12:30 p.m.

Registration

Dale Manty, Angela Page, and Barbara Klieforth, STAR Project Officers
National Center for Environmental Research

1:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

Welcome and Overview of EPA Small Systems Water Research
James H. Johnson, Jr., Director, National Center for Environmental Research

Michael McDonald, Deputy National Program Director
ORD Safe and Sustainable Water Resources Research Program         

A Model for Successful Implementation of Water Research to the Marketplace
Sally Gutierrez, Water Technology Innovation Clusters

EPA Cooperative Research and Collaboration Opportunities
Cindy Sonich-Mullin, Director, ORD National Risk Management Research Laboratory

1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.

Iron Oxidation and Point of Use + Q&A
Use of Ferrate Treatment Technologies (PDF) (29 pp, 949 K)
Yanjun Jiang, University of Massachusetts

Point of Use (POU) water treatment in the Colonias of the Paso del Norte region (PDF) (28 pp, 853 K)
W. Shane Walker, University of Texas at El Paso

Fluoride, DBP Precursors, and Particles: Simultaneous Removal with Aluminum Salts (PDF) (13 pp, 689 K)
Desmond Lawler, University of Texas at Austin

Discussion

2:40 p.m. – 2:55 p.m.

BREAK

2:55 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.

Sorption Techniques + Q&A
Small Rural Communities in Missouri (PDF) (18 pp, 1.26 MB)
John Yang, Lincoln University of Missouri

Sorbents and Monitoring Technologies for Small Groundwater Systems (PDF) (15 pp, 833 K)
Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University

Municipal Sewage Sludge Based Composite Adsorbents (PDF) (20 pp, 738 K)
Teresa Bandosz, City College of New York

Discussion

3:55 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.

Greg Carroll, EPA Office of Water, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water

4:05 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Ion Exchange Processes + Q&A
Catalytic Treatment of Waste Ion Exchange Brines for Reuse During Oxyanion Treatment (PDF) (20 pp, 9.38 MB)
Charles Werth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Small, Safe, Sustainable Public Water Systems through Innovative Ion Exchange (PDF) (15 pp, 1.16 MB)
Treavor Boyer, University of Florida

Discussion

4:45 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.

BREAK

5:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.

Membrane and Filter Technology + Q&A
Contaminant Removal Using Membrane Distillationt (PDF) (14 pp, 2.04 MB)
Amy Childress, University of Nevada

Integration of Filtration and Advanced Oxidation: A Membrane Liquid-Phase Plasma Reactor (PDF) (18 pp, 1 MB)
Christopher Bellona, Clarkson University

Electrospun Nanofiber Filters: Multifunctional, Chemically Active Filtration Technologies (PDF) (13 pp, 1.88 MB)
David Cwiertny, University of Iowa

Discussion

6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Summary, Wrap-up, and Next Steps