Live Webinar: Free to members and non-members
Contact Hours: 1.8 contact hours towards all CWEA certifications
One year after the Governor’s lock-down order we are all doing our part. On March 19, 2020 when the County and State closed non-essential businesses, environmental professionals overcame major challenges to continue providing essential services.
This month’s COVID-19 update assembles agency leaders to discuss how we are all doing our part.
Samuel Choi, Environmental Lab and Ocean Monitoring Manager, OC San, will discuss the potential of wastewater surveillance data to safely and economically inform public health decisions.
Mahesh Pujari, Laboratory Manager with LA Sanitation & Environment, will provide an overview of studies that are using wastewater-based epidemiology to help understand current risk levels.
Eileen White, Director of Wastewater, East Bay Municipal Utility District, will wrap-up the program by explaining how this knowledge could be used to protect our workforce as agencies plan for the transition back to “normal” work conditions when COVID related health orders are lifted.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Moderator
Wendy Wert, PE, BCEE
Environmental Engineer, CWEA President
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
Wendy Wert, PE, BCEE is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer with the Sanitation Districts. For the past 20 years she has been working on programs that rely on public participation to integrate water supply, water reuse with wastewater facilities planning. She received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Water Resources Engineering from the University of Central Florida (UCF). Her studies gave her opportunities to collaborate with others. It was during this time that Wendy developed an interest in effectively communicating math and science to diverse groups. Today, she uses her position as an engineer to support outreach and education programs that explain how the work of the Sanitation Districts identifies community needs then applies engineering and scientific principles to meet them.
Eileen M. White
Director of Wastewater
East Bay Municipal Utility District
Eileen M. White is currently the Director of Wastewater for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, which supplies water to approximately 1.4 million people and wastewater services to about 670,000 people. Eileen has more than 20 years of engineering experience in the wastewater, water, and power industries. As the Director of Wastewater, she is responsible for leading the Wastewater Department which includes planning, organizing, and leading the engineering, operations, and maintenance of the wastewater system to ensure efficient operations that meet all regulations.
Bios for Samuel Choi and Mahesh Pujari to be posted soon.