GREAT LAKES COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
WORKSHOP
IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
CITY OF TORONTO, METRO HALL, 55 JOHN STREET, ROOMS 308 & 309
MARCH 5 – 6, 2007
PROGRAM AGENDA – DAY 1 (MARCH 5)
TIME
TOPIC
AFFILIATION
8:30 – 8:50 WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
8:00 – 8:30
8:30 – 8:45
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Welcome
9:00 – 9:10
GLSF CSO Program Overview,
Introduction to CSO Manual
Hamilton Wet Weather Flow Master
Plan & Implementation
CSO Strategy for the Niagara Region
SPEAKER NAME
Joe Pantalone, Deputy Mayor, City of
Toronto
8:45 – 9:00
Opening Remarks
City of Toronto
Michael D’Andrea, Director,
Water Infrastructure Management,
Toronto Water
9:00 – 12:00 UPDATES ON CSO PLANS & PROJECTS IN VARIOUS GREAT LAKES AREAS OF CONCERN
(SESSION CHAIR: SANDRA KOK)
9:10 – 9:40
9:40 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:25
10:25 – 10:50
10:50 – 11:20
11:20 – 11:50
11:50 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:00
BREAK
City of Toronto Wet Weather Flow
Master Plan Implementation Update
City of Ottawa CSO Control
Program
CSO Policies:
- Ontario – Review of CSO
activities in Ontario
- Canada – Update on CCME
Municipal Wastewater Strategy
Q&A Session for speakers
City of Toronto
Great Lakes
Sustainability Fund
City of Hamilton
Regional Municipality of
Niagara
City of Toronto
City of Ottawa
Ontario Ministry of the
Environment
Ontario Ministry of the
Environment
Great Lakes
Sustainability Fund
Sandra Kok, Senior Program Engineer,
Environment Canada
Abdul Khan, Director of Water and
Wastewater
Derek Ali,
DFA Infrastructure International Inc.
Jonathan P’ng, Manager, Stormwater
Management, Toronto Water
Curtis Rampersad, Program Manager,
Infrastructure Management Division
Sherry Diemert, Regional Program
Coordinator, Northern Region
Barbara Anderson, Senior Policy Analyst
Sandra Kok, Senior Program Engineer,
Environment Canada
LUNCH
13:00 – 14:15 SYSTEMS OPTIMIZATION (SESSION CHAIR: PHILIP CHEUNG)
13:00 – 13:30
Experience with Real Time Control
13:30 – 13:45
PCS Implementation
City of Toronto
Carlo Casale, Team Co-ordinator,
City of Toronto
Capital Projects Delivery, Toronto Water
The Impact of Climate Change on
University of Toronto
Barry Adams, Professor, &
Toronto Sewer Infrastructure
Adwoa Cobbina, Graduate Student
BREAK
14:30 – 16:15 NEW TECHNOLOGIES (SESSION CHAIR: PHILIP CHEUNG)
13:45 – 14:15
14:15 – 14:30
14:30 – 14:45
14:45 – 15:15
15:15 – 15:45
North Toronto Treatment Plant
Chemically Enhanced Treatment of
CSO
Identifying Preferred Alternatives for
CSO Control
Enhanced Primary Treatment &
Disinfection of CSO
BPR CSO, Montreal
Hubert Colas, Executive Vice-President
City of Toronto
Philip Cheung, Senior Engineer,
Toronto Water
City of Windsor
Kit Woods, Executive Director,
Environmental Services
Albert Kwan, General Supervisor,
Strategic Planning
City of Edmonton
TIME
15:45 – 16:15
TOPIC
AFFILIATION
SPEAKER NAME
ACTIFLO Pilot Test Results at
City of Toronto
Mark Rupke, Senior Engineer,
Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant
Wastewater Treatment, Toronto Water
16:15 – 17:30 FUNDING & FINANCE (SESSION CHAIR: SUNIL SHARMA)
16:15 – 16:45
Federal Financing/Funding
Infrastructure Canada
16:45 – 17:15
Provincial Financing/Funding
17:15 – 17:30
WRAP-UP FOR DAY-1
Ontario Ministry of
Public Infrastructure
Renewal
National Water Research
Institute, Environment
Canada
17:30 – 18:30
CRACKER BARREL – Networking,
Meet Peers, Exchange Ideas, Discuss
Issues
Sonya Lewis-Read, Principal Advisor,
Environmental Policy
Nancy Mudrinic, Manager, FederalProvincial Infrastructure Strategies
Jiri Marsalek, Chief,
Urban Water Management, Water
Science & Technology
PROGRAM AGENDA – DAY 2 (MARCH 6)
TIME
8:00 – 8:30
8:30 – 9:00
9:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:45
10:45 – 11:30
TOPIC
AFFILIATION
SPEAKER NAME
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 – 12:15 IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES (SESSION CHAIR: JONATHAN P’NG)
Challenges with Implementing
Edmonton’s CSO Control Program
City of Portland CSO Program
Implementation: Planning, Design,
Construction, System Operations and
New Sustainable Controls
BREAK
Milwaukee’s Long Term Efforts to
Improve Water Quality
City of Edmonton
City of Portland, Oregon
Milwaukee Metropolitan
Sewerage District
(MMSD), Wisconsin
City of Toronto
Albert Kwan, General Supervisor,
Strategic Planning
Virgil Adderley, CSO Program Manager,
Portland Bureau of Environmental
Services
Kevin Shafer, Executive Director,
MMSD
11:30 – 12:15
Q&A Session for speakers
12:15 – 13:15
LUNCH
13:15 – 14:45 IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
PANEL DISCUSSION (SESSION CHAIR: JIRI MARSALEK)
13:15 – 14:45
CSO Control Implementation:
Challenges and Solutions
 Design, construction, funding,
research, public consultation, etc.
WRAP-UP FOR CSO WORKSHOP
14:45 – 15:00
City of Toronto
Jonathan P’ng, Manager, Stormwater
Management, Toronto Water
All Speakers
Jiri Marsalek / Jonathan P’ng
Attendees are free to speak on
microphone provided
Michael D’Andrea, Director,
Water Infrastructure Management,
Toronto Water