PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Monday , June 12 , 2023
4:30 Moving Away From Standard Culture : Exploring Alternatives for Legionella Pneumophila Monitoring in Engineered Water Systems Sara Mathews , McGill University
MON19
Strategically Managing Water Affordability 2:00 – 5:00 p . m . Room : Enercare Centre — Salon 103 Track : Utility Management and Leadership Moderator : Maria DeChellis
2:00 Water Affordability Is a Verb Jamie Fleming , City of Wyoming , Adam DeYoung
2:30 A Water Affordability Toolkit : Strategies to Maintain Affordable Access to Water Service for Low-Income Households Larry Levine , Natural Resources Defense Council
3:00 Setting Sustainable and Predictable Rates Cole Blackwell , Cobb-Marietta Water Authority
3:30 Tapping Into Resilience With Scaled Investments in Distributed Water Infrastructure Cynthia Koehler , WaterNow Alliance , Caroline Koch , Ed Harrington , Amy Weinfurter , Victoria Arling
4:00 Increase Resilience and Keep Rates Low by Debt-Financing Distributed Infrastructure Ed Harrington , WaterNow Alliance
4:40 Benefits of Large-Scale Turf Replacement Victoria Arling , WaterNow Alliance
MON20
Successfully Leveraging Innovation to Digitally Transform Your Utility 2:00 – 5:00 p . m . Room : Enercare Centre — Salon 105 Track : Innovation Moderator : Ryan Nagel
2:00 Innovation in LADWP ’ s Water System Briana Mercuri , Los Angeles Department of Water and Power , Dean Terada , Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
2:30 Inside Meter Installations — The Industries Dirty Little Secret Barry Melvin , UMS , A Division of Xtralight
3:00 Democratizing Data in the Digital Utility Andrew Seeley , EMA , Inc .
3:30 LVVWD-SNWAs Use of Enterprise Program Management Information System ( PMIS ) Tp Support Financial Management of Its Capital Programs Tahmineh Pennington , Las Vegas Vally Water , Mariliese Horsewood , Las Vegas Valley Water
4:00 Innovation in Action : Research to Solve Utility Challenges Adriano Mena
4:30 Sarasota County , FL — Upgrading SCADA and Leveraging Dashboards , KPIs , and Actionable Intelligence Richard Defreitas , Carollo Engineers , Inc .
46 ACE23 CONFERENCE | AWWA . ORG / ACE
MON21A Merging Environmental Justice with Workforce DEI — Part 1 2:00 – 3:40 p . m . Room : Beanfield 206C Track : Virtual Track : Work Culture in the
Water Sector Moderator : Roderick Sherman
2:10 Assessment of Indigenous Water Issues in Canada Mark Duey
2:40 Flooding , Frustration and The Future — Novel Outreach in A Historic Philadelphia Maura Jarvis , Trans Pacific Engineering Corporation , Glen Abrams , Philadelphia Water Department , Dan Schupsky
3:10 Achieving Destination 2030 to Provide Water and Sanitation to All Mark Duey , Water for People
MON21B Merging Environmental Justice With Workforce DEI — Part 2 3:55 – 5:00 p . m . Room : Beanfield Centre — 206C Track : Virtual Track , Work Culture in the
Water Sector Moderator : Roderick Sherman
4:00 So You Want to Begin Your Diversity , Equity , and Inclusion Journey , but Don ’ t Know Where to Start ? Priya Persaud , Region of Peel , Emily Curling
4:30 Implementation of DEI in an Engineering Consulting Firm- Where to Start ? Christina Lugo , Emily Snoei
MON22
Canadian North 2:00 – 3:30 p . m . Room : Beanfield Centre — 203B Track : International Perspectives Moderator : Scott Tam
2:00 Cold Water Treatment and Optimization Challenges in the Canadian North Sarah Larlee , Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd .
2:30 Drinking Water Provision in the Canadian Artic : Current and Future Challenges and Emerging Opportunities Stephanie Gora , York University
3:00 Comparison of Artic Piped Water and Sewer Servicing Strategies for New Neighborhood Development in Iqualuit , Nunavut Kenneth Johnson , EXP
MON23 City of Toronto Advancements — Part 1 3:30 – 5:00 p . m . Room : Beanfield 201A Track : International Perspectives Moderator : Richard Noehammer
3:30 Utilizing Capital Project Delivery Practices During and Emergency — The Toronto Water Approach Garry Boychuk , Toronto Water