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Spotlight on Winter Maintenance: Pavement Gone to Pot? Patching and Preventing Potholes

Potholes, like cold, snow and ice, come with winter. They are most prolific later in the season as freeze-thaw cycles are the primary cause of pothole formation. Potholes generate the…

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Spotlight on Operations & Maintenance: Empowering Employees to Achieving Organizational Excellence

This session will explore the journey the City of West Des Moines Public Services embarked on to change the culture within its organization and the results that have been achieved.…

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Stormwater Summit: Solving Urban Flooding in Vegas – How to Build Flood Resilient Communities at a Regional Level

For the past three decades, the Clark County Regional Flood Control District has provided nearly $2 billion in funding to build flood control facilities that protect life and property in…

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Spotlight on Transportation – Safe Streets Demos: Test Before You Invest.

Are you someone who likes to sample a product before you buy? Is your community striving to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities? If so, you will be interested in learning…

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Mid-Atlantic Chapter Water Advocacy Briefing

Part of a series of free virtual briefings focused on advocacy and APWA’s policy priorities, this session focuses on water resource management policy. APWA Government Affairs Manager Sean Garcia provides a legislative update, overviews APWA’s water policy priorities, and gives insight into how APWA members can get involved in critical advocacy efforts.

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Spotlight on Winter Maintenance: Lessons from the Lab – Enhanced Liquid Deicers

Plain salt brine is the most commonly used liquid deicer, but agencies often use a variety of more complex brine blends to seek enhanced performance. Field experience is always the…

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Spotlight on Operations & Maintenance: Pavement Preservation: Roads in Jeopardy!

Pavement preservation is an excellent way to maintain and improve roads and streets. The key is to select the right treatment at the right time in the right place. Come…

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Stormwater Summit: Leveraging Technology to Increase Efficiency and Welcome the Next Generation of Utility Employees

Using the City of Westfield, Massachusetts as an example, this presentation examines how a gradual implementation of technologies has increased efficiency and employee engagement and helped create a more resilient…

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Spotlight on Emergency Management: The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Assessment Process – unifying risk assessment, cyber security, employee safety, and continuity of operations.

The presentation details the experience of a large, full-service municipal public works department, the City of Olathe, Kansas, going through the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…

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Bellevue Transportation Department Preparedness Initiative

The Cascadia Rising 2016 Exercise- the Pacific Northwest’s largest, multistate functional exercise- explored the risks associated with a full rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone; risks that could include a…

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