WEF/AWWA Announce Residuals And Biosolids Conference For Early 1999

More than 500 water quality professionals are expected to attend next year's "WEF/AWWA Joint Residuals and Biosolids Management Conference: Strategic Networking for the 21st Century" at the Charlotte Convention Center (Charlotte, NC), January 27-30.

Held in cooperation with the North Carolina Water Environment Association, the conference features sessions on a variety of water quality issues including: facilities design criteria; dewatering; nutrient management; public acceptance issues; and phosphorus control. Three facility tours will take attendees to a residuals management facility, a composting facility, and a unique dryer that utilizes a wood burner with a natural gas backup to produce the heat energy required to dry biosolids.

The event begins on January 27 with a pre-conference workshop moderated by Terry Logan, co-chair of the W 170 CFR 503 Peer Review Committee and a professor at Ohio State University. The symposium will examine the technical basis for the risk assessment used to develop federal guidelines for biosolids use, .as well as the future direction regulations might take.

Keynote speaker David Pearce Snyder, an editor for The Futurist magazine, will deliver "Water in an Info-Mated World: Micro-Managing Our Most Vital Resource," an address that will shed light on social and scientific trends affecting the future of the water quality industry.

James Smith of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Research Laboratory in Cincinnati will lead the final session of the conference, "Control of Pathogens and Vector Attraction in Biosolids."

For more information and/or registration details, call WEF at 1-800-666-0206 (U.S. and Canada only) or 1-703-684-2452; Fax: 1-703-684-2492.