DRAFT PROGRAM
(As of January 30, 2002)

Sunday, March 10, 2002

11:00 Inaugural VLWA Golf Tournament
Redwing Golf Course, Virginia Beach

2:00 – 6:00 PM Exhibitors’ Display Set Up (Exhibitors’ Hall)

5:00 – 7:00 PM Registration (Conference Reception Desk)
Meeting of VLWA Board of Directors (Elm Room)

7:00 – 8:30 PM Exhibitor and Early Registrant’s Reception (President’s Suite)

Monday Morning, March 11, 2002

7:00 – 8:00 AM Registration and Check-In (Conference Reception Desk)

7:30 AM Coffee and Pastries (Grand Ballroom)

8:00 – 9:00 AM President’s Welcome – Keynote Speaker

9:15 – 10:45 First Concurrent Sessions

SESSION 1A
Water Quality and TMDLs

Moderator: David Rosenthal, City of Norfolk

SESSION 1B
Lake Maintenance and Dredging

Moderator: Martin Firth, Lake Services of Virginia

Development of Methods for Identifying Sources of Fecal Pollution in Water—Charles Hagedorn, A.M. Booth, A.K. Graves, A.E. Brooks, E.E. Martin – VA Tech

Fecal Coliforms, Nitrates, and Algae: What do we know about them at Smith Mountain Lake and Claytor Lake?—Carolyn Thomas, David Johnson – Ferrum College

The Development of the Thumb Run Fecal Coliform TMDL—Christine Estes – GKY&A

Selecting the Proper Lake Model: A Case Study of the Busse Woods Lake, IL TMDL—J. Timothy Hare, Mark Mittag, Sayedul Choudhury - CH2M Hill

Sedimentation and Sediment Management Program Study of Lake Accotink, Fairfax County, VA—Pieter Dahmen – HDR Engineering

Structured Planning Approach Identifies a Creative Solution to Dredge Disposal, Dredge Study at Lake Accotink, Fairfax County, VA—John Wiser – HDR Engineering

Private Lake Enhancement-A Partnership—Edwin Wrightson, Traci Floyd – City of Newport News

Electronic Hydrographic Survey Techniques—Dave Pearson – GKY&A

11:00 – 12:30 Second Concurrent Sessions

SESSION 2A
Water Quality and TMDLs II

Moderator: Bill Johnston,
City of Virginia Beach

SESSION 2B
Stormwater Management

Moderator: Tim Davey,
Timmons

SESSION 2C
Highway Stormwater and Permitting

Moderator: Rebecca Francese, Waterway Surveys & Engineering

Generating Pollutant Loads to Lakes and Rivers with PLOAD, the Simple Method with a GIS Twist—Laurens van der Tak, J. Timothy Hare – CH2M Hill; Russell Kinerson - EPA

Application of Genetic Algorithm (GA) Optimization Technique in Lake DO Water Quality Modeling—Talat El-Gamal, Khanh Pham, Jaewan Yoon – Old Dominion University

Characterization of the Aerator Influenced DO and Spatiotemporal Hypolimnetic Water Quality Relationship in Lake Prince, VA—Chalermpol Wangsomcholk, Khalid Qadwai, Jaewan Yoon – Old Dominion University

Watershed-Scale Nonpoint Source Water Quality Modeling of Muddy Creek, Rockingham County, VA—Saurabh Kulkarni, Lianghua Zhou, Jaewan Yoon – Old Dominion University

Warehouse Creek Watershed Stormwater Management Master Plan Study—Chandler Morse, Sara VanKeuren, Chris Keene – Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan; Jennifer Smith – Howard County Dept. of Planning

GPS Technology, The Preferred Approach for Conducting a Stormwater Infrastructure Inventory—David Sidney Ward – Loudoun County Dept. of General Services

Oxford Run Drainage Study – Perspective for Future Growth in the City of Poquoson—Ved Malhotra – Michael Baker Jr., Inc.; Jeffrey Bliemel, Charles Burgess, Jr. – City of Poquoson, VA

SWMM At the Beach: A Watershed Evaluation Study of the North Beach Section of Virginia Beach, VA—David Speer, Parsons Brinckerhoff

The New VDOT Drainage Manual in “Electronic Format” Presentation—Glenn Bottomley – Parsons Brinckerhoff

Woodrow Wilson Bridge Replacement Project Hydrology and Hydraulics Studies—Gamal Hassan – Rummel, Klepper & Kahl

“Permitting” the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Mega-Project—Thomas Heil – Rummel, Klepper & Kahl

Stormwater Management and Wetland Mitigation Design for an Urban Roadway Project—Kevin Shunk – Dewberry & Davis

12:45 – 1:45 PM Luncheon (Grand Ballroom)
Keynote Address -- Dr. Rupert Cutler
Former professor, Michigan State University; Nominated to serve the US Dept of Agriculture as its Asst Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and Science and Education; Former Executive Director of Explore Park; Former Executive Director of the Western Virginia Land Trust

Monday Afternoon, March 11, 2002

2:00 – 3:30 PM Third Concurrent Sessions

SESSION 3A
Water Quality Management

Moderator: Ken Young, GKY and Associates, Inc.

SESSION 3B
Innovative Stormwater Solutions

Moderator: Mark Johnson,
City of Virginia Beach

SESSION 3C
FEMA Flood Insurance Programs (VFMA)

Moderator: Corey Garyotis,
Dept. of Conservation & Recreation

The Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program: A Watershed Management Joint Venture Between Virginia and North Carolina—Ernest Brown – VA DCR; Guy Stefanski – NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources

Monitoring of Recreational Beaches of the Swift Creek Reservoir, a Non-Tidal Fresh Water Reservoir, for Soil Bacteria Levels—George DuVal, Stephanie Feaser, Weedon Cloe, Carmen Hein-Harmon, Dave Sirois – Chesterfield County Utilities Dept.; Carol Lenti, Eileen Atkinson – Millwood School Science Program

A New Infiltration Pond Model for Shallow Water Table Conditions—Kaveh Zomorodi, Dewberry & Davis

Permitting a Regional Stormwater Management Facility Yesterday and Today—Melissa McCanna, Geoffrey Cowan – Dewberry & Davis

Innovative Stormwater and Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinances in Bluefield, VA—Shane Parson – Anderson and Associates

Dry Weather Screening: Weather Watching 101—David Ihde, URS Corporation

Sweeping—Stuart Finley – Lake Barcroft Watershed Improvement District

Unconventional Work Force: Cleaning Major Canals with Prison Labor—William Brite, Vasilios Hadjiyiasemi – City of Virginia Beach , Operations Management Division

Overview of FEMA's Cooperative Programs to Update FISs and FIRMs and to Plan for Pre-Disaster Mitigation Measures—Jerry Sparks, Chris Tagert - Dewberry & Davis LLC

North Carolina’s Statewide Program—Tim McCormick, Eric Simmons – Dewberry & Davis LLC

Project Impact in the Central Shenandoah Valley—Pre-Disaster Planning for Flood Mitigation—Rebecca Joyce – Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission

Funding Water Resource Needs: FIS Updates, Flood Mitigation and NPDES Phase II—Douglas Moseley, AMEC Earth & Environmental

3:45 – 5:15 PM Fourth Concurrent Sessions

SESSION 4A
Habitat, Water Quality, and the Chesapeake Bay

Moderator: James Spitz, Tri-County Lake Administrative Commission

SESSION 4B
Watershed and Stormwater Infrastructure

Moderator: Ved Malhotra,
Michael Baker Jr.

SESSION 4C
Advances in Flood Hazard Technology (VFMA)

Moderator: John Paine,
URS Corporation

Municipal Participation in Setting New Water Quality Goals for the Chesapeake Bay—Clifton Bell – Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.; William Hunley, James Pletl – Hampton Road Sanitation District

Minimum Instream Flow of the North Fork Shenandoah River, Virginia: A Habitat Assessment—Jennifer Krstolic – United States Geological Survey

Multiple Benefits Compensation Program – Southern Watersheds of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach—Eric Walberg – Hampton Roads Planning District Commission; Kenneth Dierks – LandMark Design Group, Inc.

Eliminating Fish Blockages in the Potomac River Watershed—Christopher Heyn – KCI Technologies, Inc.

Fair Meadows Drainage and Neighborhood Revitalization City of Virginia Beach, Virginia—Robert Cosby – Michael Baker Jr., Inc.; Stephen McLaughlin – City of Virginia Beach Public Works Dept.

Watershed Analysis Made Easy With Flow Monitoring and Citizen Input—Jack Wall, Seshadri Suryanarayani – Woolpert LLP; Anna Drake – County of York, Dept. of Environmental and Development Services

Constructing a Functional Stormwater GIS—David Sedgwick Ward, James Suddreth – Loudoun County, Dept. of General Services

Lynnhaven Water Management Plan Presentation Quality Physical Environment Strategic Issue Team and Facilities and Land Commons Policy Team Meeting—Clay Bernick – City of Virginia Beach, Dept. of Planning

Hydraulic Modeling Considerations for FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)—Michael DePue – Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan

Using Technology to Manage Flood Hazard Data—Christopher Garrett, Becky Peer – URS Corporation

The Status of FEMA’s Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) Product—David Preusch – Michael Baker Jr., Inc.

GIS Based Flood Hazard Study and Mitigation Evaluation, Bristol, VA-TN—Jeff Sparrow – AMEC Earth and Environmental

Monday evening, March 11, 2002

5:15 – 6:30 PM Reception

6:30 – 7:00 PM Virginia Lakes and Watersheds Association Business Meeting (Grand Ballroom)

Tuesday Morning, March 12, 2002

8:00 – 9:30 AM Fifth Concurrent Sessions

SESSION 5A
Watershed Management

Moderator: Shelly Frie, Woolpert LLP

SESSION 5B
Low Impact Development

Moderator: Neil Weinstein, Low Impact Development Center

SESSION 5C
Dam Safety and Rehabilitation I

Moderator: Jon Phillippe, Dept. of Conservation and Recreation

Chesterfield County’s Watershed Assessment and Stream Protection (WASP) Program—Scott Flanigan – Chesterfield County

Development of a Watershed Management Plan for Reston, Virginia – Managing Developed Watersheds with Dated Stormwater Management Infrastructure—Diana Saccone, Larry Butler – Reston Association; Seth Brown, Stuart Stein – GKY and Associates, Inc.

Watershed Restoration Planning for Watersheds with Urban and Rural Land Uses—Robert Kerr, Curtis Hickman – LandMark Design Group

Consensus Based Urban Habitat and P2 Watershed Master Planning—Michael Barbachem – URS Corporation

Conventional Stormwater Management to Low Impact Development —Larry Gavan – Virginia DCR

LID Planning Process for Rural Virginia Communities—John Tippett – The Friends of the Rappahannock

Remote Sensing Applications for LID—Traci Arthur – The Low Impact Development Center

Low Impact Development Stormwater Management Retrofit Design for Restoration of Long Pond, Littleton, Massachusetts—Steve Roy – GeoSyntec, Inc.

Dammed If It Is – or Is It A Dam—Jon Phillippe, Tom Roberts – Virginia DCR, Division of Dam Safety

Roller Compacted Concrete for Increasing Spillway Capacity—Randall P. Bass – Portland Cement Association

SNAP-TITE Liner Solution—Andrew Cary – Professional Engineering Sales

Sliplining Can Save You Dollars—Russell Bendel, Joseph Monroe – Schnabel Engineering Associates

10:00 – 11:30 AM Sixth Concurrent Sessions

SESSION 6A
Water Supply

Moderator: Don Rice, Newport News Waterworks

SESSION 6B
Lake Management

Moderator: Ephraim Seidman, Aquatic Services, Inc.

SESSION 6C
Dam Safety and Rehabilitation II

Moderator: Richard Dameron, Virginia Department of Emergency Management

Managing Safe Drinking Water from the Source to the Consumer—Linda Warren, Ronald Booth – CH2M Hill

Drought Contingency Planning for Water Supplies—Pamela Kenel – Black and Veatch Corp.; Henry Waldroup – City of Concord, NC; Allen Todd – City of Manassas, VA

Regional Flow Management for the Falls of the James River in Richmond, Virginia—Federico Maisch, Ronald Bizzarri, Kenneth Eyre – Greeley and Hansen, LLC; Kenneth Chandler, Gary DuVal – City of Richmond

Watershed Protection for Drinking Water Supplies: A Regional Tool—Shonia Holloway, Scott Emry – Hampton Roads Planning District Commission; Philip Hecht, Linda Warren – CH2M Hill

Aquatic Vegetation Identification—Laurie Fox – Virginia Tech, Hampton Roads Agricultural Research & Extension Center

Registration Testing for Aquatic Herbicides “What Does It Tell You” —Alan “Bo” Burns – SePRO Corporation

Managing the Physical Components of Lakes and Ponds —Scott Cahill – Watershed Services

Critters, Etc.—Ephraim Seidman – Aquatic Services, Inc.

Rehabilitation of Marrowbone Dam – RCC Armoring for 13 Feet of Overtopping—Tillman Marshall, Eric Ditchey, Thomas Fitzgerald – Schnabel Engineering Associates

Potomac #2 Dam Spillway Improvements—Andrew Gould, Kelly Ramsey – TIMMONS, Environmental Services

Extreme Virginia Floods, Spillway Expansion and Dam Safety—John Harrison – Schnabel Engineering Associates

Controlling Erosion on Reservoirs Slopes – The Soil-Cement Solution—Randall Bass – Portland Cement Association

Noon – 1:30 PM Luncheon (Grand Ballroom)
Dam Safety Awards Presentations and Keynote Address

Tuesday Afternoon, March 12, 2002

1:30 – 3:30 PM Virginia Floodplain Management Association Annual Business Meeting