2007 AWRA-WA Annual Conference:
Transboundary Water Resources of Washington State and British Columbia

October 4-5, 2007, MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND INDUSTRY (MOHAI), Seattle, WA

Presented by:
The Washington Section of the American Water Resources Association
In cooperation with
British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Water Resource Association
 

Basin-Level Sponsors

  


Basin-Level Sponsors

 

 

2007 WA-AWRA Conference Program

Conference Presentations

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SESSION 1    STORMWATER MANAGEMENT

Beyond the Guidebook: Designing with Nature to Create Liveable Communities & Protect Stream Health

Kim Stephens, Water Sustainability Action Plan for British Columbia

Remi Dube, Drainage Planning Manager, City of Surrey

 

What About The Other 190%

Gary Minton, Ph.D, PE, Resource Planning Associates

 

Restoring Puget Sound: The Role of Storm water and Land Use Management

Ed O’Brien, Washington State Department of Ecology

 

SESSION 2    LIQUID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Risk-Based Environmental Management in Metro Vancouver

Albert van Roodselaar, Ph.D, P.Eng., Division Manager, Metro Vancouver

 

Moving Beyond Minimum Treatment Requirements in the Puget Sound Basin

Stan Hummel, King County

 

Capital Regional District Core Area Wastewater Management Program

Dwayne Kalynchuk, Capital Regional District, Victoria, British Columbia

 

SESSION 3    CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate Change and Water Policy: New Paradigms and Gordian Knots

Kurt Unger, Washington State Department of Ecology

 

Local Climate Change Visioning Project

David Flanders, University of British Columbia

 

Climate Change and Drought in the West

Philip Mote, University of Washington Climate Impacts Group

 

SESSION 4    CASE STUDIES I

Managing Flood Risk on the Fraser River in British Columbia

Neil Peters, BC Ministry of Environment

 

SPU Adaptation Framework to Address Potential Climate Change Impacts to Drainage & Wastewater System

Gary Schimek, Seattle Public Utilities

 

Permitting a New Waste Discharge to the Spokane River:  Implications for Inter-state River Management 

Stan Miller, Spokane County Utilities, retired

 

SESSION 5    COLUMBIA RIVER

Transboundary Columbia Futures 

Rachael Paschal Osborn, Center for Environmental Law and Policy

 

Role of Storage in the Columbia River Basin Water Management Program

Derek Sandison, Washington State Department of Ecology

 

A Community Perspective from the Canadian Columbia Basin

Kindy Gosal, Columbia Basin Trust

 

Keeping the Lessons of Celilo Falls Alive

Charles Hudson, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

 

Restoring Upper Columbia River Salmon Populations: a Transboundary Management Issue

William Green, Canadian Columbia River Tribal-Fisheries Commission

 

SESSION 6    CASE STUDIES II

Transboundary Issues on the Sumas River 

Sandra Brown, University of British Columbia

 

Pacific Northwest Water Resources Planning Case Studies Addressing Climate Change  

Alan F. Hamlet, University of Washington

 

Spokane Valley - Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer Study: Collaborative Modeling Toward Integrated Regional Management

Guy J. Gregory, Washington Department of Ecology

 

International Watershed Initiative 

Irene B. Brooks (Care of Frank Bevacqua, Public Information Officer), United States Section, International Joint Commission