WaterTech 2009: Draft Agenda


About	Agenda	Sponsors	Exhibitors	*Proceedings 08 & 09*	Hotel/Travel	Registration List
WaterTech 2008 Website						WaterTech 2008 Website

What's New

2009 Presentations Now Available

Last Update: May 13, 2009

How to Register:

Registration Closed

Questions?

For registration inquiries:
Joe Chowaniec
780.429.6363, ext. 223
register@esaa-events.com

For exhibit / sponsorship inquiries:
Lorrine Hamdon
780.484.7878
exhibits@esaa-events.com
sponsors@esaa-events.com

WaterTech 2009 Agenda

* Download the Agenda as a PDF *

Click on a Presentation Title to View the Abstract

April 29, 2009

6:00
-
9:00

WaterTech 2009 Opening Reception
(Van Horne Ballroom)

Registration Open Until 8 PM

Welcoming Remarks:

Hon. Rob Renner
Minister, Alberta Environment

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.

Opening Reception Sponsored by

April 30, 2009

7:00 - 8:15	Registration / Networking Breakfast (President’s Hall and Van Horne Ballroom A, B, C, Upper Level)
8:15 - 8:30	Opening Remarks and Welcome (Van Horne Ballroom A) Emcee: Mr. Fred Keating Opening Remarks and Welcome: Mr. Craig Robertson, Genivar, ESAA President
8:30 - 9:30	Opening Plenary Session (Van Horne Ballroom A) "Hindsight and Foresight: 20 Years after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill" Gary Shigenaka National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
9:30 - 10:00	Networking Break (Exhibit Area- Van Horne Ballroom C and President’s Hall)
	Regulatory (Beatty)	Lakes, Wetlands and Natural Areas (Coleman)	Municipal (Shaughnessy)	Groundwater Part 1 (Theatre)
10:00 - 10:30	Recent/Emerging Alberta Water Regulations: Non-Saline/Saline Water Use Jamie Wills, Waterline Resources Inc.	Polymer Enhanced Best Management Practices for Erosion and Sedimentation Control, Water Clarification, Soil Stabilization, and Pond and Lake Management including Nutrient Control Seva Iwinski, Applied Polymer Systems	Edmonton Sewers Use Bylaw and Wastewater Source Control Program Kevin Zhang, City of Edmonton	Groundwater – Surface Water Interaction at Nose Creek Marc Adams, BGC Engineering Inc.
5 Minute Transition
10:35 - 11:05	Buying and Selling Alberta Water Rights: Legal and Regulatory Requirements and Challenges Alan Harvie, Macleod Dixon LLP	Groundwater Remediation Using Engineered Wetlands: As case study - British Petroleum, Casper Wyoming Ryan Devlin, Stantec - Jacques Whitford NAWE	Pollution Prevention Through Sewer Use By-law Vetri Kasinathan, York Region	Interaction of Collected Water and Soil Within Remediation Excavation in Central Alberta Jan Quinlan, WorleyParsons
5 Minute Transition
11:10 - 11:40	The Role of Groundwater in Alberta's Tight Water Supply Environment Ken Baxter, Golder Associates Ltd.	Ecohydrological Study Of The Muskakoski Natural Area, Edmonton, Alberta Paul R. Morton, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.	Salt-Clay Interactions: Reducing Sediment Loads and Erosion at Snow Storage Sites Wanda Goulden, City of Edmonton	Development of a Statistical Approach to Determining Background Groundwater Conditions at Contaminated Sites in Alberta Liza Flemming, TRIUM, Inc.
11:40 - 1:45	Keynote Luncheon (Van Horne Ballroom A) Hydrogeologists without Borders - An Update Craig Robertson, Genivar *"Bugs, Forests, and Change: A Nature Nut's Perspective"* John Acorn University of Alberta
1:45 - 2:15	Networking Break (Exhibit Area- Van Horne Ballroom C and President’s Hall)
2:15 - 4:45	Alberta Updates - General Session (Theatre)
2:15 - 4:45	Moderator: David McKenna Groundwater Policy Branch, Alberta Environment Water Management Framework for the Industrial Heartland and Capital Region- A New Approach to Water Management Norm Jede, Alberta Finance and Enterprise An Environmental Risk Screening Tool for Confined Feeding Operations in Alberta Walter Ceroici, Natural Resources Conservation Board Groundwater Mapping and Management Tools Bob Chandler, Alberta Environment Groundwater Classification Overview Rob George, Alberta Environment Working Well Program Overview Jennifer Macpherson, Alberta Environment

May 1, 2009

7:30 - 8:15	Networking Breakfast (Exhibit Area- Van Horne Ballroom C and President’s Hall)
	Modelling and Mapping (Beatty)	Waste Water (Coleman)	Groundwater Part 2 (Shaughnessy)
8:15 - 8:45	Integrated Hydrologic-Hydraulic Modelling of Lesser Slave Lake Watershed using MIKE-SHE Modelling Software Manas Shome, WorleyParsons	Application of a holistic approach for the selection of wastewater treatment technologies A.J. MacDonald, WorleyParsons	*GASSYS: Direct in-situ and passive gas sampling from unsaturated soil and from groundwater* K. Udo Weyer, WDA Consultants Inc.
5 Minute Transition
8:50 - 9:20	Mapping Complex Pollution Scenarios: Charting Water Flow Along Lenses of Materials with Differing Permeability Paul Rollins, Willowstick Technologies	Novel Oxidations, Coagulation and Flocculation System Jan Korzeniowski, J.K. Engineering Ltd.	Groundwater Assessment to Set Site - Specific Remedial Objectives for Herbiides (Tebuthiuron) A.Aziz Shaikh, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
5 Minute Transition
9:25 - 9:55	Salinity Mapping and Cross-Sectional Imaging Beneath Rivers and Lakes Paul Bauman, WorleyParsons	Municipal Ozone Assisted BioFiltration Water Treatment– A First for Saskatchewan Fidelma Horgan, PINTER & Associates Ltd	Sample Hold Time Evaluation for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Water Samples D.A. Birkholz, ALS Laboratory Group
5 Minute Transition
10.00 - 10:30	Application of Seismic Technology to Develop a Hydrogeological Model in Petrel - An Alberta Application Ken Campbell, Schlumberger Water Services	*The Effects of Micro Nutrient Optimization on Wastewater Treatment Plant Performance* Ian Spice, Maat Environmental Engineering Corp.	Groundwater Recharge Estimates in the Athabasca and Cold Lake Oil Sands Areas Gordon MacMillan, Matrix Solutions
10:30 - 10:50	Networking Break (Exhibit Area- Van Horne Ballroom C and President’s Hall)
	Miscellaneous (Beatty)	Aquifers (Coleman)	Groundwater Part 3 (Shaughnessy)
10:50 - 11:20	Low Maintenance Passive Treatment Systems for Mining Site Contaminants Robert C. Thomas, CH2M HILL	Dilution is not a Salt Solution Case Studies: Assessment, Containment and Recovery of Two Produced Water Spills into Domestic Use Aquifers in Central Alberta Randy Brunatti, AMEC Earth & Environmental	*Groundwater Data Management in support of Basin Scale Water Management Planning* Dan Yoshisaka, Stantec
5 Minute Transition
11:25 - 12:05	Hydrogeology of an Alpine Valley, southeastern British Columbia - Implications for Coalbed Methane Exploration and Development S.M. Harrison, SH Consulting Services	Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) for Cost Effective Off-stream Storage Ken Campbell, Schlumberger Water Services	Increasing Bio-Availability of Contaminant in Groundwater Using Surfactant Enhanced Bioremediation (SEB) Darren Kostiw, Canada Colors Inc on behalf of Ivey International
5 Minute Transition
12:10 - 12:40			Slug Test - Influence of purging the surrounding monitoring wells for groundwater sampling during the hydraulic conductivity test in a monitoring well Hafeez Chishti, PHH ARC Environmental
12:40 - 2:30	Keynote Luncheon, Door Prizes and Closing Remarks (Van Horne Ballroom A) "Deep Water - Deep Leadership" Dr. Joe MacInnis Titanic & Ocean Explorer

*** Agenda Subject to Changes and Substitutions ***