Water industry professionals from Pennsylvania American Water led sessions on a number of critical industry topics at the 65th Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Section of the American Water Works Association.

The annual conference, on April 23-25 in Hershey, brings together both investor-owned and municipal water system officials, managers, operators, regulators and suppliers from across the commonwealth.

The lineup of Pennsylvania American Water experts addressing the conference and their program topics are:

-- Steve Tambini: Using Customer Feedback to Define Value and Improve Satisfaction

-- Paul Zielinski: Are You Ready for Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 3?

-- Jon Prawdzik: Reducing Disinfection By-Product Formation in Surface Water Plants to Meet Disinfection By-Product Regulations Using Sodium Permanganate

-- Adam McDonough: Water Management Plans for Shale, Gas, Oil Development

-- Dan Hufton: Revenue Generating Smart Grid Technology - A Pennsylvania American Water Case Study

-- Eric Westfall: Region 13 Knowledge Center & How Utilities Can Benefit from It

-- Anthony Emanuele: Approaches to Non-Revenue Water Reduction

-- Ray Delo: Health Based Asset Maintenance

-- Dan Rickard: Pennsylvania American Water’s Mid-Monroe System: Soluble Iron & Manganese Removal via Oxidation & Filtration

-- Ralph Wawrzyniakowski: Improving Pump Efficiency to Decrease Energy Consumption

-- Jay Lucas: Pittsburgh Water Treatment Plant Projects

The full schedule of technical presentations at the PA-AWWA annual conference is available online.

4/29/2013