All sessions have been approved for DW, WW, and PDHs.
***Indicates WW Technical credits. All other sessions are General.
| Tuesday, August 13th | ||||
| 8:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Welcome & Keynote Speaker Joe Reitz | |||
| 9:15 AM – 10:05 AM | Roundtable | Workforce Development | |||
| 10:10 AM – 10:35 AM | Exhibitor Break | |||
| Residuals & Resource Recovery | Stormwater | Operations & Maintenance | Government Affairs | |
| Locations | Room 127 | Room 126 | Room 128 | Room 125 |
| 10:40 AM – 11:10 AM | Biosolids: Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail (Ted Merrell)*** | Conversion of an underutilized combined sewer to a storm sewer (Christopher Jeter)*** | Critical Maintenance Techniques Your Plant may be over looking (Dennis Knabb)*** | Operator Certification Update |
| 11:15 AM – 11:40 AM | In Case of Emergency: Keeping Stormwater and Traffic Flowing Safely in Indianapolis, Indiana (Rachel Sparks & Anna Gridley)*** | Advancing Better Water Policy and Strategies: The Indiana Water Summit and Roadmap (Bill Blomquist & Jill Hoffmann) | ||
| 11:45 AM – 1:25 PM | Lunch Break | |||
| Residuals & Resource Recovery | Stormwater | Operations & Maintenance | Young Professionals | |
| 1:30 PM – 1:55 PM | PFAS Regulations Impact on Future of LA (Bridget Ingram)*** | Urban Stormwater Retrofit: Case Study of Broad Ripple Avenue in Indianapolis (Emily Nelson) | Peracetic Acid for Wastewater Disinfection & The Benefits to Large and Small Utilities (Jim Pelton)*** | Eliminating the Spreadsheet Safaris: Crafting Calculation Workbooks (Taylor Eash) |
| 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM | Understanding the mechanistic pathways in sub & supercritical water (Sudhakar Viswanathan, Marc Deshusses, & Naomi Senehi)*** | Regional Stormwater Detention Basins – Treating urban runoff outside your project (Kari Mackenbach) | Optimizing Final Clarifiers – From Concept to Demonstrated Performance (Ben Burroughs)*** | Communication & Collaboration: How we managed multiple design iterations of a 600,000 gallon storage facility in Indianapolis (Maithilee Das Lappin & Payton Staman) |
| 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM | Exhibitor Break | |||
| 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM | Total Nitrogen treatment – required VS realistic (Ben Burroughs)*** | Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Public Education, Outreach and Participation Minimum Control Measures (Reggie Korthals)*** | Benefits of Partnering to Reduce Inflow and Infiltration (Brad Robertson & Montie Dunn)*** | Grit Happens: Conquering Startup Challenges during a WWTP Upgrade (David Wichman) |
| 3:30 PM – 3:55 PM | Exhibitor Break | |||
| Residuals & Resource Recovery | Government Affairs | Operations & Maintenance | Young Professionals | |
| 4:00 PM – 4:25 PM | The Danish Story of using low-hanging-fruit (Ulrik Folkmann)*** | IDEM Update | Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Testing Requirements for NPDES Permits (Kevin Custer)*** | SRF Basics (Camille Meiners) |
| 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM | The Need to Understand and Manage Water Availability within Basins in Indiana (Jill Hoffmann & Jack Wittman) | Forecasting Urban Water Escherichia coli Contamination Using Machine Learning Models (Vidhatri Iyer) | ||
| Receptions | Vendor Meet & Greet 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Convention Center |
Young Professionals Reception 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Social Cantina |
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| Wednesday, August 14th | |||||
| Operations & Maintenance | Industrial | Collection Systems | Utility Planning | ||
| Locations | Room 128 | Room 125 | Room 127 | Room 126 | Room 124 |
| 8:00 AM – 8:25 AM | Energy Efficient Retrofits of Oxidation ditches (Timothy Brett)*** | Out In The Field Not In A Book (Jim Collins & John Dailey)*** | Adapt and Overcome: Challenges of Rehabilitating a 90-inch Sewer (Sam Weber, Jeff Farnsworth, & Nathan Kassebaum)*** | Mastering the Art of Master Planning (Mac McCauley & Ashley Getz)*** | |
| 8:30 AM – 8:55 AM | Benefits of Big Bubble Mixing (Alexis Sheehan)*** | Hydraulic Modeling – What is it good for? (Robert Page & Dan Lexsa)*** | |||
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Exhibitor Break | ||||
| 9:35 AM – 10:00 AM | WWTP Non-Potable Water Systems – The Neglected Plant Process (Gary Ruston)*** | Water Treatment Regulatory Terms & Definitions (John Dailey & Jim Collins)*** | Using AI, GIS & Digital Twins to Drive Smarter Sewer Inspections (Josh Ford & Leroy Goldsberry)*** | Rate inequity: are your residents subsidizing the growth in your community? (Jeff Rowe) | |
| 10:05 AM – 10:30 AM | Using your data and SCADA for maintenance and savings (Ulrik Folkmann) | Challenges In The Field (Jim Collins & John Dailey)*** | North Interceptor Sewer – Danville, IN (Joshua Selig)*** | ||
| 10:35 AM – 11:00 AM | Howard Roosa Sewer – The Final Outcome of this Non-Traditional, Flexible Approach to Salvaging an Almost 100-Year-Old Sewer (John Huston & Trey Waagen)*** | Unveiling the Power of Regionalization: A Strategic Approach for Success (Justin M. Bruggar) | |||
| 11:05 AM – 1:30 PM | Awards Luncheon | ||||
| Operations & Maintenance | Municipal Pretreatment | Collection Systems | Engineering & Laboratory | Workforce Development | |
| 1:35 PM – 2:00 PM | 50 Years Later and SND Still Works (Wes Merkle & Dave Dubey)*** | 21ST Century FOG Management (Eric Thompson)*** | Foster Park Relief Sewer – Indian Village CSO 005 Connection (David Murray)*** | Ethics in Engineering | Water and Wastewater Workforce Development – Is your community ready for the challenge? (Charles Gill) |
| 2:05 PM – 2:30 PM | Requirements vs. Reality – Design Capacity Compared to Real World Observations (Katie Castro Jackson)*** | IU Permits and Applying the Combined Wastestream Formula (Izzy Romanucci)*** | Critical Crossing: Gravity Sewer under a Ditch, Railroad, and State Road in Greendale, Indiana (Karen Saavedra & Shaiza Sajjad)*** | ||
| 2:35 PM – 3:15 PM | Exhibitor Break | ||||
| 3:20 PM – 3:55 PM | Adaptive mixing and process optimization with energy savings (Colin Christie)*** | Enforcement Response Plan, Violations, and Significant Non-Compliance (Nichie Schaeffer)*** | Lafayette Prarie Oaks Pipeline Rehab (Eric Haenlein)*** | Indiana Statutes | A Gen Z Perspective on the Wastewater Industry (Ryan Gansemer) |
| 4:00 PM – 4:25 PM | Utility Management Committee Meeting | Use of Pipe Storage System for Sustainable CSO Reduction (Eric Carlson)*** | Getting the Next Generation Excited about Wastewater (Teddy Deahl & Travis Calhoun) | ||
| 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM | Wastewater Challenge Demonstration | Transforming Compliance Using Collaborative Technology (Reilly Kirk)*** | Minges Brook Pump Station – Ten Gallons of Pump Station in a Five Gallon Bucket (Tyler Kindle)*** | Enhancing the adsorption capacity of Gac to remove PFAS from water (Lukas Dahlstrom)*** | Building a High Performing Team (Randy Wheeler) |
| Thursday, August 15th | ||||
| Laboratory | Operations & Maintenance | Engineering | Safety | |
| Locations | Room 127 | Room 128 | Room 126 | Room 125 |
| 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Tips for labs that you may not know (John Rigdon)*** | Ultra-Low Phosphorus Limits (Tyler Hammerle)*** | Optimizing Plant Expansions: A Comprehensive Overview of the Capacity Expansion Project at the Evansville East WWTP Facility (David Wichman) | Electrical Safety for Wastewater Operators and Maintenance Personnel (Jake Powers) |
| 8:35 AM – 9:05 AM | IWEA Wastewater laboratory Analyst Certification (James Musser) | Informed Decision-Making for Electrical and Controls Systems (Michael Wheeler & Josh Keating)*** | Back to Basics: Review of UV Disinfection (Patrick Bollman)*** | Emergency Preparedness and Procedures (Robert Yeary) |
| Operations & Maintenance | ||||
| 9:10 AM – 9:40 AM | Flexing your procurement Muscle (Rachel Calhoun & Duane Jarvis)*** | Primary Clarifier Sludge and Scum (David Murray)*** | Optimizing Blower Filtration for Reliability, efficiency, and Value (Rob Geyer)*** | |
| 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM | Basics of pH (Shannon Pratt)*** | Keeping Your Clarifiers Happy: Solutions for Variable Flow Challenges (David Wichman)*** | City of Kalamazoo’s Holistic Approach to Selecting New Process Technologies (Aaron Davenport & Ryan Stoughton) | |
| 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM | A Case for Better Lab Results (Steve Tice)*** | Sustained 60 MGD? Sure, why not! (Katherine Merkle)*** | Keeping pace with current dynamic state of UV disinfection. An overview of different style UV systems, and what are the drivers when picking between technologies. (Romeo Vela)*** | |
| 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM | Pipes, Prints, and Protoypes: Exploring 3D printing Potential in Wastewater Laboratories (Rachel Calhoun)*** | Emergency Replacement of a Blower During a Planning Project at the Wyoming Clean Water Plant (TJ Bates)*** | Contrasting Design Considerations: Municipal Vs Industrial WWTPs (Shreya Gupta) | |
| 11:30 AM – 11:55 AM | City of Jeffersonville Combined Sewer Storage Interceptor – Motor-Actuated Gates with Real-Time-Control (John Herriford & Jarrett Thompson)*** | Grit Happens – Sustainable Solutions for Grit Management At WWTPs (Matt Bodwell)*** | It’s Raining N! The Future of Total Nitrogen Limits (Audrey Boice & Robert Holden)*** | |
