2012 Annual Conference
"WATER QUALITY IN PENNSYLVANIA
Sources of Impairment and Efforts to Address Them"
Call for Abstracts
The Pennsylvania Section of American Water Resources Association is planning its annual fall conference, to be held October 11, 2012 in Harrisburg. The planning committee is issuing a call for abstracts from any interested parties who would like to be considered to offer an oral presentation at the conference.
Potential topics, among others, may include:
- Strategies for reducing nutrient loadings
- Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) implementation plans
- Water quality monitoring
- Programs and policies to reduce toxins in Pennsylvania waters
- Emerging contaminants
- Funding for water quality best management practices
- Assessing and addressing combined sewer overflows, mine drainage and stormwater
Interested parties should submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to the conference chair by May 31, 2012 for consideration.
Conference Chair:
Andrew Dehoff
Vice President, PA-AWRA
adehoff@srbc.net
717-238-0423 ext 221
2011 Annual Conference
The annual PA-AWRA Conference was held on Thursday October 6, 2011. It was held at the Wildwood Conference Center on the Harrisburg Area Community College Campus.
Pdfs of presentations are below:
| “Conewago Discovery Watershed” - Matt Royer, Strategic Initiatives Director for the Lower Susquehanna Basin and Lead for the Conewago Creek Conservation Initiative (4.3 MB) |
| “Lycoming County Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy; Pro-active Approach to Meeting the Challenges of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL for Nutrients and Sediment” - Meghan Lehman, Environmental Planner, Lycoming County (7.1 MB) |
| “Ensuring Long-term Water Resources Sustainability Through Integrated Planning in York County, PA” - John Seitz, York County Planning Commission (1/3 MB) |
| “MapShed: Open Source GIS Tool for TMDLs” - Barry Evans, Director, Penn State GIS Support Center (1.2 MB) |
| “Incorporating Restoration Planning and Transportation Controls into the Valley Creek Watershed Act 167 Stormwater Management Plan” - Craig A. Thomas, Chester County Water Resources Authority (7 MB) |
| “Hazard Mitigation Benefits of River Restoration” - Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICP American Rivers (10.5 MB) |
| “Simulation of Daily Mean Streamflow for Ungaged Streams Using BaSE: the Baseline Streamflow Estimator” - Marla Stuckey, Hydrologist, USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center *Presentation Not Available |
| “Susquehanna Inundation Map Viewer: Strategies in Web-based Risk Communication” - Benjamin A. Pratt, Susquehanna River Basin Commission (7.8 MB) |
If you have any questions please email us at pa.awra@gmail.com.
2011 Conference
The
Section feels
re-energized following our 2011 Annual Conference.
Ben Pratt, the 2011 president, set the stage for the conference noting that the American Water Resources Association is focused on "Community, Conversations, Connections," and the conference provided a great deal of dialogue on the challenges and opportunities in water resources in our Commonwealth.
Thanks again to all the participants and speakers for helping to make our Annual Conference such a success this past October. We had a total of 36 attendees, including the 8 speakers, and more than 20 students from the Harrisburg Area Community College who joined us for part of the morning and afternoon session.
The presentations covered many of the critical issues facing Pennsylvania's water resources professions - and are available here.