Time Slot

Topic

Speaker

7:30 – 8:30

Registration

8:30 – 8:40

Welcome and Announcements

Rachel Monschein,

Town of Cary

8:40 – 9:15

(35 min)

Impacts of the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts: Past and Future

Dr. Fran DiGiano, UNC Chapel Hill

9:15 – 10:00 (45 min)

Lead and Copper Revised Rule

Evan Houser, NC Dept of Environmental Quality

10:00 – 10:20

(20 min)

Revised Rule .1527

Miranda Harper, NC Dept of Environmental Quality

10:20 – 10:40

Break and Networking

10:40 – 11:10

(30 min)

DBP Monitoring Plans and Operational Evaluation Levels

Turner Morrison or Katie Richardson, NC Dept of Environmental Quality

11:10 – 11:50

(40 min)

UCMR5: Overview, Preparing & Scheduling

Joseph Mattheis, Eurofins Eaton Analytical

11:50 – 12:15

(25 min)

Drinking Water Lab Certification Update

Michele Sartin, NC Division of Health and Human Services

12:15 – 1:15

Lunch

1:15 – 1:40

(25 min)

Wastewater Lab Certification Update

Todd Crawford, NC Dept of Environmental Quality

1:40 – 2:05

(25 min)

Update About NC DEQ’s Recent Activities and the Secretaries' Science Advisory Board

Frannie Nilsen, NC Dept of Environmental Quality

2:05 – 2:30

(25 min)

Managing Emerging Compounds in Water

Kim Nimmer, NC Dept of Environmental Quality

2:30 – 2:50

Break and Networking

2:50 – 3:20

(30 min)

Interrupting the PFAS Cycle Source Control and Biosolids Treatment

Dr. Kati Bell,

Brown and Caldwell

3:20 – 3:50

(30 min)

Removing PFAS in Greensboro

Katie Walker, HDR

3:50 – 4:15

(25 min)

PFAS Pilot Testing at the Pittsboro Water Treatment Plant

Bill Dowbiggin, CDM Smith

4:15

Certificates of Attendance for 6.0 CEUs for both Water and Wastewater programs handed out in the lobby