U s Epa Region 1 Drinking Water Workshop Water Operators Continuing Education Units

EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Water (OW), in partnership with the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA), held the 19th Annual EPA Drinking Water Workshop on August 29 - September 1, 2022 in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio Area. Additional workshop information

Attendees had the option of receiving continuing education contact hours for attending in-person or certificates of attendance for attending live broadcast sessions via webinar.

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Monday, August 29
5:00 pm	Preregistration and Networking Evening of preregistration and networking with workshop organizers and other attendees.

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Tuesday, August 30
7:00 am	Registration
8:30 am - 10:15 am	Plenary to open the workshop and welcome attendees.
	SESSION 1: Opening Plenary Welcome and Opening Remarks Gregory Sayles, Director of the Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, EPA-ORD Keynote Address Christopher Frey, Assistant Administrator, EPA-ORD Keynote Address Karen Dettmer, Managing Director for Infrastructure Implementation, EPA-OW A Tribal Perspective of Nibi (Water) Allison Smart, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Natural Resources Department Agenda Review and Logistics Sandhya Parshionikar, Thomas Speth, and Michelle Latham, EPA-ORD
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Concurrent breakout focus groups.
1.0 Contact Hour (Anticipated, in-person)	SESSION 2: Breakout Focus Group Discussions Group A:Corrosion What are the most pressing corrosion issues and how are they being addressed? Facilitator: Darren Lytle, EPA-ORD Group B: Climate Change How are agencies/Tribes/water systems being impacted by climate challenges related to drought, wildfire, sea-level rise, etc. and how are equity and environmental justice concerns being addressed? Facilitators: Allison Smart, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Natural Resources Department; Emily Frary, Utah Department of Environmental Quality; and Kevin Letterly, ASDWA Group C: Pathogens and Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs) What are the pathogens of concern from the distribution system to premise plumbing, and what factors influence their presence? What is the highest priority regulatory or non-regulatory issue for reducing exposure to DBPs? Facilitators: Laura Boczek, EPA-ORD and Jennifer Best, EPA-OW Group D: Technical, Managerial, and Financial (TMF) Capacity What are the most pressing issues around achieving technical, managerial, and financial capacity? How states can work to ensure water systems have effective asset management? Facilitator: Ashley Voskuhl, ASDWA and Tanushree Courlas, Ohio EPA Group E: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) How are primacy agencies and water systems addressing treatment, health effects, analytical methods, and funding? Facilitator: Thomas Speth, EPA-ORD and Brandon Kernen, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Group F: Cybersecurity What strategies and resources are primacy agencies using to address cyber attacks experienced by water systems and what best practices can water systems use to build resilience? Facilitator: Michael Finn, EPA-OW and Anthony DeRosa, ASDWA
1:00 pm - 2:45 pm	Concurrent technical sessions (3A or 3B) with speaker panel discussion and Q&A following presentations.
1.75 Contact Hours (Anticipated, in-person)	Track A—Distribution Systems and Water Quality SESSION 3A: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Moderator: Kevin Letterly, ASDWA Myth-Busting the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program Dallas Shattuck, EPA-OW National Perspectives on the BIL Stephanie Schlea, ASDWA BIL Challenges and Opportunities Michael Grange, Utah Department of Environmental Quality Track B — Source, Treatment, and Operations SESSION 3B: Methods and Analytics Moderator: Dan Hautman, EPA-OW The Achilles' Heel of Water Quality Data: Sample Collection QA/QC Hunter Adams, City of Wichita Falls (Texas) Manganese Interference with Chlorine Methods Matthew Alexander, EPA-OW and Laura Meteer, Queens University Developing an Ozone Design Standard for Ohio Public Water Systems: Lowering Plan Approval Barriers for Small and Medium PWS Linda Weavers, The Ohio State University/Ohio Water Resources Center
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Concurrent technical sessions (4A or 4B) with speaker panel discussion and Q&A following presentations.
1.75 Contact Hours (Anticipated, in-person)	Track A—Distribution Systems and Water Quality SESSION 4A: Equity and Environmental Justice Moderator: Ashley Voskuhl, ASDWA State (KY) Perspective on Environmental Justice Larry Taylor, Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet Artificial Intelligence Reduces Lead Exposure and Promotes Environmental Justice in Toledo, Ohio Mark Riley, City of Toledo Equitable Program for Lead Service Line Replacement: A Local Perspective Leslie Moening, Greater Cincinnati Water Works Track B — Source, Treatment, and Operations SESSION 4B: Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) Moderator: Regan Murray, EPA-ORD Preparing For the Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) Brenda Bowden, EPA-OW What Utilities and Regulators Should Know About Manganese Phil Brandhuber, Brandhuber Water Quality and Treatment, LLC HABs/Cyanotoxins Treatment Tom Waters, EPA-OW and Nicholas Dugan, EPA-ORD
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Networking Event

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Wednesday, August 3 1
7:30 am	Registration
8:30 am - 10:15 am	Concurrent technical sessions (5A or 5B) with speaker panel discussion and Q&A following presentations.
1.75 Contact Hours (Anticipated, in-person)	Track A—Distribution Systems and Water Quality SESSION 5A: Water Quality Moderator: Michael Finn, EPA-OW Funding Integration Tool for Source Water: Build a Funding Plan That Fits Your Source Water Needs! April Byrne, EPA-OW Taking Control of the Lead: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Control Gorge Power Plant Michael Mercado, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Measuring and Modeling Systems Factors That Impact Tap Water Quality and Public Perceptions of Drinking Water Systems: Pilot Study in Scioto County, Ohio Daniel Ma, The Ohio State University Track B — Source, Treatment, and Operations SESSION 5B: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) I Moderator: Thomas Speth, EPA-ORD PFAS Drinking Water Methods: Past, Present, and Future Steve Wendelken and Will Adams, EPA-OW and Dan Tettenhorst, EPA-ORD Predicting Occurrence Based on State Data and the Third Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 3) Adam Cadwallader, EPA-OW Current Status of PFAS Regulations and Advisories Ashley Voskuhl, ASDWA
10:45 am - 12:30 pm	Concurrent technical sessions (6A or 6B) with speaker panel discussion and Q&A following presentations.
1.75 Contact Hours (Anticipated, in-person)	Track A—Distribution Systems and Water Quality SESSION 6A: Pathogens Moderator: Sandhya Parshionikar, EPA-ORD Challenges and Perspectives of Studying Water Storage Tank Ecosystems in Distribution Systems Vicente Gomez-Alvarez, EPA-ORD Microbial and Disinfection Byproducts (MDBP) Rules Revision Update Kirsten Studer, EPA-OW Optimization Techniques to Improve MDBP Control Joe Uliasz, Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet Track B—Source, Treatment, and Operations SESSION 6B: PFAS II Moderator: Jonathan Pressman, EPA-ORD Occurrence of PFAS in Ohio Amy Klei, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency The Implementation of State PFAS Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) in New Hampshire Brandon Kernen, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services PFAS Treatment Jonathan Burkhardt and Levi Haupert, EPA-ORD
1:45 pm - 3:30 pm	Concurrent technical sessions (7A or 7B) with speaker panel discussion and Q&A following presentations.
1.75 Contact Hours (Anticipated, in-person)	Track A—Distribution Systems and Water Quality SESSION 7A: Lead and Copper Moderator: Darren Lytle, EPA-ORD EPA's Lead Service Line Inventory Guidance Hannah Holsinger, EPA-OW Corrosion Test Methods: Review of Bench Top and Pilot Lead Corrosion Assessment Studies Christina Devine, EPA-ORD Case Study on Lead Service Line (LSL) Removal Approaches and Associated Costs Patrick Smart, MSK Engineers Track B—Source, Treatment, and Operations SESSION 7B: Resilience Moderator: Sarah Bradbury, EPA-OW How to Prepare for and Respond to Supply Chain Disruptions Matt Umberg, EPA-OW An Evaluation of Kentucky's Operator Workforce Survey and Small Systems Issues in Appalachia Donna McNeil, University of Kentucky–Kentucky Water Resource Research Institute Drought Resilience Emily Frary, Utah Department of Environmental Quality
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Plenary for discussions with technical experts.
1.0 Contact Hour (Anticipated, in-person)	SESSION 8: Ask the Experts, Posters, and Models and Tools Demonstrations Included a meet and greet with Assistant Administer for EPA's Office of Research and Development, Dr. Christopher Frey! This session provided attendees an opportunity to have conversations with experts from EPA, ASDWA, and other organizations about small system challenges; learn about EPA's drinking water research and other activities; and interact with EPA models and tools developers and experts.
4:50 pm - 5:30 pm	Plenary for breakout group highlights and final workshop remarks.
	SESSION 9: Highlights and Closing Remarks Plenary Moderator: Michelle Latham, EPA-ORD Report-Outs From Breakout Focus Groups Group facilitators from Session 2 provided highlights and any action items from the focus groups. Closing Remarks EPA and ASDWA
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Networking Event

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Thursday, September 1
7:30 am	Registration
8:00 am - 12:00 pm	SESSION 10: In-Depth Training Concurrent 4-hour in-depth training sessions (10A, 10B, or 10C).
4.0 Contact Hours (Anticipated, in-person)	SESSION 10A: Corrosion This session covered the fundamentals of lead and copper release including corrosion, the role of particles, and metal solubility relationships in drinking water. Distribution system assessment approaches, including water sampling strategies and pipe scale analyses, were also addressed. Lastly, corrosion control strategies and corrosion control assessment tools were presented. Cases study data were used to illustrate important messages where appropriate. Trainer: Darren Lytle, Simoni Triantafyllidou, Michael Schock, Mike DeSantis, Jennifer Tully, and Stephen Harmon, EPA-ORD SESSION 10B: Drinking Water Microbiology This session provided an introduction to drinking water microbiology and EPA's regulatory requirements for microbial monitoring. Many of the common drinking water microbial methods required by regulations were also be demonstrated. Attendees had the opportunity to perform microbiological tests alongside EPA scientists and to examine previously run tests. Trainers: Laura Boczek, EPA-ORD and Jennifer Best, EPA-OW SESSION 10C: Sanitary Surveys This session provided information for state and federal public water system oversight personnel on evaluating water treatment processes as part of sanitary surveys or technical assistance for public water systems. Presenters were experienced field staff from multiple agencies. Trainers: Michael Finn and Derek Losh, EPA-OW
12:00 pm	Adjourn

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