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Public
Communications Perceptions & Early Communication Tools: How to
Engage the Public on the Issue of Infrastructure Sustainability
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Presentation (Recorded January 20, 2010)
Public understanding and support for
investment in aging infrastructure is essential to close the gap between
current funding and projected needs. In response to the need identified
by its utility subscribers, WERF has funded a research program on
Strategic Asset Management (SAM) for wastewater and water utilities. One
objective of this program is the development of an effective
communications package – aimed at public officials, policymakers,
utility managers, and rate payers – to encourage the adoption of
SAM and provide guidance on its implementation in the utility
environment.
This web seminar will discuss the
initial results of WERF's SAM research program to understand
elected and appointed officials’ perspectives on asset management
and infrastructure sustainability. The authors use results of a survey,
focus groups, interviews, and case studies to understand how public
support for infrastructure sustainability can be attained. Relevant and
readily usable tools that focus on the infrastructure sustainability
issue are identified. The research identifies messages that elected,
appointed, and salaried public officials can use to “tell their
story” to stakeholders: That is, how the directed use of
scarce resources leads to improved value per dollar and that their
service is delivered in a competent, if not excellent,
manner.
Speaker
Linda Blankenship, EMA
Explore New
Technologies and Approaches for Wet Weather In-Plant Management
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Presentation (Recorded Wednesday, November 4, 2009)
From a watershed management perspective, it is critical
to determine the overall effectiveness of in-plant wet weather treatment
strategies used to manage peak flows and pollutants that impact water
quality. Strategies for in-plant wet weather control often include new
technologies or the age-old practice of blending. Wastewater treatment
facilities use effluent blending to prevent overflows by maximizing
plant flow during peak wet weather events, while minimizing detrimental
impacts to receiving water quality. The practice typically involves
diversion of primary effluent flows around secondary treatment and
blending with secondary effluent prior to disinfection and discharge to
receiving water.
This seminar will present a sample of new technologies
for the management of in-plant wet weather flows, specifically,
compressed media filtration. The filter can handle high solids loading
from any excess flow area of the plant and reduce the TSS concentrations
to within secondary standards.
WERF research on receiving water effects of wet weather
blending practices is nearing completion. The research team analyzed the
quality of upstream and downstream receiving water, other tributaries,
and any overflows occurring simultaneously to compare relative impact,
to illuminate how a watershed responds to peak wet weather events, and
to determine the effect effluent blending has in the watershed.
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James Wheeler, PE, U.S. EPA – OWM
Jim Fitzpatrick, Black & Veatch
Kevin Weiss, U.S. EPA Office of Water
Don Gray, Ph.D., PE, East Bay Municipal Utilities District
Orientation to the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF)
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Presentation (Recorded September 23, 2009)
WERF’s Executive Director, Glenn Reinhardt,
provides an overview of WERF’s website and other information that
will of interest to WERF subscribers. The session covers:
• An overview of www.werf.org
• How to find and download research reports
• A demonstration of some of the tools available on the WERF
website
• Opportunities to become involved in WERF's research effort
Speakers
Glenn Reinhardt, WERF
Daniel M. Woltering, Ph.D., WERF
Security at Small Wastewater Treatment Plants
– Practices You Need to Know
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Presentation (Recorded September 16, 2009)
Recent WERF research in wastewater treatment security
(Project 04-CTS-12S) identifies a suite of security-related practices
applicable for small wastewater systems. The final report outlines
security practices consistent with the technical, managerial, and
financial capacity of small systems. Project findings have been
validated in a series of workshops with staff from small utilities and
municipalities. A summary of these practices and the project
findings will be presented in this web seminar designed for
wastewater treatment plant managers, especially small ones.
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Chuck Herrick, Ph.D., Stratus Consulting
Determining the Costs and Effectiveness of Stormwater BMPs
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Presentation (Recorded June 3, 2009)
Stormwater managers, engineers, and others need simple
models (i.e. planning tools) to assist in the appropriate selection and
design of systems of BMPs to solve water quality problems. This web
seminar will demonstrate a new WERF BMP spreadsheet-based tool,
“BMP SELECT”, comprising: 1) a Simulation Module for
BMP performance that computes the pollution loads that can be expected
to be discharged to receiving waters as a result of the application of
various BMPs in a watershed, and 2) a Cost Analysis Module that
municipalities can use to assess the real costs that will be incurred if
the BMP plan is implemented. This planning/screening tool will help
determine tradeoffs and efficacy of various BMP scenarios in reducing
pollution loads to receiving waters for a variety of pollutants
including sediment, nutrients, and metals.This seminar will be of
particular interest to municipal and industrial stormwater managers,
consulting engineers and scientists, university researchers, planners,
regulators, water quality modelers, and others active in non-point
source issues.
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Christine Pomeroy, University of Utah
Larry Roesner, Colorado State
A. Charles Rowney, ACR
Assessing the Risks
of Trace Organic Compounds in Biosolids
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Presentation (Recorded April 29, 2009)
WERF is examining the fate of estrogenic compounds and other trace
organics in biosolids during digestion and dewatering. In this web
seminar, the research team from AECOM, the U.S. Geological Survey, and
the University of Arizona will present the state of knowledge and the
findings of WERF’s latest study, including the significance of the
levels found in biosolids. The seminar will brief participants on
communicating about trace organic issues, drawing on some case studies
examined by WERF research teams.
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Kathleen Esposito, AECOM
Edward Furlong, U.S. Geologic Survey
James Gray, U.S. Geologic Survey
David Quanrud, University of Arizona
Wendell Ela, University of Arizona
Rula Deeb, Malclom Pirnie, Inc.
George O'Connor, University of Florida
Estimating Mercury Bioaccumulation Potential from
Wastewater Treatment Plants in Receiving Waters
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Presentation (Recorded March 18, 2009)
Is mercury (Hg) from wastewater treatment plants more or
less bioavailable than Hg from other sources? This web seminar will
review the findings of WERF research that defines bioavailability,
explains how bioavailability is estimated, compares the bioavailability
of common sources of mercury in the environment, and assesses the
effects of wastewater treatment. Presenters will examine a
bioavailability screening assessment procedure and screening tool. They
will also review an analysis of bioavailable mercury in seven wastewater
treatment plants studied during the summer of 2008. Webinar
participants will have the opportunity to ask questions related to the
research and the bioavailability of mercury. The web seminar if free,
but registration is required.
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J. David Dean, ArcTellus
Robert Mason, University of Connecticut
Working Toward
Effective Use Attainability Decisions
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Presentation (Recorded February 11, 2009)
Agencies apply
use attainability analysis
(UAA) to review and potentially modify a waterbody’s designated
uses, especially when uses or conditions change. This web seminar is
based on WERF research that analyzed case studies and developed a number
of recommendations for approaches to effective UAA decisions. The
seminar will review success factors, discuss key issues and case
studies, provide an overview of state UAA programs, and demonstrate a
hypothetical application of lessons learned. This session has
helpful information for anyone working with communities in the
development of a UAA. Regulators and water quality professionals who
review, conduct, or evaluate UAAs should consider attending this
webinar. Other stakeholders participating in a UAA will also find the
information useful.
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Tom Dupuis, CH2M HILL, Inc.
Hans Holmberg, LimnoTech
Limits of Technology and Research on
Nutrient Removal
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Presentation (Recorded October 8, 2008)
Participants will hear the latest news about activities
and research under WERF’s Nutrient Removal Challenge. Dr. Amit
Pramanik, WERF program director, moderates the two-hour seminar.
Speakers include Dr. JB Neethling of HDR (who is leading a
multi-disciplinary team of experts for the challenge), Professor David
Stensel from the University of Washington, Dr. Charles Bott from
Virginia Military Institute, and Dave Clark from HDR.
The seminar will begin with key findings from the LOT (limit of
technology) compendium material. Speakers will present a typical process
flow configuration for a wastewater facility designed and operated to
treat nitrogen. They will also provide information on research into the
various nitrogen species, and will discuss current characterizations of
“biodegradable” and “bioavailable”. Presenters
will cover protocols to determine these various fractions.
The seminar will also include key findings on research into external
carbon needed for attached and suspended growth wastewater treatment
processes. Experts will present highlights from a white paper on
market-based and technology approaches to nutrient control and water
quality protection.
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JB Neethling
H. David Stensel
Charles Bott
David Clark
Collection
Systems Research Update
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Presentation (Recorded September 24, 2008)
Fat, oil, and grease (FOG) is generated every day by food preparation
and cleaning activities in commercial establishments and, on a smaller
scale, by residential sewer usage. Another common problem, known to all
utility maintenance personnel, is dense mats of root hair formed in
pipes. FOG and root accumulations in the sanitary sewer collection
system result in reduced capacity that can lead to sanitary sewer
overflows (SSO) if not removed periodically. As the mat or accumulation
commence, the slowed wastewater flow exacerbates the rate of
accumulation and deposit of FOG materials onto the pipe walls, further
reducing capacity.
In a recently completed WERF
study, our speakers performed a detailed analysis of the chemical and
physical makeup of FOG deposits in the sewer collection system. This
type of information is a crucial first step in understanding what
compounds should be limited in the effluent discharge of grease
interceptors. The speakers also investigated how well grease
interceptors removed FOG from food service establishment waste streams,
applied root control strategies that involve chemical and or mechanical
methods, and developed an alternative design methodology for sizing
grease interceptors.
This web seminar will provide an
overview of the results from this research study. Items to be discussed
include:
• The chemical and physical makeup of FOG deposits in sewer
collection systems
• The optimal design, sizing, and operations and maintenance
criteria for grease interceptors based on field, laboratory, and
modeling data
• The best root control methods for reduced root intrusions
in sewer collection systems based on pilot-scale data from a variety of
tree root species
• An alternative design methodology for sizing grease
interceptors
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Speakers
Joel Ducoste
Tarek Aziz
Trace
Organic Compounds and Implications for Wastewater Treatment
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Presentation (Recorded July 9, 2008)
Because WERF subscribers identified emerging contaminants as an
important challenge facing the wastewater industry, this seminar will
focus on trace organic compounds and the latest scientific developments
and technological advancements for treated wastewater, reclaimed water,
and receiving streams.
WERF will present the results of its recently
completed technical brief, Trace Organic Compounds and the
Implications for Wastewater Treatment. The discussion will also
showcase research findings and recommendations from some of WERF’s
relevant research efforts on trace organic compounds and nutrient
removal treatment processes. WERF's completed work, Fate of
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products through Wastewater Treatment
Processes, will be discussed, along with findings from
WERF’s collaborative research effort with the WateReuse Foundation
on Development of Indicators and Surrogates for Chemical Contaminant
Removal during Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation.
Wastewater utility managers, engineers, wastewater
industry scientists, plant operators, academics, and other interested
water quality stakeholders will find this seminar of interest.
“Sewage treatment plants that operate with longer solids retention
times remove more pharmaceuticals and personal care products.”
— Environmental Science and Technology Online, 2006
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Paul Anderson
Jorg Drewes
Joan Oppenheimer
A Roadmap to Sustainable
Energy Management: Every Journey Begins With a First Step
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Presentation (Recorded June 4, 2008)
Energy usage and management are major concerns for the
wastewater industry due to rising costs and greater awareness of the
energy - clean water - climate change relationship. Sustainable energy
management for the wastewater industry, or the operation of a wastewater
facility to produce enough energy to cover all its demands, is a
laudable goal for the future. Currently, however, wastewater treatment
operations consume 35% of a typical municipality’s energy
requirements.
This seminar will present an overview of energy demand
within the industry and provide specific information to help
participants understand a plant’s electric consumption and
electric utility bill. The seminar will discuss what equipment demands
the most energy at a typical treatment facility and will provide
specific examples of modifications that have helped other utilities
improve their energy efficiency. A sustainable energy management program
framework will be introduced that can be used to set energy efficiency
objectives and targets, and monitor and measure progress with energy
efficiency planning.
Speakers include Joe Cantwell, P.E. (SAIC) who manages
Focus on Energy for Wisconsin where he has conducted numerous energy
audits for wastewater facilities which have resulted in energy savings
of 20-50% or more and Jim Horne (U.S. EPA Office of Wastewater
Management), project officer of the 2008 publication Ensuring a
Sustainable Future: An Energy Management Guidebook for Wastewater and
Water Utilities.
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Joe Cantwell
Jim Horne
Can You Afford Not to Apply Benefit Cost Analysis to Biosolids
Management Options?
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Presentation (Recorded May 21, 2008)
Numerous significant challenges face wastewater agencies
as they consider how to best manage biosolids. Cost and energy
requirements are at the top of the list. This seminar discusses recent
WERF research which was designed to help wastewater agencies and other
stakeholders understand the benefits and costs of the biosolids
management options that are available to them.
As stewards of the environment and public trust, wastewater agencies
need to consider the full range of benefits and costs associated with
their activities. This means that they need to take into account all the
impacts—good, bad, and uncertain—that their activities may
impose on the broader community. These impacts now include ever
increasing emphasis on considerations such as carbon footprint and
climate change.
The research described includes the approaches, methods, and tools
available to help utilities take a broad perspective and develop
benefit-cost analysis (BCA) of their biosolids management options. The
products of this research include tools and guidance to help utilities
conduct BCAs, including the triple bottom line (TBL) approach. This
research addresses one of the highest-ranked priorities identified at
the 2003 WERF-EPA Biosolids Research Summit. The research also will
play an important role in the implementation of the current WERF
Optimization of Wastewater and Solids Operations (OWSO) Research
Challenge.
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Diane Garvey
Bob Raucher
Donna Hull
Using Rainwater to Grow Livable Communities
Stormwater best management practices (BMPs) primarily function to
remove pollutants and mitigate hydrologic impacts of development, but
they can offer a host of other benefits, including: recreation, urban
renewal, public education and involvement, aesthetics, and enhanced
property values. Multi-benefit BMPs may offer communities a way to
balance regulatory requirements with public safety and quality of life
concerns, all within the constraints of scarce fiscal resources.
Advocates for multi-benefit BMPs need the tools to overcome
institutional, social, and regulatory barriers to successful project
implementation.
This seminar will highlight findings of WERF research
project 04-SW-1: Using Rainwater to Grow Livable Communities.
Co-principle investigators, Jane Kulik of Wenk Associates and Leslie
Shoemaker of Tetra Tech, Inc., will provide an overview of the project,
present research findings, and describe select case study examples. They
will highlight some of the many features of the web product (www.werf.org/livablecommunities), which was
designed to offer municipal stormwater practitioners, engineers,
landscape architects, public officials, and others the communication
tools, case studies, and guidance needed to promote and implement
multi-objective stormwater best management practices in their
communities.
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Presentation (Recorded May 8, 2008)
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Leslie Shoemaker
Jane Kulik
A Holistic Approach to Asset Management Using SIMPLE Knowledge Base for
Water and Wastewater Operations
This web seminar will demo SIMPLE v 1.1 which is a
web-based knowledge management system for Asset Management that is
designed to i) provide a comprehensive understanding of asset management
at strategic and operational levels; ii) promote information exchange
among AM practitioners; and iii) help implement AM programs at water and
wastewater utilities. The SIMPLE knowledge base is developed around
seven primary elements of life-cycle based asset management and entails
a user-friendly set of on-line practice guidelines, templates, and
decision support tools. SIMPLE v1.1 was developed in coordination
with AwwaRF.
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SIMPLE v 1.1 Demonstration (Recorded April 22,
2008)
Speakers
Chris Rayburn
Steve Allbee
Duncan Rose
Current Wastewater Treatment Disinfection Practices and User
Experiences
This web seminar focuses on the state of disinfection at
major (>1 MGD) publicly owned treatment works in the United States.
It will present a summary of the recently completed WERF report,
Disinfection of Wastewater Effluent – Comparison of Alternative
Technologies. A snapshot of the current practice of major POTWs
indicates that three mature technologies are being used: chlorine,
ultra-violet (UV), and ozone. The seminar will compare pros and
cons of each of the three technologies, as well as capital and O&M
costs for 1, 10, and 100 MGD dry weather design flows.
UV is an increasingly popular choice for disinfection,
and is currently used by more than 20% of major POTWs in the U.S. This
seminar will present results from a user survey of 103 full-scale UV
facilities (roughly 10% of all UV systems at major POTWs). The
survey covered a range of plant sizes and geographic regions in the
U.S., the three basic UV lamp types, and most major manufacturers.
Seminar participants will learn UV users’ reasons for choosing UV
disinfection and their opinions on transitioning to UV, as well as
information on training times, maintenance times, and costs.
Participants will also benefit from the experience, insights, and advice
shared by UV facilities across the country.
The seminar is presented by Dr. Larry Leong of
Kennedy-Jenks, the lead principal investigator, and Dr. Naoko Munakata
of the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, and moderated by Dr.
Amit Pramanik of WERF. Wastewater utility managers, engineers, and their
consultants who are considering a change in wastewater disinfection
systems are encouraged to participate.
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Presentation (Recorded March 19, 2008)
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Lawrence Leong
Naoko Munakata
Microbial Risk Assessment Interface Tool: User Documentation
Training Forum
This training forum serves as an instructional guide for
WERF’s Microbial Risk Assessment (MRA) Interface Tool, a user
friendly software package designed to easily and effectively
evaluate the potential public health risk associated with pathogen
ingestion specific to exposure to reclaimed water uses.
The MRA interface tool lets users specify
a pathogen, additional or incremental wastewater treatment that occurs
prior to human exposure, and route of human exposure to the pathogen of
interest. Consistent with the results of the WERF project Evaluation
of Microbial Risk Assessment Techniques and Applications in Water
Reclamation (stock no. 00PUM3), the MRA interface tool recommends a
static (individual-based) or dynamic (population-based) risk
characterization methodology based on the input data and the
user’s model parameter selections. An estimate of the
potential public health risk associated with the specific pathogen and
exposure scenario is made via numerical simulation. The results are
presented graphically.
The training forum will also include
a discussion of how water and wastewater utility managers can make
risk-based management decisions about reclaimed water treatment, end
uses, and management options.
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Presentation (Recorded January 23, 2008)
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Adam Olivieri, Eisenberg, Olivieri and Associates (EOA), Inc.
Jeff Soller, Soller Environmental
Waterbody Assessment and Listing Processes: Evaluation, Current
Needs, and Next Steps
This web seminar discusses the findings and
recommendations of WERF's research project, Evaluating Waterbody
Assessment and Listing Processes: Integration of Monitoring and
Evaluative Techniques. It provides the perspectives of state
regulators in terms of preparing Integrated Reports and the U.S.
EPA‘s perspective on possible options for the states.
The report provides guidance to states on how to
effectively integrate monitoring program design with better data
evaluation techniques and data quality management programs and addresses
development of assessment methodologies that are more scientifically
defensible. These recommendations are intended to provide a technical
resource to the states so they can determine which waterbodies should be
designated as impaired and included on their 303(d) lists. The seminar
concludes with a discussion of how the results of the research interplay
with the options discussed by U.S. EPA.
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Presentation (Recorded October 9,
2007)
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Removing Nutrients from Wastewater: The Past, Present,
and Future
This web seminar focuses on the removal of nutrients
(nitrogen, N and phosphorus, P) from wastewater treatment facilities.
Speakers include Dr. J.B. Neethling of HDR, Inc.; Professor Krishna
Pagilla of IIT-Chicago, Phil Zahreddine of EPA’s Office of
Wastewater Management, Jim Pendergast of EPA’s Office of Science
and Technology and the Office of Water, and Amit Pramanik of WERF.
Participants will gain a global perspective on this subject and why it
is important to control and remove these two key nutrients. Key findings
from WERF’s project lead by Dr. Pagilla on Sustainable
Technologies to Achieve Very Low Nitrogen and Phosphorus Effluent Levels
(02-CTS-1, in publication) will be presented. Participants will learn
what worked to achieve low levels of effluent N or P and for both
simultaneously; and get an update on the issue of refractory dissolved
organic nitrogen. Also included will be an update on WERF’s
Nutrient Removal Challenge that is being led by a team of experts headed
by Dr. Neethling, a report on the outcomes of the stakeholder workshop
(held in conjunction with the WEF/ IWA Nutrient Removal Specialty
Conference in March 2007), information on what we know and don’t
know, what the gaps are, and where we are going on this important and
pressing subject.
View Presentation (Recorded July 18, 2007)
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Cyber Security Tool: Protecting Water and Wastewater Process Control
Systems
Join WERF for an online demo of
CS2SAT-WATER, a desktop software cyber security tool designed to guide
your facility, step-by-step, through the collection of control system
information and provide recommendations for improved protection of
computerized and automated systems against hacker attacks.
WERF, in collaboration with the
American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AwwaRF), undertook
research under the auspices of a U.S. EPA Security Grant to develop the
Control Systems Cyber Security Self-Assessment Tool, or CS2SAT-WATER.
The tool’s design embraces the security architecture developed
through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Control Systems
Security Program (CSSP).
Recommendations provided by the
tool are pulled from a database of best available cyber security
practices. Each recommendation is linked to a set of actions that can be
applied to remediate specific security vulnerabilities. During the
webcast, participants will get to see the tool in action, learn its
capabilities, and find out more about current rollout
plans.
Water and wastewater utility
managers, engineers and IT staff, local government officials and
regulators, and technical operations staff are encouraged to
attend.
Biosolids Research Summit Update
This seminar, presented with U.S. EPA, provides an update on
pertinent biosolids-related activities that were implemented following
the 2003 Biosolids Research Summit. The Summit was conducted in response
to the National Research Council report, Biosolids Applied to Land:
Advancing Standards and Practices. Summit participants, who included
traditional and nontraditional stakeholders from the public arena,
represented a range of views on the appropriateness and safety of land
applied biosolids/treated sewage sludge.
In this seminar WERF and U.S. EPA provide overviews of biosolids
research that has been completed or is currently underway to address the
needs identified at the Summit. Presentations of key projects and
activities related to a number of the highest-priority research project
concepts identified at the Summit are also presented.
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Presentation (Recorded March 28, 2007)
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Speakers:
Steve
Wing, University of North Carolina
Bob
Raucher, Stratus
Matt
Higgins, Bucknell University
Ned
Beecher, NEBRA
Jay
Witherspoon, CH2M HILL
Rick
Stevens, U.S. EPA
Overcoming Barriers to Equitable Consideration of Decentralized
Wastewater Treatment
This seminar presents the final results from an ongoing
WERF research project, Overcoming Barriers to Evaluation and Use of
Decentralized Wastewater Technologies and Management (04-DEC-2).
The project considers barriers both to the use of
individual on-site systems (septic systems) and cluster systems, where
part of the treatment and dispersal process takes place offsite. The
focus of the project is on what engineers can do to overcome
barriers. Solutions and actions were developed which will help ensure
that decentralized wastewater treatment options are considered more
frequently.
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Presentation (Recorded March 6, 2007)
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Speakers:
Mary
Clark, Stone Environmental Inc.
D.
Scott Johnstone, P.E., Consultant to Stone Environmental Inc.
Richard
Pinkham, Booz Allen Hamilton
International Stormwater Best Management Practices Database: A
Resource for BMP Selection & Design Guidance
The International Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP) Database
(www.bmpdatabase.org) serves
as a central clearinghouse for BMP data to help improve BMP selection,
design, and performance. This broadcast will introduce you to the
history and significant findings of the BMP Database. Additionally,
guidance on monitoring and examples of how various municipalities and
DOTs are contributing to and using the database will be included. Ample
opportunity will be provided for participant questions.
The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) hosted this
nationally transmitted broadcast via satellite television and the
internet.
View Presentation (Recorded November 29,
2006)
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Keeping the Well from Going Dry: Sustainable Water Resources
Management
Engineering and
scientific solutions are necessary to solve water problems, but not
enough to support sustainable water resources management. That's the
bottom line of a WERF research report on strategies for moving
toward sustainable water resources management. If you are a water
quality manager working with wastewater, drinking water, groundwater,
surface water, or water for reuse; you are sure to find this web seminar
informative and interesting.
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Presentation (Recorded March 15, 2006)
Speakers:
Kent Thornton, Ph.D., ftn Associates, Ltd
Recent Advances in
Conditioning and Dewatering Wastewater Solids
Almost half the
cost of treating wastewater is incurred in the separation and handling
of solids from liquids. If treatment plants can find better ways to
release additional water from solids, the total mass of their dewatered
cake will be significantly less—substantially reducing processing
and handling costs and saving millions of dollars annually.
Two recently
completed WERF studies on this topic will be featured in this
informative web seminar. The first helps explain the factors that affect
polymer demand for conditioning and how to apply the knowledge gained to
reduce this demand. The second looks at ways to better understand and
improve the complex process of dewatering.
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Presentation: (Recorded April 19, 2006)
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Speakers:
Sudhir Murthy, Ph.D., P.E., DCWASA
Matthew Higgins, Ph.D., P.E., Bucknell University
Sarah Miller, CSIRO, Australia
Securing National Wastewater
Infrastructure
The security of
wastewater facilities poses unique problems due to the highly
decentralized nature of infrastructure assets covering a large service
area. Shutting off or isolating parts of a wastewater system during
contamination events may cause a public health crisis. This seminar will
provide a first-hand look at web-based tools that will be available to
wastewater utilities in the areas of cyber security and GIS-based C/B/R
contamination assessment for collection systems. Ongoing
security-related activities at U.S. EPA and its liaison with the
department of homeland security will also be discussed.
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Presentation (Recorded June 14, 2006)
Speakers:
Candace Chan-Sands, EMA Inc.
Bill Samuels, SAIC
Leonard Casson, University of Pittsburgh
Ken Rubin, PA Consulting
Land Application of
Biosolids: What's in the Air?
This seminar will provide the results of
a WERF research project conducted by Jordan Peccia formally with Arizona
State University pairing a comprehensive literature review with field
results derived from state-of-the-art bioaerosol measurement to
investigate the concentration, transport, and type of bioaerosols
generated during the land application of class B biosolids. In addition,
two other research initiatives seeking to address the lack of data on
bioaerosols emitted from biosolids land application processes will be
further discussed.
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Presentation (Recorded August 23, 2006)
Speakers:
Patricia Millner, USDA
Jordan Peccia, Ph.D., P.E.,Yale University
Ian Pepper, Ph.D., University of Arizona
Suresh D. Pillai, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Energy
Management: Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and On-Site
Recovery
Energy use accounts for approximately 35%
of a wastewater treatment facility's total cost of providing wastewater
treatment services. There is a vital need for wastewater facilities to
adopt cost-effective energy management programs including a serious look
into onsite energy recovery options. The challenge is how to select an
appropriate energy management system or recovery technology under a
given set of conditions. This seminar provides an overview of available
energy management and energy efficiency programs, such as ENERGY STAR;
WERF's ongoing involvement in the development of analytic bioenergy
recovery tools such as LCAMER or Lifecycle Cost Assessment Manager for
Energy Recovery; and ways of exploiting the potential synergy between
sludge digestion, Class A biosolids production, and onsite green-power
generation at wastewater facilities.
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Presentation (Recorded October 11, 2006)
Speakers:
Ted Jones; Consortium for
Energy Efficiency
Hugh Monteith; Hydromantis, Inc.
John Willis; Brown & Caldwell
BMP
Strategies for Aesthetic Design and Public Acceptance
This seminar highlights the results of a
research study evaluating the social, aesthetic, and community factors
that contribute to the success or failure of stormwater BMPs. The
project team presents their findings to date, including a set of guiding
principles that can lead to successful BMPs, as well as the results
of site visits to communities that have had varying levels of success
with BMP implementation. Three national experts in BMP design and
implementation also discuss stormwater management projects in their
area and the factors that contributed to success.
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Presentation (Recorded November 15, 2006)
Follow-Up
Document (PDF, 550KB)
Speakers:
Jane Kulik; Wenk Associates
Leslie Shoemaker; Tetra Tech
Fred Rozumalski; Barr Engineering
Jim Patchett; Conservation Design Forum Inc.
Carol Mayer-Reed; Mayer/Reed
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