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2008 AWEA CONFERENCE AGENDA


SUNDAY APRIL 13, 2008
Time Event Location/Speaker
8:00-4:00 Exhibit Hall Set Up  
9:00-5:30 Registration Desk Open  
11:00 Golf Tournament Glenlakes Golf Club

2:00

Tennis Time Perdido Tennis Courts
5:30-7:30 Reception Exhibition Hall

MONDAY APRIL 14, 2008
Time Event Location/Speaker

7:30-4:00

Registration Desk Open

7:30-8:00 Kick-Off Coffee Exhibition Hall
8:00-8:30 Opening Session Breakfast Ballroom D
8:30-11:00 Opening Session Ballroom D
8:30-8:45 Invocation & Welcome Jonathan Childs
8:45-9:15 WEF Update Liliana Maldonado
9:15-9:45 Awards & Recognition  
9:45-10:15 Break  
10:15-10:45 ADEM Update James McIndoe
10:45-11:30 Operation Demonstrations Exhibition Hall
11:30-1:00 Strolling Lunch / Door Prizes Exhibition Hall

SESSION A – Ballroom C 
  STORMWATER MANAGEMENT  
1:00-1:40 Post Development Stormwater Management Pilot Program Matt Dunn / City of Auburn
1:40-2:20 Sustainable Management of the Water Cycle: It is All Connected Scott Cummings / CH2M Hill
2:20-3:00 Managing a Municipal BMP Program - Cities are the Key! Ashley Campbell & Leslie Lassitter / City of Daphne & City of Foley
3:00-3:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall
3:20-4:00 Section 404 & Section 10 Permitting in the Mobile District of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Buddy Covington / Volkert & Associates, Inc.

SESSION B – Ballroom D
  REGULATORY & PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT  
1:00-1:40 How to Handle the Media: Five Minutes Before the Party Begins Is Not The Time to Learn To Dance Nancy Pierce / Mobile County Public School System
1:40-2:20 Customer Service: The Importance of Delivering WOW Service to a Captive Audience Rob McElroy / Daphne Utilities
2:20-3:00 Wastewater Territorial Issues: Challenges with Wastewater Infrastructure and Management in Times of Suburban Sprawl Buddy Morgan / The Water Works and Sanitary Sewer Board of the City of Montgomery
3:00-3:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall
3:20-4:00 Combining Water Reuse Opportunities with Stringent Phosphorus Limits Michael Graves & Robert Pride / Garver Engineers

SESSION C – Ballroom F
  OPTIMIZING WASTEWATER SYSTEMS OPERATIONS  
1:00-1:40 Comparing Odor Treatment Technologies David Oerke / RTW Engineers
1:40-2:20 Managing Your Utility Cost - The Advantage of Fuel Switching Kelvin Hamil / Alabama Power Company
2:20-3:00 Digester Gas Energy Utilization: Opportunities and Realities David Oerke / RTW Engineers
3:00-3:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall
3:20-4:00 Fuel Considerations in Selecting Backup Power Systems Paul Davenport & Chuck Mong / Kossen Equipment & Kohler Power Systems

TUESDAY APRIL 15, 2008
Time Event Location/Speaker

7:30-4:00

Registration Desk Open

 

7:30-8:40

Breakfast / Booth Prize Drawings

Exhibition Hall


SESSION A – Ballroom C 
  WASTEWATER SYSTEMS FLOW MANAGEMENT  
8:40-9:20 Capacity Assurance and Hydraulic Modeling: How much cash do you have left in the Capacity Bank? Brad Kleckley / Civil Systems Inc.
9:20-10:00 SWAT and Sidestream Storage Methods & Planning Dwight McGough & Ray Miller / Mobile Area Water & Sewer System & Volkert & Associates, Inc.
10:00-10:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall
10:20-11:00 More Efficient Pump Station Management Harold "Tink" Schaffer / Multi Trode, Inc.
11:00-11:40 Capacity Assurance - Planning & Implementation for Collection Systems Dwight McGough & Harold Baker / Mobile Area Water & Sewer System & Volkert & Associates, Inc.
11:40-1:00 Strolling Lunch / Door Prizes Exhibition Hall

  DECENTRALIZED WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES  
1:00-1:40 EPA Demonstration Project Along Three Mile Creek Kevin White / University of South Alabama
1:40-2:20 Status of Using Fuel Cells and Microturbines in Municipal Anaerobic Digestion Facilities Nick Mignone / NARJM & Associates
2:20-3:00 MBR Technology for Wastewater Treatment in Rural Areas Antonia von Gottberg / Koch Membrane Systems
3:00-3:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall

  PROFESSIONAL ISSUES  
3:20-4:00 Facing the Challenges of Asset Management: A Case Study of the City of Tuscaloosa Russ Barton / CH2M HILL

SESSION B – Ballroom D 
  REGULATORY & PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT (Cont'd)  
8:40-9:20 General Contracting Licensing Board Guidelines and Issues Joseph C. Rogers, Jr. / Alabama State Licensing Board for General Contractors
9:20-10:00 Engineering Ethics Regina Dinger / Alabama Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
10:00-10:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall
10:20-11:00 Development & Application of Tools to Incorporate Sustainability into Planning Process Liliana Maldonado / WEF / CH2M HILL
11:00-11:40 Legal Considerations for Private Sanitary Sewer Lateral Management Danny Holmberg & Buddy Morgan / Krebs Architecture & Engineering, Inc.
11:40-1:00 Strolling Lunch / Door Prizes Exhibition Hall

  WATER QUALITY TECHNOLOGIES  
1:00-1:40 EPA's Method Update Rule Nathan Levy / A & E Testing, Inc.
1:40-2:20 TMDL Development and Implementation in Alabama: Current Status and Possible Issues on the Horizon Glenda Dean & Lynn Sisk / Alabama Department of Environmental Management
2:20-3:00 Alternative Disinfection Technologies Randy Otts / MIOX Corporation
3:00-3:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall
3:20-4:00 Use of Colilert®, Colilert®-18 and Enterolert™ for the determination of E.coli, fecal coliforms and enterococci in Waste Waters Gil Dichter / IDEXX Laboratories

SESSION C– Ballroom F 
  WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEMS REHABILITATION  
8:40-9:20 Pursuit of a Sustainable Private Lateral Program Doug Cote / Mobile Area Water & Sewer System
9:20-10:00 Corrosion Analysis and Condition Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Pipe Kevin Kennoy, Brian Shannon, & Matt Alpaugh / Tetra Tech, Inc. & Jefferson County, Environmental Services Department
10:00-10:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall
10:20-11:00 The I/I Cycle (Lessons Learned) Tony Sneed / Limestone County Water & Sewer Authority
11:00-11:40 Sanitary Sewer Flow Monitoring and Micro-Basin Investigations Houston Matthews & Mark Huber / Tetra Tech, Inc. & City of Huntsville
11:40-1:00 Strolling Lunch / Door Prizes Exhibition Hall

  WATERSHED MANAGEMENT  
1:00-1:40 Hydrogeologic Conditions and a Firm-Yield Assessment of J. B. Converse Lake, Mobile, AL 1991 - 2006 Carl S. Carlson / U. S. Geological Survey
1:40-2:20 Sources of Fecal Contamination in the Catoma Creek Watershed C. W. Wood & Y. Feng / Auburn University
2:20-3:00 U. S. Geological Survey's New Web-Based Automated Annual Data Report Rick Treece / U. S. Geological Survey
3:00-3:20 Break / Door Prize Drawings Exhibition Hall

  PRETREATMENT ISSUES  
3:20-4:00 Effective Implementation of an EPA-Approved Fats, Oils, & Grease (FOG) Program Tony Fisher & Paul McClelland / Mobile Area Water & Sewer System

6:30 Casino Night Ballroom D

WEDNESDAY APRIL 16, 2008
Time Event Location/Speaker

8:30-10:30

Annual Business Meeting and Breakfast

Sand Castle


If you or someone in your organization may be interested in attending or would like more information, contact:

Tim Patton, AWEA Conference Chairman
Phone (251) 342-1070

tpatton@volkert.com