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Monday, May 20th
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
Combatting the Unseen: Advanced Methods for Detecting Emerging Contaminants
Room: S 102 D
Moderator: Sunith Varghese
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM CT
617 - Electrochemical Degradation of Fluorinated Compounds using Thin Films
Room: S 102 D
Author: Sunith Varghese
Co-Author: Ananth Kandadai
Co-Author: Bharat Jasthi, Ph.D – South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Co-Author: Heidi Sieverding
Co-Author: Kurt Chowanski
Co-Author: Lisa Kunza
Co-Author: Parthiba Karthikeyan Obulisamy
Co-Author: Venkataramana Gadhamshetty – South Dakota School of Mines
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM CT
20 - Mitigating Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment: Evaluating the Potential of Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Room: S 102 D
Author: Kassidy N. O'Malley (she/her/hers) – Marquette University
Author (not presenting): Patrick McNamara – Marquette University
Author (not presenting): Walter M. McDonald, PHD, MASCE – Marquette University
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM CT
545 - Microplastics in Urban Water Sediments: Abundance, Distribution and Analysis
Room: S 102 D
Author: Mithu Chanda
Co-Author: Jejal Reddy Bathi, Aff.M.ASCE – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Co-Author: Laura Alexandra Wright
Co-Author: Sarah Woody
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM CT
339 - Novel Adsorbent for Removal of PFAS and other Trace Organic Contaminants (TrOCs) from Municipal Wastewater
Room: S 102 D
Author: Emma Shapiro – Northwestern University
Co-Author: Aaron Packman
Co-Author: Zhi-Wei Lin
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM CT
438 - Settling Behavior of Microplastics in Turbulent Open Channel Flow
Room: S 102 D
Author: Usama Butt
Co-Author: Abul Baki, PhD – Clarkson University
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
4:45 PM – 6:15 PM CT
Navigating Watersheds: Tools and Techniques for Effective Planning
Room: S 102 D
Moderator: Jejal Bathi
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
245 - Stream Nutrient Modeling Using Data-driven Sparse Sensing
Room: S 102 D
Author: Wasif Bin Mamoon (he/him/his) – Marquette University
Co-Author: Anthony Parolari – Marquette University
Co-Author: Kun Zhang
Co-Author: Mitul Luhar
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM CT
495 - Identifying and Quantifying Stream Erosion and Deposition using Aerial Imagery and Digital Elevation Model Technique
Room: S 102 D
Author: Vivek Reddy (he/him/his) – Waggoner Engineering
Co-Author: Jejal Reddy Bathi, Aff.M.ASCE – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Co-Author: Mohamed Kacem
Co-Author: Pandiyan Kesavan
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CT
612 - Developing a Model to Predict Streamflow Regime Changes Related to Urbanization in the Denver Metro Area
Room: S 102 D
Author: Jorge Santiago Ramírez-Núñez (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder
Co-Author: Aditi Bhaskar
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM CT
38 - Evaluating and Benchmarking Integrated Urban Water System Performance based on ‘One Water’ Approach
Room: S 102 D
Author: Sarin Raj Pokhrel (he/him/his) – Arcadis
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Monday, May 20th
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM CT
627 - Enhanced Biochar and Activated Carbon-Amended Biofilters for PFAS Removal in Real-World Stormwater Scenarios
Room: S 102 D
Author: Skylar Reed
Co-Author: Bridget Wadzuk, Ph.D. – Villanova University
Co-Author: Wenqing Xu
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
Flowing Forward: CFD Modeling and Real-Time Monitoring for Water Quality Assurance
Room: S 103 A
Moderator: Adel AbouJaoude
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM CT
215 - Evaluating the Effects of Groundwater on Water Quality Modelling Using PCSWMM
Room: S 103 A
Author: Michael Bragg (he/him/his) – Auburn University
Co-Author: Jose G. Vasconcelos, PhD, M.ASCE – Auburn University
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM CT
286 - Can I Trust a Black Box? Predicting Coagulation Effluent Water Quality and Coagulant Dose with Machine Learning
Room: S 103 A
Author: Jie Zhang, PhD, PE – Carollo Engineers
Co-Author: Charlie He
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM CT
513 - A CFD Analysis to Minimize Sedimentation in Primary Effluent Channel by Structural Modifications
Room: S 103 A
Author: Shinjiro Miyawaki (he/him/his) – Jacobs Engineering
Co-Author: Daniel Morse – Jacobs Engineering
Co-Author: Kevin Nielsen – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM CT
561 - A Comparison of Chlorine Decay and Tracer Modeling Using CFD for a Large Treated Water Reservoir and Discussion of Thermal Impacts
Room: S 103 A
Author: Daniel Morse – Jacobs Engineering
Co-Author: Adel AbouJaoude
Co-Author: Kevin Nielsen – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM CT
157 - Autonomous Vehicles and Real-time Monitoring for Water Resources Research and Education
Room: S 103 A
Author: Jae Ryu – University of Idaho
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
Unlocking Insights: Field-Scale Studies in Water Infrastructure Management
Room: S 101 D
Moderator: Gnaneswar Veera Gude
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
380 - Spatial Analysis of Water Quality Trends in Wastewater Treatment Using GIS and Machine Learning
Room: S 101 D
Author: Akshay Kumar (he/him/his) – Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Co-Author: Rajiv Gupta, Ph.D. – Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Co-Author (not attending): Farhan Mohammad Khan
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM CT
101 - Using CFD to Evaluate Mixing and Flow Distribution to Optimize Biological Nutrient Removal and Hydrocyclone Performance
Room: S 101 D
Author: Carrie L. Knatz, P.E – CDM Smith
Co-Author: Alexandra Doody
Co-Author: Samir Mathur
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM CT
169 - Ensuring Modern Standards are Met at Older Facilities – Two Case Studies
Room: S 101 D
Co-Author (not attending): Corinna M. Fleischmann, PE, MASCE – US Coast Guard Academy
Author: Dounia ElKhatib
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM CT
196 - Stormwater Management Using Low Impact Developments (LIDs): Case Study from Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA
Room: S 101 D
Author: Ashley McWilliams
Co-Author: Kushal Adhikari (he/him/his) – Juniata College
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CT
651 - City and County of Honolulu Kaka‘ako Catch Basin Retrofits, South Street Bicycle Lane Permeable Pavement, and Sheridan Street/Kapi‘olani Boulevard Bioretention Area Case Studies
Room: S 101 D
Author: Jay Stone, P.E., BCEE, CFM, CPESC, CPSWQ, LEED AP – Bowers + Kubota Consulting
Co-Author: Kristen Yoshida
Co-Author: Lindsay Nakashima
Co-Author: Mike Nishimura
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
4:45 PM – 6:30 PM CT
Closing Loops: Adapting Wastewater Management to Circular Economies and Climate Shifts
Room: S 103 A
Moderator: Thinesh Selvaratnam (he/him/his) – Lamar University
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
412 - Lab-scale Design for Pond-In-Pond: An Alternative Wastewater Treatment System for Reuse
Room: S 103 A
Author: Kushal Adhikari (he/him/his) – Juniata College
Co-Author: Meghan Ward
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM CT
7 - Reverse Osmosis: History, Opportunities & Limitations
Room: S 103 A
Author: Val S. Frenkel (he/him/his) – TYLin Greeley and Hansen Water Solutions
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CT
143 - Revealing Internal Details of Anaerobic Digester Mixing with CFD
Room: S 103 A
Author: Jie Zhang, PhD, PE – Carollo Engineers
Co-Author: Ed Wicklein
Co-Author: Haiwen Gao
Co-Author: Rashi Gupta
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM CT
182 - The New Intermediate Pumping Station Odor Control BioTrickling Filter Project: Operations, Maintenance, and Performance Data at Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in City of Los Angeles, California
Room: S 103 A
Author: K. Majid Sadeghi, Ph.D., P.E. – Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, LA Sanitation & Environment - City of Los Angeles
Co-Author: Ali Sharbat, Ph.D., P.E. – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Co-Author: Austin Milo – Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, LA Sanitation & Environment - City of Los Angeles
Co-Author: Bill Hewes – Carbon Activated Corporation
Co-Author: Daniela Zayas – Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, LA Sanitation & Environment - City of Los Angeles
Co-Author: Hugo Loáiciga, Ph.D., P.E. – University of California
Co-Author: Joel Jimenez – City of LA
Co-Author: Nicole McIntosh – Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, LA Sanitation & Environment - City of Los Angeles
Co-Author: Octavio Murillo – City of LA
Co-Author: Shahrouzeh Saneie, Ph.D., P.E. – Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, LA Sanitation & Environment - City of Los Angeles
Co-Author: Sheri Symons, P.E. – City of Los Angeles
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM CT
638 - Agricultural Irrigation Systems in the Caribbean using RAM Pump Technology
Room: S 103 A
Author: Daniel TS Campbell (he/him/his) – CEDCO LTD
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Tuesday, May 21st
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM CT
241 - A Planning and Estimating Tool for Brine Pipelines – Pilot Study
Room: S 103 A
Author: Fayzul Pasha – California State University, Fresno
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
Modeling Success: Strategies for Effective Water Quality Management
Room: S 102 C
Moderator: Chittaranjan Ray, PhD – Nebraska Water Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM CT
319 - CFD Simulation of Aeration and Mixing Process in a Waste Water Treatment Plant
Room: S 102 C
Author: Linlong Bian – Florida International University
Co-Author: Arturo S. Leon (he/him/his) – Florida International University
Co-Author: Beichao Hu – Florida International University
Co-Author: Yovanni Catano, PhD, PE, DWRE, ENV SP – Black and Veatch
Co-Author: Zeda Yin – Florida International University
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM CT
120 - Mapping Lake Arlington Water Quality Parameters (Chlorophyll-a, Phycocyanin, and Turbidity) at a Regional Scale Integrating Sentinel-2 (S2) Observations with ArcGIS Pro
Room: S 102 C
Author: Sneha Singh
Co-Author: Jhanvi Soni
Co-Author: Khawaja Hasnain Iltaf
Co-Author: Nabila Khandaker
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
AI and Machine Learning for Water Quality Management
Room: S 101 B
Moderator: Namita Shrestha
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM CT
379 - Water Quality Assessment of Muddy Run, Pennsylvania, USA
Room: S 101 B
Author: Bryson Osborne
Co-Author: Kushal Adhikari (he/him/his) – Juniata College
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CT
191 - Clarifying the Clarity of Dirty Stormwater
Room: S 101 B
Author: Michael A. Gregory, P.E (he/him/his) – Computational Hydraulics Int. (CHI)
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM CT
321 - Investigating the Effects of BAC- and Monochloramine-based Disinfectants in Premise Plumbing Systems on the Inactivation of Viruses
Room: S 101 B
Author: Brooke Mayer – Marquette University
Co-Author: Jennifer Lavin
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM CT
343 - Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for the Estimation of the Concentration of Total Suspended Solids in the Colorado River Using Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager Data
Room: S 101 B
Author: Godson Ebenezer Adjovu – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Co-Author: Haroon Stephen, M.ASCE (he/him/his) – University of Nevada Las Vegas
Co-Author: Sajjad Ahmad, M.ASCE – University of Nevada Las Vegas
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM CT
224 - The Application of UV-LED as an Alternative to LP-UV for Virus Inactivation in Potable Water Reuse
Room: S 101 B
Author: Samantha Juedemann – Marquette University
Instructor: Brooke Mayer – Marquette University
Co-Author: Shadi Tavakoli Nick
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM CT
468 - Evaluating the Effect of Residential Catchment Maturity on Phosphorus Export Coefficients in Ontario
Room: S 101 B
Co-Author: Steve Auger, M.Sc., P.Eng. – Toronto Region Conservation Authority
Author (not presenting): Sheida Moin, Ph.D. – Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority
Author (not presenting): David Lembcke, B.A. (Honours) Geography – Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM CT
Smart Solutions: Harnessing AI for Water Management
Room: S 101 B
Moderator: Jong-Yeop Kim, PhD, PE – Florida Gulf Coast University
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM CT
244 - Converting Low-Fidelity to High-Fidelity Flood Inundation Map using Super Resolution Techniques
Room: S 101 B
Author: Zeda Yin – Florida International University
Co-Author: Arturo S. Leon (he/him/his) – Florida International University
Co-Author: Linlong Bian – Florida International University
Co-Author: Sumit R. Zanje (he/him/his) – Florida International University
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM CT
264 - Surface Water Quality Modeling in the Gwynns Falls Watershed, Powder Mills Run Subwatershed using Deep Learning Algorithm
Room: S 101 B
Author: Edward Brown
Co-Author: Dong hee Kang – Morgan State University
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM CT
395 - Predicting the Urban Stormwater Drainage Network State Using Graph Neural Networks
Room: S 101 B
Author: Mengru Li – The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Co-Author: Zhongming Lu – Division of Environment and Sustainability, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM CT
584 - Physics-informed Deep-learning Model Architecture Design for Time Series Forecasting
Room: S 101 B
Author: Abhiram Mullapudi – Xylem Inc.
Co-Author: Gregory Ewing
Co-Author: Nick Mills
Co-Author: Richard Loeffler
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
497 - Advanced Tools and Techniques for Setting Stormwater Utility Fee
Room: S 101 B
Author: Pandiyan Kesavan
Author: Vivek Reddy (he/him/his) – Waggoner Engineering
Co-Author: Jejal Reddy Bathi, Aff.M.ASCE – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Co-Author: Mohamed Kacem
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
4:45 PM – 6:15 PM CT
Going Green: Innovations in Sustainable Water Infrastructure
Room: S 101 B
Moderator: Kaitlin Vacca, Ph.D., PE, LEED AP – Brown and Caldwell
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
652 - City and County of Honolulu New Gray and Green Infrastructure Details and Specifications
Room: S 101 B
Author: Jay Stone, P.E., BCEE, CFM, CPESC, CPSWQ, LEED AP – Bowers + Kubota Consulting
Co-Author: Kristen Yoshida
Co-Author: Mike Nishimura
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM CT
410 - Air Entrainment in Dropshaft on Air-Water Interactions along Transportation Tunnel
Room: S 101 B
Author (not presenting): Nian Ye (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
Co-Author: Chenhao Yang – Zhejiang University
Co-Author: Yiyi Ma
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CT
609 - Denver's Pluvial Predicament: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Publicly-Reported Street Flooding
Room: S 101 B
Author: Stacie DeSousa (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado - Boulder
Co-Author: Aditi Bhaskar
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater
Wednesday, May 22nd
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM CT
190 - Drivers of Water Level Fluctuations in Stormwater Detention Ponds and their Relation to Ecosystem Services
Room: S 101 B
Author: Hannah Curtis (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Co-Author: Steven Loheide III
Water, Wastewater & Stormwater