Impact of Declining Flows on Wastewater Operations

Wednesday, April 10

2:25 PM - 2:50 PM

Location: Primrose A, Palm Springs Convention Center

SWRCB Wastewater: 0.05 CEU

CWEA: .5 Contact Hours

Practice Area: Engineering & Research, Collection Systems, Operations & Maintenance, Pretreatment Pollution Prevention & Stormwater (P3S)

Declining flows are impacting wastewater conveyance and treatment systems operations throughout the state and beyond. We will talk about the challenges associated with declining flows and how different agencies are approaching dealing with their challenges.

Learner Outcomes:

Gain insight into the integrated impacts of declining flows on wastewater conveyance and treatment systems.
Share specific experiences and solutions with other agencies which have been dealing with the challenges of declining flows and changes to treatment operations.
Open a peer-level dialog to meet the future challenges and improve infrastructure reliability, capacity, compliance, process control and energy demand.

Level: Intermediate; working knowledge of subject matter / journeyman level staff

Primary Speaker(s)

Wyatt Troxel

Grade V Wastewater; Process Specialist
EnerVention Strategies
Cathedral city, CA

Track Facilitator(s)

Rion Merlo

Senior Process Engineer
Brown and Caldwell
Walnut Creek, CA