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  • Tuesday, April 22, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM  
    AC25 Golf Tournament (Fee)
  • 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM  
    Registration Open
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 PM  
    Lite Breakfast
  • 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Desert Water Agency: Snow Creek and Whitewater Tour (Fee)
  • 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM  
    Mission Springs Water District: Nancy Wright Regional Water Reclamation Facility Tour & Valley Sanitary District (Fee)
  • 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM  
    Collections System Maintenance Certification Training or Certification Test Preparation
  • 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM  
    How to Better Understand and Use Toxicity Data in Achieving NPDES Compliance (Fee)
  • 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM  
    Navigating Nutrient Removal Workshop (Fee)
  • 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM  
    Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Management Options and Solutions (Fee)
  • 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM  
    Write Like a Pro: Effective Communication Workshop (Fee)
  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM  
    Break
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  
    Lunch (included in the Pre-Workshop Fee)
  • 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Break
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    NRC/SRC Committee Meeting
  • 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM  
    New Member Orientation
  • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM  
    5S Ceremony
  • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM  
    Icebreaker Reception
  • Wednesday, April 23, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM  
    Registration Opens
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM  
    Lite Breakfast
  • 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM  
    Opening General Session
  • 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM  
    Break
  • 10:45 AM – 11:35 AM  
    Achieving Efficiency through Systematic Review and Reduction of High Frequency Cleaning Lines
  • 10:45 AM – 11:35 AM  
    Electric Motor Replacements, Pitfalls, and Best Practices
  • 10:45 AM – 11:35 AM  
    Lead to A Different Beat
  • 10:45 AM – 11:35 AM  
    Making Waves of Change: SVCW’s Journey to an Integrated Asset Management System
  • 10:45 AM – 11:35 AM  
    Mutual Aid: IEUA and CVWD Interagency Training and Support to Combat Spills
  • 10:45 AM – 11:35 AM  
    What the Flush? A Forensic Analysis of What's Flushed & the Campaign to Shift Behaviors
  • 10:45 AM – 11:35 AM  
    Workforce of Tomorrow - Internships and The Skilled Trades
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM  
    Grab n' Go Lunch
  • 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM  
    Collection System Awards Lunch (Fee)
  • 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM  
    Education Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  
    CWEA SYP Lunch Meetup
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  
    Lab Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  
    Leadership Development Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  
    Operations and Maintenance Committee Meeting
  • 1:25 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Anaerobic Digestion of Organics: Industry Drivers Overview of Two Case Studies for CHP and RNG
  • 1:25 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Being Sewer Smart: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility!
  • 1:25 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Collections System Best Practices
  • 1:25 PM – 2:15 PM  
    ELAP Updates 2024-2025
  • 1:25 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Lift Station Condition Assessment, With or Without an Outage
  • 1:25 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Respectfully Disagree for Leaders
  • 1:25 PM – 2:15 PM  
    SVCW Strengthens the Backbone of their WWTP with In-Plant Assessment and Rehabilitation
  • 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM  
    Break
  • 2:25 PM – 3:15 PM  
    A Practical Approach in Implementing a Machinery Vibration Analysis Program for Critical Assets
  • 2:25 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Best Management Practices for CCTV in Sewer Collection Systems
  • 2:25 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Developing Sonoma Water's Roadmap to the Future - Impacts of Condition Assessments and Master Planning
  • 2:25 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Growing Pains in Applying for the CA Code-Regs Title22 § 64808.15 - ELAP's-Amendment Accreditation
  • 2:25 PM – 3:15 PM  
    How to successfully implement an asset management system for collections
  • 2:25 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Interpersonal Communication, Mental Health, and Safety at Work
  • 2:25 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Resilient Resource Recovery at the Encina Water Pollution Control Facility
  • 3:25 PM – 4:15 PM  
    Construction Lessons Learned - San Jose RWF Yard Piping Improvements Phase 2
  • 3:25 PM – 4:15 PM  
    Effective Teams: Self-Awareness and Conflict Management
  • 3:25 PM – 4:15 PM  
    Maximizing Biosolids Value: Post-Upgrade Optimization and Market Development
  • 3:25 PM – 4:15 PM  
    Optimizing Water Quality Monitoring: Replacing BOD Analysis with TOC Using Our Internal Correlation Factor
  • 3:25 PM – 4:15 PM  
    Real-time management and data tracking for sewer condition assessment at a mid-size utility in California
  • 3:25 PM – 4:15 PM  
    Rodding 101: A Look at the Great, Mechanical Pipe Cleaning Method
  • 3:25 PM – 4:15 PM  
    Startup and Commissioning of Water and Wastewater Facilities Case Studies
  • 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM  
    Expo
  • 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM  
    Students and Young Professionals Networking Mixer (Fee)
  • Thursday, April 24, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM  
    Women Impacting Water Breakfast (Fee)
  • 8:10 AM – 9:10 AM  
    Lite Breakfast
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Baffles: the Unsung Hero in Additional Plant Capacity and Biogas Production
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Developing a Comprehensive Staffing Plan
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Developing Engineering Design Criteria for Partial Denitrification Anammox (PdNA) Implementation for Multiple Biofilm Media
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Investigation of the Increased Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) in Final Effluent Samples
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Spill Volume Estimation Methods – Best Practices
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    State of the Art Trenchless Pipelining Technologies - Reduce Maintenance Costs, Prevent SSO, Extend Lifetime
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    The Big Hole in Confined Space Training – Gas Monitoring Competence Training
  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM  
    Break
  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM  
    A Flexible Future - How Split Flow BNR Opens Doors to Future Possibilities
  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM  
    Advanced Primary Treatment Technologies for Carbon Diversion & Management at Water Resource Recovery Facilities
  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM  
    More Than You Wanted to Know About Solids
  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM  
    Oro Loma Sanitary District Sewer Replacement Program
  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM  
    Safety – Beyond the Buzz
  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM  
    Tools Of A Wastewater Collections Line Repair Team
  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM  
    Workforce of Tomorrow - Internships and The Skilled Trades
  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM  
    Addressing Future Uncertainties Through Adaptive Planning, Resulting in Intensification and Decarbonization of BNR
  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM  
    Department Operation Center Preparedness is KEY
  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM  
    Ebb & Flow - Method Development for TKN by EPA 350.1
  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM  
    Main Switchgear and Emergency Generator Control System Upgrade at Long Beach WRP
  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM  
    Moving to a Proactive CCTV program
  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM  
    Nanobubble Technology for Wastewater Treatment Intensification and Enhanced Nitrogen Removal
  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM  
    Sewer-Monitoring Technology and Data - How Vacaville Overcomes Challenges Managing its Aging Sewer System
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM  
    Grab n' Go Lunch
  • 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM  
    Annual Business Meeting (open to all members)
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Awards Ceremony Lunch (Fee)
  • 1:55 PM – 2:45 PM  
    A "Real World" Chemical Root Control Program - West Bay Sanitary District Case Study
  • 1:55 PM – 2:45 PM  
    CalOSHA Training Requirements and Solutions for Wastewater Workers
  • 1:55 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Data driven gravity main cleaning optimization for small collection systems
  • 1:55 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Lessons Learned Through Three Years of Operations of Pure Water Oceanside
  • 1:55 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Modifying a BNR Facility for Low DO Operation and Operating it to Get There
  • 1:55 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Solid Phase Extraction for Trace Organics
  • 1:55 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Training High Performing Leaders
  • 1:55 PM – 3:45 PM  
    NEW* General Mechanical Maintenance Hands-On Training (Free)
  • 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM  
    Break
  • 2:55 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Benefits of Hydrocyclones for WRRF Performance: Better Settling, Improved Nitrification… and Reduced E. coli?!
  • 2:55 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Microbiology – Laboratory Basics – Method Choice, Dilutions, Results Interpretation
  • 2:55 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Purple Pipe to Potable: A Case Study
  • 2:55 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Real-time Remote Sewer Monitoring Helps Coachella Valley Water District Optimize Operations and Stay Above Water
  • 2:55 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Reissued WDR - Compliance Best Practices
  • 2:55 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Rotation Nozzle Use and Water Pressure Loss Related Issues
  • 2:55 PM – 3:45 PM  
    The Operations & Maintenance Relationship Begins and Ends With Work Orders.
  • 3:55 PM – 4:45 PM  
    Leveraging Connected Devices to Promote Lone Worker Safety
  • 3:55 PM – 4:45 PM  
    Microbiology – Special Quality Control Measures and Why We do Them
  • 3:55 PM – 4:45 PM  
    Navigating Oxygen Supply Changes to Assure Reliable Operations
  • 3:55 PM – 4:45 PM  
    New Technologies Enabling Condition-Based Maintenance for Collection Systems
  • 3:55 PM – 4:45 PM  
    Progressive Design-Build Delivery Model Yields Innovative Design of AWPF
  • 3:55 PM – 4:45 PM  
    Ready, Set, Rehab! Fast Tracking Sewer Rehabilitation Design
  • 3:55 PM – 4:45 PM  
    Successful High Purity Oxygen NDN Process Demonstrations at Low pH
  • 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM  
    Reception & Expo Hall
  • Friday, April 25, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Registration Opens
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM  
    Engineering and Research Committee Breakfast (Fee)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM  
    P3S Committee Meeting
  • 8:10 AM – 9:10 AM  
    Lite Breakfast
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Advancing Utility Adoption of Large Language Models: Practical applications in asset management
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Creating an EPA Compliant Fats, Oils, & Grease Program
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Defining the Foundations: Best Practices to Building Wastewater Program
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Inevitable Role of Secondary Treatment in Direct Potable Reuse Facilities
  • 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Planning Your Water/Wastewater Career Pathway
  • 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM  
    Break
  • 10:10 AM – 11:00 AM  
    Being Prepared for a Visit by a "First Amendment Auditor"
  • 10:10 AM – 11:00 AM  
    Data Management and Analytics Platform for Water Quality Monitoring Data - Actionable Decision-Making
  • 10:10 AM – 11:00 AM  
    Finding Fugitives: Where Wastewater Agencies Can Make a Climate Impact
  • 10:10 AM – 11:00 AM  
    Secondary Effluent Quality, Potable Reuse, and Nitrogen Removal: Considerations for Multi-Benefit Projects
  • 10:10 AM – 11:00 AM  
    Strengthening Sewer System Resilience: Collaborative Strategies in Pretreatment and Collections
  • 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM  
    A Roadmap to Energy Planning: Development of the Energy Management Strategic Plan Update
  • 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM  
    A Woman’s Perspective in a Male-Dominated Industry
  • 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM  
    Assessment of Virus Removal and Infectivity During Municipal Wastewater Treatment: Implications for Safe Reuse
  • 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM  
    Compliance Strategies- Not Just Enforcement
  • 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM  
    Using wastewater biogas microgrids to reduce electricity bills at Silicon Valley Clean Water