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 Impact
- Kalle Butler - What is green infrastructure?
- Hal Sprague - History of green infrastructure for the 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 I
- 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 elevation 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 stromwater management outcomes
Ecosystem Restoration
- Michael Retzer - 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
Manament Practices and Water Quality II
- 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 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 Activities
- Matt O'hara - Insights into invasive Asian carp biology and ecology
- Phil Moy - Asian carp and the Chicago Area Waterway System: An overview and update
- Vic Santucci - Monitoring and removal of Asian carp from the Illinois River and Chicago Area Waterway System: The Illinois Department of Natural Resources approach
- Kristen 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 et al. - 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
- Walt Kelly - Chloride in surface waters and groundwater of Illinois
- Siddhartha Verma - Cost-effective nitrate monitoring strategies using Error-adjustment and Load Estimation techniques
- Cyril Wilson - Simulating the future impacts of urban land cover change on surface water quality within the Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area, Illinois
