Desal for California’s Waterfull Future 2023 Conference February 16-17, 2023 • Sacramento, California CONFERENCE AGENDA
Desal for California’s Waterfull Future 2023 Conference CONFERENCE AGENDA
Conference Schedule
Day 1: Thursday, February 16, 2023 – 8:30 AM – 5:15 PM
8:30 AM – Conference Opening and Welcome + Continental Breakfast
(CalDesal Chair Mark Donovan and Executive Director Glenn Farrel)
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM – Session 1: Setting the Stage - California Water/Climate Conditions and Governor’s Water Supply Strategy
• Moderator: Marice DePasquale, Vice Chair, CalDesal
o Joaquin Esquivel, Chair, State Water Resources Control Board
o Dr. Kate Huckelbridge, Executive Director, California Coastal Commission
o Devesh Sharmas, Director, International Desalination Association
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM – Break
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM – Session 2: Legislative Perspectives on Desalination
• Moderator: Danielle Blacet-Hyden, Director for Water, California Municipal Utilities Association
o Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Chair, Assembly Water, Parks, & Wildlife Committee
o Kris Anderson, Legislative Advocate, Association of California Water Agencies
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM – Break
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM – Lunch/Keynote Speaker:
o Wade Crowfoot, Secretary, Natural Resources Agency
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM – Session 3: Lessons Learned - Doheny and Monterey
• Moderator: Paul Hermann, GHD
o Rick Shintaku, General Manager, South Coast Water District (Doheny Desalination Project)
o Mark Donovan, North American Water Treatment and Desalination Lead, GHD (Doheny Desalination Project)
o Ian Crooks, Vice President, California American Water (Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project)
o Evan Jacobs, External Affairs, California American Water (Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project)
o Brian Villalobos, Geoscience
2:30 PM - 5:15 PM – Session 4: Track A - Offsite Tour at ISI Intake Screens
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM – Session 4: Track B - Innovations in Desalination
• Moderator: Tom Pankratz, Editor – Water Desalination Report
o Dr. Michael Porter/Robert Bergstrom, Natural Ocean Well: Sustainable fresh water from the ocean
o Dr. Dale Nesbitt, Reticle Water Treatment: Electrostatic deionization and brine remediation
o Borja Blanco, Membrane design of a subsea desalination system
o Arian Edalat, Active Membrane Desalination: The next generation of desalination membranes
o David Pinchin, Subsea Desalination – A new adaptation of SWRO leading to significant energy savings and greatly reduced environmental impact
o Shawn Meyers-Steele, Oneka Technologies
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM – Session 5: Track B - New Frontiers in Brackish Desalination
• Moderator: Chris Coppinger, Geoscience
o Scott Weddle, City of Antioch’s brackish surface water desalination project
o Maryam Bral, A path to groundwater sustainability: Preventing and reversing historic seawater intrusion and providing a resilient desalinated water supply for the Oxnard Basin
o Greg Kowalski, Spotlight on Eastern Municipal Water District’s desalination program
o John Webley, Brine softening for ultra-high recovery membrane systems
o Robert Richardson, United Water Conservation District
5:15 PM – Wrap-up and reminder of Day 2 conference activities (Executive Director Glenn Farrel)
5:30 PM – CalDesal Reception – Embassy Suites – 1st Floor Reception Area
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Day 2: Friday, February 17, 2023 – 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM – Continental Breakfast
Session 6: Research in Desal
• Moderator: Michelle Peters, Poseidon Water
o Peter Fiske, NAWI
o Brent Alspach, Economic value of seawater desalination
o Warren Teitz, Metropolitan Water District
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM – Session 7: Meet the Regulators
• Moderator: Bryan Blum, Longitude 123
o Tom Luster, California Coastal Commission
o Laura McLellan, State Water Resources Control Board (Invited)
o Alexandra Borack, State Lands Commission
o Sean Sou, Department of Water Resources
10:15 AM - 10:20 AM – Break
10:20 AM - 11:30 AM – Session 8: Carlsbad Experience in Complying with the OPA
• Moderator: Tim Hogan, TWB Environmental Research and Consulting
o Curtis Gauthier, Planning and designing an OPA compliant ocean intake facility
o Eric Miller, Brine and the marine environment: Evidence from the first environmental monitoring of a seawater desalination plant discharge under California’s 2015 amendment to the California Ocean Plan
o Malay Vyas, Fish-friendly pumps for the new dilution pumping station: Carlsbad Desalination Plant
o Sandra Kerl, General Manager – San Diego County Water Authority
11:30 AM - 11:35 AM – Break
11:35 AM - 1:00 PM – Session 9: Project Design, Delivery, and Operations
• Moderator: Kim Adamson, Kiewit Infrastructure
o Mark Alpert, SB 991 – Water supply reliability through progressive design build
o Brent Brodie, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Consolidated Water
o Alain Consigny, Pani Energy
o Paul Krause, Subtidal intake systems for desalination – Considerations to minimize marine impacts
o Nicholas Hicks, High alloy stainless steels selection, specification, and design for SWRO applications
o Paul Treloar, Regional Head of Business Development, American Pipeline Solutions
1:00 PM – Final Remarks and Conference Close
(Chair Mark Donovan and ED Glenn Farrel)
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Desal for California’s Waterfull Future 2023 Conference
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
Event Co-Sponsors
Platinum Gold
Reception Sponsors
McCarthy
CDM Smith
Keynote Lunch Sponsors
Dudek
Kiewit
General Sponsors
GF Advocacy
Geoscience Support Services, Inc.
NHA Advisors
Piping Industry Progress & Education Labor Management Cooperation Committee
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