WMAO 2012 Fall Conference

“100 Years of Watershed Events”

November 14 and 15, 2012

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Columbus Room – 2nd Floor
7:30-8:00 a.m. Registration
8:00-9:40 a.m. Welcome
Peter Soltys and Jeff Patzke, WMAO
Keynote Address
Remembering and Forgetting “Our National Calamity”: Legacy from the Great Easter 1913 Flood
Trudy E. Bell
9:40-10:00 a.m. Break
Wednesday, November 14
WMAO 2012 Fall Conference
“100 Years of Watershed Events”
November 14 and 15, 2012
WMAO
Water
Management
Association
of Ohio
Capitol Room – 1st Floor
10:00-11:30 a.m. Water and Commerce
− Lake Erie and the Ohio Charter Sport Fishing Industry
Joe Lucente, OSU Extension/Ohio Sea Grant
− Economics of Source Water Protection
Kyle Bohland, ORWA
− Understanding the Big Picture
Thomas G. Gentile, Jefferson County Water
and Sewer District
Polaris Room – 1st Floor
Development and Water Management
− The Ever Changing World of Storm Water: Low Impact Development
Jarret Goddard, Contech
− Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard
Katie Rousseau, American Rivers
− Linking Land Use and Ohio’s Waters: Ohio’s Balanced Growth Program
Best Local Land Use Practices and New Resources, 2012
Kirby Date, CSU Community Planning Program
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Awards Luncheon
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Break
1:00-2:30 p.m. Ground Water
− Redox Processes in Ohio Ground Water
Michael Slattery, Ohio EPA-DDAGW
− Identifying Ohio PWS Wells That Are Sensitive
to Pathogen Contamination
Chris Kenah, Ohio EPA-DDAGW
− A Speleologist’s View of the High Yielding Wells
in Ohio’s Newburg Zone
Scott Bair, Ph.D., OSU School of Earth Sciences
Dam Safety-ODSO
− Protecting Our National Heritage—The Washington DC Levees
Arthur Nix, Tetra Tech
− Ohio Statewide Probable Maximum Precipitation Study
Hung Thai, ODNR-Engineering
− We Got How Much Rain?—Emergency Seepage Berm at East Reservoir
Pete Nix, Tetra Tech
3:00-4:30 p.m. Ohio Rivers and Streams
− Laurel Creek Design-Build Restoration Project A-Z:
From ARRA Requirements to Successful Completion
J. Meiring Borcherds, Cuyahoga County Board of Health
− Using STEP-L Modeling and 210-Pb Dated Dam Pool
Sediment Cores to Predict Sediment Loading Post-Dam
Removal, Cuyahoga River, Ohio
Maia Peck, NEFCO
− Macroinvertebrate Community Trends in Ohio’s
Largest Rivers: 1970s-2012
Jeff DeShon, Ohio EPA-DSW
Historic Perspectives on Water in Ohio
− Water Use in Ohio and the Nation
Kimberly Shaffer, USGS
− Changes in Transparency of Lakes in Ohio: A North American Perspective
Robert Carlson, KSU Department of Biological Sciences
− The 40th Anniversary of the November 1972 Storm on Lake Erie
D. Mark Jones, ODNR-Geological Survey
4:30-6:00 p.m. Reception and Posters (new poster submissions welcomed—go to www.wmao.org)
Centennial Stream Gages in Ohio
Kimberly Shaffer, USGS
15 Years of Watershed Events: Tributary Effects of the Re-Eutrophication of Lake Erie
Doug Kane, Defiance College, Science and Mathematics Division
Urban Stream Restoration Yields Cross-Cutting Community Benefits
J. Meiring Borcherds, Cuyahoga County Board of Health
Nutrient Level Analysis of the Beckett Ridge Water Quality Basin
Amy Cameron, Butler SWCD

Thursday, November 15
WMAO 2012 Fall Conference
Capitol Room – 1st Floor
8:00-9:30 a.m. Watershed Management
− Recovery in Raccoon Creek
Amy Mackey, OU Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Policy
− Twin Creek Preserve: Riparian Restoration
Through Unique Partnerships
Kara Scheerhorn, Mill Creek Watershed Council of Communities
− Developing a Watershed Control Program for Ohio EPA
Long-Term Stage 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Jessica Glowczewski, City of Akron Water Supply
9:30-10:00 a.m. Break
10:00-11:30 a.m. Mineral Resources Management
− The “411” on the AML Programs Public Health and
Safety Unit Blake Arthur, ODNR-DMRM
− The “411” on the AML Programs “911” Unit
Tim Jackson, ODNR-DMRM
− Shale Gas Extraction Regulation Update
TBD, ODNR-DOGRM
Polaris Room – 1st Floor
Harmful Algal Blooms
− A Sampling Protocol for HAB Analysis
Robert Davic, OLMS
− HABs Monitored by Citizen Scientists in the Muskingum Watershed, Ohio
Dana Oleskiewicz, OLMS
− HABs and Ohio PWSs
Heather Raymond, Ohio EPA-DDAGW
Conservancy Districts
− 100th Anniversary of the 1913 Flood in the Ohio Valley
Sarah Jamison, NWS
− 100 Years of Regional Leadership
Kurt Rinehart, MCD
− Flood Reduction and Water Conservation: The History, Mission, and Operations
of the Muskingum Conservancy District
Lautenschleger, MWCD
CEU credit and qualification for Engineering and Surveying CPD will be offered.
12:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. WMAO Division Board Meetings or Break
WMAO
Water
Management
Association
of Ohio
2:30-3:30 p.m. Climate Change: Glaciers, Water, and People (Moderator – Lonnie Thompson, Ph.D., OSU Byrd Polar Institute)
3:30-4:30 p.m. Ice Cream Social
1:00-2:30 a.m. Agriculture and Algal Blooms: What
Social Science Can Tell Us About Solving
OnE of Ohio’s most Vexing Water Quality
Issues.
Panel Members:
Joe Bonnel, Ph.D., OSU Extension
Brent Sohngen, Ph.D., OSU Department of Agricultural,
Environmental, and Development Economics
Robyn Wilson, Ph.D., School of Environment and Natural
Resources
Jeff Sharp, Ph.D., School of Environment and Natural
Resources
WATER QUALITY
− Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in the Streams and Aquifers
of the Great Miami River Basin
Michael Ekberg, Miami Conservancy District and Bruce Pletsch, Miami Conservancy
District
− Road Salt Storage In Ohio: Recommendations for Protecting Water Resources
Jeff Patzke, Ohio EPA-DDAGW
− Lower Great Miami River Water Quality Monitoring Program
Brian Bohl, Hamilton SWCD
11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Lunch and Board Meeting