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PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
WED24 
S tormwater Management
8:30–10:00 a.m.
Room: Mandalay Bay Ballroom L
Track: Wastewater & Stormwater Management
Moderator: Scott Hughes Innovating Drinking Water Utility Optimization
WED02 
10:00–11:30 a.m.
Room: Breakers KL
Track: Water Utility Management & Leadership
Moderator: Todd Brewer
This session highlights the latest research on stormwater
management and the development of best management
practices. Attendees will hear about integrated stormwater
initiatives at the national level and a case study implementing
those initiatives. This session highlights innovations in drinking water optimization
achieved through the Partnership for Safe Water drinking water
utility optimization program. Topics include corrosion control,
groundwater optimization, and small system optimization
principles.
8:30 
A National Review of Innovative and Integrated Stormwater
Management Initiatives
Pinar Balci, NYC Department of Environmental Protection,
Liza Faber, Sandeep Mehrotra, Floren Poliseo, Stephen Sands 10:00 
The Partnership for Safe Water Approach Applied to
Corrosion Control
Michael Barsotti, Champlain Water District
9:00 
Reining in Rainfall: Drainage Planning in an Era of
Increasing Extremes
Eric Rosenberg, Hazen and Sawyer, Alan Cohn, Anni Luck,
Sandeep Mehrotra, Benjamin Wright
9:30 
Achieving One Water Goals Through Innovative Stormwater
Management: Recent Research, Tools, and Strategies
Katy Lackey, The Water Research Foundation, Harry Zhang
WED25 
Unidirectional Flushing: Pipe Cleaning—Tools and
Techniques to Improve Distribution Water Quality
8:30–11:30 a.m.
Room: Surf AB
Track: Operator Forum
Moderator: Richard Giani
Unidirectional flushing and other distribution cleaning techniques
are becoming more important as utilities look to add new
sources or change treatment without trying to cause disruption
in pipe-scale that lead to increased discolored water complaints
or corrosion. This session focuses on the latest tools, techniques
and applications for maintaining distribution water quality.
8:30 
Developing Unidirectional Flushing Plans
Jennifer Hendke, CH2M
9:00 
Main Cleaning Performance of UDF—Benefits and Limitations
Andrew Hill, Confluence Engineering
9:30 
Pilot Testing for Optimized Unidirectional Flushing in the
Hamilton Distribution System
Danny Locco, City of Hamilton, Monique Waller, Richard Giani,
Andrew Hill, Melinda Friedman
10:00 
Creating a Long-Term Optimal Unidirectional
Flushing Program
Fikremariam Tesfai, DC Water, Maureen Schmelling
10:30 
Conducting Water Quality Distribution Assessments to
Determine Best UDF Practices
Richard Giani, Jacobs
11:00 
Microbial Community Structures and Their Associations
with Storage Tank Sediments in Drinking Water
Distribution Systems
Jingrang Lu, USEPA
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10:30 
Optimizing for Groundwater Treatment Fac ilities
Kevin Linder, Aurora Water
11:00 
Bigger Isn’t Always Better—Optimizing Small Drinking
Water Systems
Brian Haws, Austin Water Utility, Todd Brewer, American Water
Works Association
RSS07 
A Success Story: How Corpus Christi, Texas Prevents
Nitrification
10:00–10:45 a.m.
Exhibit Hall Classroom—Booth #22139
Track: Distribution System Management & Operations
Facilitated by: Amy Carlton, Hach
By developing and executing on a Nitrification Action Plan,
including systematic distribution system monitoring, the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas, prevents nitrification. Hear the Corpus
Christi team describe how they developed their plan and how
they execute on it. Hach experts will join the roundtable to
discuss how we support with instruments and solutions to gather,
analyze and manage the data needed to implement a nitrification
prevention program.
WED51 
Real-World Impacts of Cyberattacks: Hacking
Demonstration and Risk Mitigation Discussion for
Board Members, Managers and Operators
10:00–11:30 a.m.
Room: Mandalay Bay Ballroom L
Track: Preparedness, Resilience and Cybersecurity
Moderator: Daniel Groves
This session provides an interactive, live demonstration of the
potential consequences of a cyberattack against a water utility,
with a high level of audience participation and interaction using a
functioning model of a booster pump station.
10:00 
Cyberattack in Action: Spear-phishing Demonstration and
Discussion
Joel Cox, Jeffrey Hesse, West Yost Associates
10:30 
Cyberattack in Action: Ransomware Demonstration and
Discussion
Daniel Groves, West Yost Associates
11:00 
Cybersecurity for Water Utilities–Practical Next Steps
Kevin Morley, American Water Works Association