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PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Thursday, June 14, 2018
THU04 
CE Corps®—Leveraging Partnerships to Get the
Job Done!
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Breakers IJ
Track: Small Systems Management & Operations
Moderator: Clare Haas Claveau THU06 
Applying Advanced Infrastructure Across the
Water Cycle
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Mandalay Bay Ballroom I
Track: Innovation & Technology
Moderator: Chris Thomson
The Community Engineering Corps focuses on providing pro
bono engineering services to underserved communities across
the United States and Canada—but we can’t be successful on
our own! This session demonstrates how primacy agencies,
non-profit organizations, volunteers and community partners
collaborate to deliver necessary technical assistance to improve
failing water infrastructure. Utilities are using smart solutions to help with capital
planning, improve operations and enhance customer service.
This presentation demonstrates how to advance existing
infrastructure and transform utilities into smart utilities through
utility case examples spanning raw water supply to distribution
networks and other parts of the water cycle.
8:30 
Community Engineering Corps Program Overview
and Updates
Clare Haas Claveau, Engineers Without Borders 8:30 
Reaching New Information Within the Water Cycle Networks
Chris Thomson, Sensus, a Xylem Brand, Christine E. Boyle,
Valor Water Analytics, a Xylem Brand
9:00 
Powerful Partnerships—Working with Organization (USDA,
RCAP, etc) to Provide Needed Services
Nicole Schindler, USDA 9:10 
Extracting Quality Data from Raw Water Monitoring
Stephanie Smith, YSI, a Xylem Brand
9:45 
Volunteers in Action—Successful Project Management on
“Volunteer Time”
Lynn Williams Stephens, Brown and Caldwell
Dan Barris, MS Consultants
10:30 
Panel Discussion—Successes, Best Practices and How to
Serve More Communities
Clare Haas Claveau, Engineers Without Borders
Nicole Schindler, USDA
Lynn Williams Stephens, Brown and Caldwell
Dan Barris, MS Consultants
THU05 
Wall Street Demystified
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Mandalay Bay Ballroom A
Track: Financing, Rates and Affordability
Moderator: Ted Chapman
Standards & Poor offers a unique perspective on what investors
view as the attractive versus perceived risks and how strengths
and weaknesses affect credit. Learn why investors are interested
in hot topics like asset management, climate resiliency,
affordability, and succession planning. In addition, the session
offers insights into how utilities are attracting private capital,
including growth of environmental, social and governance (ESG)
and green bonds.
8:30 
Rating Agency Methodology and Assumptions
Obioma Ugboaja, S&P Global Ratings
9:15 
Utility Manager’s View of Rating and Credit Process
Linda Sullivan, American Water
9:45 
International Capital Markets, ESG & Green Bonds
Kurt Forsgren, S&P Global Ratings
10:30 
When Blue is Green—Public Perception
Dave Nowartarski, Capital Region Water
9:50 
Advancing Leak Detection in a Rural Water Utility
Zac Barker, Visenti, a Xylem Brand
10:30 
De-mystifying Large Diameter Pipeline Asset Management
Mike Higgins, Pure Technologies, a Xylem Brand
THU07 
Use of Risk in Pipeline Renewal Planning
8:30–11:00 a.m.
Room: Mandalay Bay Ballroom J
Track: Asset Management
Moderator: Paul Schumi
This session provides practical examples in the use of risk to
advance asset management practices at various water utilities,
including new tools to identify likelihood and consequence of
failure, and mitigate risk within a risk management framework.
8:30 
AWWA C900 PVC Water Main Pipe: 40 Years of
Successful Service
Douglas Seargeant, Epcor Water Services, Inc.
9:00 
SAWS Uses Finite Element and Remaining Useful Life
Analysis to Defer $40M Pipeline Replacement
Ashan McNealy, Pure Technologies, Inc. Andy Dettmer,
Brian Ellis, Jennifer Steffans, Linda Bevis
9:30 
Dallas Defers $70M Capital Replacement of 84-inch PCCP
Water Main Using Remaining Useful Life Analysis
Randall Payton, Dallas Water Utilities, Andy Dettmer,
Johnny Partain, George Scaaf
10:00 
Prioritizing Water Distribution System Pipe Replacement
Given Random Defects
Charles Scawthorn, SPA Risk, LLC, Eugene Ling, David Myerson,
Douglas York
10:30 
Las Vegas Valley Water District Pipeline Risk Analysis
Roger Jordan, Las Vegas Valley Water District, Nass Diallo, Las
Vegas Valley Water District, Laura Jacobsen
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