 1: Osborn Consulting, Inc.; 2: PNCWA Stormwater Committee; 3: PNCWA S&YP Committee |
Track 20B: Wastewater Process Resiliency Location: Room 407 Process Resiliency and Response through Cross-Basin Activated Sludge Seeding Clean Water Services, United States of America 11:30am - 12:30pm Case Studies in Resiliency with Aerobic Granular Sludge in North America Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc., United States of America |
Track 21B: Innovative Contaminant Removal Location: Ballroom A/B/C Turning Lemon Into Lemonade – The Sweet Success of Creative Application of Ammonia Removal to Control Microbially Induced Corrosion and Odor Pierce County, United States of America 11:30am - 12:30pm Gaining Support For A New Bioavailable Aluminum Method To Implement The Aluminum Water Quality Standard 1: Clean Water Services, United States of America; 2: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, United States of America |
Track 22B: Biological Treatment Location: Ballroom D Metabolomics: An Innovative Tool For Characterizing And Troubleshooting BNR University of Idaho 11:30am - 12:30pm Growing Pains–How Pasco, WA is Getting Ahead of the Curve at Their WWTP Consor, United States of America |
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Track 15B2: Nutrients Location: Room 315 Lessons Learned and Best Practices from over 20 years of Nutrient Removal in the Chesapeake Bay and Mid-Atlantic Hazen and Sawyer, United States of America 12:00pm - 12:30pm A Scientific and Regulatory Framework for Adaptive Management of Nitrogen Loading to Coastal Waters Brown and Caldwell |
Track 16B2: Utility Planning & Management Location: Room 316 Road Trip! Taking Integrated Planning for Municipal Wastewater and Stormwater on the Road Parametrix, United States of America 12:00pm - 12:30pm WEF's WISE Utililty Management Program - An Update Clean Water Management, United States of America |
Track 17B2: Startup & Commissioning Location: Room 317 Trying to Start the Fire – Lessons Learned in the Startup of Three 16 Million BTU Firetube Steam Boilers MWH Constructors, United States of America 12:00pm - 12:30pm Electrical Commissioning: It’s All Good Until it Doesn’t Turn on MWH Constructors, United States of America |
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