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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - TUESDAY, JUNE 25

Paul R. Brown, Univ. of South FloridaPatel College of Global Sustainability Whole Water—Lessons from a Career in Water Planning

Dr. Glen MacDonald, Director, UCLA Institute of Environment & Sustainability

Current Drought, Early 21st Century Drought, and California’s Water Future

John Laird, California Secretary of Natural ResourcesCalifornia Natural Resources Agency

California Responds: Drought, Climate Change, and Resilience

Local Approaches forSustainable Water SolutionsPaul R. Brown, Moderator Celeste Cantú, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority Ane Deister, Parsons Environment and InfrastructureDave Stoldt, Monterey Peninsula Water Mgmt Dist.

Frances Spivy-Weber, Board Vice-ChairState Water Resources Control Board

The Divisions are Diminishing: Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water; Surface Water, Groundwater, Recycled Water

Sandy Lydon, Historian EmeritusCabrillo College

High and Dry: How Monterey Got Stuck in History’s Spider Web

KEYNOTE LUNCHEON SPEAKER - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25

TUESDAY, JUNE 25

9:00 OPENING GENERAL SESSION Steinbeck Forum – Upper Level

12:00 KEYNOTE LUNCHEON DeAnza III

TRACK 1 DeAnza I

TRACK 2 Bonsai Ballroom

TRACK 3 DeAnza II

1.1 Plans and Realities: UWMPs and WSCPs

2.1 Long-Term Funding

3.1 Deconstruction: Cases of Dam Removal

1:30

Urban Water Management Plans and Water Shortage Contingency Plans – Current E�ect, Coming Changes

Funding for Public Water Systems (George Fagella, CDPH, and Robert Pontureri, SWRCB)

A New Life for the Carmel River: San Clemente Dam Removal and Carmel River Reroute Project (Richard Svindland, California-American Water Co.)

2:00

PANEL: Mary Lou Cotton, Kennedy Jenks, moderator Anona Dutton, EKI Peter Brostrom, Dept. of Water Resources

Reclamation Water E�ciency Grant Opportunities (Gene Lee and Melissa Crandell, Bureau of Reclamation)

San Clemente Dam Removal and Carmel River Reroute Project: A Technical Perspective (Seth Gentzler, URS)

2:30 Drought Funding Options (Tracie Billington, Calif. Dept. of Water Resources)

Dam removal on the Klamath River (Ben Swann, CDM Smith)

1.2 Plans and Response to Severe Drought

2.2 Stormwater and Low-Impact Development

3.2 Ecosystem Restoration

3:30

Drought Preparedness at the Sonoma County Water Agency (Grant Davis, Sonoma County Water Agency)

LID Sizing Tool for California's Phase II Stormwater Permit (Maureen Kerner, CSU Sacramento)

Can't See the River for the Trees: How to reduce wild�res and replenish streams (James Workman and Dr. Helen Poulos, Forestreams)

4:00 Conservation Priorities (Diana Brooks, California Dept. of Water Resources)

Flood Control and Stormwater Treatment as Sustainable Groundwater Recharge: 21st Street Improvements in Paso Robles, California (Larry Kraemer and Andy Rowe, Cannon)

Regional Sediment Management at Dams (Seema C. Shah-Fairbank, PhD, PE, Cal Poly University, Pomona)

4:30

A Zero Allocation from the State Water Project (Carol Maloney, Zone 7 Water Agency)

Retro�t LID Case Studies (Anthony Cotts, Weston Solutions)

Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Indicators of Stream Disturbance and Recovery (Bill Isham, Weston Solutions)

5:00 CONFERENCE RECEPTION DeAnza III

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25

TRACK 1 DeAnza I

TRACK 2 Bonsai Ballroom

TRACK 3 DeAnza II

1.3 Integrated Water Resource Planning: Tools and Techniques

2.3 Recycled Water— Current and Future Benefits for Supply Reliability

3.3 C is for Conservation; M Is for Metering

8:30 Scale and Con�ict in Integrated Watershed Planning (Michael Vincent McGinnis, Monterey Institute of International Studies)

Regulatory Framework for Augmenting Water Supplies (IPR, DPR) (Randy Barnard, CDPH)

Metering - AMI Feasibility Basics (Bernard Dunham, Delta Engineering Sales)

9:00 True Integration in an Uncertain Future (Elizabeth Betancourt, Forsgren Associates and Vishal K Mehta)

AWWA Recycled Water Standard; Reclaimed Water Program Operation and Management (Ane Deister, Parsons Environment and Infrastructure)

Smart Meter Deployment (Mark Carey, MC Engineering, Inc.)

9:30 Facilitating Total Water Resources and Infrastructure Planning by Integrating Potable Water, Reclaimed Water, and Wastewater Systems in a GIS Environment (Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, ARCADIS)

On-site Recycled Water Approaches (Sarah Rhodes, SFPUC)

AMI: Tool to Succeed or Alert Fatigue? (Adam Kern and Jennifer Fitch, Stanford University)

1.4 Integrated Water Resource Planning: Projects and Results

2.4 Recycled Water— Current and Future Benefits for Supply Reliability

3.4 C Is for Conservation; M Is for Messaging

10:30 LA Proposition O – Results from Stormwater Funding (Wing Tam, City of Los Angeles)

Groundwater Replenishment – Complex Problems: One simple solution (Mike McCullough, MRWPCA)

Dealing with Drought: Technology and Targeted Messaging as E�ective Tools. (Peter Yolles, WaterSmart Software and Leigh Ann Gessner, Soquel Creek Water District)

11:00 Moving Past IPR—Reservoir Augmentation and DPR (Je� Pasek, City of San Diego)

EPA Water Sense Program (Eric Byous, US EPA Region 9)

11:30 Silicon Valley Advanced Water Puri�cation Center – Transition from Construction to Operations (Crystal J. Yezman, Santa Clara Valley Water District)

Leveraging Existing Infrastructure to Minimize Monterey's Water "Footprint" (Eric Sabolsice, California-American Water)

12:00 KEYNOTE LUNCHEON DeAnza III

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25

TRACK 1 DeAnza I

TRACK 2 Bonsai Ballroom

TRACK 3 DeAnza II

2.5 Desalination Case Studies

3.5 Optimizing Ground-water Management for Current and Anticipated Future Climates

1:30 Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project (Richard Svindland, California American Water Co.)

Session Overview (Derrik Williams, HydroMetrics Water Resources Inc); Examination of Groundwater In�ow to Squaw Creek using Radon and Other Tracers. (Elizabeth DeRubeis, Pangea Environmental Services)

2:00 Demonstration Testing of a Slant Well for Ocean Desalination Feedwater Supply, Dana Point, CA, Richard Bell, Municipal Water District of Orange County and Gerry Filteau, SPI

Estimating Stream Depletion by Combining Time-Series Thermal Data with Aquifer Test Results (Stephen Hundt, HydroMetrics Water Resources Inc)

2:30 Bay Area Regional Reliability Partnership, Hasan Abdullah, EBMUD

An Examination of the vulnerability of groundwater to climate change in Olympic Valley (Jean E. Moran, California State University East Bay)

1.6 Resilience in Water Resource Planning

2.6 Desalination and Permitting

3.6 Case Studies: Groundwater Management Challenges and Progress

3:30 Long-Term Plan For Resiliency and Climate Change Adaptation (George Adrian, City of San Diego)

The Carlsbad Desalination Project: Current Status and Results of Live Algae Pilot Demonstration (Jonathan Loveland, Poseidon Water)

Community Acceptance of Alternatives for Groundwater Management (Jay Jasperse, Sonoma County Water Agency)

4:00 Dealing with Uncertainty in Water Resource Planning (Grace Chan, Metropolitan Water District)

California Desalination Permitting Process (Tom Luster, California Coastal Commission)

Recycled Water Exchange to Sustain Groundwater in Visalia (Kim Loeb, City of Visalia and Paul Hendrix, Tulare Irrigation District)

4:30 Designed for Success – Integrating Regulatory Permitting into the Ocean Water Desalination Design Process (Kevin Thomas and Paul Findley, RBF Consulting)

How Groundwater Management Can Save Us From a Zero Allocation on the State Water Project (Kirby Brill, Mojave Water Agency)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 Continued

7:30-9:00

Networking Breakfast DeAnza I

TIME

Tours Meet Outside Hotel Lobby 15 min before tour

Tours Meet Outside Hotel Lobby 15 min before tour

8:00-12:00

San Clemente Dam Removal + Rerou�ng the Carmel River

Integrated Water Tour: Water Reuse –ASR–Desalina�on for Monterey Peninsula

1:00- 5:00 San Clemente Dam Removal + Rerou�ng

the Carmel River Integrated Water Tour: Water Reuse –ASR–Desalina�on for Monterey Peninsula

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4:30 Designed for Success – Integrating Regulatory Permitting into the Ocean Water Desalination Design Process (Kevin Thomas and Paul Findley, RBF Consulting)

How Groundwater Management Can Save Us From a Zero Allocation on the State Water Project (Kirby Brill, Mojave Water Agency)

5:00

Conference Happy Hour DeAnza III

THURSDAY, JUNE 26

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