Wet Weather Partnership Conference Presentations 2025

2025 Workshop Attendee List
2025 Workshop Program Agenda
Certificate of Attendance

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 (William Penn Ballroom)

• Welcome & Overview
  • Michael Witt, General Counsel, PVSC, NJ; WWP President
• Welcome to Pittsburgh and an Update on Pittsburgh Water’s Wet Weather Programs
  • Rachael Beam, P.E., Chief Engineering Officer, Pittsburgh Water;
  • Tony Igwe, Senior Group Manager-Stormwater, Pittsburgh Water
• ALCOSAN’s Innovative and Integrated Clean Water Plan
  • Kim Kennedy, Director of Engineering and Construction, ALCOSAN, PA
• What the First 100 Days of Trump 2.0 Means for Your Utility and Key Issues and Opportunities for Regulatory Relief Going Forward
  • Speakers:
    • Michael Witt, General Counsel, PVSC, WWP President;
    • Errin Kemper, Director of Environmental Services, City of Springfield, MO;
    • Paul Calamita, Chairman, AquaLaw
• New Paradigms in Sewer System Rehabilitation: Why Look and Report When You Can Look and Repair?
  • Ted Henifin, Interim Third-Party Manager, Jackson Water, MS
• Risk: The Game of Strategic Linear Asset Management
  • Andrew Kaufman, P.E., Program Manager, St. Louis MSD, MO

Thursday, April 24, 2025 (William Penn Ballroom)

• Navigating Turbulent Times: NACWA’s Actions and Strategy to Advance Public Utility Interests During the Trump II Administration and 119th Congress.
  • Amanda Aspatore, Chief Legal Counsel, National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), Washington, D.C.
• Cooperative Federalism: Transitioning Federal Consent Decrees to State Enforcement. 
  • John Dano, P.E., PMP, ENV SP, Director of Planning and Analysis, HRSD, VA;
  • Kieran Fahey, Director of Long-term Control Plan, City of South Bend, IN;
  • Paul Calamita, Chairman, AquaLaw
• The End is Near! WWP Founding Member, City of Lynchburg’s Blackwater CSO Tunnel Project.
  • Tim Mitchell, P.E., Director of Water Resources, City of Lynchburg, VA;
  • Lin Liang, P.E. BCEE, Vice President, Stantec
• Blue-Green Stormwater Infrastructure: Overview and Emerging Trends.
  • Andrew Potts, Global Principal, Jacobs
• Integrated Planning Successes and Opportunities – Adapting to Changing Landscape.
  • Trent Stober, P.E., HDR
• The State of Green Solutions: Better Defined and Consistent Installation and Maintenance Costs, More Targeted Applications with Optimized Controls, and Greater Stakeholder Acceptance.
  • Andy Shively, P.E., KC Water
  • Andy Sauer, P.E., Burns and McDonnell
• Navigating Muddy Waters: Strategies for Incorporating Flood Resilience into CSO and SSO Mitigation Solutions.
  • Bryan Rogne, Brown and Caldwell       
• Re-Imagining Watershed Resilience for Coastal Communities.
  • Alison Miskiman, Resilience Planning Leader, Black & Veatch;
  • Brian Merritt, Principal Consultant, Black & Veatch
• Confluence: Stormwater Developments and Trends.
  • Lisa Ochsenhirt, Vice-President, AquaLaw (Presentation)
  • Jessica Seipp, PMP, Dewberry (Presentation)
• Building a Framework for Regional Solutions.
  • Jackie Jarrell, P.E., Principal Consultant, Raftelis

Friday, April 25, 2025 (William Penn Ballroom)

• Simplify, Predict, Optimize: The New Era of Smart Sewer Operations.
  • Panelists:
    • Luis Montestruque, PhD, Principal, HydroDigital
    • Tim Braun, Chief Commercial Officer, HydroDigital
    • Kieran Fahey, Director of Long-term Control Plan, City of South Bend, IN;
    • Andy Shively, Deputy Director, KC Water;
    • Reese Johnson, P.E., PMP, Deputy Director and Chief Engineer, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati
• Remote Sewer Overflow Treatment in Milwaukee
  • Vedansh Gupta, Product Manager, Aqua-Aerobic Systems
  • Ashley Tan, Project Engineer, Rapid Radicals
• Infrastructure as a Service: An Emerging Approach for Financing Public Infrastructure.
  • Carla Dazet, Infrastructure Partner and Senior Advisor, Sustainability Partners
• Developments in Urban Wet Weather Enforcement, Permitting, and Litigation.
  • Paul Calamita, Chairman, AquaLaw

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