CDM Smith at ACE 2024

9:00 am - All-day workshop on Oper­a­tional­iz­ing Digital Twins: Connecting to SCADA by Giselle Villar (Moderator/Panelist)

1:00 pm - Workshop on Beyond the Spec Book: Learn to Design and Operate Water System Equipment through AWWA Standards & Manuals by Ji Im (Moderator)

2:00 pm - From Production to Destruction: Story­board­ing the Life Cycle of PFAS Removal Media presented by Al LeBlanc, Michaela Bogosh

2:00 pm - Water Supply Resiliency Challenges presented by Dan Rodrigo

3:30 pm - Did all of my PFAS Piloting Pay off During Full-scale Operation? presented by Dave Tanzi

4:30 pm - From Hundreds of PPT to Non-Detects: Summary of Four Years of Full-Scale PFAS Treatment and Break­through Data presented by Ji Im, Heather Stayton

8:30 am - Comparing Performance of Micro­fil­tra­tion versus Ultra­fil­tra­tion for Virus Removal at Orange County Water District GWRS by Rasha Maal-Bared, Emily Wood, David MacNevin

8:50 am - Commu­ni­ca­tions Tactics Developed When Your Lead Service Line Replacement Program Requires Support from All of your Customer presented by Chelsea Kulp (NJAM), Christine Ballard

9:00 am - Under Pressure: Efficiently Executing Your PFAS Pilot Program presented by Joe Nattress, Trent Jackson, Megan Messmann 

9:00 am - Addressing Low Molecular Weight Organics using the Pure Water Southern California Process Train presented by Greg Wetterau 

9:30 am - Jordan’s Mega Water Supply Desali­na­tion Project: Combating Water Scarcity with Inter­na­tional Collab­o­ra­tion presented by Kevork Msrlian, Jose Maria Guzman

10:00 am - Introducing Appli­ca­tions of ML in OT Systems presented by Giselle Villar

10:10 am - Evolving SCADA Systems: Enhancing Operator Awareness with Anomaly Detection by Giselle Villar, Francisco Alcala

10:30 am - Getting Ahead of the Curve: Accelerated PFAS Treatment During Permanent System Construc­tion presented by Dave Tanzi

10:30 am - A Comparison of Lead Pipe Scales to Predictions Provided by the SPANA Geochemical Model presented by Rich Giani, Sandy Kutzing

10:30 am - Reviewing performance of NSF/ANSI 53 certified water filters for lead removal by Min Tang

11:00 am - Predicting ORP for Geochemical Modelling, Pipe-Scale Release, and Lead Solubility presented by Rich Giani 

3:00 pm - Comparison of Membrane Filtration with Concen­tra­tion and Destruction of Reject for PFAS Water Treatment presented by Tamzen Macbeth, Charles Schaefer, Zoom Nguyen, Peter Murphy

9:30 am - Bridging the Gap: How DC Water’s Workforce Development Program Helped Meet the Utility's Strategic Goals presented by Rina Dalal

10:00 am - OT Systems for Resiliency, Sustain­abil­ity, and Emergency Response presented by Giselle Villar

10:00 am - Comparing 1st and 5th Liter Lead Samples and Using Find and Fix Procesdures to Optimize Corrosion Control Treatment for the LCRR/I presented by Daniel Duffy (Client), Barry King, Richard Giani, Cole Roberts, Adam Kulaczkowski

10:30 am - Two for the Price of One – Dual-Purpose Centrifuges (NEWPP) presented by Rajeev Datta Kamalampet, Steve Lynk, Jasmin Zambrano 

10:30 am - Conversion from Blended Phosphate to Orthophos­phate for Corrosion Control Opti­miza­tion on the Great Lakes [poster presentation] presented by Amrou Atassi

10:30 am - Monitoring Adenosine Triphos­phate Concen­tra­tions in a Chlo­ram­i­nated Drinking Water Distri­b­u­tion System for Risk and Asset Management [poster presentation] presented by Rasha Maal-Bared

1:30 pm - Service Line Inventory Reporting: Finishing Touches Before Inventories Are Due presented by Carolyn Loudermilk, Danielle DeSimone

2:30 pm - Getting to Full Lead Service Line Replacement presented by Kristin Epstein, Joanna Cummings

2:30pm - How to Fast-Track the Imple­men­ta­tion of Your Integrated Water Resources Plan presented by Shayne Wood, Robert Zammataro, Dan Rodrigo, Jenny Bywater

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