ARCADIS Experts to Speak at WEFTEC 2014

ARCADIS, a natural and built asset design and consultancy firm is a proud partner sponsor and participant of WEFTEC, the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) annual technical exhibit and conference, which is taking place from Sept. 27 to Oct.1 in New Orleans. ARCADIS is expected to give 26 technical presentations and moderate/chair seven sessions covering topics like collection systems, water reclamation and reuse, wastewater treatment, storm water management and more.

“Utilities around the country are focusing on innovation in all phases of the water cycle—from green infrastructure to water reuse and energy recovery,” said Michael MacPhee, president at ARCADIS U.S. “That's why ARCADIS makes WEFTEC a priority. It is a unique opportunity for our people to exchange knowledge, strengthen relationships, drive innovation, and reconnect with the purpose and passion that enables forward momentum and shapes the future of water.”

Doug Owen, executive vice president and chief technical officer at ARCADIS, will present the Paul L. Busch Award at WEF’s subscriber luncheon on Sept. 30 at 12:00 p.m. Sandra Ralston, associate vice president at ARCADIS and 2013-2014 WEF president, will pass the WEF gavel to her successor Ed McCormick on Sept. 30 at 5:00 p.m.

Technical presentations include:

Saturday, September 27, 2014

• 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. -  Eric Harold - Collection Systems Fundamentals: Focusing limited Resources on What Matters Most
• 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Fernando Pasquel - Green Infrastructure Implementation

Sunday, September 28, 2014

• 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Dick Pope - Across the Plant Odor Control

Monday, September 29, 2014

• 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. - Mark Van Auken - Integrating Asset Management Principles to Watershed Management: A Risk-Based Approach to Management of Stormwater Assets
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Corin Marron - Implementing Direct Potable Reuse in the Arid Southwest: El Paso’s Advanced Purified Water Treatment Plant
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Ryann Neal - Weathering Superstorm Sandy
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Daniel Olson - Innovative Project Delivery Strategy and Technology for Greenfield Refinery
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Fernando Pasquel - Watershed Management as a Compliance Tool: A Holistic Approach to Compliance With MS4 Permits and TMDLs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Richard Pope - I'll Take a Breath of Clean Air With My Entree: Sewer Odors and Neighborhood Restaurants Don't Mix!
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Corinne Tuozzoli - Superstorm Sandy Recovery and Hazard Mitigation Planning
• 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Don Vandertulip - Direct and Indirect Potable Reuse: The New Paradigm

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

• 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Aditya Ramamurthy - Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Buck: Value Driven CIP Planning
• 8:30 a.m. - Mark Van Auken - Integrated Water Resources Management: Facilitation the Implementation of Integrated Planning, Souce Water Protection, and Other Water Management Programs
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Jennifer Berthiaume - Getting Stakeholder Support for Stormwater Utility Fees While Avoiding Pitfalls
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Angela Hintz - Evaluating the Performance of On-Farm Digestion and Cogeneration Systems: Lessons for Waste Recovery Facilities
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Kevin O’Beirne - Bidding Procedures and Equipment Procurement: A Consulting Engineer's Perspective
• 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Fernando Pasquel - Stormwater Financing 
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Richard Pope - Large Urban WWTP Controls H2S and Satisfies Regulators and Community Concerns
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Peter Yakimowich - Don’t Wait on the Rain: Options for Fully Funding a Sustainable Stormwater Utility
• 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Joseph Husband - Full-Scale Operating Experience of Deep Bed Denitrification Filter Achieving < 1.5 mg/l Total Nitrogen and < 0.05 mg/l Total Phosphorus
• 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Anjuli Jain Figueroa - Applying Integrated Modeling Tools To Provide Resiliency and Sea-Level Rise Protection for Bellevue Hospital
• 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Peter Yakimowich - Pipes to Parks: Integrating Green and Blue

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

• 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Angela Hintz - One Utility’s Trash is Another’s Treasure
• 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Christopher Ranck - CSO Post-Construction Monitoring: The Theory and Practice of Achieving Performance Criteria
• 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Fred Treffeisen - Large Step Feed BNR System Startup With CSO Considerations
• 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - James Shelton - Mobile Session: An Engineers Guide to Sewer Operations
• 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Brent Alspach - Fracking and Produced Water Management as a Proving Ground for Innovative Desalination Treatment
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Aaron Hutton - Fort Wayne Utilities’ Guaranteed Savings Contracting Solution: A Unique Approach to Bidding, Designing, and Constructing
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Julie Lu - Blueprint Columbus: An Integrated Plan That Reduces RDII and Controls Stormwater Flooding at Optimized Cost
• 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Ryan Kowalski - Best Practices in SCADA Project Delivery: Reducing Cost and Mitigating Risk Through Turn-Key Design-Build Projects

Source: ARCADIS