CDM Smith at Texas Water 2019
Wednesday, April 3
2:30 PM - Potential Sources of Contamination in Rural Texas Source Water and Opportunities for Outreach and Engagement with Rose Sobel and William Garde. Hot Topic: Source Water Protection
3:30 PM - Protecting Your Source Water and Water Facilities: A Discussion on Protection of Public Drinking Water Through Developing a Source Water Protection Plan and Vulnerability Assessment with Kimberly Chanslor and Rose Sobel. Hot Topic: Drinking Water Risk and Resilience
4:00 PM - Bioenergy Modeling to Evaluate Economic Scenarios and Risks/ Sensitivities of Biogas-to-RNG Production for WRRFs with Justin Rackley. Hot Topic: Biosolids
4:30 PM - SCADA Implementation in a Large Pipeline and Pumping Project with Jesus Lomas and co-authors John Robinson and Joe LaRosa. Hot Topic: Electrical and SCADA
Thursday, April 4
10:30 AM - The Visualizers – We See the Future Now! Leveraging Mixed Reality to Transform Design with Suparna Mukhopadhyay. Hot Topic: Young Professionals
11:30 AM - Lessons Learned: Managing Zebra Mussels at Lake Belton Surface Water Treatment Plant and Designing the Lake Stillhouse Hollow Intake with Zebra Mussel Management in Mind with Melissa Woo. Hot Topic: Water Treatment and Operations
1:15 PM - It’s A Gritty Situation: Tackling Grit at Village Creek WRF with Amy Robinson and Samir Mathur. Hot Topic: Wastewater Treatment and Operations
2:15 PM - From Nightmare to Dream Come True: Improving Screening and Pumping Operations at One of the Largest Influent Pump Stations in Texas with Adam Evans. Hot Topic: Wastewater Treatment and Operations
4:00 PM - Keeping Up with the Times: How A Membrane Replacement Can Help the KBH Desalination Plant to Produce Water at its Design Capacity Once More with Isaac Campos, Sarah Guemez, and co-authors Jorge Arevalo and Doug Brown. Hot Topic: Drinking Water Quality
4:00 PM - Avoiding Construction Pitfalls: A New Integrated and Collaborative Approach to Startup and Commissioning with Daniel Bond and Samir Mathur. Hot Topic: Construction
Friday, April 5
8:30 AM - Cleaning Up Odors and Biogas for Solids Handling Processes with Digestion and Thermal Hydrolysis with Melissa Woo. Hot Topic: Odor and Corrosion Control
9:00 AM - Lean Doesn’t Mean Skinny: How the Fabens Water District Stays in Budget But Keeps its Infrastructure at the Cutting Edge with Isaac Campos and Horacio Juarez. Hot Topic: Infrastructure Financing
10:30 AM - Odor Control and Corrosion Protection for Air Release Valves at EPWater Force Mains & Lift Stations with Horacio Juarez and Ajay Shrivastav. Hot Topic: Odor and Corrosion Control
11:00 AM - Critical Conservation: How Demand Management Modeling Can Inform Conservation Initiatives with William Garde. Hot Topic: Water Conservation