22 minute read
Technical Sessions
from Texas Water '22 r
by TEXAS AWWA
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE • TECHNICAL SESSIONS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 5
Pretreatment Legislative/Regulatory Small Systems Water Resources
Preatment Program Role in Controlling PFAS and Other Emerging Pollutants of Concern
Chris Pasch Plummer Joseph Fielding Dallas Water Utilities
The 87th Session of the Texas Legislature: Water Law on a Roller Coaster
Julie Nahrgang Water Environment Association of Texas/ Texas Association of Clean Water Agencies
Utilizing Multiple Sources of Grant Funding to Provide Water and Sewer Service to the EconomicallyDisadvantaged Residents of the East Aldine Management District
Alan Moon, Jones|Carter Scott Bean, Hawes Hill & Associates Susan Santos, Harris County Engineering Department David Warner, Jones|Carter
Conjunctive Management of Ground and Surface Water: SAWS Bed and Banks Permit
Gregg Eckhardt San Antonio Water System
PFAS: Is that Miracle Coating in your Effluent?
Kaylee Dusek Kimley-Horn April Rose Escamilla Kimley-Horn
View from Washington: WEF Federal Update
Steve Dye WEF
Small System, Big Tech: Utilizing Innovative Design Technologies for Systems of All Sizes
Thomas Moody Provenance Engineering Kent Riker Provenance Engineering
How Brackish Groundwater
Desalination Helps Utility
Managers Sleep Better
Robert Rodriguez North Alamo Water Supply Corporation Jorge Arroyo Freese and Nichols
Understanding Whole Effluent Toxicity Results Ginger Briggs Bio-Analytical Laboratories
Industrial
AWWA National Update Tommy Holmes AWWA Washington, DC Office
In It Together: Regional Line Serving 8 Entities Melissa Mack Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Manny De Pau Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam R. Jeff Masek City of Houston John Warnement City of Webster
Times are a’Changin’ – Impacts of Biofuels on Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Susan Spore AECOM
Update on Chapter 217 Design Criteria for Nutrient Removal/ TCEQ Updates on Water Quality and Related Issues
Baltazar Lucero-Ramirez TCEQ
Capital Project Prioritization and Selection Process
Xuan (Katie) Zheng SouthWest Water Company Todd Danielson SouthWest Water Company
Lessons Learned from ASR Implementation for Two Cities in Texas
David Smith CDM Smith
Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Water-Related Risks Associated with Climate Change to Utilities and Industry Eric Hersh Stantec Morgan Garner Stantec
Treatment of Industrial Biosolids Using a Mobile Pilot Wetland Treatment System
Tim Noack Plummer
Lead in the Water: Complying with New Rules When You Thought You Were in the Clear
Xi Zhao Freese and Nichols David Munn Freese and Nichols
Overcoming Obstacles to RiskBased Planning for Smaller Utilities: A Framework for Small Utilities to Identify Support Resources
Neil Stewart Stantec
Managing Three Sources of Water from A Single Facility at SAWS – Operational challenges and Lessons Learned
Saqib Shirazi San Antonio Water System Kevin Morrison San Antonio Water System
Making Your Solids Plan a Solid Plan: Biosolids Planning in Uncertain Times
Jonathan Sandhu Gulf Coast Authority Susan Spore AECOM Terry Goss AECOM
Mitchell Lake is for the Birds but Take a Gander at its Permitting
Ernest To Plummer Ryan Pierce Plummer Gregg Eckhardt San Antonio Water System
Webster, Texas: Citywide Tactical Inflow and Infiltration Reduction Program
Jose Maldonado RJN Group John Warnement City of Webster
Rainwater to the Rescue: Rainwater Cistern Use During Winter Storm Uri
Christopher Charles Austin Water
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE • TECHNICAL SESSIONS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 5
Odor & Corrosion Control Diversity & Inclusion Water Conservation University Forum
Lessons Learned from Fan Testing in Multiple Large Diameter Sewer Systems in Austin, Texas Mark Perkins Mead & Hunt Brian Huang V&A Consulting Engineers Soo Koon Soon Austin Water
Out with the Old and In with the New - Expanding Odor Control Biofilter System Capacity with Modern Media Amy Robinson CDM Smith Farida Goderya City of Fort Worth
Knocking the Foul Odors Out of the Ballpark: Solving a Stinky Collection System Problem Through Field Investigation and Modeling Roland Gutierrez San Antonio Water System John Siczka Jacobs
Evaluating Materials of Construction for
Deep Gravity Sewers
Jordon Thomas-Harris Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Paul Wood Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Nicholas Mumme
Houston Public Works
Garland’s Journey Toward Keeping a 40 MGD Plant from “Interfering with the Normal Use and Enjoyment of Property”
Charlotte Smith Perkins Engineering Consultants, Inc., a Mead & Hunt Company Bill Gase City of Garland Alex Stuart City of Garland
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Texas Water Workforce
Ana Pena-Tijerina Plummer Aisha Niang Houston Public Works
An Examination of Potential Seasonal Municipal Water Use Indexes in Texas
Bill Hoffman H.W (Bill) Hoffman & Associates
Investigating Seasonal Variation Role of the Nitrogen Cycling Genes in Stormwater Detention Basins Sina Vedadi Moghadam University of Texas at San Antonio
Up Your Game: Learn Why Allyship Matters Dedra Ecklund Lockwood Andrews & Newman
What Diversity and Inclusion Actually Looks Like & Stands for in the Work Place – A Pride Perspective Sarang Agarwal Stantec Bradley Deaton Stantec
Quantifying Conservation: Removing Other Water Usage Influencers from the Equation Lianna Gregorian BGE Julia Frankovich BGE Stacey Louie University of Houston Whitney Milberger BGE
Leveraging AMI (Smart Water Systems) Data for Water Conservation
Saurabh Bansal WMP
Demonstration of a Two-Stage Nitritation-Anammox System to Treat High Nitrogen Strength Wastewater
Behnaz Jalili Jalalieh Texas Tech University
Iron Electrocoagulation of Non-enveloped and Enveloped Virus: Mechanisms and Viral Component Alterations Kyungho Kim Texas A&M University
Workforce Development
Austin Water’s Approach to Career Progression and Employee Resiliency
Teresa Dixon Austin Water Julie Hollandsworth Austin Water
Conservation for
Customers in Poverty; Helping Those Most in Need
Chad Cosper
San Antonio Water System Juan Soulas
San Antonio Water System
Electrothermal Membrane Distillation for Minimum or Zero Liquid Discharge
Vedant Patel Rice University
Arlington Water Utilities, Texas Workforce Commission and ACH Family Services: A Partnership that Builds Bridges to our Future
Craig Gantt Arlington Water Utilities
Texas Water Loss Audit Validation Study: Results from the 2020 Validations and Next Steps
Daniel Rice Texas Water Development Board Steve Cavanaugh Cavanaugh & Associates
Pond-in-Pond’s Anaerobic Pit Performance over Conventional Anaerobic Ponds: A Hydrodynamics Comparison
Luis Carlos Soares da Silva Junior Texas Tech University
Activated Carbon Odor Control: Panacea or Conundrum?
Richard Pope Hazen and Sawyer
Capitalizing Company-Intern Relations: How to get the Best out of Both Worlds
Bansi Khajuria Freese and Nichols Brennan Riley Texas Tech University
The Texas Water Conservation and Reuse Story, From 1984 to Now and then to 2070
Bill Hoffman H.W (Bill) Hoffman & Associates
Modeling Escherichia Coli Watershed-Scale Fate and Transport in the San Antonio River Basin using SAWQS and SWAT-CUP
John Paul Beasley University of Texas at San Antonio
4:40 - 5:10 pm
Drinking Water Quality Wastewater Collection MRRDC Water Distribution
Tackle Taste and Odor When You Don’t Have the Luxury of Time
Xi Zhao Freese and Nichols Jeff Wyble City of Port Arthur David Munn Freese and Nichols Murali Erat Freese and Nichols
Evaluation of the use of Artificial Intelligence in Automated Defect Recognition and Coding of Sewer Lines and Manholes
Ayobamidele Bello HR Green Fazle Rabbi Houston Public Works Bintuan Zhu Houston Public Works
Physical Hydraulic Modeling –
A Recipe to Validate
Design Assumptions
Amy Robinson CDM Smith Farida Goderya City of Fort Worth
A Balancing Act: Pflugerville’s Colorado River Raw Water Pipeline Expansion
Trey Stewart Garver Amy Giannini City of Pflugerville Ian Toohey Garver
What is Going on with PFAS Regulation? How Should Utilities Select Treatment Technology if the PFAS levels are Elevated in their Source Water?
Zaid Chowdhury Garver
Going Against the Flow! Using FELL Inspection to Identify and Reduce Infiltration
Christopher Jackson San Antonio Water System
Piloting for Improved Wastewater Treatment Processes
Sean Scuras Garver
Resilient and Innovative
Designs for Intake Pump Stations: Determining Which
Approach is Just Right
Russell Gibson Freese and Nichols
Building Blocks to Developing OCCTs: Significance of Lead and Copper Coupon and Pipe Loop Studies in Developing the Optimal Corrosion Control Treatment Strategies Amlan Ghosh Corona Environmental Consulting
News Stories about Cyanotoxin Detections in Drinking Water Reservoirs: How does a Texas Water Utility Respond?
Brian Haws Austin Water
Impact of Covid-19 on Sanitary Sewer Collection Systems
Progga Chirontoni HDR Heather Lindner HDR Ankita Jain HDR
Hidden Capacity in Your Wastewater Interceptors? How Non-Uniform Flow Modeling Can Impact Pipe Sizing
Trevor Stull Garver Evan Tromble Garver
Ensuring High Quality Wastewater Effluent to El Paso’s Advanced Water Purification Facility – A Tale of Three Permits
Brandt Miller Hazen and Sawyer David Ornelas El Paso Water Utilities Ryan Priest Hazen and Sawyer Gilbert Trejo El Paso Water Utilities
Keeping Up with the Robsons: Providing Additional Water Supply to Southwest Denton’s Growing Robson Ranch Development William Weidman Kimley-Horn Associates
Carbon Optimization for Granular Sludge Systems
Leon Downing Black & Veatch
Can Advanced Hydraulic Modeling Solve all your Water Quality Challenges in the Distribution System?
Varenya Mehta KIT Professionals Debbie Webb City of Lake Jackson Justin Bartlett KIT Professionals Sunil Kommineni KIT Professionals
Planning Ahead for the LCR
Revisions – Service Line Inventory and Sampling Updates
Roger Arnold Hazen and Sawyer
Projects Evolving: Evaluating Lift Stations for Rehabilitation
Charles Kucherka Freese and Nichols Charles Ortiz Laguna Madre Water District
Enhanced Domestic Primary Wastewater Treatment Utilizing Pile Cloth Media Filtration for Operational Savings and Sustainability
John Dyson Aqua-Aerobic Systems
Houston Water’s Journey Toward a Digital Twin: Small Tools Matters!
Satish Tripathi City of Houston
Water Treatment & Operations Asset Management Wastewater Operations & Maintenance Utility Management
Solids Handling via Mechanical Dewatering or Gravity Dewatering: There is No Silver Bullet
Nicholas Cook City of Deer Park Yue Sun Ardurra Xinyi Yi Ardurra Matt Noland Deer Park Water Plant
Utilizing Data to Transition Austin Water’s Maintenance Programs from Preventative to Predictive
Julie Hollandsworth Austin Water
3D CFD Modeling for Optimum Clarifier Performance
Troy Laman Carollo Engineers Lance Phillips Dallas Water Utilities
CPMS: The Present and the Future for TRA’s Infrastructure Planning Program
Matthew Jalbert Trinity River Authority of Texas
9:00 - 9:30 am
Achieving 96-Percent Reverse Osmosis Recovery to Address Concentrate Disposal Challenges Christopher Boyd Plummer Jordan Hibbs Enprotec/Hibbs & Todd Garry Houston City of Abilene
Houston’s Groundwater Operations and Maintenance Team Takes a Leading Role in Asset Management Mitchell Ramon City of Houston
Challenges for Surface Water Treatment Plant Lead to Consideration of a Direct Filtration Ceramic Membrane UF Process to Manage TTHM and HAA5 Paul Wood Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Jeffrey Baughman Professional Utility Services
Innovative Way to Dewater Alum Sludge with a Belt Filter Press at a Drinking Water Treatment Plant Charan Tej Tanneru Tetra Tech Jaime Kypuros Tetra Tech Jorge Barrera City of Eagle Pass Water Works System Jorge Luis Flores City of Eagle Pass Water Works System
Meet the Robinson’s (Road Corridor Program): Providing Operational Flexibility While Revitalizing Aging Infrastructure Gabe Johnson City of Grand Prairie Douglas Taylor City of Grand Prairie Amanda Johnson Freese and Nichols Aaron Conine Freese and Nichols
How Using Data Analytics in the Field Can Optimize Your Daily O&M Processes Mike Mainord City of Fort Worth Water Department
Belt Filter Presses at WTPS: A Proactive Approach that Enables Independent and Reliable Residual Solids Handling
Ikram Sayed Garver Brian Smith City of Denton
City of Garland Water Utilities Water Loss Reduction Program – A Case Study
Cynthia Baughman City of Garland
Apollo Root Cause Analysis for Extending BFP Belt Life
Scott Hardy Hazen and Sawyer Scott Taylor Trinity River Authority of Texas James McDonald Trinity River Authority of Texas
Failing Grit Removal at Dallas’s Largest Plant – How Did We Get Here and How Can it be Fixed? Jeff Sober Garver Lance Philips Dallas Water Utilities
Intensification Processes for Nutrient Removal Upgrades – Doing More With What You Have Randall Wirtz Strand Associates
O&M Manual Updates: How to Better Optimize Operations & Maintenance Efficiency and Consistency
Kristen Whately Stantec
The Gray Tsunami is HERE! How will Organization and O&M Leaders Deal with it?
Rhonda Harris Brown and Caldwell
9:35 - 10:05 am
An Innovative Solution – How Fort Worth Water Uses Technology in the Field
Adam Farguson City of Fort Worth
10:10 - 10:40 am
Developing a Lessons Learned Program – Shaping the Future by Examining the Past
Steven Metzler Trinity River Authority of Texas Emile Lang Trinity River Authority of Texas
10:45 - 11:15 am
Navigating the Regulatory Wilderness
Ana Pena-Tijerina Plummer Rex Hunt Plummer Rajendra Bhattarai Clean Water Strategies
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Drinking Water Quality Wastewater Collection
Beyond Meeting Lead and Copper Levels: Treatment Change and Potential Source Effects on Corrosion Control in Arlington Water Utilities’ Distribution System
Gail Charles Arcadis Ben Kuhnel Arcadis
I to I – Identification to Implementation to Remediation of Infrastructure
Leigh Thomas WGI
Monitoring Reservoir Water Quality for Cyanobacteria Blooms and Adjusting Treatment to Maintain High Quality Treated Water Zaid Chowdhury Garver
Every Tunnel has its Time and Place – When Projects Require Multiple
Trenchless Methods
Jonathan Vorheis
Jacobs Engineering
MRRDC
Full-Scale Performance
Comparison of Sidestream Nitrogen Removal Processes Prevalent in the United States
Anton Dapcic Carollo Engineers Tanja Rauch-Williams Carollo Engineers Andre Gharagozian Carollo Engineers
How to Maximize Your Aeration Basins – Improving Performance at DWU Central Lance Klement Garver Regina Stencel Dallas Water Utilities Daniel Halter Dallas Water Utilities Lance Phillips Dallas Water Utilities
Canyon Regional Water Authority Ozone Addition for THM Control Patrick Lackey Trihydro Corporation Adam Telfer CRWA
The Right Tools for Planning: How Pearland Applied Apps, Data Analytics, and Visualization Tools to Optimize Their Collection System Kendall Ryan, Freese and Nichols Ishita Rahman, Freese and Nichols Bailey Keller, Freese and Nichols Jameson Appel, City of Pearland
Process Intensification Using Membrane Bioreactor
Process: The Case of
Fulton County, GA
Jose Jimenez Brown and Caldwell
An Active Approach to Measuring Inactivation Ratios
Drew Leonard City of Houston Eric Garza City of Houston Lilian Nguyen City of Houston
Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A Predictive Model Approach to I&I Reduction in the Woodlands
Derek Schwanke Garver Jared Sienkiewich Garver Michael Mooney The Woodlands Water Agency
One Year Later: Raleigh Water’s Holistic Wet Weather Management Tool Combining Machine Learning and Treatment Plant Optimization Katya Bilyk Hazen and Sawyer
It’s Easy if You Do it Smart: Winning Tips to Stay Compliant with Lead and Copper Rule Revisions with Lessons Learnt from Across the US
Vishakha Kaushik AECOM Quirien Muylwyk AECOM
Can Rain-Derived Inflow and Infiltration (RDII) Sources be Modeled in the Absence of Condition Assessment Information?
Tristan Nickel RJN Group Jack Canfield City of Houston
Using Anammox for Mainstream Nitrogen Removal isn’t as Complicated or Difficult as you May Think!
Justin MacManus, HDR Stephanie Klaus, Hampton Roads Sanitation District Michael Parsons, Hampton Roads Sanitation District Haydee De Clippeleir, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority Charles Bott, Hampton Roads Sanitation District
Water Distribution
Implementing a New Raw Water Delivery System Deep Beneath Lake Travis in Central Texas Jason Christensen Walker Partners James Parkes Schnabel Engineering Karen Bondy BCRUA
Carrizo Groundwater Supply Project – Well Field and Raw Water Transmission: Developing a New Water Supply to Satisfy the Drinking Water Needs of Central Texans John Buser, AECOM Brian Perkins, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority Tyler Davidson, Advanced Groundwater Solutions
Did Someone Say Freeze? There’s No Time to Stop with Only Four Days to Evaluate Damage at 58 COH Groundwater and Repump Sites Lizanne Douglas BGE Mitchell Ramon City of Houston
Water Loss Tracking and Mitigation Matt Cullen Austin Water
Four Ways the City of Fort Worth is Preparing for Compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions Ashley Pifer Garver Stacy Walters City of Fort Worth Zaid Chowdhury Garver
Trying to Blend In – 3D Modeling of the Luce Bayou Inter-basin Transfer in Lake Houston Justin Bartlett, KIT Professionals Greg Olinger, Coastal Water Authority Drew Molly, City of Houston John Sealy, Coastal Water Authority
Embracing Innovative Technology to Push Construction Limitations Associated with Large Diameter Deep Gravity Sewer Tunnels Jay London Hazen and Sawyer
Sidestream Deammonification for Low-Energy Nitrogen Removal and BPR Enhancement – Design, Startup, and Lessons Learned After 3 Years of Operation Randall Wirtz Strand Associates
Life Cycle Reset for Tank Coatings: Cost Effective Strategies for Aging Facilities Charles Kucherka Freese and Nichols
Water Treatment & Operations Asset Management Wastewater Operations & Maintenance Utility Management
Ceramic Ultrafiltration Membrane Pilot Testing Marshall Plunk Plummer David Gudal Plummer
The Future is Here: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Advanced Pipeline Condition Assessment Technologies Jeff Maier Garver
Easing Wastewater Operations Cost Through Energy and Chemical Addition Efficiency
Michael Halde HR Green Scott Landers HR Green
Winter Storm 2021: Solutions to Keep the Water Flowing
Stephanie Neises Freese and Nichols Drew Hardin Freese and Nichols Shay Roalson Austin Water
1:10 - 1:40 pm
Pflugerville’s Approach of Expanding an Integrated Membrane Surface Water Treatment Plant for Cohesive Project Delivery Yue Sun, Ardurra Brandon Pritchett, City of Pflugerville Jonathan Degen, Ardurra Brian Camp, City of Pflugerville
900 MGD, Ozone, and BAF – We’re Good Right? Examining What the Future Holds for the Dallas Water Treatment Plants Sunil Kommineni, KIT Professionals Sally Wright, Dallas Water Utilities Robert Hoffman, HDR Christina Alito, HDR
New Challenge to the Central Texas Water Supply: Strategies to Prevent Zebra Mussel Colonization in the Austin Water Treatment Plants Alexander Kuzovkov Black & Veatch Oliver Haugland Austin Water Karen Dietze Black & Veatch
Benefits and Lessons Learned from a Proactive SSES Program
Stephen Johnson Freese and Nichols Gustave Michaud City of Richardson Mazen Kawasmi Freese and Nichols
Site Settling Tests and Aeration Basin Storage – How to Make the Most of What You Have
Caitlin Ruff Black & Veatch Raudel Juarez Trinity River Authority of Texas James McDonald Trinity River Authority of Texas Mike Young Trinity River Authority of Texas
Getting a New Water Treatment Plant for Less than $3 per Gallon; Retrofitting Existing Facilities to Meet Quality, Quantity and Resiliency Challenges Brent Tippey HDR Eric Berggren HDR Valetta Saldanha HDR
The Solution to Pollution: Using Asset Management Principles to Waste Away SSOs
David Trejo RJN Group Karen Rico RJN Group Heather Wilson-Ellis City of Temple
Challenges Associated With Large Membrane Bioreactor Facilities
Troy Laman Carollo Engineers Andrew Gilmore Carollo Engineers
Top 10 Water-Wastewater Changes Since 1980 & Top Ten Likely Changes in Next 30 Years
Randall McIntyre Garver
A Systematic Approach in Deciding the Future of City of Houston’s Largest and Oldest Water Treatment Plants
Vinoth Manoharan AECOM
I Have a Snail Problem. What are My Options to Remove Them?!
Andy Pruitt Garver Jeff Sober Garver
Growing Pains: A Step-by-Step Look at When Your City Has a Full House
Grace Sober Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Jason Brodigan City of Frisco
3:20 - 3:50 pm
Picking the Low Hanging Fruit: Optimizing an 840 mgd WTP at No Cost Evan Ged Hazen and Sawyer Ellen Musallam North Texas Municipal Water District
Biologically Active Roughing Contactors: Augmenting Drinking Water Membrane Treatment for Enhanced Taste & Odor Control Chance Lauderdale HDR
Application of Machine Learning in Sanitary Sewer Condition Assessment for the City of Raytown, Missouri Elango Thevar NEER Technologies Jose Leon Jr City of Raytown
Going Green? Optimizing Energy Efficiency of Pump Stations Using Wire-to-Water Testing
Ikram Sayed Garver Eric Dole Garver Marc Cottingame Dallas Water Utilities
Algae Problem – My Clarifiers are Bleeding Frequently in the Summer Months
Ron Patel Dallas Water Utilities
Story Time! Tools for WRRF Data Analysis Sonja Cook Plummer Reza Malek Plummer Ana Pena-Tijerina Plummer
Your Undiscovered “Data Lake” and How New Ways of Analyzing Your Untapped, Unconnected Information Yields Innovative and Actionable Results
Derek Clayton SL-serco
3:55 - 4:25 pm
How Austin Water Is Growing the Ranks of Female Leadership Across the Utility
Anna Bryan-Borja Austin Water Shay Roalson Austin Water Sherri Hampton Austin Water Randi Jenkins Austin Water
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE • TECHNICAL SESSIONS THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 7
Biosolids
Communicating Biosolids: How to Boost Public Support Using the Press and Social Media Influencers Mike McGill WaterPIO
Virginia Key WWTP Anaerobic Digester Startup, Don’t Sweat the Tech Manuel Moncholi Stantec
Identifying the Best Way to Mitigate Phosphorus Recycle and Optimize Biological Nutrient Removal Design for SAWS Water Recycling Centers
Jeff Sober Garver Ila Drzymala San Antonio Water System
Applied Research Watershed Mgmt/Stormwater Construction Issues
Using Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) to Track SARS-CoV-2 Sublineage Emergence in Two Texas Cities Bryan Brooks Baylor University
Dredging to Restore Lake and Channel Volumes – Hydraulic and Water Quality Implications
Roopa Metla KIT Professionals Greg Olinger Coastal Water Authority Sunil Kommineni KIT Professionals Justin Bartlett KIT Professionals
Solids Management Improvements Phase III CMAR Procurement Lessons Learned
Tom Jacobs Trinity River Authority of Texas
Wastewater Sampling for Tracking SARS-CoV-2 in Texas Correctional and Long-Term Care Facilities Heidi Bojes Texas Department of State Health Services
Applied Research - Water Reuse
UV/Chlorine AOP in Potable Reuse: Assessment of Applicability, Operational Issues, and Potential By-Products
Erin Mackey Brown and Caldwell
San Jacinto River – Planning for a Better Future
Andrew Moore Halff Associates Sam Hinojosa Halff Associates Dena Green Harris County Flood Control District Jing Chen Harris County Flood Control District
Implementing a Watershed Management Support System: A User-Friendly Tool for Non-Modelers to Link Best Management Practices (BMPs) to Water Quality Outcomes Mel Vargas Parsons
Commissioning a 15 MGD Wastewater Treatment Plant – What Happens When a Record Winter Storm Hits During the Last Week of Performance Testing Alex Yoffie, Jacobs Cory Moose, City off Midland Bennie Jordan, City off Midland Lamar Parker, Jacobs
Virtual Tour of the $1.6 Billion Bois d’Arc Lake Program Adam Payne Freese and Nichols Aliza Caraballo North Texas Municipal Water District
A Multi-Pronged Approach for Managing PFAS in Water Resource Reclamation Facilities Applied by Two Utilities
Mohammad Abu-Orf Hazen and Sawyer
Process Interrupted: Using BOR Funded Desalination Research to Evaluate an Innovative Process Train
Eric Dole Garver Yuliana Porras-Mendoza Bureau of Reclamation Michael Watts Garver
Potential Applications of Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) to Enhance Integrated Water Management in Texas Elizabeth Savage GEI Consutlants
Underground, Under Where? A Unique Perspective from Designer, Contractor and Construction Management Team to Solve Today’s Challenges Henry Leighton CAS Consulting & Services
Laboratory
A Microbiology and Chemistry Review for Operators
Hunter Adams City of Wichita Falls Mark Southard City of Wichita Falls
Applied Research Water Reuse
Diversifying Carbon for Phosphorus Removal: Understanding RAS Fermentation and S2EBPR
Leon Downing Black & Veatch
Guidelines? What Guidelines? Important Basics for any Stakeholder Interested in TCEQ’s Process for DPR Guideline Development
Eva Steinle-Darling Carollo Engineers
Wastewater Waits for no one – Emergency Repair of a Major Interceptor Under Highway 635 in Dallas County
Steven Metzler Trinity River Authority of Texas Tom Davies Trinity River Authority of Texas
Optimization of Geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol Determination by Headspace SPME-GC-Tandem Mass Spectrometry to Achieve Sub-ng/L Detection in Surface and Drinking Water Matrices
Xinwei Yan, City of Houston Xinxia An, City of Houston Shubha Thakur, City of Houston
Microbially Induced Corrosion at the T-Bar Well Field: Impacts, Implications & Mitigation
Kayleigh Millerick Texas Tech University Kenneth Rainwater Texas Tech University Landon Allen Parkhill, Smith & Cooper Amrika Deonarine Texas Tech University
What to do when Discharging is not an Option: How Marble Falls Manages its Wastewater Effluent while Continuing to Grow
Quentin Geile Plummer
Fort Worth’s Twin 90-inch Sewer Pipe Emergency Bank Stabilization: Protecting the Trinity River from 150 MGD of Wastewater Robb Otey Freese and Nichols Nicholas Lester Freese and Nichols Tony Sholola City of Fort Worth Water
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE • TECHNICAL SESSIONS THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 7
Infrastructure Financing Young Professionals Resiliency, Safety & Cybersecurity Electrical, SCADA & I&C
Advancing Rate Structures Can Fund Texas’ Increasing Stormwater Costs and Promote Resiliency Andrew Burnham Stantec
Building Real Relationships Virtually – How to Develop Mentor Relationships in a Pandemic Jonathan Sandhu Gulf Coast Authority Carlos Gularte Freese and Nichols
Server, Heal Thyself! How Midland Leveraged Hyperconvergence to Increase Server Reliability and Stability While Lowering Costs
Mauro Perez Signature Automation Derek Smith Signature Automation
Giving You The Power to Deliver: Creating One of the Largest Electrical Generation Systems for Plant-Wide Redundancy and Back-up Reliability
Alexander Nizov Mbroh Engineering
8:30 - 9:00 am
The Story of the Pfirst WIFIAPfunded Water Project in Texas
Ian Toohey Garver Amy Giannini City of Pflugerville
A Look into the Nutrient Black
Box – Nutrient Regulation in Texas and Beyond
Peter Reale Plummer Chris Pasch Plummer
A Perfect Storm: Houston’s Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Surviving the Next Big Freeze
David Munn, Freese and Nichols Drew Molly, City of Houston Yong Wang, City of Houston Venus Price, City of Houston
Are Your Fiber Systems Ready to Meet Demands?
Andrew Paulson Signature Automation Sarah Beth Yates Signature Automation
9:05 - 9:35 am
Material Escalation and Market Volatility Impacts on National Construction Projects
Valetta Saldanha HDR Peter Bredehoeft HDR
Under the Artifacts and Through the Wetlands: Mesquite’s Experience with USACE Permitting for a 2.5 Mile, 30” HDPE Transmission Main
Dylan Swoboda Kimley-Horn & Associates Jeni Tatum Kimley-Horn & Associates Justin Stoker City of Mesquite
How Combining Focused Factual Data and Effective Storytelling Elements Changed our Excavation Safety Practices and Helped us Improve our Safety Culture
Israel Custodio Austin Water
Warming Up to the Idea…Solar Power for Elevated Storage Tanks
Kyle Weldon Kimley-Horn and Associates Scott Taylor City of Fort Worth Water Department Joseph Kotrla McCreary & Associates
Public Information
Conservation Services Converted to Emergency Services Post Storm Uri
Karen Guz San Antonio Water System Chad Cosper San Antonio Water System Networking Break in Technical Session Area • 10:10 - 10:20 AM
Preserving the Past while Planning for the Future: Critical Pump Station Design with a Historic Twist Helen Salama, Freese and Nichols Nick Puckett, New Braunfels Utilities Eric Kong, Freese and Nichols David Bennett, Freese and Nichols
“One App to Rule Them All!” A Unified Web Application to Protect the Precious Lavon Lake from Contaminant Spills Ernest To Plummer David Cowan North Texas Municipal Water District
More with Less – Control System Upgrade of El Paso Water Utilities Jonathan Rogers WTP: Less Hardware, Optimized Communications, and Improved Availability Bill Bivens Prime Controls
Preparing Your Utility for the Revised Lead & Copper Rule’s Many Public Communication Challenges Mike McGill WaterPIO
Developing a Statewide FOG and Non-Flushable Outreach Campaign Through Collaborative Input and Coordination
Sarah Robinson Houston Public Works
Rebranding Wastewater: Sustainability & New Talent
Andreana Salas Jacobs Engineering Group EJ Hindy Jacobs Engineering Group
Communication: The Biggest Challenge for Engineers Samantha Paul HDR Ludivine Varga HDR
Adapting Interactive Technology for the Water/ Wastewater Industry Andrew Paulson Signature Automation Sarah Beth Yates Signature Automation Marisa Martinez Palmer San Antonio Water Systems Mario Ruiz Dallas Water Utilities
Using One Water Strategies to Improve Water Supply Resiliency in New Braunfels
Nissim Gore-Datar Arcadis Ashley Zimmermann New Braunfels Utilities Charles Schoening Arcadis Ashley Evans Arcadis
How to Determine if a Renewable Energy Source is Right for You – T.E. Maxson Wastewater Treatment Facility Case Study
Sarah Stewart CDM Smith
Water for People & Int’l Issues
Transforming Guatemala with Water
Judith Ibarra-Bianchetta Tetra Tech
