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6:00 |
WaterTech
2010 Opening Reception Featuring live music by Dale Ladouceur and Barrie Nighswander. Duck Pond for Charity - 50% of the Proceeds will be donated to Hydrogeologists without Borders and 50% will go the winner. A number of other great prizes avaialble.
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April 22, 2010
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7:15 |
Registration / Networking Breakfast |
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Opening Remarks and Welcome Emcee: Opening Remarks and Welcome: |
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8:45 |
Networking
Break (Exhibit Area- Van Horne Ballroom C and President’s Hall) |
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Groundwater |
Hot
Topics (Coleman) |
Wastewater (Shaughnessy) |
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| 9:00
- 9:30 |
Geophysical
Exploration for Water Resources in Buried Valleys in Western
Canada Paul Bauman, WorleyParsons |
Groundwater
and Underground Coal Gasification in Alberta Alex Haluszka, Matrix Solutions Inc. |
Energy
Production from Waste Using the Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor
Process Peter McCarthy, ADI Systems Inc. |
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| 9:35 - 10:05 |
Wetlands-
Development of a functional matrix Andrea Borkenhagen, WorleyParsons |
Regional
Groundwater Quality Study and Monitoring Network Development:
Athabasca Oil Sands (AOS) Region Jon Fennell, WorleyParsons |
Human
Health Risk Assessment - An Emerging Issue in Municipal Wastewater Karen Phillipps, Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc. |
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| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Different
Approaches in Assessing Background Groundwater Quality Ken Lyon, WorleyParsons |
Surface
Water Quality Studies and Effects Assessment in Mining: Methods
and Applications Sergei G. Touchinski, AMEC Earth & Environmental |
Compact
Wastewater Treatment System fo Domestic and Commercial Operations
System Design and Field Experience Jan Korzeniowski, J.K. Engineering Ltd. |
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10:40 |
Networking
Break (Exhibit Area- Van Horne Ballroom C and President’s Hall) |
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Hot
Topics cont'd (Coleman) |
Wastewater
cont'd (Shaughnessy) |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Multi
Disciplinary Approach to Assess and Manage Risk of Chloride
Rich Groundwater Discharging to Elkwater A.Aziz Shaikh, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd. |
Key Facets of Regional
Groundwater Resources and their Relation to Possible Cumulative
Effects, Ft Mc Murray, Alberta |
Cytotoxic
Drugs in Drinking Water: A Prediction and Risk Assessment Exercise
for the Thames Catchment in the UK Nicole Rowney, Fossil Water |
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| 11:35 - 12:05 |
Groundwater
Quality Results - Is it natural or not? Frans Hettinga, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd. |
Geological
Storage of CO2 by Hubbert’s Force Potential and Gravitational
Groundwater Flow Systems K. Udo Weyer, WDA Consultants Inc. |
Feasibility
of Using Reverse Osmosis to Remove Heavy Metals and Coliforms
from Water Roger Saint-Fort, Infinity Water Solutions Inc. |
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12:05 |
Keynote Luncheon Hydrogeologists without Borders - An
Update "Water Management
and the Lake Mead Third Straw Project" Patricia
Mulroy |
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2:15 |
Networking Break |
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2:30 |
Regulatory Update - General Session |
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Moderator: Petri Nieminen Groundwater Policy
Update The Use of Groundwater
Vulnerability Mapping for Regional Risk-Screening of Confined
Feeding Operations in Alberta Groundwater and
Surface Water Regulation and Management in Western Canada’s
Emerging Shale Gas Regions Water Quality and
Quantity in the Oil Sands: The Goals, Regulatory Response
and the Conundrum of Remaining Flexible Alberta’s Evolving
Non-Saline and Saline Water Use Regulatory Requirements for
Oil Sands Projects |
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April 23, 2010
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7:30 |
Networking Breakfast |
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EWMCE |
NSERC
(Coleman) |
Miscellaneous
(Shaughnessy) |
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8:15
- 8:45 |
Demonstration and
Verification of Leading-Edge Wastewater Treatment Technologies |
Issues
and Challenges of Sustaining Clean and Healthy Water Under
Changing Climate and Landuse Scenarios
Asit Mazumder, University of Victoria |
Water
Management Strategy during the Solidification/Stabilization
of Contaminated Sediments at the Sydney Tar Ponds Remediation
Project |
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5 Minute Transition
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8:50
- 9:20 |
The
effect of Naphthenic acids and Oil Sands Process Water on
the immune gene expression of mice
Erick García García, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta |
Longnose
Dace Responses to Contaminants Identify Emerging Challenges
in Southern Alberta Rivers; Advancing Canadian Wastewater
Assets Provides an Innovative Collaboration and Exciting Research
Opportunities |
Combined Ex situ
and In Situ Remediation of Soil and Groundwater Impacts
to Meet Site Closure Requirements |
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5 Minute Transition
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9:25
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Carbon
Nanotubes as a Novel
Filter Media Seoktae Kang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta |
Live
Liquid Micro-Organisms (LLMO) for Pond Restoration
Phyllis Day Chief, Advanced Water Technologies (AWT) |
Tidal
Implications for Contaminant Delineation in a Foreshore Environment
Erin Robson, SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd . |
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5 Minute Transition
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10.00
- 10:30 |
Applications
of Advanced Oxidation Processes in Water and Wastewater Treatment
Pamela Chelme-Ayala, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Alberta |
Water Innovation
Initiative |
Innovating
for a Greener World with Mineral-Based Anti-Microbials
Frank R. Varseveld, EnvirEau Technologies Inc. |
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10:30 |
Networking Break |
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Produced Water |
Modelling
(Coleman) |
Miscellaneous (cont'd)
(Shaughnessy) |
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10:50
- 11:20 |
Global
Lessons on Water Reuse for Industrial Applications in Alberta
Stephen Stanley, EPCOR |
Numerical
Modeling of a Permeable Reactive Barrier for a PCE WQARF Site
in Arizona
Morley Weitzman, Thurber Engineering |
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5 Minute Transition
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11:25
- 12:05 |
Beneficial
Reuse of Treated Produced Water
Scott Hillier, Conoco Phillips |
Incorporating
Geologic Models into Groundwater Flow Models for Basal McMurray
Aquifer Depressurization
Roudrajit Maji, Golder Associates Ltd. |
Pulp
Mill Landfill Leachate Treatment -- Chemistry and Regulatory
Challenges
Francisco Perello, Keystone Environmental |
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5 Minute Transition
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12:10
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Process
Water Reuse Made Possible Through Electro Pure Technology
(EPT)
Sean Frisky, Ground Effects Environmental Services Inc. |
Okanagan
Basin Water Supply and Demand Study: Hydrology Investigations
and Modelling for Water Resource Planning
Hugh Hamilton, Summit Environmental Consultants Ltd. |
Economic
Treatment of Frac Flow-Back Water to Recyclable Condition
Using Physical Chemical Processes
David Manz, Oasis Filter International Ltd. |
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12:40 |
"Crucial Waters—State of the Oceans" Brian Skerry
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Lunch Sponsored by
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