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Thursday Education Sessions
1:00 pm- 2:45 pm (105 minutes)
APWA Mid-Atlantic Chapter 57 Annual Conference
Baltimore Convention Center Thursday, May 7, 2015
Technical Program Schedule
Room 317
Room 318
Room 319
Management-1
Water/Wastewater-1
Asset Management - 1
#10-What's New for the NASSCO
PACP® Version 7.0 - An Update
by Chris Garrett, Brown and
Caldwell
#5- Tipping the Scales: From
Reactive to Proactive Utility
Management
by Madeleine Driscoll, City of
Baltimore DPW
#11-Minimizing the Risk of
Catastrophic Failure of Water
Transmission Mains in the City of
Baltimore
by Tasneem Hussam, MWH Global
#9 - Baltimore City Trunk Sewer
Inspection Program: Assessing
Hard to Reach Assets and
Reducing the Risk of SSOs
by Diego Calderon, PEER
Consultants and Kris Carter, City of
Baltimore DPW
#42 - Coming this Fall! - The
Mid-Atlantic Public Works
Institute - What's in it for
You - Scott Smith, P.E., City
of Norfolk DPW and Matt
Earnest, Virginia Tech
University
#32 - Strategic
Management in Public
Works - Keeping it Simple
and Making it Work!
by Joseph Bui and James
Patteson, P.E. Fairfax County
DPW&ES
#50 - Vehicle Acquisition
and Charge- Back Rate
Development
by Chichi Nyagah-Nash, City
of Baltimore Dept. of General
Services
#44-Easy Money: Reduce
Apparent Water Loss and
Increase Billable Revenue by
Correcting Errors in the Meter
Reading and Billing Systems by
Jonathan Gunn, Johnson Controls,
Inc.
#27- A Comprehensive
Approach to Prioritizing
Stormwater Capital
Improvements
by Troy McPherson, Hazen &
Sawyer PC
Room 320
Stormwater/Flood
Control - 1
#7 - North and South Lake
Holly Neighborhood
Revitalization (Virginia
Beach, VA)
by David Reveley, City of
Virginia Beach; James Fox
and Rob Bielawski, RK&K
#18 - Getting to know the
underutilized, Chesapeake
Bay Program Approved,
Nutrient Management Plan
by Derik Cataldi, VA Dept. of
Conservation & Recreation
#39 - Trends in Pipeline
Inspection - Evolving
Technologies In
Underground Infrastructure
Assessment
by Andrew Wicker,
Envirosight LLC
2:45 PM-3:00 PM Break….50/50 Drawing at 2:50 PM on Exhibit Floor
Utilities and R-O-W
#43 - Establishing a Landfill
Gas to Electricity Facility Complexities & Challenges
by C. Skaggs, Northeast MD
Waste Disposal Authority and
J. Pittman, Anne Arundel
County DPW
Baltimore's Back River
Wastewater-2
Workforce Development
and Succession Planning
#22 - Design and construction of
the Sludge Digester Facilities at
the Back River Wastewater
Treatment Plant
by Aaron Thomas, RK&K
#17 - Pilot Study: Streamlined
Rehabilitation Plans and
Construction Challenges
by Mike Mull, Woolpert
#25 - Succession
Planning Human Asset
Management
by Matt Stolte, P.E., Town
of Blacksburg, VA
#49 - Driving the Green
Agenda in Baltimore
by T. Atwood and J. Mathias,
City of Baltimore DPW
#28 - Commitment to Protect the
Environment: City of Baltimore's
Multi-Million Dollars
Improvements at the Back River
WWTP by Ben Asavakarin, JMT
#24 - Collection and Depiction of
Existing Subsurface Utility Data
ASCE Standard 38-02 for
Subsurface Utility Engineering
by Michael Woods, Cardno
#14 - Road Map to
Customer Service
Satisfaction (a focus on
Core Competencies)
by Stanley Coston and
Chris Beschler, City of
Richmond, VA DPW
3:00 pm-4:45pm (105 minutes)
Environment/Sustainability
#29- Expedited Design: How to
#51 - Envisioning
#33 - The Ripple Effect: Realizing
#36 - Workforce
design 800 MGD headworks
Sustainable Infrastructure
the Other Costs of Increased
Development How we do
facilities in 15 months
by Denise Nelson, P.E.,
Infrastructure Rehabilitation on
it in Hampton Roads!
by Kelly Baxter, JMT
Institute for Sustainable
Public Works Services by Kimberly
by Bud Curtis, P.E., Atkins
Infrastructure - ISI
Grove, P.E., City of Baltimore DPW
(A) Continuing Education Units (CEUs) / Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be included with the full conference registration for
those in need if this certification. Be sure to get your PDH tracking sheet at the registration desk. You will also need to sign-in at the
registration desk in order to pick up the CEU tracking sheet and then sign-out at the registration desk when returning the completed CEU
tracking form.
Friday Education Sessions
8:00 am- 9:45 am (105 minutes)
APWA Mid-Atlantic Chapter 57 Annual Conference
Baltimore Convention Center Friday, May 8, 2015
Technical Program Schedule
Room 317
Room 318
Emergency Management
Water/Wastewater-3
#21 - Extreme Weather: A
Roadmap for Addressing
Waterway Impacts
By Peter Drenan, Dewberry
#2 - Tanking Outside the Box
by William Collins, Phoenix Tank
Room 319
Engineering / Technology;
IT/GIS Applications;
Sustainability
#12 - Doing more with less:
Leveraging the cloud in your
agency
by Chad Schafer, Infotech, Inc.
Room 320
Solid Waste / Recycling
#26 - Automatic Collection of
Solid Waste and Recyclables
via Pneumatic Conveyance
by Paul Marttila, MariMatic, Inc.
#40 - Fairfax County's Flood
Response Program -11 Lessons
Learned and Shared
by Donald Demetrius, PhD, Fairfax
County DPW&ES
#13 - Improving the Health of
the Bay: The City of Baltimore
Implements Enhanced
Treatment Facilities at their
Largest Wastewater Treatment
Plant by Per Struck, Whitman,
Requardt & Associates, LLP
#37 - Utilizing a Customized
Field Data Management System
- More Time in the Field, Less
Time at the Desk
by Tim McGonegal, Prince
William County, VA DPW
#41 - Recycling in Richmond
is on a Roll
by Darlene Mallory, City of
Richmond, VA DPW
#20 - A Debris Management
Handbook for State and Local
DOTs and Departments of Public
Works: NCHRP Report 781 - A
Comprehensive Handbook for
Disaster Debris Operations
by Shandi Treloar and Laurel
McGinley, Dewberry
#48 - Overcoming Challenges
in Large Diameter Wastewater
Pipe Rehabilitation
by Michelle Gabbitas, City of
Baltimore DPW
#6 - Resiliency Planning: A
Combined All Hazard Mitigation
and Climate Adaptation
Process
by Kristin Baja, City of Baltimore
DPW
#45 - Landfill Eco-Park:
Turning a Landfill into a
Community Resource
by Thomas Smith, Prince
William County, VA DPW
10:00 am -11:45 am (105 minutes)
9:45 AM-10:00 AM Break…..Break……Break…..Break……Break…..Break
Workforce Development / Young
& New Professionals
Water/Wastewater-4
Stormwater/Flood Control - 2
Historic Preservation and
Parks & Grounds
#47 - Get'Em While They're Young Fairfax County's Professional
Engineer Development Program
Facilitator - James Patteson, P.E.,
Director - Fairfax County DPW&ES;
Participants: Amy Linderman, Suzy
Stasulis, Catie Torgersen and Valerie
Maislin
#8 - Tracking Pump Station
Ownership Costs: 12 Yr. Asset
Management Case Study
by William Flores, Smith &
Loveless
#15 - BMP Designer:
Empowering Residents to
Control Stormwater, One
House at a Time
by Stephen Bourne, Atkins
#1 - Successfully Balancing
Recreational Use and Natural
Resource Protection - Lake
Lawson/Lake Smith - Virginia
Beach, VA
by John Parkinson, ClarkNexsen
#16 -Overcoming Challenges in
Renewing Problematic, 6-inch
Sanitary Sewers in the City of
Baltimore
by Anna Santino, MWH Global
#31 - Municipal Off-Road
Stormwater Ditch Maintenance
Program: Virginia Beach's
Proactive Approach to Saving time
and money by Steve McLaughlin,
City of Virginia Beach DPW and Peter
Crum, Kimley-Horn Assocs.
#4 - Administrative Strategies
for the Care of Municipally
Owned Historic Buildings
by Jackson Gilman-Forlini, City
of Baltimore Dept., of General
Services
#34 - Managing the challenges
of the largest SSO Consent
Decrees with innovative
management approaches
by Marcia Tucker, WSSC and
Prabhu Chandrasekran, PE,
Greeley and Hansen LLC
#35 - Where Is My MS4: An
Adventure in Delineating the
Regulated System
by Elizabeth Treadway and
Lynne Mowery, AMEC Foster
Wheeler
#52 - Weather It Together:
Hazard Mitigation Planning
for Our Capital City
by Lisa Craig, Chief of Historic
Preservation, City of Annapolis,
MD
#19 - A View Looking Up Young
Professionals Panel: Sharing
their Views on their new careers
in Public Works
Panel Led by Diane Linderman,
VHB Inc.;
Panelists: Amanda Rodriguez (City
of Petersburg, VA), Amy Linderman,
Suzy Stasulis, both Fairfax County
DPW&ES; Mohamed Alkhatib, Evan
Pearce and Nathaniel Krause, City
of Baltimore, MD
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM Closing Session/Door Prize Drawings Room 317
(A) Continuing Education Units (CEUs) / Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be included with the full conference registration for
those in need if this certification. Be sure to get your PDH tracking sheet at the registration desk. You will also need to sign-in at the
registration desk in order to pick up the CEU tracking sheet and then sign-out at the registration desk when returning the completed CEU
tracking form.