2022 Water & Wastewater Conference Presentations

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Community Engagement

• Connecting With Your Community
  Michelle DeHaven & Baylee Vieyra, WSU Environmental Finance Center
• Working with Community Partners to Maximize Wastewater Reuse: The Garden City Story
  Tracy Streeter, Burns & McDonnell & Fred Jones, City of Garden City

Government Affairs

• State Revolving Fund Financing With the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
  William Carr, KDHE
• Kansas Water Politics: What Happened During the 2022 Legislative Session and What's Next?
  Tracy Streeter, Burns & McDonnell

Joint Topics

• Impact of Utility Rates on Customers
  Michelle DeHaven & Baylee Vieyra, WSU Environmental Finance Center
• Making Cents of Customer Affordability: How to Address Challenges in Your Community
  Collin Drat, Raftelis

Lead & Copper

• How to Complete a Service Line Inventory
  Pierre Kwan, KDHE

Leadership

• Everyone Starts Somewhere
  Remmie Monahan, Transcend

Small Systems

• Lessons Learned: Treating Decentralized Commercial Facilities' Wastewater
  Bethany Christiansen & Reza Shamskhorzani, BioMicrobics, Inc.

Technology

• Startup of Dual-Purpose Filters Solves Both Dry and Wet-Weather Issues
  Jim Fitzpatrick, Black & Veatch & Alex Szerwinski, Johnson County Wastewater

Wastewater Operations

• Field Instrument Surveys in Municipal Water and Wastewater Plants
  Ravi Jethra, WIKA
• First in the Region: Startup of Sidestream Deammonification
  Rachel Swezy, Black & Veatch & Anjana Kadava, Johnson County Wastewater

Water Issues

• A Natural Approach to Control Zebra Mussels
  Clyde Morgan, Natural Environmental Solutions, Inc.