Monday, June 16th, 2025

Session 1A: Residuals and Biosolids

• From Class B to Class A: A Biosolids Odyssey to THP - Mary Koeger, Oakland County Water Resources Commission
• Sustainable Waste Management and Turning Phosphorus into 'Phos-for-Us' - Jared Grabinski, City of Grand Rapids Water Resource Recovery Facility and James Ouzts, City of Grand Rapids
• Are Biosolids Innovations Living up to the Hype? - Terry Goss, AECOM
• Anaerobic Digesters Operations, Tricks and Traps - Adam Parmenter, HDR
• What is the Right Dewatering Technology?  Approaches to Dewatering Technology Selection - Terry Goss, AECOM

Session 1B: Stormwater

• How Effective are Distributed Nature Based Solutions for Flood Control? - Caroline Burger, Carollo Engineers, Inc
• Stormwater Parks: How to Create Economic and Social Resilience - Travis Rayfield, HDR
• Leveraging PCSWMM 2D For Effective Stormwater Management - Paul Bahs, Wade Trim
• Using In-Stream Water Quality in a Dynamic Model Framework to Advance CSO Planning Beyond End-of-Pipe Performance Indicators - Carrie Turner, LimnoTech and Kevin Jankowski, Great Lakes Water Authority
• Partnering with Your Region to Accelerate Local Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Implementation -  Bailee Pasienza, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments and Donald Carpenter, Drummond Carpenter

Session 1C: Facility Operation

• Lessons Learned from Online Real-Time Analyzer Implementations -  Andrea Busch, GLWA
• The Challenge of Maintaining WWTP Operability for the City of Flint in the Face of Shrinking Population/Revenue - Trevor Wagenmaker, Wade Trim and Jeanette Best, City of Flint
• Engineering Conservatism Gone Too Far - The Failure of Sludge Feed Pump #2 - Christopher Wilson, GLWA
• Don't 'Settle' for a Conventional Clarifier - Consider Adapting! - Mario Benisch, HDR
• Michigan Leadership in Water Technology in the last 100 Years and the Prospects for the Future - Joh Kang, Water & Energy Advisors LLC

Session 1D: Professional Development and Retention

• 1 Fish, 2 Fish, Old Fish, New Fish – Learning From Your Fellow Professionals – Panel Discussion , Nathan Callison, Jacobs, Joshua Juhl, Fishbeck, Nick Stankevich, City of Flushing, and Elaine Venema, Fleis & VandenBrink
• How To Be Your Own Billboard - For Yourself and Your Company - Ankur Patel, Walsh Contruction
• Retention in the Water Industry - What's Working for Us - John Bohannon, Walsh Contruction,  Bill Poelma, City of Grand Rapids, and Jesse VanDeCreek, Hubbell, Roth & Clark

Tuesday, June 17^th, 2025

Session 2A: Case Studies

• Resurrecting a Decommissioned WWTP - How a Small Village is Planning for the Future - Joe Benjamin, Fleis & VandenBrink and Maddie Tatara, Fleis & VandenBrink
• The Soo Adventure - Funding, Design, and Construction of Sault Ste Marie's WWTP Upgrades - TJ Bates, Donohue & Associates, Inc.
• Fudging' the Logistics: Expanding the Mackinac Island WWTP - David Harvey, F&V Construction and Nate Sculley, Fleis & VandenBrink

Session 2B: PFAS

• Advanced Technology and Cost for PFAS in Biosolids - David Osborne, Hazen and Sawyer
• Can Drying Actually Transform PFAS Too? Elucidating the Impacts of Drying, Pyrolysis, and Gasification on PFAS - Patrick McNamara, Black & Veatch
• Proposed MUR and How It Will Affect Your PFAS Monitoring - Maya Murshak, Merit Laboatories, Inc.

Session 2C: Funding for the Future

• Too Much Infrastructure, Too Little Money, Michigan Needs a Better Strategy - Greg Kacvinsky, OHM Advisors
• How to Plan and Deliver a $2 Billion Dollar CIP - Chris Nastally, Great Lakes Water Authority and Navid Mehram, Great Lakes Water Authority
• Designing A Project for Future Funding - Elaine Venema, Fleis & VandenBrink

Session 2D: Planning and Development

• A Roadmap for Nurturing and Developing Talent in Your Workplace - Wayne Pratt, XYLEM 
• Navigating Contractor and Equipment Lead Time Challenges - Brian Hannon, Moore+Bruggink and Scott Yonkers, City of Grandville
• Paving the Way to Good Ideas and Embracing Bad Ones - Chris Wilson, GLWA

Session 3A: Case Studies

• City of Belding - Lagoon Decommissioning and Contaminated Biosolids Disposal - Scott Hall, Fleis and Vandenbrink and Corey Turner, Fleis and Vandenbrink
• Improve Treatment Outcomes With Equalization and Real Time Monitoring - Joshua Redner, Fishbeck
• Insane in the Membrane: Leoni WWTP's Upgrade to a Hollow Fiber MBR - David Harvey, F&V Construction and Steven Walker, Fleis & VandenBrink
• A Pipeline Not Too Far - Muskegon Southeast Regional Force Main - Mark Prein, Prein&Newhof Inc
• Lagoon Renewal: Enhancing Wastewater Treatment Through Rehabilitation Case Study: Paw Paw, MI - Scott Hall, Fleis and VandenBrink and Emma Graham, Fleis & VandenBrink

Session 3B: Collections

• Using Micro-Metering to Identify Wet Weather Inflow and Infiltration to the Sanitary Sewer System in St. Joseph, MI - Kari Beckley, Wade Trim and Mark Pribak, Wade Trim
• Enhanced and Automated Wet Weather Operation for Sanitary Sewer Overflow Prevention - John Bergsma, Hubbell, Roth & Clark, Evans Bantios, Oakland County Water Resources, and Tim Minor, Applied Science, Inc.
• Solving Collection System Shortfalls with Planning and Implementation Of An SSO Elimination Program - Ali Khraizat, Metco and Joe Jenkins, City of Warren WRRF
• GLWA and Urban Transportation: A Collaborative Path to Success - Imad A Salim, Wade Trim
• Seeing the Benefits of GI at the Sewer Meter - Nick Tecca, Mead & Hunt

Session 3C: Nutrient Processes

• How to Address Your Nutrient Loading Reductions - Reviewing TN/TP Removal Across the Midwest - Trent Montemayor, Donohue & Associates
• Testing the Waters: A Phosphorus Reduction Pilot Study on Mackinac Island - Jack Stack, City of Mackinac Island, Nate Sculley, Fleis & VandenBrink, and Patrick Ummel, NEO Water Treatment
• Developing the Western Lake Erie Basin Advisory Group to Support Michigan's Domestic Action Plan for Lake Erie - Alison Bressler, University of Michigan Water Center
• Collaborative Pilot to Complement Biological Phosphorus Removal with Ferric Chloride Injection at Detroit WRRF - Brooke Ballard, Great Lakes Water Authority, Chris Wilson, Great Lakes Water Authority, and Hainite Tuitupou, Great Lakes Water Authority
• Why Neutrality? A Look at Neutrality and How It Advances Your Goals - Adam DeYoung, Brown and Caldwell

Wednesday, June 18th, 2025

Session 4A: Case Studies

• Small Plant Operational Challenges - A Case Study in TIN Compliance - Nathan Ver Heul, Prein&Newhof Inc and Joe Hebert, Ottawa County Road Commision
• Selecting and Building the First AGS Plant in Michigan - Nathan Breese, Williams & Works and Brandon Mieras, Williams & Works
• A Breath of Fresh Air: A Headworks Odor Control Project - David Harvey, Fleis and VandenBrink and Steven Walker, Fleis & VandenBrink
• Teaching an Old Tank New Tricks - Joshua Cole, Hubbell, Roth & Clark and Bill Poelma, City of Grand Rapids

Session 4B: Innovation

• Planning the Digital Transformation: GLWA's Journey to Empower Maintenance Planners and Technicians - Sarah Watkins, Great Lakes Water Authority
• Energy Management at WRRFs - Is Hydrogen a Viable Option? - Brendan Wolohan, Carollo Engineers, Inc.
• Optimization of Chemical Treatment of Phosphorus - Cathy Willey, Great Lakes Water Authority
• Challenges, Successes and Lessons Learned: Moving the Needle with Buried Linear Asset Renewal - Anil Gosine, Detroit Water and Sewerage Department and Gary Friedman, AECOM

*Not all presentations were available for posting online.