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Most municipalities are responsible for many types of roads that require different approaches. Gravel and surface treated roads are often forgotten, but still require our attention.
This session will provide an understanding of how these roads react to different weather conditions and explore their treatment options.
Winters in New England can challenge the operational and financial resources of public works departments. This interactive presentation will relate the planning, communications, and response efforts taken by various public works departments in the New England Chapter.
Hear about how two California agencies have continuously improved by using a maintenance management system approach with a best practices and innovative technology to manage their assets.
While the phrases “social media”, “emergency management”, and “public works” are not always seen as relating to each other, in reality they should. This presentation will provide participants some fundamentals about social media including information on the different types of social media, aspects that should be taken into consideration when selecting a media, and pointers for starting out.
The 2011 catastrophic Mouse River Flood devastated property and infrastructure in the North Dakota communities of Minot and Burlington as well as surrounding rural areas. This presentation will focus on the Minot Water Treatment Plant Hazard Mitigation Project and on current efforts to develop and implement a basin-wide flood risk reduction plan for the entire valley.
In 2007, six associations (including APWA), in collaboration with EPA, signed an historic agreement pledging to support effective utility management. In 2008, they released a report that identifies “Ten Attributes of Effectively Managed Water Sector Utilities.” In 2015, these organizations reconvened to review and update these attributes in light of the challenges facing today’s water sector. Find out how to use this tool to improve operations.
Non-motorized travel is playing an increasing role in the development of livable, healthy, and sustainable communities. Additionally, urban roadway right-of-way must typically accommodate a wide range of roadside elements including traffic control devices, underground and above ground facilities, transit shelters, landscaping and street furniture. Let’s discuss roadway design that successfully meets these functional responsibilities.
Workshop Wednesday: Capital Improvement Planning Processes – Executing Processes for Successful Comm
For those tasked with developing a successful capital improvement program, this is a must attend presentation. We’ll review the required elements for a successful CIP; organizing stakeholders and getting support from the city council and public; preparing financial forecasts and project estimates; inventorying assets and identifying community needs, criteria for ranking projects, drafting CIP documents and living documents; project implementation steps and other considerations.
The Moorpark Desalter Project will extract the high salinity groundwater from the shallow aquifer at a newly constructed well field and then treat the water at a state-of-the-art desalination plant using membrane filtration technology for the removal of salts including chloride, total dissolved solids, boron, and sulfate.
The City of Minneapolis Water Treatment and Distribution completed a two-phase vulnerability assessment. It provided a holistic and quantitative review of a broad range of risks and vulnerabilities including physical and cyber security, dependencies, natural hazards and source water quality and quantity management.