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The Washington Section of
the American Water Resources Association was pleased to
present our annual conference:
Present and Future
of Water Storage in Washington State
on October 23, 2008
at the
Bell Harbor International Conference Center,
Seattle, Washington |
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The Washington Chapter of the American Water Resources Association
(WA-AWRA) presented our 2008 Annual Conference, “Future of Water
Storage in Washington State” at the Bell Harbor Conference
Center on the Seattle waterfront. Speakers from around the
region examined the need, options, and outlook for water storage
in Washington. A keynote address was presented by Jim Waldo of
Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson, & Daheim LLP, and
was followed by four sessions. Each session was moderated by an
eminent representative of the legal, environmental, tribal, and
technical aspects of water storage
The first session, “Context,” opened with speakers from
University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group, the Bureau of
Reclamation, and the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board
discussing water availability and in-stream and out-of-stream
demand horizons. In the second session, “Surface Water
Storage,” speakers from Tacoma Public Utilities, Bureau of Reclamation, and CH2M Hill
discussed recent experiences with surface water storage
development in the State. For the third session, “Groundwater
Storage,” speakers from the City of Walla Walla, Washington
Department of Ecology, Oregon Water Resources Department, and
Golder Associates described issues and experiences surrounding
groundwater storage in Washington and Oregon.
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The final session, “Policy and Future Direction,”
addressed the application and future of water storage from
political, environmental, economic, and user perspectives.
Representatives from the Governor’s Policy Office, Washington
Water Policy Alliance, The Nature Conservancy, and WestWater
Research made up the final session’s speaker-panelists. At the
conclusion of the conference, there was an on-site evening
social mixer.
New
this year: Student poster display:
Current or recently-graduated students were invited to submit
an abstract briefly describing their university-level research
on a water resources topic. Selected students were invited to display
their research at a special poster session
held at the Conference after lunch.
2nd Annual Photo Contest Results!
Full Conference Program (pdf file)
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Conference Presentations
The following conference presentations are posted with
the permissions of the presenters. As presentations are
made available to WA-AWRA, the title links will be made live. To use any of the
content within a presentation, please contact the presenter for
explicit permission.
Water 2066: The Future of Storage in the
Pacific Northwest?
Tim Personius,
Bureau of Reclamation
Watershed Management in the Lower Columbia: Balancing the Needs
of People and Fish
Andrew Graham,
HDR, Inc.
Climate Change: Water Planning Horizon Forecasts
Julie
Vano,
University of Washington Climate Impacts Group
All We Have Left is NIMBYs and BANANAs
Onni Perala,
Bureau of Reclamation/ Roza Irrigation District, retired.
Columbia River Mainstem Off-Channel Storage
Appraisal Evaluation
Mark
Bransom,
CH2M Hill
More Storage - Improved Forage
Greg
Volkhardt,
Tacoma Public Utilities
City of Walla Walla
Aquifer Storage and Recovery
Hal Thomas,
Army Corps of Engineers
Groundwater Storage in Washington
David
Nazy,
Washington State Department of Ecology
Regulatory Considerations of Groundwater Storage – Oregon
Perspective
Donn Miller,
Oregon Water Resources Department
Groundwater Recharge of Reclaimed Water
Chris Pitre,
Golder Associates
Prospects for Water
Storage
Keith Phillips,
Washington State Governor’s Executive Policy Office
The Economics of Water Storage
Harry Seely,
West Water Research
Storage Policy (Water User Perspective)
Kathleen Collins,
Washington Water Policy Alliance
Can New Water Storage
in Washington be Environmentally Sustainable?
Chris Konrad,
The Nature Conservancy
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