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Member:$50.00
Non-Member:$70.00

2.5 contact hours towards CWEA's EIT, MT certifications

This session includes the following presentations:

Going Beyond Just Looks: an Integrated Approach to Condition Assessment
This session will present techniques to enhance typical visual condition assessments and produce results that are objective, reliable, improve operations, and illustrate how best to invest in existing assets.
Learning Objective(s): 
After participating in this session, attendees will be able to:
• Understand how standardized assessment procedures and modern tools reduce the subjectivity of typical condition assessments.
• Identify performance parameters to consider when assessing specific processes and how to incorporate those results into planning efforts.
• Understand how operational input can be incorporated into assessments to provide a holistic evaluation of treatment systems.

Benefits of Coachella Valley Water District's Full System Condition Assessment
Accomplishments in a CMMS data collection project; hear about our success story. This session will provide insight on a real life successful implementation of an asset management project. Including our best management practices and experiences in the project’s optimization, planning, scheduling, application, and personnel interactions leading towards an effective result.
Learning Objective(s): 
After participating in this session, attendees will be able to:
• Apply practices learned for effective multi-agency planning and coordination.
• Recognize the importance of teamwork and how to motivate project team members to complete tough tasks ahead of schedule.
• Use session as a source for ideas for possible implementation of similar projects.

A Practical Approach to Assessing Concrete Structures at a Wastewater Treatment Plant
While concrete can be quite resilient in wastewater applications, it can also deteriorate at an alarming rate in the right conditions. This presentation will provide background on reinforced concrete structures, descriptions of how these structures can deteriorate at wastewater treatment plants, and discussions on the practical methods of assessing them.

Inside the Fence: Assessing/Remediating 60+ Year Old Critical Plant Piping
Public water agencies throughout the United States face many challenges with extending the reliable service life of their aging buried infrastructure. The San José/Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility (RWF) has approximately 67,000 linear feet (LF), ranging from 8 to 144-inch, of buried wastewater process pipes carrying raw sewage, liquids, or sludge between various unit treatment process areas, many of which were installed in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Black & Veatch (BV) was contracted by the City of San Jose to perform condition assessment and rehabilitation design (if necessary) on this extensive network of piping. The overall purpose of the Yard Piping Improvements Project is to improve the operational reliability of the RWF’s high-risk process pipes and mitigate failure risk of process piping. Participants can expect to see BV's approach to this complex project, including a proprietary risk model, assessment technology selection, rehabilitation alternatives analysis, and successful design of some of the buried lines."