PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
2:00
Lead Service Line Replacement and Flushing—New
Standard C810
Maureen Schmelling, DC Water
2:30
High Performance Butterfly Valves—New Standard C519
Mark MacConnell, Metro Vancouver, Al Libke, DeZurik, Inc.
3:00
CFRP Renewal and Strengthening of PCCP—New
Standard C305
Mehdi Zarghamee, Simpson Gumphertz & Heger, Inc.,
Anna Pridmore, Structural Technologies
3:30
Direct Potable Reuse Program Operation and Management—
New Standard G485
Daniel Nix , City of Wichita Falls
4:00
Magnetic and Ultrasonic Meters for Revenue Applications—
New Standard C715
Thomas Kelly, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission,
Don Faber, Faber & Associates
WED23
Monitoring and Optimizing Biological Filtration
1:30–4:30 p.m.
Room: 501
Track: Advances in Water Treatment
Moderator: Lynn Williams-Stephens
This session presents information needed to optimize biological
filtration including monitoring methods, enhancement techniques
and real-world situations.
4:00
WED24
Case Studies in Biofiltration from the Pacific Northwest:
Characterizing Performance and Water Quality Benefits
Austin Peters, Carollo Engineers, Inc., Jess Brown,
Kari Duncan, Kim DeFolo, Ray Leipold, Tim Sherman
Continuing Evolution of Water Treatment
1:30–4:30 p.m.
Room: 405
Track: Advances in Water Treatment
Moderator: Paul Swaim
Even our conventional water treatment processes are continuing
to evolve. This session focuses on new perspectives, new
treatment approaches, and new ways of modeling and monitoring
water treatment.
1:30
Estimating the Burden of Waterborne Disease in the
United States
Kathy Benedict, CDC, Sarah Collier, Li Deng, Kathy Benedict,
Kathleen Fullerton, Jonathan Yoder, Michael Beach
2:00
Innovative Actiflo Carb WTP for DBP Compliance: Lessons
Learned During Construction and Startup
Richard Stratton, HDR Engineering, Garrett Haertel
2:30
Mathematical Modeling of Biofiltration to Describe
Contaminant Removal and Headloss Development in Drinking
Water and Water Reuse
Erik Rosenfeldt, Hazen & Sawyer, Yeweii Sun,
Wendell Khunjar, Drew Wang
3:00
Development of an Automated and High-Throughput Method
for Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Quantification
Nicole Allward, Dalhousie University, Martin Earle,
Amina Stoddart, Graham Gagnon
3:30
The Continuing Evolution of Membrane Gravity Filtration
(MGF) Applications: Recent Case Studies and Development
Martin Gravel, AECOM, Simon Breese, Brian Sahely
4:00
UV/H2O2 AOP Full Scale Unit Operations
Andrew Manfredi, H2M Architects + Engineers
1:30
Where’s the Beef? Biofiltration Monitoring and
Optimization in Low-TOC Waters
Nacole McCormick, Christine Moore, Justin Bowling,
Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson Ct,
Thomas Gillogly, Rebecca Lindsay, Drew Hart,
Peter von Bucher 2:00
Bioprocess Monitoring Tools for Biological Filtration
Jennifer Hooper, CDM Smith, Chance Lauderdale,
Patrick Evans, Christina Alito, Lauren Weinrich 2:30
Impact of Upstream Chlorination on Filter Performance and
Microbial Community Structure of GAC and
Anthracite Biofilters
Eric Wert, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Glen de Vera,
Mitchell Stoker, Wilbur Frehner, Daniel Gerrity 3:00
Enhancing and Optimizing the Removal of Trace Organic
Contaminants in an Ozone-Biofiltration Process for
Advanced Water Treatment
Ramola Vai Dya, Germano Salazar-Benites, Chris Wilson,
Charles Bott WED25
3:30
Control of Disinfection—Byproduct-Associated Risk
by Ozonation, Biofiltration, and Adsorption for Wastewater
Potable Reuse
Eric Peterson, University of Colorado Boulder, Sierra Johnson,
Steven Shiokari, Yun Yu, Sherri Cook, Scott Summers Join us for the latest in academic research.
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Alternate Dissolved Air Flotation for High Turbidity Waters: The Next
1:30
Frontier for Flotation
Christine Thornton, Hazen and Sawyer, Lindsey Olson,
Matthew Valade
Universities Forum: Water Supply
1:30–3:00 p.m.
Room: 407
Track: Advances in Water Treatment
Moderator:Christine Owen
Cation Exchange Regeneration Using Brackish Water Reverse
Osmosis Concentrate: Challenges and Solutions
Daniel Whalen, University of Central Florida, Steven Duranceau