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CONFERENCE Speakers
SESSION 1: Utility Management Becki Rosenfeldt
Hazen and Sawyer Experiences and Challenges Faced by Utilities in Optimizing Corrosion Control Strategies: Testing, Selection, Monitoring, and Unintended Consequences brosenfeldt@hazenandsawyer.com
Lyndsey Sargent
Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority Growing Your Own – Internal Leadership Programs Produce the Next Generation lsargent@ddcwsa.com
Priyanka Uppu
R2T, Inc. Incident Response: Practice and Training Make a Diff erence priyanka.uppu@r2tinc.com
Raymond Cordon
Barge Design Solutions Dalton Utilities’ V.D. Parrott, Jr. WTP and the next 50 years raymond.cordon@bargedesign.com
SESSION 2: Midnight Operator Appreciation Belinda Folks
City of Gainesville Working the Night Shift Safely and Staying Healthy bfolkes@gainesvillega.gov
Kenneth Schnaars
Brown and Caldwell Keys for Process and Equipment Troubleshooting for Plant Personnel kschnaars@brwncald.com
Jennifer Arp
Cherokee County Water & Sewer Authority Drinking Water Defense: Planning and Executing a Tabletop Exercise jennifer.arp@ccwsa.com
Kim Holland
Marietta Water Emotional Intelligence vs. IQ: How to Get Ahead kholland@mariettaga.gov
SESSION 3: Water Treatment Samantha Trulove
Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources Ozone: The Elixir of Water Treatment samantha.trulove@gwinnettcounty.com
Eric Osborne
Henry County Water Authority HCWA Floating Intake and Water Quality Selector eric.osborne@hcwa.com
Quinton Fletcher
City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management Improving Water Infrastructure Reliability While Promoting Your Utility’s Brand qfl etcher@atlantaga.gov
Chris Ball
Leopold – A Xylem Brand Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) in Water Treatment chris.ball@xyleminc.com
CONFERENCE Speakers
SESSION 4: Wastewater Treatment Chloe Cooper
Jacobs Identifying and Fixing O&M Pain Points for Plant Staff chloe.cooper@jacobs.com
Catrina Gunn
Stante Knowledge Kept: Preserving Treatment Plant Expertise and Understanding through SOPs and O&M Manuals catrina.gunn@stantec.com
Mayra Giraldo
Stantec Knowledge Kept: Preserving Treatment Plant Expertise and Understanding through SOPs and O&M Manuals mayra.giraldo@stantec.com
Nick Landes
Freese and Nichols Why Infl uent Monitoring Matters for Design and Operations nick.landes@freese.com
Chandra Mysore
Jacobs What Every Operator Needs to Know about Filtration chandra.mysore@jacobs.com
SESSION 5: Laboratory I Erin Consuegra
Environmental Resource Analysts, Inc. What Are All These Tests? A Brief History of the Clean Water Act and the Priority Pollutant List econsuegra@eralab.com
Christine Calderon
Veolia North America Weighing the Right Way christine.calderon@veolia.com
Kathleen Boyer
Hach Company Iron and Manganese in the Drinking Water Cycle: Just a Nuisance or Something More? kathleen.boyer@hach.com
Kelly Prescott
Henry County Water Authority Microbiological Testing for Reagent Water Quality kelly.prescott@hcwa.com
SESSION 6: Diversity in Operations Belinda Folks
City of Gainesville Equity in a Diverse Workforce bfolkes@gainesvillega.gov
Yagesh Panta
Freese and Nichols Age Biases and the Aging Workforce yagesh.panta@freese.com
Erica Gordon-Roberts
City of Atlanta Disrupting Bias: What is it... and Why Does it Need Disruption? egroberts@atlantaga.gov
Paula E. Days
AECOM Panel Discussion: Equity in a Diverse Workforce paula.days@aecom.com
Wil Caldwell
Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources Slips, Trips, and Falls wil.caldwell@gwinnettcounty.com
Darrel West
Gwinnett County Importance of Safety Training darrel.west@gwinnettcounty.com
Belinda Folks
City of Gainesville Working the Night Shift Safely and Staying Healthy bfolkes@gainesvillega.gov
Wil Caldwell
Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources Town Hall Discussion: Improving Facility Safety wil.caldwell@gwinnettcounty.com
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SESSION 8: Laboratory II Joe Mattheis
Eurofi ns Eaton Analytical UCMR5 Rule Development Update joe.mattheis@eurofi nset.com
George Hutchinson
SonicSolutions Algae Control Using Ultrasound to Control Biofi lm Formation in Water Treatment Systems george@algaecontrol.us
Jeanette Crawford
City of Milledgeville Panel Discussion: Diff erent Methods for Testing Wastewater in Your Lab
Brett Whaley
Journey to Obtain a Three-Year Microbiological Laboratory Certifi cation brett_412@hotmail.com
Ken Mendenhall
Journey to Obtain a Three-Year Microbiological Laboratory Certifi cation kmendenhall@cwwga.org
SESSION 9: Plant Operations and Pipeline Inspection Leon Hendee
Peoples & Quigley, Inc. What Operators Wish You Knew lhendee@pandqinc.com
Joey Cheng
Brown and Caldwell Operation for the Upgraded Little River Water Reclamation Facility jcheng@brwncald.com
Gerald Fuller
Clayton County Water Authority How CCTV Ensures the Correct Functionality of a Conveyance System gerald.fuller@ccwa.us
SESSION 10: Georgia Water Stewardship Act (10th Anniversary) Gail Cowie
Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center, Albany State University Overview of the Georgia Water Stewardship Act gcowie@h2opolicycenter.org
Celine Benoit
Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District Georgia Water Stewardship and the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District cbenoit@atlantaregional.org
Steve Simpson
Black & Veatch 2020 Updated Georgia Municipal, Industrial, and Power Generation Water Demand Forecasting simpsonsl@bv.com
Johanna Smith
GA EPD Water Supply Effi ciency Improvement: The EPD Approach johanna.smith@dnr.ga.gov
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