PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
10:00
Resiliency through Power—The City of Phoenix’s Water
System Power Redundancy Roadmap
George Whitten, Carollo Engineers
10:30
The Information Your Utility Needs to Prepare for Source
Water Spill Threats
Steven Allgeier, USEPA, OGWDW, Water Security Division,
Jennifer Benjamin, Jim Henderson, Margaret Kearns
Alternate Preparation for When Mother Nature Strikes—The Electrical
WED15
Upgrade/Generation Project for the City of Nashville’s
Historic WT
Glen Doss, Nashville Metro Water Services, Dale Mosley
Colorado Water Regulatory Landscape
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
Track: Water Policy and Regulatory Actions
Moderator: Evelyn Rhodes
Hear from the Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment on POU implementation, disinfectant residual, total
coliform rule, DBP compliance, state review and corrosion control
and sample site requirements of the Lead and Copper Rule.
Working with EPA Region 8 and utilities, CDPHE will present on
what is working and lessons learned.
8:30
CDPHE, Lead Outreach Verification Effort (LOVE)
Alex Hawley, Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment, Jamie Duvall
9:00
Preventing a Lead Zeppelin: Colorado’s Approach to Avoiding
Unintended Corrosion Impacts
Melanie Criswell, Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment WQCD
9:30
What’s Chlorine Got to Do with It?
Bryan Pilson
10:00 Challenges of POU Approval and Regulatory Oversight:
Lessons Learned in Colorado
Margaret Talbott, Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment, Emily Wong
10:30
Panel Discussion
Melanie Criswell, Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment WQCD
Alex Hawley, Colorado Department of Public Health
and Environment
Bryan Pilson
Margaret Talbott, Colorado Department of Public Health
and Environment
WED16
Watershed Source Water Protection Tools and
Lessons Learned
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A
Track: Water Resources & Conservation Management
Moderator: Scott Hughes
This session presents innovation tools, case studies and lessons
learned in protecting water quality in watersheds.
8:30
Achieving Sustainable Water Quality Solutions Through
Holistic Policies—Lessons Learned
Graham Rich, Renewable Water Resources
9:00
Source Water Protection Challenges in Municipal Multi-use
Watersheds
Louis Martinez, Newport News Waterworks Department,
Yann LeGouellec, City of Newport News Waterworks
Department, Ronald Harris
9:30
Innovative Techniques for Source Water Quality Monitoring:
Practical Guidance for Leveraging Satellite Observations
Josh Weiss, Hazen and Sawyer, Kinsey Hoffman, Dustin West
10:00
Mitigating Surface Water Contamination Risks: Lessons
Learned from Middlesex Water’s Source Water
Protection Efforts
Mark Theiler, Middlesex Water Company, Jennifer Benjamin,
David Brogle, Margaret Kearns
10:30
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure—Lubbock’s
Watershed Management Plan
Paula Jo Lemonds, HDR Engineering Inc, Aubrey A. Spear,
Malcolm Laing, Neil Weems, Jenna Kromann
WED17
Innovative Groundwater Management Policies,
Practices, and Tools
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B
Track: Water Resources & Conservation Management
Moderator: Spandana Tummuri
This session presents case studies and innovations in
groundwater management.
8:30
Implementing a Large-Scale New Wells Program Provides
Resiliency and Options for the City of Phoenix
Ena Tucker, Carollo Engineers, David Siebert, Darlene Helm,
Aaron LaRoque
9:00
Achieving Groundwater Basin Sustainability—The Final
Chapter (Sort of)
Leslie Dumas, Woodard & Curran
9:30
Decision Support Model for Meeting Subsidence Regulations
in Sugar Land
Jenny Bywater, CDM Smith, Katie Clayton, Brian Butscher,
William Garde, Tina Petersen
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