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CONFERENCE Speakers

SESSION 1: Utility Management Becki Rosenfeldt

Hazen and Sawyer Experiences and Challenges Faced by Utilities in Optimizing Corrosion Control Strategies: Testing, Selection, Monitoring, and Unintended Consequences brosenfeldt@hazenandsawyer.com

Lyndsey Sargent

Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority Growing Your Own – Internal Leadership Programs Produce the Next Generation lsargent@ddcwsa.com

Priyanka Uppu

R2T, Inc. Incident Response: Practice and Training Make a Diff erence priyanka.uppu@r2tinc.com

Raymond Cordon

Barge Design Solutions Dalton Utilities’ V.D. Parrott, Jr. WTP and the next 50 years raymond.cordon@bargedesign.com

SESSION 2: Midnight Operator Appreciation Belinda Folks

City of Gainesville Working the Night Shift Safely and Staying Healthy bfolkes@gainesvillega.gov

Kenneth Schnaars

Brown and Caldwell Keys for Process and Equipment Troubleshooting for Plant Personnel kschnaars@brwncald.com

Jennifer Arp

Cherokee County Water & Sewer Authority Drinking Water Defense: Planning and Executing a Tabletop Exercise jennifer.arp@ccwsa.com

Kim Holland

Marietta Water Emotional Intelligence vs. IQ: How to Get Ahead kholland@mariettaga.gov

SESSION 3: Water Treatment Samantha Trulove

Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources Ozone: The Elixir of Water Treatment samantha.trulove@gwinnettcounty.com

Eric Osborne

Henry County Water Authority HCWA Floating Intake and Water Quality Selector eric.osborne@hcwa.com

Quinton Fletcher

City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management Improving Water Infrastructure Reliability While Promoting Your Utility’s Brand qfl etcher@atlantaga.gov

Chris Ball

Leopold – A Xylem Brand Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) in Water Treatment chris.ball@xyleminc.com

CONFERENCE Speakers

SESSION 4: Wastewater Treatment Chloe Cooper

Jacobs Identifying and Fixing O&M Pain Points for Plant Staff chloe.cooper@jacobs.com

Catrina Gunn

Stante Knowledge Kept: Preserving Treatment Plant Expertise and Understanding through SOPs and O&M Manuals catrina.gunn@stantec.com

Mayra Giraldo

Stantec Knowledge Kept: Preserving Treatment Plant Expertise and Understanding through SOPs and O&M Manuals mayra.giraldo@stantec.com

Nick Landes

Freese and Nichols Why Infl uent Monitoring Matters for Design and Operations nick.landes@freese.com

Chandra Mysore

Jacobs What Every Operator Needs to Know about Filtration chandra.mysore@jacobs.com

SESSION 5: Laboratory I Erin Consuegra

Environmental Resource Analysts, Inc. What Are All These Tests? A Brief History of the Clean Water Act and the Priority Pollutant List econsuegra@eralab.com

Christine Calderon

Veolia North America Weighing the Right Way christine.calderon@veolia.com

Kathleen Boyer

Hach Company Iron and Manganese in the Drinking Water Cycle: Just a Nuisance or Something More? kathleen.boyer@hach.com

Kelly Prescott

Henry County Water Authority Microbiological Testing for Reagent Water Quality kelly.prescott@hcwa.com

SESSION 6: Diversity in Operations Belinda Folks

City of Gainesville Equity in a Diverse Workforce bfolkes@gainesvillega.gov

Yagesh Panta

Freese and Nichols Age Biases and the Aging Workforce yagesh.panta@freese.com

Erica Gordon-Roberts

City of Atlanta Disrupting Bias: What is it... and Why Does it Need Disruption? egroberts@atlantaga.gov

Paula E. Days

AECOM Panel Discussion: Equity in a Diverse Workforce paula.days@aecom.com

Wil Caldwell

Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources Slips, Trips, and Falls wil.caldwell@gwinnettcounty.com

Darrel West

Gwinnett County Importance of Safety Training darrel.west@gwinnettcounty.com

Belinda Folks

City of Gainesville Working the Night Shift Safely and Staying Healthy bfolkes@gainesvillega.gov

Wil Caldwell

Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources Town Hall Discussion: Improving Facility Safety wil.caldwell@gwinnettcounty.com

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SESSION 8: Laboratory II Joe Mattheis

Eurofi ns Eaton Analytical UCMR5 Rule Development Update joe.mattheis@eurofi nset.com

George Hutchinson

SonicSolutions Algae Control Using Ultrasound to Control Biofi lm Formation in Water Treatment Systems george@algaecontrol.us

Jeanette Crawford

City of Milledgeville Panel Discussion: Diff erent Methods for Testing Wastewater in Your Lab

Brett Whaley

Journey to Obtain a Three-Year Microbiological Laboratory Certifi cation brett_412@hotmail.com

Ken Mendenhall

Journey to Obtain a Three-Year Microbiological Laboratory Certifi cation kmendenhall@cwwga.org

SESSION 9: Plant Operations and Pipeline Inspection Leon Hendee

Peoples & Quigley, Inc. What Operators Wish You Knew lhendee@pandqinc.com

Joey Cheng

Brown and Caldwell Operation for the Upgraded Little River Water Reclamation Facility jcheng@brwncald.com

Gerald Fuller

Clayton County Water Authority How CCTV Ensures the Correct Functionality of a Conveyance System gerald.fuller@ccwa.us

SESSION 10: Georgia Water Stewardship Act (10th Anniversary) Gail Cowie

Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center, Albany State University Overview of the Georgia Water Stewardship Act gcowie@h2opolicycenter.org

Celine Benoit

Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District Georgia Water Stewardship and the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District cbenoit@atlantaregional.org

Steve Simpson

Black & Veatch 2020 Updated Georgia Municipal, Industrial, and Power Generation Water Demand Forecasting simpsonsl@bv.com

Johanna Smith

GA EPD Water Supply Effi ciency Improvement: The EPD Approach johanna.smith@dnr.ga.gov

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