Illinois Water Conference 2010 Presentations
Featured Speakers
Robert Glennon – Unquenchable
Eric Benson – Water Savings Through Responsible Design
Water Supply Sustainability
Derek Winstanley – East Central Illinois Regional Water Supply Plan Perspective
Tim Loftus – Northeastern Illinois Water Supply Plan Perspective
Alec Davis – Business Perspective on Water Supply Planning
Tim Lindsey – Environmental Perspective on Water Supply Planning
The Green Infrastructure Act and Its Impacts
Kalle Butler – What Is Green Infrastructure
Hal Sprague – History of the Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act
Martin Jaffe – The Illinois EPA Green Infrastructure Study
Amy Walkenbach – Illinois EPA Green Infrastructure Loan and Grant Opportunities
Management Practices and Water Quality: Part 1
Mark David – Tile Modification Project on the Salt Fork River Watershed: Addressing Nitrate Loss through Engineering and Outreach
Bridget Harrison – Factors Affecting Erosion Following Natural Gas Pipeline Construction
Judith Moran – Operating the Sidestream Elevated Pool Aeration Stations to Meet the Proposed Water Quality Standards on the Calumet-Sag Channel
Urban Stormwater and Flooding: Predicting Events and Developing Management Strategies
Momcilo Markus – Diagnostic Analysis of Future Climate Scenarios Applied to Urban Flooding in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
Gale Fulton – Sustainable Stormwater: The John Street Watershed Project
Catalina Londono – Valuing Preferences over Stormwater Management Outcomes
Ecosystem Restoration
Michael Retzer and Doug Carney – Status of Stream Restoration Projects in Illinois
Hank Sutton – Setting the Stage for a Natural Shoreline Healing
Kaleb Heinrich – Biological Responses to In-Stream Restoration in the Upper Cache River
Management Practices and Water Quality: Part 2
Jennifer Wasik – Stream Response to Phosphorus Reduction at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
Jory Hecht – Impact of Nitrate Pollution to the Drought Yield of the Off-Stream Reservoir System in Pontiac, Illinois
Alex Eade – An Assessment of Water Quality and Channel Morphology in Three Southern Illinois Agricultural Watersheds
New Tools to Improve Decision Making
Steve Wilson – SmallWaterSupply.org – Online Resources and Support for Water and Wastewater Operators
Ximing Cai – An Online Communication Tool for Watershed Management Demonstration for the Fox River Basin
Girmay Misgna – Virtual Watershed: A Web-based Decision Support for Evolution of Agricultural Watersheds in a Systems Management Framework
Donald Keefer – The Earth Systems Visualization Laboratory: A Collaborative 3-D Visualization Resource
Monitoring Water Quality and Quantity
Joe Marencik – Illinois EPAs Lake Michigan Monitoring Program: Past, Present, and Future
William White – Waukegan River: Sustainability Is Difficult, but Possible
Thomas Granato – Continuous Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring of Illinois Streams: An Assessment of Practicality, Sustainability, and Necessity
Paul Horvatin – Great Lakes Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative: Cooperative Science to Help Manage the Great Lakes
An Update on Water Planning in Illinois
Gary Clark – Recent Water Quantity Planning Efforts and Updating the State Drought Plan
Vern Knapp – Adequacy of Illinois’ Surface Water Supply Systems and Implications in Regional Water Supply Planning
Al Wehrmann – Opportunities and Challenges for Meeting Water Demand in Northeastern Illinois
George Roadcap – The Role of the Mahomet Aquifer in the Future of East-Central Illinois’ Water Supply
Asian Carp: Current Research, Management and Outreach Activites
Matt O’Hara and Kevin Irons – Insights into Invasive Asian Carp Biology and Ecology
Phil Moy – Asian Carp and the Chicago Area Waterway System: An Overview and Update
Kristin TePas – Outreach Initiatives to Address Asian Carp
An Integrated Approach to Resource Management: The Fox River Watershed Effort
Karen Clementi – Water Chemistry Monitoring and Biological Evaluation of Fox River for Water Quality Model Calibration
James Slowikowski, Brett Randle, and Kristy Vicari – Monitoring in Support of Model Development for the Fox River Watershed
Robert Trueblood – Fox River Successes
Alena Bartosova – Fox River Watershed Investigation: Progressive Approach for Improved Planning
Planning for Climate Change and Water Shortages
Kerry Leigh – The Chicago Wilderness Climate Action Plan for Nature: Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies for Biodiversity Sustainability
Margaret Schneemann – Water Pricing as an Adaptive Climate Change Policy in Northeastern Illinois
Amy Talbot – From Policy to Efficiency: A Model Water Conservation Ordinance
David Larson – National Groundwater Monitoring Network
Human Impacts on Water Quality
Thomas Minarik – Assessing the Potential for Endocrine Disruption in Urbanized Aquatic Environments: Study Design and Preliminary Findings
Walton Kelly – Chloride in Surface Waters and Groundwater of Illinois
Siddhartha Verma – Cost-effective Nitrate-N Monitoring strategies Using Error-adjustment Load Estimation Techniques
