One Water Technical Conference
07/26/2021- 07/29/202

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August Webinar
08/11/2021

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SWOWEA Plant Operations August Seminar
08/19/2021

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September Webinar
09/08/2021

Our new offering, an E-Newsletter Announcement, will allow you to share an announcement with the membership including new services and equipment, staffing changes, or upcoming events. The possibilities are infinite!

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Ohio Water
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More than 900 water and wastewater professionals from around Ohio and surrounding states will join together as part of One Water 2021. Slated for July 26-29 in Cincinnati, Ohio this is one of the largest gatherings of water and wastewater professionals in the Midwest.

This year’s conference will feature great networking events and informative technical sessions. OWEA will also honor the best in our industry during our Awards Luncheon. You will have plenty of time to reconnect with old friends and maybe make some new ones!

While online registration for One Water is closed, you can still plan on coming and registering onsite. You can find more about pricing and the schedule here.

One Water is only made possible because of the generous support of our sponsors. Please support the companies that support your conference.

At the end of June, the 2022-2023 budget agreement was agreed to which included additional funding for H2Ohio. On July 28 from 2:00-3:00 p.m., we are hosting a virtual H2Ohio meeting for all of Ohio’s water advocates to hear from ODA Director Dorothy Pelanda, ODNR Director Mary Mertz, OEPA Director Laurie Stevenson on plans for the next year to implement Governor DeWine’s H2Ohio initiative. After the presentations, there will be some time for questions.

Please kindly RSVP to Lauren Spieth-Niner at Lauren.Spieth@agri.ohio.gov.

OWEA’s August monthly webinar, slated for August 11 at 3 pm, will feature “Diatoms for Evaluating Excess Nutrient Conditions.”

Diatom indicators of biological condition have been developed and applied at local, regional and national scales with relationships among these indicators, human disturbance, and water quality. Changes in diatom and non-diatom algal biomass in streams also appear consistently related to nutrient concentrations in streams. Diatoms respond directly to changes in nutrient concentrations, which are reflective of changes in nutrient loading. No other group of organisms used in biological assessment respond directly to nutrient concentrations. Relationships between algae and nutrients are commonly related to both numeric and narrative ambient water quality nutrient criteria in states across the country. This webinar will discuss the strong relationships that have been established between algae and nutrient condition status in flowing waterbodies across the country, provide an overview of how the data Ohio EPA has been collecting over the last decade can inform the relationship, and follow with results of a pilot study in Central Ohio where simultaneous measurement of diatoms and phosphorus was used to characterize nutrient condition status on Raccoon Creek along a stream reach with mixed point and non-point nutrient sources.

This exciting webinar will be led by Tyler Linton, Ph. D who conducts applied water quality studies. Dr. Linton will be joined by experts from the Ohio EPA.

You can register here.

Learn more about the basics of the agencies risk management program and how it applies to both water treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants during this webinar slated for July 29 from 10 – 11 am.

You can find out more information and register for “Air Pollution Risk Management Program for Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment Plan Superintendents/Operators“ here.
 

The OWEA Annual Business Meeting will be held at the One Water Technical Conference and Expo on Wednesday, July 28 from 3:30 – 4:30 pm. During this time we will hear association, committee and section updates and officially say good bye to outgoing President Mike Welke and welcome Jason Tincu as our new President.

It’s been great weather in Ohio this week. Get outside and take a picture of your plant and plan on submitting it for the 2022 OWEA Calendar photo contest! Your facility is something to be proud of so show it off. Please note, pictures must be of high quality. Submissions with a 100 word description can be emailed to Megan Borror.