2023 Conference Proceedings

Select Papers and most presentations from the 2023 Onsite Wastewater Mega-Conference are posted below on this page. Presentations are posted in PDF and are listed in the Grid on the bottom of this page based off of the final Mega-Conference agenda.

Thanks for your support and attendance at the Conference. Hope to see you next year in Spokane, Washington!

PAPERS from the 2023 Mega-Conference, prepared by the authors and reviewed by the NOWRA Technical Practices Committee are listed here:

Justin Jobin - Nassau County, NY's Nitrogen Reducing Septic System Grant Program 2023 Update
Justin Jobin - The Need for Regionalized Standard Operating Procedures for the Acceptance, Use, and Management of Nutrient-Reducing Septic Systems
Kevin Sherman - Understanding the Microbes Responsible for Nitrogen Transformations
Carley Allison - On-Site Greenhouse Ecosystem to Treat Craft Beverage Wastewater (coming soon)

POSTERS from the 2023 Mega-Conference, prepared by the authors and reviewed by the NOWRA Technical Practices Committee are listed here:

Rachel Chai - Life Cycle Assessment of Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Collection Technologies in the Alabama Black Belt
Ryan Homeyer - Modeling the Effectiveness of Freeze Concentrating High Strength Wastewater for Nutrient Reclamation at the Building Scale
Sushama Pradhan - Clean Watersheds Needs Survey: How Much Do We Need?
Kevin White - Seeking Sustainable and Replicable Wastewater Solutions for Rural, Underserved Communities in the 16-County Alabama Black Belt
Sara Wigginton - Shubael Pond Project
Mohammed Tamim Zaki - A Framework for Informing County-scale Sustainable Organic Waste Management in Rural Farming Regions of the United States

Presentations are posted in PDF and are listed in the Grid below based off of the final Mega-Conference agenda. Titles in the grid may be abbreviated, refer to agenda for full titles.

2023 ONSITE WASTEWATER MEGA-CONFERENCE

Monday, October 23, 2023

Opening General Session

Alabama Black Belt Unincorporated Communities: “Building Wastewater Infrastructure That Will Last Because People Matter”, Sherry Bradley, Blackbelt Unincorporated WWP

Small Steps Lead to Big Results, Lance Gregory, Virginia Department of Health

US EPA Update, Andrew Sawyers, Director, Office of Wastewater Management

USDA Update - Steven Polacek, Assistant Administrator

Lobbying Efforts on Behalf of Onsite and Decentralized Wastewater, Tim Perrin, Polsinelli, LLC

NOWRA Announcements and Setting the Stage, Allison Blodig, NOWRA President

State Leader

Nutrients

Hydraulics

Problem Solving

Policy

Environmental Justice

Panel: State Association Management

Trantham

Reduction in Groundwater Transport of Nitrate

Humphrey

Hydraulic Engineering Principles for Onsite Installers

Lentz

Tips and Tricks to Locating System Components

Fiedler

Closing America's
Wastewater Access Gap

Lowenstein

Affordability of Wastewater Management in Alabama

Maxcy-Brown

State Wastewater Association Tool Kit

Goguen

Evaluating Nitrogen Treatment in NC's Piedmont

Iverson

Improve Performance of
Drip Irrigation

Bonaiti

Grease Interceptors Function and Design

Hallahan

Panel: Funding Septic System Repairs

Degen

Environmental Justice: Water and WW Infrastructure

Pradhan

Attenuation and Mobilization of Phosphorus

Zeng

Ksat of High Shrink
Swell Soil Horizons

Thomas

Belanger

RMEs in the Rural
Alabama Black Belt

Bakchan

Microbes Responsible for Nitrogen Transformations

Sherman

Role of Onsite in Sustainable Community Development

Radich

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Education

Nutrients 2

Hydraulics 2

Problem Solving 2

Policy 2

Inspection

Is There A Reinvented Toilet in Your Future

Rubin

Monitoring
Nitrogen-Removal

Gao

Re-thinking Decentralized Infrastructure

Capps/Gaur

Challenges of Gravity Distribution

Mercier

Virginia's County Ordinance

Johnson

Revis

What Does an NSF Certification Mean

Rinke

Septage and Septic Tank Performance at Rest Areas

Heger

Flushable Nightmare

Daniels

Decentralized WW Planning
in Nags Head, NC

Yonce

Onsite System vs. Stream Discharges in VA

Degen

Septic Inspection
Standards of Practice

Godfrey/Kerr

Zimmer

Protecting Lake Water Quality with Biology

Wickham

Roberts

Wastewater Recycling
& Reuse

Sweeney

A Horse Of A Different Color - Texas OSW

Aguirre

Beyond the D-Box:
Pressure Manifolds

Godfrey/Kerr

National Training Materials
for Property Owners

Heger

Case for Narrow Trenches in Soil Dispersal Systems

Stephens

Reduction of Wastewater Effluent

Jantrania/Gerlich

EPA Office of Wastewater Management Update

Faller

Evaluating Student Learning and Knowledge Gain

Moore

Worst Case Scenario:
Difficult Sites

Kaiser/Donnelly

Design

Business

WW Characterization

Policy 3

Regulations

Installation

Design Challenges w Liquid Effluent Collection

Stidham

Don't Kill your
Golden Goose

Oxenham

Characterizing Commercial High Strength Wastewater

Blodig

Blueprint for Watershed Resource Protection

Dowling

Role of Consensus

Sweeney

Hawaii's Cesspool
Challenge and Solutions

Coleman/King

Treatment in the
Soil vs.Tank

Moeller/Drewery

Panel: Shaping the Future with Emerging Professionals

Bair/Maxcy-Brown

On-Site Greenhouse Ecosystem

Allison

N- Reducing Septic System Grant Program

Jobin/Betts

Shaping State Regulations

Alexander/Jantrania

I/A Septic Systems
for Nutrient Pollution

Baumgaertal/ Wigginton

Field Study on Septic Tank Fecal Sludge

Astete-Vasquez

Tech Tools for Your Onsite Wastewater Business

Kerr/Godrey

Meat Wastewater Characterization

Rouland

What's New at the Virginia
Dept of Health

Gregory

Regionalize Standard Operating Procedures

Jobin

OSTDS Design
& Install Challenges

Groover

On-Site Community Wastewater Systems

MacConnell

Sustainable WW Management for Unserved Communities

Elliott

Virginia's Septic and Well Assistance Program (SWAP)

Sandberg

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