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Session 1: Intermunicipal Relationships Don’t Have to
be a Deterrent to Success
Session 2: Technology–Based Operations & Maintenance for Today’s System Operators
Session 3: Keeping Proper Planning in Perspective
Session 4: Setting a Course for Accurate Flow
Monitoring
Session 5: Taking the Fear Out of Private
Property Rehabilitation
Session 6: Getting the Best
Out of Your Rehabilitation Efforts
Session 7:
Modeling that Makes a Difference
Session 8:
Examining the Pittsburgh Area Under a Microscope
Session 9: Turning a Green Approach into Reality
Session 10: The Next Step of CSO Management
Session 11: Planning for All the Right Reasons
Session 12: Flow Monitoring that Pays Real Dividends
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1: Intermunicipal Relationships Don’t Have to be a
Deterrent to
Success |
Water Planning
and Management in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Ty Gourley, Bruce
Barron, Regional Water Management Task Force
The Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport Act 537 Plan: A
Regional Approach to Wet Weather Management
Steven H. Greenberg, KLH
Engineers Inc.
Intermunicipal Cooperation Ensures Success for Allegheny County
Sanitary Authority’s Pine Hollow and Deweyville Run Stream Removal
Project
John L. Schaude, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; Douglas Evans, NIRA
Consulting Engineers, Inc.; Richard D. Barnett, Herbert, Rowland & Grubic,
Inc.; John L. Schaude, Gannett Fleming, Inc.
83 Municipalities, 7 Basins, 5 Years, 1 Plan – Municipal, Public and
Stakeholder Participation in ALCOSAN’s Wet Weather Plan
Colleen
Hughes, Tom Schevtchuk, CDM; Nancy Barylak, ALCOSAN
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2: Technology–Based Operations & Maintenance for
Today’s System
Operators |
Maintaining
Performance and Managing Risk of a Large–Diameter, Aging, Combined
Sewer
Jennie S. Celik, Metcalf & Eddy | AECOM; Brian D. Page,
Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District; Michael D. Witwer, Metcalf & Eddy |
AECOM
Development of Manhole and Catch Basin Inlet Condition Assessment
Criteria for the City of Pittsburgh’s Collection System
Roy S.
Rudolph, Hazen and Sawyer, P.C.; Lauren E. Terpak, Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.;
Robert Hutton, Michael D. Lichte, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority
Threading Multiple Vendor Flow Meters through a Single Telemetry
Site
Ann Hayes Bealer, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater
Cincinnati (MSDGC)
Construction Management Done Spatially: GIS Integration into Pipeline
Construction Inspection and Management
Nicholas Dierkes, Brown and
Caldwell; Tom Howard, Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities
GIS–Based Sewer System Inspection and Maintenance
Uzair
(Sam) Shamsi, Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
Greenhill Sewage Drop Shaft Odour Control
Mark Stirrup,
Hatch Mott MacDonald; James Joyce, Odor and Corrosion Technology Consultants;
Neil Beesley, Greg Gowing, City of Hamilton, Ontario
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3: Keeping Proper Planning in
Perspective |
City of
Lorain Collection System Modeling Demonstrates Feasibility of Relocating the
Black River WWTP to Support Economic Redevelopment
Corey Timko, City
of Lorain; Laura McGinnis, Greg Osthues, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
Are You Getting What You Wanted? Updating and Optimizing Your
LTCP
William E. McMillin, Jr., Anthony J. Parolari, CH2M HILL
Sanitation District No. 1 Partners With Development Community to
Cost–Effectively Reduce Overflows into the Ohio River
Brandon
Vatter, Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky; Sean FitzGerald, Hazen
& Sawyer, P.C.
Storage of Wet Weather Overflows in Abandoned Coal
Mines
Thomas A. Gray, Tetra Tech NUS, Inc.; Robert Hedin, Hedin
Environmental, Inc.
Relating Precipitation Trends to Collection System Level of
Protection and Risk: A New Approach for Oklahoma City
Imran Khan,
Black & Veatch; Sam Samandi, Crystal Kowalik, City of Oklahoma City Water
and Wastewater Utilities Trust
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4: Setting a Course for Accurate Flow
Monitoring |
Application of
Genetic Algorithm Optimization for Collection Systems to Johnson County’s Turkey
Creek Sewer–Shed
Vinta Varghese, Tim Coleman, CH2M HILL, Inc.; Aaron
Witt, Johnson County Wastewater; Rick Nelson, CH2M HILL, Inc.
Did We Get It Right? Post Sewer–Separation Analysis in Boston,
MA
Sharon Tsay, Dominique Brocard, Metcalf and Eddy, Inc.; Thomas
Daly, Boston Water and Sewer Commission
Tools for Accurate Sewer Metering and Billing
Robert
Czachorski, Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.; Tim Prince, Brian Bennett,
Oakland County Drain Commissioner’s Office; Vyto Kaunelis, Charles Humphriss,
Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.
Navigating the Waters in Hampton Roads to Produce a Regional Peak
Flow Management Program
Theresa Benson, Brown and Caldwell; Phil
Hubbard, Chris Stephan, Hampton Roads Sanitation District
Wringing Out the Last Drop of I/I from a Separated Combined
Sewer
Gary W. Shaffer, City of Warren Water Pollution Control; Ed
Kelly, C&K Industrial Services
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5: Taking the Fear Out of Private Property
Rehabilitation |
Keeping
the Sharks Out Of Your Laterals: Fearless Private Lateral
Rehabilitation
F. Paul Calamita, AquaLaw, PLC
Everything Is Big In Texas – Even a Private Lateral
Program
Rajendra P. Bhattarai, Gopal K. Guthikonda, Austin Water
Utility
Private Property Virtual Library: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re
Going
Bruce Cohen, CSL Services, Inc.; Jaime Davidson, Parsons
Corporation; Bill Carter, George Butler Associates, Inc.; Laurie Chase, Stantec,
Inc.; Jane McLamarrah, MWH Americas, Inc.
Private Lateral Program Implementation (A Southwest Pennsylvania
Perspective)
Jerry Brown, The Municipal Authority of the Township of
South Fayette; John Mowry, KLH Engineers, Inc.
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6: Getting the Best Out of Your Rehabilitation
Efforts |
Los Angeles’
Integrated Approach to Sewer Renewal: The Answer to an Aging
Infrastructure
Mario S. Dimzon, Adel H. Hagekhalil, City of Los
Angeles Bureau of Sanitation; Wayne Lawson, Harshad Shah, Patricia Cheng, City
of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering
Packer Injection Grouting for the Long–Term – An Engineering
Perspective
Robert K. Lee, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
NEORSD Utilizes a Service Agreement Approach for Rehabilitation of
Large Diameter Sewers
Randy Krizmanich, Brown & Caldwell; Brian
D. Page, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Dual Phase Collection System Odor Investigations: The Liquid Phase
Might Not Be Enough!
Mark M. Smith, HDR Engineering, Inc.
Developing an Effective, Reasonable, and Defensible Sewer
Rehabilitation and Replacement Plan – “Getting the Biggest Bang for your
Buck”
Mario Dimzon, Abdul Danishwar, Adel Hagekhalil, City of Los
Angeles Bureau of Sanitation; Michael Flores, HDR, Inc.
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Interactive
Decision Tree Automates Sewer Rehabilitation Planning
Rodney A.
Moeller, CDM; C. Timothy Fallara, City of Columbus, Ohio; John P. Schroeder,
CDM; Mel Meng, DLZ Ohio, Inc.
Quality Control and Assessment of the Calibration of a Model of the
City of Pittsburgh Sewer System
J. M. Maslanik, Chester Engineers;
M. D. Lichte, B. M. Body, R. Pinheiro
Analysis of Transient Surge in the Proposed District of Columbia
Water and Sewer Authority Deep Tunnel System
Daniel J. Lautenbach,
LimnoTech; Jose G. Vasconcelos, University of Brasilia; Steven J. Wright, The
University of Michigan; John R. Wolfe, LimnoTech; John F. Cassidy, Greeley &
Hansen; Peter R. Klaver, LimnoTech; Leonard R. Benson, District of Columbia
Water and Sewer Authority
Developing a Focused and Efficient Calibration Approach for
Collection System Models
Gunilla Goulding, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
Re–Routing Of a Major Urban Trunk Sewer to Expand Water
Reclamation
Shahriar Eftekharzadeh, Melissa Ingalsbe, Earth Tech,
Inc.; Steve Malloy, Irvine Ranch Water District
Finding Extra Capacity in Boston’s Sewer Interceptor System:
System–Wide Hydraulic Modeling, Optimization and Cost Effectiveness
Analysis
Dingfang Liu, Alfred J. Carrier, Richard A. Moore, Tetra
Tech Rizzo; Paul Keohan, Boston Water and Sewer Commission
Application of Mean Velocity Profile, Depth and Velocity Data Time
Series, and Froude Number To Flow Monitoring Location Selection and Flow
Monitoring Data Analysis
Joseph S. Pang, Black & Veatch
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8: Examining the Pittsburgh Area Under a
Microscope |
The City of
Pittsburgh’s Largest Asset Management Initiative and Condition Assessment
Program Ever
M. Lichte, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority; R.
Rudolph, Hazen and Sawyer; B. Hutton, J. Stoss, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer
Authority
Integrated Watershed Management Planning Approaches to Setting and
Achieving Water Quality Goals in CSO Receiving Waters
James T.
Smullen, Mark Maimone, Colleen L. Hughes, CDM
Case Study in Pine Creek Watershed, Allegheny County, PA: Physical
Source Tracking Using Molecular Microbial Methods
Y. Xu, J.M.
VanBriesen, K. Gregory, Carnegie Mellon University
Approaches for a Successful Regional Flow Monitoring Program In the
Greater Pittsburgh Area
Terry Meeneghan, CDM; John Shannon, Michael
Baker Jr., Inc; Anthony Igwe, Wade Trim, Inc.
ALCOSAN Overflow Control Facility Full–Scale Demonstration
Project
Gregory R. Heath, Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.; James R. Bowser,
Chester Engineers; Daniel Lockard, ALCOSAN
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9: Turning a Green Approach into
Reality |
The Intricacies
of a Watershed Plan – Modeling, Planning & Restoration
Sandra C.
Doyle–Ahern, Miles Hebert, EMH&T, Inc.
A Case Study: Insights from the City of Omaha’s CSO Program on
Negotiations with Regulatory Agencies
Patricia Nelson, CH2M HILL;
Martin Grate, City of Omaha Public Works Department; Thomas Heinemann, CH2M
HILL
Milwaukee’s Regional Partnership Initiative Umbrella: Come in Out of
the Rain
Karen Sands, Earth Tech, Inc.; Krista Chapdelaine, State of
Massachusetts; Kevin Shafer, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Planning Comprehensive Water Quality Based CSO Controls for a
Polluted Urban Tributary Newtown Creek, New York City, New
York
James Mueller, Keith Mahoney, NYC Department of Environmental
Protection; Curtis D. Courter, Peter Young, Hazen and Sawyer, P.C.
Lansing, Michigan’s Downtown Rain Gardens: Design and Community
Involvement
Anne M. Thomas, Daniel P. Christian, Tetra Tech; Chad A.
Gamble, City of Lansing; John T. Killips, Tetra Tech
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Intelligent
CSO Control: Results of the First Two Years of Operation in Louisville,
Kentucky
Angela Akridge, Louisville & Jefferson County
Metropolitan Sewer District; Diana Qing Tao, BPR CSO
Cost–Effective Regulator Improvements for CSO Control in New York
City
Timothy Groninger, Peter Young, Hazen and Sawyer, P.C.; James
Mueller, Keith Mahoney, NYCDEP
Long–Term CSO Control Plan for the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer
Authority (PWSA)
David R. Bingham, Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.; Michael
D. Lichte, PWSA; John Shannon, Michael Baker; Anthony Igwe, Wade Trim, Inc.
ALCOSAN – Ravine Street Stream Removal Program
David W.
Troianos, Bradley G. Duda, Michael Baker Jr. Inc.; Jan Oliver, Allegheny County
Sanitary Authority
Maximizing Flow to the ALCOSAN Woods Run Plant
Anna S.
Mehrotra, John D. Rattray, Scott L. Cowburn, CDM; David W. Borneman,
ALCOSAN
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Risk–Based
Capacity and Renewal Planning in Dallas
Marc Cottingame, Dallas
Water Utilities; Jane McLamarrah, MWH
The Role of High Rate Treatment in Addressing Wet Weather
Flows
Thomas Kutcher, Donald Cuthbert, Julian Sandino, CH2M HILL
Lake Tahoe’s Regional Approach to Wastewater Infrastructure
Planning
Lee Schegg, North Tahoe Public Utility District; Joe
Pomroy, Incline Village General Improvement District; Jeroen Olthof, HDR
Engineering; Michael Flores, RMC Water and Environment
Practical Applications of a Hydraulic Sewer Model to Solve Real World
Problems
Timothy Kraus, O’Brien & Gere; Justin Gray, Louisville
& Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District; Susan Bahng, O’Brien &
Gere
Lessons in Operations Management for Collection Systems – Start at
the Top and Work Your Way Down
Edward Speer, CDM; George Collier,
Drew Mihocko, Philadelphia Water Department
Pump Station Refurbishment Designed for Compatibility with Adjacent
Condominium, Hotel and Marine Terminal Development Projects in Portland,
Maine
Steven Freedman, Robert Winn, Philip Wolstenholme, Garr Jones,
Brown and Caldwell; Scott Firmin, Portland Water District
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12: Flow Monitoring that Pays Real
Dividends |
A Wireless,
Near Real–Time Dry Weather Alert System under Conditions of Unreliable Data
Transmission
C.W. Pawlowski, Metcalf & Eddy; M. Donisi,
Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati; J.M.H. Barton, Stantec
Engineering
New Findings in Estimating Flow Rates Through Overflowing Manhole
Covers
Thomas Walski, Bentley Systems, Incorporated; Brian Whitman,
Brandon Kelly, Mike Leaman, Danny Loughran, Wilkes University
Application of TISCIT Data in Improving Hydraulic Model
Reliability
Qiuli Lu, Eric Onderak, Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.; Greg
Stacy, Maunsell Limited, (Formerly with Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.); Scott Holmes,
City of Dayton, Ohio
Creating a Tight Sewer System and Proving It – A Case Study in Scio
Township, Michigan
Carrie Ricker Cox, Orchard, Hiltz &
McCliment, Inc.; Scott D. Martin, Scio Township; Robert Czachorski, Orchard,
Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.
Private Property I/I Control Program In Greencastle,
Indiana
William S. Gonwa, Jeremy Nitka, Symbiont; Glen Morrow,
Burgess & Niple
Quantitative Assessment of Sewer Separation for the Reserved Channel
in South Boston
Melissa L. Recos, Alfred J. Carrier, Tetra Tech
Rizzo; Edward W. Duggan, Boston Water and Sewer Commission; Dingfang Liu, Tetra
Tech Rizzo
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