PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
10:00
Quantifying Level of Service Interruption from Water Main
Breaks as Consequence of Failure
Karl Ivan San Luis, Pure Technologies Ltd., a Xylem brand,
Amin Ganjidoost, Craig Daly
10:30
Outage Management: Using Existing Interrelationships
Between Processes and Technologies Across Departments
to Meet Customer Needs
Brian Schrantz, EMA, Inc., Bryan May
Alternate TRWD’s LOS Journey: Establishing Meaningful Measures and
WED04
Creating a Dashboard for Management Review
Esteban Azagra, Arcadis
Community Water Fluoridation: Additives, Standards,
and Implementation
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A
Track: Distribution Plant Operations & Management
Moderator: Kip Duchon
Almost 75% of people on public water systems have access to
fluoridated water and it is a major contributor to better overall
health in the US. Water facility operators are the front-line of
implementation, yet many of them do not understand why they
are asked to add fluoride, and do not understand how to achieve
the best operations. This session will be to provide what an
operator needs to know about community water fluoridation: why
is it important, how does fluoride reduce decay and improve oral
health, what are the different fluoride additive products including
benefits and relative merits of each one, what are the safety
and quality verifications ensured by additive product standards,
design and operational considerations and guidance, and
potential future applications and developments.
8:30
What the Operator Needs to Know About Water Fluoridation
Kip Duchon, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
8:50
Fluoride Additive Products and AWWA Standards
H.C. Liang, Tetra Tech
9:10
NSF Standard 60: How it Ensures Safe Drinking Water
David Purkiss, NSF International
9:30
Fluoridation Engineering Process Design and
Operational Management
Theresa Boehmer, Commonwealth Engineers
9:50
Water Fluoridation in Canada
Rahul Hampaul, Indigenous Services Canada, Community
Infrastructure Directorate
10:10
Development of a Pelletized Fluoride Additive Product
Steve McCarter, KC Industries, LLC
10:30
Panel Discussion
Theresa Boehmer, Commonwealth Engineers
Kip Duchon, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
H.C. Liang, Tetra Tech
Rahul Hampaul, Indigenous Services Canada, Community
Infrastructure Directorate
Steve McCarter, KC Industries, LLC
David Purkiss, NSF International
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WED05
Energy Management in Distribution Systems
8:30–10:00 a.m.
Room: 303
Track: Distribution Plant Operations & Management
Moderator: Shaoqing Ge
Utilities are faced with reducing energy costs associated with
operating distribution systems. This session will present three
examples of how utilities are using innovative solutions to reduce
energy dependency.
8:30
Battery Energy Storage for Cost-effective and
Sustainable Water and Wastewater Utility Operations
Carla Cherchi, MWH Americas, Inc., Mike Voll,
Mehrdad Rostami, Joseph Jacangelo
9:00
Restoring Balance to the Water-Energy Nexus: An Illinois
Utility’s Experience with Hydropower
Benjamin Finnegan, CDM Smith, Larry Deetjan, Dave Leslie,
Randy Rogers, Eric Compton
9:30
Hydro Turbine Waterworks District 40, Pressure Reduction
Station, Antelope Valley, California
Ramy Mattar, Los Angeles County Waterworks Districts
WED07
Project Implementation of Large-Scale Water
Resource Project
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C
Track: Infrastructure Design and Project Delivery
Moderator: Timotheus Hampton
The session will provide insight from lessons learned and
examples of current industry best practices from seasoned water
resources professionals with the responsibility of delivering
large scale projects. The subject of the talks will consist of
advanced cost modeling, managing unexpected scope changes,
utilizing Guaranteed Maximum Pricing, overcoming extremely
unique design and construction challenges, simultaneous
parallel construction and commissioning and budget/schedule
optimization.
8:30
Detailed Cost Modeling + Procurement are Critical for
Achieving Cost Certainty for Houston’s
$1.75B Plant Expansion
Jasmin Zambrano, City of Houston, Rajinder Singh,
Paul Walker, Roy Bumpass, Sarah Berkey, Tracy Kimnach,
Ravi Kaleyatodi
9:00
Seven Easy Steps for Pressure Zone Expansion
Dan Strietelmeier, City of Westminster, Michael Lehrburger
9:30
Seattle Public Utilities’ Critical Pipeline Protection for Sound
Transit’s Light Rail Northgate Link Extension
Michael Norton, Seattle Public Utilities, Joseph Herold
10:00
Advancing Construction Projects through Legal, Technical,
and Scheduling Challenges: DWU’s Residuals Projects at the
Elm Fork WTP
Gabriel Trejo, Arcadis, Ben Kuhnel, Chetan Soni, Lisa Jowell,
Marc Cottingame