WEF Webcasts Cover Sustainability, Process Control, Force Mains, Watershed Modeling

Envision™ A Sustainable Water Sector

Developed by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI; Washington, D.C.), the Envision™ rating system provides a holistic framework for evaluating and rating the social, environmental, and economic benefits of infrastructure projects of all types and sizes. This webcast will explain how water and wastewater utilities are using the rating system to promote sustainability on their projects.

The webcast will include an overview of ISI, a summary about the structure of the Envision rating system, and a presentation of case studies from New York, California, Nebraska, and Washington state. It also will include a discussion of the Water Environment Federation’s (Alexandria, Va.) Sustainability Community of Practice’s Envision Task Force and the upcoming Envision activities at WEFTEC^®.

July 9, 1–3 p.m. (EDT)

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Can You Trust Your TSS to Improve Process Control?

This webcast will discuss the importance of total suspended solids (TSS) testing, instrumentation, and technique and application of data. Webcast speakers will provide a comprehensive review of the broad range of analysis methods (gravimetric, centrifuge spin, and meters), along with the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

July 16, 1–3 p.m. (EDT)

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Force Main Condition Assessment Series

Part 1: Choosing the Right Technology

This webcast presents an overview of recent advances and the outlook for innovations, including what recent Imagine H2O (San Francisco) competition winners are doing.

Recording now available.

Part 2: Implementation of Projects – Planning, Design, and Construction

July 30, 1–3 p.m. (EDT)

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Part 3: Lessons Learned

Sept. 10, 1–3 p.m.

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Linking Stormwater BMP Performance to Receiving Water Protection: Improving Selection and Design

Watershed modelers now have a tool that enables them to connect their models to receiving water models, meteorological data, cost data, and best management practice (BMP) performance data. This webcast will discuss Framework Version 2.0, a software program that makes it easy for modelers to not only develop statistics and charts by directly reading results from models, such as SWMM and CE-QUAL-W2, but also to connect those models.

Aug. 6, 1–3 p.m. (EDT)

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