Sustainable Infrastructure:
Successful Strategies, Future Challenges For Drinking Water & Wastewater Utilities

8:30 am

Registration

9:00 am 

Welcoming remarks

• Alexis Strauss, Director, EPA Region 9 Water Division
• Tam Doduc, Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board

Planning in High Growth Areas (Presentation, 6.3M) - Mary Snyder, District Engineer, Sacramento County Sanitation District No. 1

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Asset Management

• Insights from Water Public Utility (Presentation, 3M) - Chuck Clarke, Director of Seattle Public Utilities
• Implementing EPA's Four Pillars Approach (Presentation, 4.2M) - Nick Arhontes, Orange County Sanitation Districts
• Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) Sustainable Water Infrastructure Video

Noon

Lunch Break

1:15 pm

Meeting California’s Future Energy Needs (Presentation, 4.3M) - Richard Atwater, Inland Empire Utilities Agency

Energy Self-sufficiency through Foodwaste/biofuels (Presentation, 5.9M) – Ben Horenstein, EBMUD

2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Effective Asset Management: the path to infrastructure sustainability (Presentation, 2.1M) - Adel Hagekhalil and Enrique Zaldivar, City of Los Angeles

4:00 pm

Closing Remarks

• Dr. Mark Horton, Director, California Department of Health
• Mike Gearheard, Director, EPA Region 10 Office of Water and Watersheds

4:20 pm

Adjourn

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