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Dates: April 20 -21, 2006AgendaNitrogen Removal SymposiumUniversity of MinnesotaOnsite Sewage Treatment ProgramAdditional SponsorsMinnesota Pollution Control AgencyMinnesota Onsite Sewage Treatment Contractors AssociationMinnesota Professional Organization of Wastewater RecyclingLocation: Best Western White Bear Country Inn.Address: 4940 State Hwy 61, White Bear Lake, MN, 55110.Phone: 651-429-5393Website: http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=24124Time: 8:00 – 5:00 PMTarget Audience: Mid and Large Sized Cluster System Designers and Local and StateRegulatorsRegistration: $225, if registered by 4/12, $250 after 4/12.Includes all materials, rolls and coffee at registration and lunch.Day 1 - April 20 th – Nitrogen Removal OverviewSpeakers:AgendaGene Soderbeck, Brett Ballavance, Mark Wespetal, MPCAStewart Oakley, California State University, ChicoTechnology representative1. MPCA Introduction to Nitrogen Policy for LSTS and MSTS, 8:00 - 8:302. MPCA LSTS and Draft MSTS Permitting Process and Testing, 8:30 – 9:00Break 9:00 – 9:153. Nitrogen in the environment and environmental effects, Stewart Oakley4. Nitrogen dynamics in septic tank-soil absorption systems, Stewart OakleyBreak 10:45 – 11:005. Treatment processes for onsite nitrogen removal, Stewart Oakley6. Biological denitrification, Stewart OakleyLunch 12:00 – 1:00 provided7. Biological denitrification continued, Stewart Oakley8. Process design for biological nitrogen removal, Stewart OakleyBreak 3:00 – 3:159. Discussion, 3:15 – 4:0010. Moving-Bed Bioreactors for Denitrification - Key Design Concepts, David Austin, 4:15 –5:00

Day 2 April 21 stSpeakers:Sheila Grow, MDHTechnology representatives (see below)1. GIS and GW Protection, Sheila Grow, 8:00 – 8:302. Nitrex TM Passive Nitrogen Removal Technology for Wastewater and Groundwater NitrateElimination Applications, Pio Lombardo, 8:30 – 9:15Break 9:15 – 9:303. Microbiological Considerations for Denitrification in Soils, Daniel Wickham, 9:30 – 10:154. Nitrogen Removal using FAST® Technology, Reza Shams, 10:30 – 11: 155. Wastewater Pretreatment by Fessel Environmental Services, Dennis Odens, 11:15 –12:00Lunch provided 12:00 – 1:006. Nitrogen Reduction and Management through AdvanTex Treatment Systems, RichardJex , 1:00 – 1:457. Application of an alternative electron donor for denitrification in decentralized and on-sitewastewater treatment technologies, Sam Ledwell, 1:45 – 2:15Break 2:15 – 2:308. Nitrogen Removal for Decentralized Infrastructure: Aquapoint Bioclere and Lotus-OHAttached Growth Technologies, Mark Lubbers, 2:30 – 3:159. Simultaneous oxidation of organics and nitrogen removal in a single submerged attachedgrowth bioreactor, Philip Pedros, 3:15 – 4:0010. Nitrogen Reduction Through Puraflo Peat Biofilters and Bord na Mona MembraneBioreactor Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Shane Keaney, 4:15 – 5:00

Speaker BiosDavid Austin P.E.Vice President of Ecological DesignNorth American Wetland Engineering LLC4444 Centerville Road, Suite 140White Bear Lake MN 55127651-255-5050 officewww.nawe-pa.comdaustin@nawe-pa.comB.A., Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1984.M.S., Water Resources Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Davis, 1996.David Austin has been engaged full time in design, operation, project management, andtechnology development of advanced ecologically engineered wastewater treatment systems(AEES) since 1996. He is a leading designer of Living Machine(r) wastewater treatment systemsand specializes in nitrification and denitrification in engineered wetland systems. He is the authorof six wastewater patents and other technical publications on AEES and nitrogen removalsystems. Mr. Austin is experienced in the technical, project management, and regulatory issuesof de-centralized wastewater treatment and reuse.Sheila GrowMinnesota Department of HealthPost Office Box 64975St. Paul, MN 55164-0975651.201.4692e-mail: sheila.grow@health.state.mn.usSheila Grow is a hydrologist supervisor for Minnesota Department of Health. Sheila works withthe Source Water Protection Unit staff to help protect public and private drinking water suppliesfrom contamination. She has 20 years of experience as a hydrologist. Previously, she worked asa hydrologist with the Tanks and Spills program and the Superfund program at the MinnesotaPollution Control Agency, as a supervisor of technical staff for cleaning up agricultural chemicalincidents at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, and as a consultant for private industry.MS in Geology from the University of Minnesota, 1986.Richard JexSystems EngineeringOrenco Systems, Inc.800-348-9843 x330rjex@orenco.comRichard Jex is Orenco’s Systems Engineer for the Mountain Region of North America. In 1997,he graduated from Utah State University with a degree in environmental engineering, and he hasmade decentralized wastewater treatment his career ever since. Before joining Orenco in 2004,he worked fulltime as a sanitarian for the Wasatch County (Utah) Health Department. As asanitarian, he did inspections and learned a lot about engineering by seeing what can go wrong inthe field. He also worked part-time at Utah State University’s onsite training center, developing ademo site and giving classes in system design. As a Utah sanitarian, Richard was instrumental inwinning a $45,000 grant for Wasatch County to explore alternative technologies. He alsochampioned a revision of Utah’s rules that will allow the installation of packed bed filters in thestate.

Shane KeaneyVice President, Business DevelopmentBord na MonaBernau AveGreensboro , NC 27407Ph: 336-547-9338Email: shanekeaney@bnm-us.comShane Keaney is Vice President responsible for Business Development at Bord na Mona. He hasrecently moved to America having worked for Bord na Mona in Ireland and has over 15 yearsexperience in the design and construction of municipal wastewater treatment plants and morerecently in wastewater treatment for the on-site sector.Prior to joining Bord na Mona Shane has worked for Degremont one of the worlds largestwater/wastewater companies and South West Water one of the privatized water companiesoperating in the UK. Shane is a Graduate of the Queens University of Belfast.Samuel LedwellEnvironmental Operating Solutions, Inc.www.eosenvironmental.comPO Box 693Falmouth, MA 02541Phone: 508-495-3300 ext 18Fax: 508-495-3353Email: sledwell@eosenvironmental.comPrimary experience in wastewater denitrification in both the onsite/decentralized and municipalindustries utilizing a broad range of denitrification technologies. Focus has been the formulationand development of an alternative electron donor for denitrification. Responsible for research anddevelopment projects, full scale decentralized and municipal pilots with MicroC, and providingtechnical support for over seventy field installations utilizing MicroC. Graduate of Oregon StateUniversity, B.S Biology. Licensed Grade 4 Wastewater Treatment Operator in the State ofMassachusetts.Pio Lombardo, P.E.Lombardo Associates, Inc.Environmental Engineers/Consultants49 Edge Hill RoadNewton, MA 02467Tel: 617-964-2924Email: Pio@LombardoAssociates.comPio Lombardo, PE, President of Lombardo Associates, Inc. (LAI) of Newton, MA has over 30years of experience with innovative wastewater management throughout the US. He has beenthe Engineer-of-Record for innovative wastewater projects with capital costs greater than $200million that are operating in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia, Massachusetts, RI andConnecticut. He is a registered professional engineer in over 20 States and a Diplomate of theAmerican Academy of Environmental Engineers.Mr. Lombardo has a MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington and BSChemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, cum laude. Mr. Lombardo is therecipient of the prestigious American Consulting Engineer's Council Engineering ExcellenceAward and an Engineering News Record Construction Man of the Year candidate award.

Mark LubbersAquapoint, IncNew Bedford, MAmlubbers@aqapoint.comMark Lubbers is Vice President of Sales at Aquapoint, Inc., in New Bedford, MA. He has a BAfrom University of Denver and MS degree from Southern CT State University in EnvironmentalBiology specializing in limnology and estuarine systems. He has completed studies in Hydraulics& Hydrology (MIT), Environmental Law (Fairfield University), Environmental Impact Analysis(SUNY) and Wastewater Treatment Systems Operator training with the MA DEP and is a formerClass 4 Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator in Massachusetts.Mark has more than 10 years experience as an environmental regulator responsible for wetlands,coastal management, riparian systems and storm water management. He has been a consultantto the US EPA on non point pollution of the Long Island Sound and to engineers on mitigation ofenvironmental impacts from development. He has served on local his Water Pollution ControlAuthority, Conservation Commission and as a representative on the Governors CoastalEmbayment Advisory Board for Connecticut. Mark has worked with Aquapoint for the last 10years as a technical sales representative and VP Sales. Aquapoint is focused on decentralized &on site treatment of small wastewater flows and control of nitrogen pollution to rivers, wells andcoastal embayments.Philip Pedros, Ph.D., P.E.Director of EngineeringF.R. Mahony & Associates, Inc.273 Weymouth StreetRockland, MA 02370(781) 982-9300 x33philippedros@frmahony.comBS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Lowell, MS, Environmental Engineering, NortheasternUniversity, and Ph.D. Engineering, Northeastern University, Registered Professional MechanicalEngineer. Member of International Water Association (IWA), Water Environment Federation(WEF), WEF Research Symposium, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), New EnglandWater and Environmental Association (NEWEA), National Onsite Wastewater RecyclingAssociation (NOWRA) American Water Works Association (AWWA) and has a Grade VIWastewater Treatment Plant Operators License, Massachusetts.Stewart Oakley, Ph.D.Professor of Environmental EngineeringDepartment of Civil EngineeringCalifornia State University, ChicoChico, CA 95929-0930Tel: (916) 898-4976; Fax: (916) 898-4576; e-mail: soakley@csuchico.eduDr. Oakley is Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering atCalifornia State University, Chico. He has worked extensively in the fields of wastewatertreatment, and solid/hazardous waste management, has published numerous articles andtechnical reports, and has given dozens of technical workshops both within the US and abroad.Dr. Oakley has worked extensively in the last 12 years on nitrogen removal in wastewatertreatment systems, and he authored the Onsite Nitrogen Removal Module for the UniversityCurriculum Development Project published by the Consortium of Institutes for DecentralizedWastewater Treatment and the US EPA.

Dennis Odens, PEEmail: ddodens@msn.comGraduated from SDSU in 1980 with a BS Degree in Civil Engineering. Worked For BannerAssociates out of South Dakota for 19 years, 4 years with a consultant in Illinois and 2 years witha consultant in Minnesota. Dennis has been in the Civil Engineering Consulting field for 26 years.Currently a self employed engineer. Dennis has written operation and maintenance manuals foractivated sludge plants, sequence batch reactor plants and multi-cell stabilization pond treatmentsystems. Currently Dennis is working with Doug Fessel to develop and fine tune the FesselEnvironmental System's Aerobic Wastewater Pretreatment System.Reza Shams, Ph.D.Vice President, Advanced Process TechnologyBio-Microbics, Inc.Ph: 913-422-0707Fax: 913-422-0808rshams@biomicrobics.comwww.biomicrobics.comReza is Vice President of Process Technology with Bio-Microbics, Inc. He has been with Bio-Microbics for over a year developing new treatment systems suitable for the on-site wastewatertreatment sector. Prior to joining Bio-Microbics, he was with USFilter, Memcor, Jet Tech andEvirex for nine (9) years, performing equipment and system designs for various processesincluding SBR and MBR. Before joining USFilter, Reza worked for Black & Veatch ConsultingEngineers for six (6) years, performing process design for various liquid and biosolids treatmentsystems. Reza received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Health Engineering at theUniversity of Kansas. He is currently an adjunct professor at KU. Dr. Shams has written orpresented over 50 technical papers.Daniel Wickham, Ph.D.Pirana ABG Inc.P.O. Box 2109Sebastopol, CA 95473707-865-2515dwickham@sonic.netDaniel Wickham received his MS in Limnology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.He went on to direct the lobster aquaculture project at the UC Bodega Marine Laboratory inCalifornia and while there continued on, receiving a Ph.D. in Ecology from UC Berkeley.He continued half-time as a UC research ecologist while he built and operated Sea Ridge Wineryon the Sonoma Coast. His microbiology in the wine business led to research on bacterialbioremediation of petroleum contaminants. He is patent holder for the Pirana Blend of facultativebacteria. Recently he created the concept for the Aerobic Bacterial Generator (ABG) and ispatent holder and co-inventor of the Pirana device used to restore failing leachlines. Aspresident/CEO of Pirana ABG Inc. he has created the Sludgehammer for treatment of highstrength and municipal waste