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​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
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