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Join us for a webinar on Wednesday, November 6th at NOON Eastern / 9 AM Pacific. This webinar is titled “Long-Term Vision to Fight Advancing Water Resource Challenges – Todd Creek WWTP Design.” FREE to all AAEES Members. $40 fee for non-members. https://lnkd.in/gdF26iem Webinar Summary The 60-year old Todd Creek Wastewater Treatment plant was experiencing challenges from aging infrastructure, growth and development in the watershed, changes to the facilities’ water quality permit, and impacts from updated flood mapping in the regions.  These drivers caused the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and the entity that manages its water, KC Water, to determine that it would need a new wastewater treatment plant.  As project leader of the cross-functional team supporting the effort, Burns & McDonnell developed the project in a way that reduces land use, minimizes energy and chemical consumption versus traditional approaches, and will produce a cleaner, more environmentally friendly effluent. The $96 million Todd Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is being designed to treat up to 4.6 million gallons per day, using a first-of-its kind treatment technology for the State of Missouri.  By improving the effluent water quality, the project will create more opportunities for outdoor recreation and parks, further supporting the community’s booming development while managing natural resources.   This webinar will provide information on drivers for this project, many of which are common challenges for water utilities across the country, and describe how the project team evaluated solutions and developed the design for this new advanced facility. Webinar Format This webinar will include a moderated Q and A session following the speaker’s presentation. The session is open to environmental engineering and science professionals across all sectors and career stages. Our objective is to offer special insights on leading edge solutions for graduate and undergraduate students as well as early to mid-career environmental professionals who are considering specialty certification. AAEES Board Certified Individuals: Attend this event and earn 1.5 PDHs towards your PDH requirements for maintaining your specialty certification.  #boardcertified #environmentalengineering #environmentalscience #wastewater #pipeline #groundwater #wastewatertreatment #watershed #floodmapping #waterquality Burns & McDonnell KC Water

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Join us TODAY at NOON Eastern: https://lnkd.in/gdF26iem The Ashtabula Story – Delivering New Water Plant Upgrades to Improve Performance This presentation will focus on several key learning objectives including the value in obtaining regular input from key stakeholders, such as regulatory agencies, and the successful application of ‘plan the work, then work the plan’. HDR Adam Arnold, P.E., P.Eng., LEED Green Associate, Rich Atoulikian PMP, PE, Professor Daniel B. Oerther, BCEE/S, DLAAS, FAAN(h)

Join us for a webinar on Wednesday, November 6th at NOON Eastern / 9 AM Pacific. This webinar is titled “Long-Term Vision to Fight Advancing Water Resource Challenges – Todd Creek WWTP Design.” FREE to all AAEES Members. $40 fee for non-members. https://lnkd.in/gdF26iem Webinar Summary The 60-year old Todd Creek Wastewater Treatment plant was experiencing challenges from aging infrastructure, growth and development in the watershed, changes to the facilities’ water quality permit, and impacts from updated flood mapping in the regions.  These drivers caused the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and the entity that manages its water, KC Water, to determine that it would need a new wastewater treatment plant.  As project leader of the cross-functional team supporting the effort, Burns & McDonnell developed the project in a way that reduces land use, minimizes energy and chemical consumption versus traditional approaches, and will produce a cleaner, more environmentally friendly effluent. The $96 million Todd Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is being designed to treat up to 4.6 million gallons per day, using a first-of-its kind treatment technology for the State of Missouri.  By improving the effluent water quality, the project will create more opportunities for outdoor recreation and parks, further supporting the community’s booming development while managing natural resources.   This webinar will provide information on drivers for this project, many of which are common challenges for water utilities across the country, and describe how the project team evaluated solutions and developed the design for this new advanced facility. Webinar Format This webinar will include a moderated Q and A session following the speaker’s presentation. The session is open to environmental engineering and science professionals across all sectors and career stages. Our objective is to offer special insights on leading edge solutions for graduate and undergraduate students as well as early to mid-career environmental professionals who are considering specialty certification. AAEES Board Certified Individuals: Attend this event and earn 1.5 PDHs towards your PDH requirements for maintaining your specialty certification.  #boardcertified #environmentalengineering #environmentalscience #wastewater #pipeline #groundwater #wastewatertreatment #watershed #floodmapping #waterquality Burns & McDonnell KC Water Jeff Keller, PE, DBIA, Blake Anderson

Join us for our next webinar this Wednesday, October 30th at NOON Eastern / 9 AM Pacific. This webinar is titled “The Ashtabula Story – Delivering New Water Plant Upgrades to Improve Performance.” FREE to all AAEES Members. $40 fee for non-members. https://lnkd.in/gdF26iem HDR Adam Arnold, P.E., P.Eng., LEED Green Associate Rich Atoulikian PMP, PE

Join us for our next webinar on Wednesday, October 30th at NOON Eastern / 9 AM Pacific. This webinar is titled “The Ashtabula Story – Delivering New Water Plant Upgrades to Improve Performance.” FREE to all AAEES Members. $40 fee for non-members. https://lnkd.in/e35e3cRQ. Webinar Summary The historic Ashtabula Water Treatment Plant is located in the northeast corner of Ohio near the Pennsylvania border. The 10 MGD Plant was first constructed in 1887 and is owned and operated by Aqua Ohio, who issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to progressive design-build teams in February 2020 to replace and rehabilitate some of the original 100+ year infrastructure. Completing the project by end of 2021 was “mission-critical”; essential to meet regulatory requirements of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, meaning that recovery of the capital cost was only possible if it was treating water “on schedule”. The team of HDR and The Great Lakes Construction Co. was selected by Aqua Ohio with a notice to proceed issued in May 2020, leaving only 19 months for preliminary and detailed design, construction, commissioning, and acceptance. In addition to an extremely tight timeline, there were significant challenges relating to COVID-19 including restrictive workplace policies and global supply chain issues. Yet, the project was completed ahead of schedule – new infrastructure was fully operational in less than five days after startup – and high-quality water was continuously delivered to Aqua Ohio’s customers throughout the construction period. This presentation will focus on several key learning objectives for participants including the value in obtaining regular input from key stakeholders, such as regulatory agencies, and the successful application of ‘plan the work, then work the plan’. Webinar Format This webinar will include a moderated Q and A session following the speaker’s presentation. The session is open to environmental engineering and science professionals across all sectors and career stages. Our objective is to offer special insights on leading edge solutions for graduate and undergraduate students as well as early to mid-career environmental professionals who are considering specialty certification. AAEES Board Certified Individuals: Attend this event and earn 1.5 PDHs towards your PDH requirements for maintaining your specialty certification. #boardcertified #environmentalengineering #environmentalscience #wastewater #pipeline #groundwater #wastewatertreatment #waterplant #ashtabula Adam Arnold, P.E., P.Eng., LEED Green Associate Rich Atoulikian PMP, PE HDR

Thanks to Douglas Eckmann, P.E., BCEE, BC.WRE, F.ASCE and colleague Jordan Miller, E.I. at Kimley-Horn for an amazing webinar to the membership of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists entitled, "Using a GIS Total Model to Quantitatively Analyze Pipeline Route Alternatives." A fascinating, award-winning project demonstrating #leadership and #excellence in #environmental #engineering and #science! #BoardCertification #BCEE #BCEEM #BCES #BCWRE Civil Engineering Certification

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Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, October 23rd at NOON Eastern / 9 AM Pacific. This webinar is titled “Total GIS for Pipeline Route Evaluation.” FREE to all AAEES Members. $40 fee for non-members. https://lnkd.in/gdF26iem The Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority (PRMRWSA) is expanding its regional interconnecting pipelines to serve the growing needs of its member utilities, customers, and partners.  As a component of this program Kimley-Horn was authorized to perform a Feasibility and Routing Study for the Regional Integrated Loop Phase 2B and 2C Pipelines Project. In performing this routing study, the goal was to make the evaluation and ranking of alternative routes through this largely urban area on the SW coast of Florida as objective and quantitative as possible.  The key was to establish non-direct cost criteria, that is, factors that do have a cost, but the cost is hard to define, and not directly related to construction, therefore identified as “non-direct” costs.  The team collected, combined, and evaluated GIS data from multiple sources (Sarasota County, Charlotte County, City of North Port, FDOT, SWFWMD, FDEP, and property appraisers) into a custom GIS database a GIS Total Model).  Field reconnaissance was performed to augment the GIS data with additional information not available in agency GIS data bases.  The possible route alternatives were prescreened and broken down into manageable route segments for detailed analysis.  Each segment was analyzed for intersections with pertinent GIS information and a calculated score for non-direct cost factors was determined for each segment as well as the comparative direct cost.  The individual segments were then combined into feasible routes providing maximum regional benefit.  The shortlisted routes were then ranked by the resulting score for regional benefit, non-direct cost, and direct cost.  The result was a robust and defensible quantitative analysis and ranking of alternatives for approval of the member utilities.  The development of a GIS Total Model and a quantitative approach to analyzing and assembling route segments provided a defensible selection of the most beneficial route for a new 42-inch potable water regional transmission main through a 32-mile urban alignment with a projected cost of over $200 million.   #boardcertified #environmentalengineering #environmentalscience #wastewater #pipeline #groundwater #wastewatertreatment

Join us for a webinar on Wednesday, October 30th at NOON Eastern / 9 AM Pacific. This webinar is titled “The Ashtabula Story – Delivering New Water Plant Upgrades to Improve Performance.” FREE to all AAEES Members. $40 fee for non-members. https://lnkd.in/gdF26iem Webinar Summary The historic Ashtabula Water Treatment Plant is located in the northeast corner of Ohio near the Pennsylvania border. The 10 MGD Plant was first constructed in 1887 and is owned and operated by Aqua Ohio, who issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to progressive design-build teams in February 2020 to replace and rehabilitate some of the original 100+ year infrastructure. Completing the project by end of 2021 was “mission-critical”; essential to meet regulatory requirements of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, meaning that recovery of the capital cost was only possible if it was treating water “on schedule”. The team of HDR and The Great Lakes Construction Co. was selected by Aqua Ohio with a notice to proceed issued in May 2020, leaving only 19 months for preliminary and detailed design, construction, commissioning, and acceptance. In addition to an extremely tight timeline, there were significant challenges relating to COVID-19 including restrictive workplace policies and global supply chain issues. Yet, the project was completed ahead of schedule – new infrastructure was fully operational in less than five days after startup – and high-quality water was continuously delivered to Aqua Ohio’s customers throughout the construction period. This presentation will focus on several key learning objectives for participants including the value in obtaining regular input from key stakeholders, such as regulatory agencies, and the successful application of ‘plan the work, then work the plan’. Webinar Format This webinar will include a moderated Q and A session following the speaker’s presentation. The session is open to environmental engineering and science professionals across all sectors and career stages. Our objective is to offer special insights on leading edge solutions for graduate and undergraduate students as well as early to mid-career environmental professionals who are considering specialty certification. AAEES Board Certified Individuals: Attend this event and earn 1.5 PDHs towards your PDH requirements for maintaining your specialty certification. #boardcertified #environmentalengineering #environmentalscience #wastewater #pipeline #groundwater #wastewatertreatment HDR