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The following are papers presented at the NC AWWA-WEA 87th Annual Conference held December 2-5, 2007 in Charlotte, NC. Papers are organized by the session in which they were presented and in the order they were presented. If the title and author of a paper do not appear in blue, the paper is not available and you must contact the author for more information. Click Here to View the Complete Technical Program Schedule Clicking on one of the following session names will bring you to the beginning of the listing for that session.
WASTEWATER SESSION WATER SESSION COLLECTION & DISTRIBUTION SESSION INDUSTRIAL SESSION POLICY & MANAGEMENT SESSION COMPUTER APPLICATIONS SESSION
SPECIAL TOPICS SESSION
FORUM: WATER ISSUES IN NORTH CAROLINA
WASTEWATER SESSION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 200710:00am Optimizing Phosphorus Removal at the Twelve Mill Creek WWTP
Joe Rohrbacher, Jim Struve, Ron Taylor – Hazen & Sawyer
Mark Tye, John Hayn – Union County PWD 10:30am Start-up of a New 5-Stage BNR Process at the McDowell Creek WWTP
Alan Petty – Black & Veatch
Pete Goins – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities 11:00am A Tale of Two Plants: Same City, Same Process, Different Effluent TN and TP
Katya Bilyk, Ron Taylor, Paul Pitt, Joe Rohrbacher, Bob Dodson – Hazen & Sawyer 11:30am Operational Considerations in the Design of the Forsyth County James Creek Water Reclamation
Facility
Mary Sadler – Arcadis 1:45pm Sidestepping the Sidestream Impacts at Nutrient Removal Plants
Richard Tsang – CDM
T.J. Lynch – City of Raleigh
Kim Neely – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities
Don Howard – City of Greensboro 2:15pm Anaerobic Digestion Rehabilitation Project and the Future of Biosolids Treatment and Disposal for
the City of Gastonia
Stephanie Scheringer, Larry Cummings – City of Gastonia
Mary Knosby, Chris deBarbadillo – Black & Veatch 2:45pm Aerobic Digestion: Challenges and Solutions for the Town of Cary
Jonathan Treadway, Jamie Revels – CDM
Cecil Martin – Town of Cary 3:45pm Lessons Learned from Startup of the Largest Tertiary Ballasted Settling System in the US
Nicholas Hatala, Gerald Hook – Stearns & Wheler 4:15pm Implementation of a Satellite Reclaimed Water Treatment Facility by the City of Lexington
Greg Wells – Willis Engineers
Roger Spach – City of Lexington 4:45pm Evaluation of Wet-weather Strategies and Clarifier Optimization Using a CFD Model
Ron Taylor, Alonso Griborio, Joe Rohrbacher, Paul Pitt – Hazen & Sawyer Return To Top TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 20078:00am OWASA’s Odor Elimination Program at the Mason Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant
Mary Darr – Orange Water & Sewer Authority 8:30am The Testing of Grit Systems Understanding Fact and Fiction
Chris deBarbadillo, Dean Pond, Gary Hunter – Black & Veatch 9:00am Comparison of SBR and Continuous Flow Activated Sludge for Nutrient Removal
Alvin Firmin – CDM 10:00am Modified SBR for BNR with Membranes Brings First-of-its-kind Technology to Residential Community
Betsy Pearce – McKim & Creed 10:30am MBBR and IFAS Plant Upset Event Recoveries
Steve Smith – AnoxKaldnes 11:00am The Design Elements of State-of-the-Art Treatment Technology – MBR Wastewater Treatment
Systems
Kirk Cole, Tim Baldwin – McKim & Creed 11:30am Development, Calibration and Application of a BioWin Process Simulation Model of the
Neuse River WWTP
Ron Latimer, Bob DiFiore – Hazen & Sawyer
T.J. Lynch, Dale Crisp – City of Raleigh 1:45pm Wilmington Promotes Conservation to Reduce Flows in Northeast Interceptor
Linda Vaughn – McKim & Creed
Jacqueline Major – City of Wilmington 2:15pm A Futuristic Wastewater Treatment Facility – The Johns Creek Environmental Campus
Peter Schuler, Rod Pope, John Bratby, Ray Williams, Kelly Comstock – Brown and Caldwell
Ken Suwanarpa, Paul Williams – Fulton County Department of Public Works 2:45pm Mechanisms for Intermittent Loss of Biological Phosphorus Removal
Joe Rohrabacher, Paul Pitt, Ron Taylor, Ron Latimer, Bob Fergen – Hazen & Sawyer
David van Gelder – New Hanover County, VA Return To Top
WATER SESSION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 200710:00am Upgrade of the Ozone Facilities at the Sweeney WTP
Ryan Bouchard, Jeff Coggins, Bob Hulsey – Black & Veatch
Michael Kennedy – City of Wilmington 10:30am Construction and Permitting of the First Major Surface Water Plant with UV Disinfection in NC
Bill Mason, Bill Dowbiggin – CDM
Harold Herring – Neuse Regional WASA 11:00am Advanced Treatment for Nanopollutants
Gary Hunter, Dan Buhrmaster, Tom Waltz, Jim Coughenour, Karl Linden – Black & Veatch 11:30am A New Approach for Feeding Sodium Hypochlorite at the Roanoke Rapids Water Treatment Plant
Dan Williams, Jay Bennet, Whit Wheeler – Arcadis 1:45pm Case Study – Implementing Dechlorination for Meet New Discharge Limits at the City of Charlotte’s
Franklin WTP
Jay Jackson – Hazen & Sawyer
Randy Hawkins – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities 2:15pm Regulating Residuals Discharge from Drinking Water Treatment Facilities; State Permitting Policies
vs. Proposed Federal Effluent Guidelines
Mark McIntire – Sterns & Wheler 2:45pm Stage 2 – What Will it Ultimately Mean for Treatment and Water System Management for Utilities
in NC?
George Budd, Paul Hargette, Clint Shealy – Black & Veatch 3:45pm Creating New History Out of the Past – Membrane Retrofit of the Brandywine WTP
Peter D’Amato, Yu-Jung Chang – HDR Engineering
Kash Srinivasan, Matt Demo – City of Wilmington 4:15pm Looking at Iron Removal in New Ways: Pilot Studies for Optimizing Nanofiltration
Frank Rombardo, Jamey Wallace – Jordan, Jones & Goulding
Susie Kippenberger – Seminole Tribe of Florida 4:45pm Using Membrane Technology to Address Water Challenges in Eastern NC
Keith Lane – McKim & Creed Return To Top Tuesday, December 4, 20078:00am Influence of Residuals Management on Membrane Systems Design
Mark White – CDM 8:30am GFH Successfully Used in 5.0 MGD Arsenic Polishing Process
Richard Ross – Siemens Water Technologies
Ken Flat – Dare County Utilities
Tim Bishop – Heyward incorporated 9:00am Pilot Testing of Dissolved Air Flotation and Inclined Plate Settlers at Charleston’s 119 MGD
Hanahan Water Treatment Plant
Paul Hargette, George Budd, Don Benjamin – Black & Veatch Return To Top
COLLECTION & DISTRIBUTION SESSION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 200710:00am What Do You Mean There is a Sewer Under My House?
Steve Hilderhoff, Lisa Mitchell – Stearns & Wheler
Robert Massengil, Aaron Brower – City of Raleigh 10:30am Charlotte’s Find-It-And-Fix-It Sewer Rehab Approach – Documented Successes and Reductions in I/I
Keith Shirley – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities
Aaron Frazier – Frazier Engineering 11:00am What Every Sewer System Owner Should Know About Sewer Rehabilitation
Steve Lindsey – Jordan, Jones & Goulding 11:30am Challenges of Sewer Rehabilitation in an Environmentally Sensitive Area
Randy Plummer – HDR Engineering
Bill Pinnix – New Hanover County 1:45pm Methods and Results of Infiltration and Inflow Studies in Sewer Collection Systems
Randall Hintz - McGill Associates 2:15pm Pilot and CFD Analysis in the Performance of Grease Interceptors
Tarek Aziz, Joel Ducoste – NCSU
Leon Holt – Town of Cary
Kevin Keener – Purdue University 2:45pm How to Reduce WaterAge in Distribution Systems
Jeff Cruickshank - Hazen & Sawyer 3:45pm Replacement of Aging Water Infrastructure in an Established Waterfront Community
Joseph Robinson, Alexander Berkley – W.K. Dickson & Co.
Stephen Gilbert – Lincoln County 4:15pm From Master Plan to Design & Implementation: City of Raleigh’s Reuse Distribution System
Initialization
Eileen Selzler, Jeremy Rivenbark – Kimley-Horn & Associates
Kenneth Waldroup, Tim Woody – City of Raleigh 4:45pm Choosing Between Conventional and Alternative Sanitary Sewer Technologies
Marco Menendez – URS Corporation Return To Top TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 200710:00am Water Transmission Main Replacement – “Second Time’s the Charm”
Jonathan Lapsley Gabe Valdes – CDM
Michael Stephens – Greenville Water Systems 10:30am How a Community Successfully Managed Water Source Blending and its Impact on Aging
Infrastructure
Dan Glaser, Johna Jahn – McKim & Creed
Robert Fahey – City of Clearwater 11:00am Using GIS-Assisted Water Quality Model to Analyze Potential Risk Areas of Lead Leaching in
Raleigh’s Water Distribution System
Michael Wang, Wayne Zhang – Hazen & Sawyer
Hugh Devine – NCSU
Larry McMillan – City of Raleigh 11:30am Slip-Lining Deteriorated Pre-Stressed Concrete Cylinder Water Transmission Main
Chris Korzenko, Azalea Mitch – CDM 1:45pm Using GIS to Increase the Value of a Sanitary Sewer Preventative Maintenance and Inspection
Program
Rosemary Harman, Scott McDonald – Jordan, Jones & Goulding
Stefanie Farrell, Darren Cardwell – Hallsdale-Powell Utility District 2:15pm Distribution System Corrosion – Solving Water Quality Problems Before or After the Fact
Mark Bishop, Gary Iverson – Hazen & Sawyer
Jeff Scher, Tim Broome – Johnston County 2:45pm CM at Risk – A Better Alternative to Traditional Delivery
Phil Parkins – CDM
Bill Brown – City of Greenville Return To Top
INDUSTRIAL SESSION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 200710:00am Troubleshooting Plant Performance Upsets: A Case Study of the Hopewell Regional Wastewater
Treatment Facility
Erika Bailey, Katherine Linares, William McCoy – HDR Engineering
Mary Haley, Jeanie Grandstaff, Harold walker – HRWTF 10:30am Optimizing Aerated Lagoons, or “How to Teach an Old Dog a Few New Tricks”
John Christiansen – Novozymes Biologicals 11:00am Full Scale Optimization and Upgrade of a High Strength Wastewater Treatment Plant
Dan Wilkinson, Katie Jones – O’Brien & Gere 11:30am Industrial Wastewater Minimization and Plant Consolidation for a Printed Circuit Board Component
Manufacturer
Ron Ruocco – WPC, Inc. 1:45pm Moving Bed Biofilm reactor Technology – A Full Scale Installation for Treatment of Pharmaceutical
Wastewater
John Brinkley – Stearns & Wheler
Chandler Johnson – AnoxKaldnes
Robert Souza – Talecris Biotherapeutics 2:15pm ANAMMOX – What Does the Future Hold in Store?
Shawn Veltman – Olver Incorporated 2:45pm Industrial Wastewater Minimization Through Team Effort for Budget Challenged Projects
Ron Ruocco, Ivan Cooper, William Anderson – WPC, Inc. 3:45pm Green Industrial Wastewater Treatment Utilizing Anaerobic Processes
Ned Fiss, Stephen Smith – AWARE Environmental 4:15pm An Evaluation of the Effects Bioaugmentation on Grease Trap Effluent Quality
Jason Calhoun, Matt Livingston – Novozymes Biologicals 4:45pm Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment System Upgrade Utilizing Layout Constraints and Phased
Operation to Minimize Production Downtime
Ron Ruocco, Ivan Cooper – WPC, Inc. Return To Top
POLICY & MANAGEMENT SESSION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 20078:00am The Missing Link in Effective Public Service – Leadership Development
Julie Hellmann – HDR Engineering
Jackie Jarrell – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities 8:30am IT OURSOURCING Keying Into the Future?
Robin Moore, Van Rowell – Water & Sewer authority of Cabarrus County
Brian Goddard, Matthew Wittermann – gTECHserv 9:00am Review of Customer Service Billing Date and GIS Data
Scot Berry, Lelia Goodwin – Town of Cary
Jeff Adkins – CH2MHill 10:00am Basinwide Water Quality Trading Study: Incorporating Urban Stormwater Management into an
Incentive Based Watershed Permitting Framework
Ruth Swanek, Lauren Elmore – CH2MHill
Roger Sheats – CFRA
Jim Caldwell – MCCOG 10:30am Local News Media – Friend or Foe? Get More From Your Utility’s Up-and-Down Media Relationship
Vic Simpson – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities 11:00am Planning for Wastewater Capacity in Charlotte’s Sugar Creek Watershed
Bill Kreutzberger, Jamie Robinson, Tom Johnson – CH2MHill
Julie McLelland – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities 11:30am Development by the NC Public Water Supply Section of a Comprehensive Guidance Document for
Response to Intentional Water System Contamination Incidents
Jack Moyer – URS Corporation Return To Top
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS SESSION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 20071:45pm Grabbing the Bull by the Horns – How the City of Greensboro is Effectively Utilizing Current
Technology and Integrated Data
Jeff Ryals, Aimee Walker – City of Greensboro
Mike Brannon – Brannon Technology 2:15pm Securities Considerations for Process Controls and SCADA Systems
Terry Draper – Black & Veatch 2:45pm GIS Jeopardy
Janet Jackson – McKim & Creed Return To Top
SPECIAL TOPICS SESSION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 20078:00am Utilizing Reclaimed Water for Stream Augmentation in North Carolina
Marco Menendez, Adam Haggerty – URS Corporation 8:30am A Case for Deep Well Injection in Coastal North Carolina
Francis Sanders, Jr. – Onslow Water & Sewer Authority 9:00am Procuring the “Green Light” (FONSI) for the Design of Water/Wastewater Projects
Morella Sanchez-King, Barry King, Ed Lawler – Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates 10:00am Identifying and Strengthening “Weak Links” in the FOG Management Chain
Carrie Mero, Jessica Wilkerson – URS Corporation 10:30am Unique Challenges in the Selection and Application of a Coating System for Water Storage Tanks at
the City of Asheville North Fork WTP
Brad Boris – City of Asheville North Fork WTP
David VanZee – Carolina Management Team
Kevin Morris – Sherwin-Williams 11:00am Disaster Cost Recovery – Hilton Head Island’s Utilities Have a Plan
Jennifer Bell, Andy Moore – CH2MHill
Kelley Ferda – South Island Public Service District 11:30am Securities in Our Nation’s Capital – The CD WASA Perspective
John McLaughlin, Phil Braswell – Brown & Caldwell
Muminu Badmus, Carl Banks, Hiram Tanner – District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority 1:45pm Implementing Early Warning of Toxic Chemical Intrusion into a WWTP by Using Remote Toxic
Chemical Sensors Communicating Over Cellular Wireless Telemetry into a Central SCADA System
with Advanced Alarming and Voice Notification Systems
Muminu Badmus, Hiram Tanner – District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority
Bob Rutemiller – Automation Consulting and Education 2:15pm Sustainability – The Default Approach to Municipal Water and Wastewater Design
Alan LeBlanc – CDM 2:45pm How to Lead a Team Meeting
Linda Vaughn – McKim & Creed Return To Top
FORUM: WATER ISSUES IN NORTH CAROLINA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2007Water and Wastewater Finance Policies and Programs
Jeff Hughes - Environmental Finance Center, School of Government, UNC-Chapel Hill Return To Top
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