2010 Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference

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Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference Making Green Infrastructure the Centerpiece of the Urban Water World

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December 6-7, 2010 Philadelphia, PA

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It’s Time to Look at America’s Water in a Different Light. Challenges to our nation’s ability to provide clean and safe water for future generations abound. The need to consider approaches that encourage watershed planning, focus on sustainability, and embrace the concept of green cities is critical to our clean water future. Clearly, the silo thinking of the past has kept clean water, water, drinking water, stormwater and water reuse interests segregated – and while it has driven progress, it has not encouraged comprehensive thinking, planning and management of our waters on the transformational scale now necessary necessary.. An integrated national water policy – that balances our commitment to social, environmental, and economic needs – is essential to guide the development of our Nation’s















December 6, 2010

Dear Colleague, Welcome to Philadelphia and this first national gathering of representatives from leading green cities to discuss urban water water sustainability. sustainability. It is symbolic symbolic that this event event is taking place in Philadelphia, demonstrating the continuing relevance and evolution of William Penn’ Penn’s s vision for a Greene Countrie Towne - in which dense urban development thoroughly integrates open space and the benefits it offers – for cities all across the country. c ountry. We are very fortunate to have policy leaders from around the country - including our own Mayor Nutter and Representatives Representativ es Schwartz and Fattah - participating in discussions here and in other national venues, on urban water sustainability. sustainability. Other attendees include leaders leader s in policy, regulation, research, utility management, city administration and design. The multi-disciplinary, cross-agency attendance of this conference underscores the importance and urgency of green infrastructure leadership and investmen investment, t, even with this period’s fiscal constraints. Our work during this conference on sharing knowledge about green infrastructure development and on building pathways for future exchanges is critical to our future successes in developing sustainable urban infrastructure. It is no longer a question of “Will this concept work?” but of how to efficiently implement green infrastructure programs into the core missions and strategies strategies of America’s cities. cities. Political, regulatory and legislative support from all levels of government will be critical to sustainable water management and sustainable urbanism. I look forward for ward to productive exchanges on how water-related investments can successfully support crossagency interests, long term urban growth and sustainability, Sincerely,

Howard Neukrug, PE















AGENDA Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference Making Green Infrastructure the Centerpiece of the Urban Water World December 6 - 7, 2010 • University of Pennsylvania • Perelman Quad, Houston Hall • Philadelphia, PA

M O N D A Y, D E C E M B E R 6 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Regis Registratio tration n Class of 1966 Reading Room 12:00 – 1:30 pm Hall of Flags

WELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS Dick Champion, Chair, Clean Water America Alliance Howard Neukrug, Chair, Clean Water America Alliance’s Urban Water Sustainability Council Andrew Fahlund, Senior Vice President for Conservation, American Rivers Feather Houstoun, President, William Penn Foundation OPENING KEYNOTERS: Shawn M. Garvin, EPA Region III Regional Administrator The Honorable Michael Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia The Honorable Chaka Fattah, U.S. Representative 2nd Congressional District, Pennsylvania The Honorable Alyson Schwartz, U.S. Representative 13th Congressional District, Pennsylvania

1:30 – 2:45 pm Bodek Lounge

GREEN CITY CLEAN WATERS – SPOTLIGHT ON PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia leaders will offer insights into how they are dovetailing planning efforts, and investments, and how the contexts of the city provide challenges and opportunities for applying best practices. Core to the discussion will be how water-related investments can support cross-agency interests, long term urban growth and sustainability.

Moderator: Dr. Susan Wachter, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research Team Panel: Joanne Dahme, Public Affairs Manager, Philadelphia Water Department Michael DiBerardinis, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, City of Philadelphia Katherine Gajewski, Director of Sustainability, City of Philadelphia Mayor’s Of fice of Sustainability Citi zens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) (PennFuture) Christine Knapp, Director of Outreach, Citizens Clarena Tolson Streets Commissioner, City of Philadelphia















M O N D A Y, D E C E M B E R 6 (CONTINUED) planners, architects, engineers and city of fi cials to create integrated strategies that make cities fi cials resilient in this time of global change. The presentation will offer international examples of how cities are consciously framing a new city of the future. Steve Moddemeyer, IWA Cities of the Future Program Manager

3:30 – 4:45 pm

WATER IS LIFE – SPOTLIGHT ON WASHINGTON, D.C WATER Washington, DC is driving a broad-based sustainability effort that is founded on smart city planning. It covers land uses, development approach and neighborhood design, environmental planning and regulation. The program sets high environmental standards combined with nancial and program incentives to drive change, with operational implementation of system fi nancial improvements and sustainability governing all the systems delivering and recycling water. Directors from the responsible agencies will describe how each component is weaved into a larger effort that is stronger than any one part – and is delivering one of the most successful urban greening programs in the country.

Moderator: Alexandra Dapolito Dunn, Executive Director & General Counsel, Association of State & Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators Team Panel: M anager, DC Water George Hawkins, General Manager, Harriet Tregon Tregoning ing, Director, District of Columbia Of fice of Planning Christophe Tulou, Acting Director, District of Columbia Department of the Environment 4:45 – 5:00 pm

CONCLUDING REMARKS Howard Neukrug, Chair, Urban Water Sustainability Council

6:00 – 7:30 pm RECEPTION Regent/St. Marks, Inn at Penn

T U E S D A Y, D E C E M B E R 7 8:00 – 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast Class of 1966 Reading Room 8:30 – 9:00 am

WELCOME INTRODUCTION

Bodek Lounge

Howard Neukrug, Chair, Urban Water Sustainability Council MORNING KEYNOTE Nancy Stoner, Deputy Assistant Administrator for the U.S. EPA Of fice of Water















T U E S D A Y, D E C E M B E R 7 (CONTINUED) Moderator: Kevin Shafer, Executive Director, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Team Panel: Tim Bate, Director of Planning, Research & Sustainability, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District D irector, Sweet Water, Water, Southeastern Wisconsin W isconsin Watersheds Trust, Inc. Jeff Martinka, Executive Director, Karen Sands, Manager of Sustainability, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District 10:15 10: 15 – 10:30 am

Networking Break

10:30 – 11:00 am

CLEAN WATER SERVICES – GOVERNOR’S SUSTAINABILITY AWARD – SPOTLIGHT ON GREATER PORTLAND AREA CWS’s world-class wastewater treatment plants, innovative regulatory framework, pioneering resource recovery efforts, and restoration of green infrastructure are paying dividends for both the environment and ratepayers.

Treatment Department Director, D irector, Clean Water Services Mark Poling, Wastewater Treatment 11:00 – 12:1 12:15 5 noon no on

BETTER STREETS AND BETTER USE OF WA WATER TER – SPOTLIGHT ON SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco’s sustainability mission demands we manage, recover, and reuse our valuable water, and redesign our urban environment. We are purposefully expanding our water water portfolio portfol io to include the use of sump and graywater, expand water conservation and maximize water reuse. To protect the aquatic environment of the San Francisco Bay and Paci fi fic Ocean, San Francisco has adopted a low impact development plan to reduce stormwater runoff into the combined and separate sewer systems.

Moderator Michele Pla, Senior Project Manager, EPC Consultants, Inc. Team Panel Michael Carlin, Deputy General Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Marla Jurosek, Manager, Wastewater Planning and Regulatory Compliance Division, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Paula Kehoe, Director of Water Resources, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Adam Varat, Citywide Policy Planning, San Francisco Planning Commission

12:15 12:1 5 – 1:30 pm

Lunch and Keynote Speaker

Hall of Flags

HIGH ROAD AGREEMENTS: STRATEGIES FOR MAKING GREEN JOBS GOOD JOBS The resource crisis-ahead offers potential for good quality jobs in green infrastructure that serve even the most vulnerable populations. Best practices in green infrastructure can ensure ensure high quality jobs and equitable access to new opportunities. Vivian Chang, Director of State & Local Initiatives, Green for All

















T U E S D A Y, D E C E M B E R 7 (CONTINUED) Moderator Rina Cutler, Deputy Mayor, Transportation & Utilities, City of Philadelphia Team Panel James Garin, Chief, Division of Capital Program Development and Planning, NYC Department of Environmental Protection John McLaughlin, Director of Ecological Services, NYC Department of Environmental Protection Esther Siskind, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Environmental Planning and Analysis, NYC Department of Environmental Protection Carter Strickland, Deputy Commissioner for Sustainability, NYC Department of Environmental Protection 2:45 – 3:00 pm

Networking Break

3:00 – 4:15 pm

GREEN ALLEYS & MORE - SPOTLIGHT ON CHICAGO Chicago has moved from thinking green towards a more systemic and strategic implementation of “green”, where projects, management and leadership are merging to change our policies, ordinances and culture.

Moderator Ken Kirk, President, Clean Water America Alliance Team Panel Janet Attarian, Project Director, Streetscape and Sustainable Design Program, Chicago Department of Transportation Jonathon Grabowy, Senior Civil Engineer, Stormwater Management, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Pete Mulvaney, Assistant Commissioner Chicago Department of Water Management 4:15 – 5:00 pm

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

Moderator Dick Champion, Chair, Clean Water America Alliance Team Panel















W E D N E S D AY, D E C E M B E R 8 GREEN BUS TOUR OF PHILADELPHIA

9:00 am

Depart Inn at Penn

9:15 – 9:50 am

PECO

10:00 - 10:30 am

Albert Green field Elementary School

10:40 – 11: 1:10 10 am

Comcast Comc ast

11:20 – 11:50 am

Friends Center

12:00 – 12:50 pm

Reading Terminal

12:50 - 1:1 1:15 5 pm

Return to Inn at Penn

The Clean Water America Alliance’s Urban Water Sustainability Council (UWSC) is the new forum for urban leaders in the fields of water, sustainability, infrastructure, planning, politics and science to meet and share ideas and strategies for creating green, sustainable cities. Council members represent a network of thoughtful leaders committed to their communities and the concepts of sustainability. They have a full appreciation for the value of integrated water management and work together















SPOTLIGHT CITIES Philadelphia

Monday, December 6 1:30 PM Moderator: Dr. Susan Wachter,

Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research Team Panel: Joanne Dahme,

General Manager, Public Affairs, Philadelphia Water Department Michael DiBerardinis, Commissioner of Parks and

Recreation, City of Philadelphia

GREEN CITY CLEAN WATERS

Philadelphia is enjoying a unique moment in its history. A large number of key plans and initiatives are being developed concurrently, creating a not-perfect-but-great storm of opportunity. Through investment in a series of supportive green infrastructure plans and projects, the City of Philadelphia and its partners have sought to strengthen the city’s competitive position, gain the utmost value for its limited resources and meet regulatory mandates. The plans and initiatives providing a basis for sustainable development and water management include Greenworks Philadelphia, the City’s overall sustainability plan, the upcoming 2030 Comprehensive Plan, of which GreenPlan Philadelphia is the open space element, a new zoning code, -- and the landmark Green City, Clean Waters, the Philadelphia Water Department’s Long Term Control Plan for Combined Sewer Over flows. Green City, Clean Waters, in its most current iteration, proposes 2 billion dollars in the green infrastructure investment over the next 25 years, enhancing the overall sustainability of the city while addressing its clean water mandates.

Katherine Gajewski, Director of Sustainability, City of

Philadelphia Mayor’s Of fice of Sustainability Christine Knapp, Director of Outreach, Citizens for

Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) Clarena Tolson, Streets Commissioner, City of Philadelphia

In order to make the City’s aggressive green infrastructure and sustainability plans into realities, the session panelists are collaborating with each other, and with regulators. They have thoroughly weighed the costs and bene fits of green infrastructure investment against those of gray infrastructure and continue to pursue both creative and sound funding strategies.

In this session, city leaders will offer insights into how they are dovetailing planning efforts, and investments and how the contexts of the city provide challenges and opportunities for applying best practices. Core to the discussion will be how water-related investments can support cross-agency interests, long term urban growth and sustainability.















Washington, DC

Monday, December 6, 3:30 PM Moderator: Alexandra Dapolito Dunn, Executive Director & General Counsel, Association of State & Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators

Team Panel: George Hawkins, General Manager, DC Water Harriet Tregoning, Director, District of Columbia Of fice of Planning Christophe Tulou, Acting Director, District of Columbia Department of the Environment

WATER WA TER IS LIFE

The nation’s capital is a model green city, as evidenced by innovation in nearly every aspect of its local government. The District of Columbia is driving a broad-based sustainability effort that is founded on smart city planning. It covers land uses, development approach and neighborhood design, environmental planning and regulation. The program sets high environmental standards combined with financial and program incentives to drive change. Directors from the responsible agencies will describe how each component is weaved into a larger effort that is stronger than any one part, and is delivering one of the nation’s most successful urban greening programs.

MILWAUKEE GREEN MAP - THE MILWAUKEE MODEL

Milwaukee

Milwaukee is experiencing a convergence of freshwater issues that is galvanizing the region as one of the leaders in urban water restoration. Situated on Lake Michigan, Milwaukee’s businesses, universities, nongovernmental organizations, and government entities have come together to protect this resource, along with marketing the region’s unique abilities to provide freshwater solutions to the world. This convergence is founded on strong leadership, long-term planning, collaboration, and partnerships. •

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In 2001, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) initiated a series of programs that spearheaded the discussion of integrating green infrastructure into the region’s region’ s portfolio port folio of grey infrastructure infrastructure.. In 2007, 2007, MMSD completed a long-range facilities plan that used a watershed approach to planning. Through MMSD’s collaboration with the regional regional planning commission’s update of the regional water quality management plan, the combined planning effort

Tuesday, December 7 9:00 AM Moderator: Kevin Shafer, Executive Director, Milwaukee















Portland Area

CLEAN WATER SERVICES - GOVERNOR’S SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Sustainable business and environmental practices are a way of life at Clean Water Services (CWS), (CWS), earning the District the Governor’s Sustainability Award in 2010. 2010. Accomplishments included: •

LEED certified Administrative building and the first of its kind LEED Silver certi fied wastewater pump station.

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Innovative regulatory framework that allows water quality trading of ecosystem credits. The first practice employed under this broad system relies in part on restoration of stream corridors and tree planting instead of constructed energy intensive chilling, saving the ratepayers millions of dollars while achieving superior environmental outcomes.

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Helped to create the Willamette Partnership, a nonpro fit coalition of business, local governments, environmental, and agriculture interests to expand the pace and effectiveness of watershed restoration efforts through ecosystem trading.

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Nutrient recovery from wastewater at one of its world class wastewater treatment facilities that is producing a premium fertilizer and recovering nutrients from waste.

Tuesday, December 7 10:30 AM Mark Poling, Wastewater Treatment Department Director, Clean Water Services

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Promotion of low impact development by creating a handbook for developers and businesses to encourage environmentally-friendly practices such as green roofs, water quality facilities, and green streets.

These and other programs and practices have demonstrated the District’s commitment to sustainable business practices for the past 30 years.

BETTER STREETS AND BETER USE OF WATER

On the edge of the continent in a semi –arid region, San Francisco has come to understand that sustainability must be our core mission. In the early 20th Century San FranFrancisco built the Hetch Hetchy water system to capture snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada and transport the pure drinking water by gravity to the Bay area. In the late 1990’s San Francisco completed the CSO Long-Term Control Plan to control combined sewer overflow by capturing the runoff from the paved streets before it could over flow into the Bay and Pacific Ocean. These two systems are infrastructure intensive and San Francisco will spend $8 billion over 25 years on upgrades and improvements to our water supply and treatment and our wastewater infrastructure. Sustainability demands that we modify our urban environment with green streets and low impact development, we implement asset management to cost-effectively maintain our infrastructure and not over burden our rate payers and that we conserve, recover and reuse our water and other valuable resources.

San Francisco

Tuesday, December 7 11:00 11 :00 AM AM Moderator Michele Pla, Senior Project

















15 years we will be implementing the Better Streets Plan with the Planning Department, Department of Public Works as well as other key key City Departments to maximize LID. LID. The Better Streets Plan provides a comprehensive set of policies and guidelines for the design of San Francisco’s pedestrian realm. Our wastewater program is not only looking at these sustainable options, but will also be maximize bene ficial reuse of biosolids, cogeneration of digester gas and heat and reuse of FOG for biofuel. Our urban water sustainability program is also focused on ensuring that in our drought prone region we are prepared for climate change and variability by maximizing our local water supply. In addition to a ground water stewardship stewardship and storage program, water conservation, reuse and recycling are essential elements of our sustainability program. The program is currently focused on the reuse of ef fluent for irrigation, development of graywater as approved by the State of California and the pumping of sump water for reuse rather than discharge to the sewer system.

New York City

Tuesday, December 7 9:00 AM Moderator

A BOLD ‘GREENPRINT’ FOR THE CITY’S FUTURE

Since 2002, New York City has invested more than $6 billion in water quality, and key indicators show that New York Harbor is the cleanest and healthiest it’s been in more than a century. But to open as much of the NYC waterfront as possible to recreation and development, the City needed a long-term plan to manage the stormwater that can overwhelm the combined sewer system when it rains, impairing water quality in the harbor and its tributaries. The biggest remaining challenge is to further reduce combined sewer over flows (CSOs) that discharge a mixture of untreated sewage and stormwater runoff when it rains. Traditional approaches to reduce CSOs further would include the construction of additional, large infrastructure, but the remaining















Chicago

Tuesday, December 7 3:00 PM

Moderator Ken Kirk, President, Clean Water America Alliance

Team Panel Janet Attarian, Project Director, Streetscape and Sustainable Design Program, Chicago Department of Transportation Jonathon Grabowy, Senior Civil Engineer, Stormwater Management, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Pete Mulvaney, Assistant Commissioner Chicago Department of Water Management

GREEN ALLEYS & MORE

Chicagoland’s history and success are integrally connected to its management of water water resources. The original groundwater charged prairie streams running through northeastern Illinois have undergone a series of investments to protect protect the water environment. environment. The changes that altered the region’s hydrology to allow Chicago’s Ch icago’s development include: reversing the original flow of the Chicago River, construction of water and wastewater treatment plants, and channelization of the waterways to allow for an urban environment. The existing system is now a centralized system system of managing water, which includes some of the world’s largest pumping stations, wastewater treatment plants, water puri fication plants and tunnel systems. Today, the City of Chicago and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago are wrestling with how to augment the current system to include a more distributed approach to managing stormwater and to apply principles of environmental hydrology to a system which is so fundamentally changed from its original course. True to the region’s region’s history, area engineers have taken leadership to plan a more sustainable metropolitan area through the application of green infrastructure projects and ordinance development that solve problems. Chicago and the Metropolitan Water Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago will present some of its history, its plans and its projects that have attracted the attention of many municipal leaders.















SPONSORS For more than 60 years, the William Penn Foundation has supported a variety of programs and institutions in Philadelphia and its surrounding communities. What began as a family trust has grown into a $1.4 billion philanthropic organization, which today is the largest foundation focusing exclusively on the needs of the Greater Philadelphia region. Since 1945, the Foundation has addressed key needs in the region, making thousands of grants to organizations delivering a wide range of services. A look at the Foundation’s work reveals an organization promoting policy and systems change in a number of areas: community development, early care and education, equity and quality in public education, protection of open spaces and watersheds, sustainable growth, support for arts and culture, and youth development.

The Philadelphia Water Department and Water Revenue Bureau serve the Greater Philadelphia region regi on by providing integrated water, wastewater, wastewater, and stormwater services. The utility’s primary mission is to plan for, operate, and maintain both the infrastructure and the organization necessary to purvey high quality drinking water, to provide an adequate and reliable water supply for all household, commercial, and community needs, and to sustain and enhance the region’s watersheds and quality of life by managing wastewater and stormwater storm water effectively.















CDM is a full-service consulting, engineering, construction, and operations firm delivering exceptional service to public and private clients worldwide. Its complete suite of services spans from program management, management consulting, and architectural and geotechnical engineering, to design-build, construction management, and operations. Beyond the traditional services, CDM is also employing innovative technologies and approachesto help clients meet their challenging goals. Throughout its history, CDM has been a leader in providing lasting solutions for environmental and public health protection, while supporting economic growth and development.

Since the firm’s founding in 1914, Greeley and Hansen has provided services to more than 500 municipalities, states, federal agencies and industries. The firm continues to provide a full array of water and wastewater engineering services globally. Greeley and Hansen is a leader in developing innovative engineering solutions for a wide array of water, wastewater, wastewater, water reuse, and solid waste challenges aimed at improving public health, safety, and welfare. With a staff of more than 300 in 16 of fices across the US, Greeley and Hansen provides services for all phases of projects ranging from master planning and feasibility studies through design, construction, and start-up. The firm also provides architectural and management consulting services.















SPEAKERS Janet Attarian Project Director Chicago Department of Transportation

Janet L. Attarian is a nationally recognized leader in sustainable infrastructure. As Project Director for the Streetscape and Sustainable Design Program and Sustainability Coordinator for the Chicago Department of Transportation, she works to turn Chicago’s streetscapes, riverwalks, and pocket parks into great urban places. Ms. Attarian has overseen the design and management of over 70 streetscape projects and her accomplishments include the City’s Streetscape Guidelines, the Wacker Drive reconstruction project and the Millennium Park Bicycle Station, winner of the 2005 Healthy Streets Award and 2004 ALA Silver Medal Award. Ms. Attarian’s ability to meld the concepts of complete streets and ecological design lead to the development of the City’s Sustainable Streets Program and Green Alley Program, winner of the 2007 Chicago Innovation Award, 2007 ASLA Honor Award, 2007 Illinois ASLA Honor Award and 2007 Illinois APA Gold Award. In the last year alone Janet has spoken at over 15 events regarding sustainable infrastructure including the AIA A IA National Convention, the Transportation Research Board and upcoming Greenbuild. Her work has been featured in Public Works Magazine, Plenty Magazine, Roads and Bridges Magazine and Building Design & Construction Magazine. Ms. Attarian is a licensed architect, previously worked for several consultant firms including DLK architecture and owned her own design firm.

Timothy Bate Director of Planning, Research & Sustainability Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

















Dick Champion Chair Clean Water America Alliance

Dick Champion began his career in water pollution control in 1969. He has been with the City of Independence, Missouri, Water Pollution Control Board for over 31 years and has been Director of the department since 1983. The department is responsible for the Sanitary Sewer Utility, the Storm Water Management Program, the Household Hazardous Waste Management Program, and related environmental compliance. He was appointed to the Jackson County Missouri Stormwater Commission by the Jackson County Executive and Legislature which was created for purposes of regional stormwater policy, planning, and coordination. Since it’s creation in 2001, Mr. Champion has been serving as vice-chairman of the Commission. Mr. Champion has been a member of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), since 1992 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1999. He served as NACWA President for 2006-2007, and now serves as a NACWA Past President on the Nominating Committee for Of ficers. In February, 2008, NACWA created the Clean Water America Alliance and Mr. Champion was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors for a three year term.















Joanne Dahme General Manager, Public Affairs Philadelphia Water Department

Joanne Dahme is the General Manager for Public Affairs for the City of Philadelphia Water Department. She has 28 years of engineering program management, public relations, and government affairs experience. Joanne is currently responsible for all forms of departmental communications, including production of publications, public information campaigns and citizen advisory committees. From 1999 to 2008, Joanne was the department’s Watersheds Programs Manager with the Of fice of Watersheds, directing the development and implementation of regional watershed partnerships.

Alexandra Dapolito Dunn Executive Director & General Counsel Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators

Alexandra Dapolito Dunn is Executive Director and General Counsel of the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators (ASIWPCA), headquartered in Washington, DC. Prior to ASIWPCA, Dunn served as Dean of the nationally ranked Environmental Law Program at Pace Law School (NY); as General Counsel of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies















ronment with honors. He previously worked as a water conservation advocate in Colorado, a field archaeologist in the Pacific Northwest, and an instructor in human ecology and field archaeology at Colorado College.

The Honorable Chaka Fattah Congressman U.S. Representative 3rd District Pennsylvania

Congressman Chaka Fattah is serving in his 16th 16th year in the U.S. House of Representatives. Representatives. He is a Member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. This committee is responsible for setting spending priorities of over $1 trillion in annual discretionary funds. Representative Fattah is also Chairman of the Congressional Urban Caucus a bipartisan group of 57 Members representing America’s metropolitan centers. These Members work collaboratively with other stakeholders to address the unique challenges facing America’s urban communities. During the 111th Congress, Representative Fattah has led three major legislative victories. To date, The American Opportunity Tax Credit Act, a $14 billion program to provide a $2,500 tax credit for tuition and other expenses for college students or their parents, has assisted 12.5 million students in meeting their college expenses. He secured $3.2 billion for the Energy Ef ficiency and Conservation Block Grants Program (EECBGP) that will assist















Katherine Gajewski Director of Sustainability City of Philadelphia

Katherine Gajewski is the Director of Sustainability for the City of Philadelphia. She leads the Mayor’s Of fice of Sustainability and is responsible for overseeing the implementation of Greenworks Philadelphia and leading Mayor Nutter’s efforts to make Philadelphia a leading green city. Prior to her appointment as Director of Sustainability in July 2009, Katherine served as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff in the Mayor’s Of fice. In this role she she managed a number of the Nutter Administration’s major citywide projects and community outreach efforts, and served as an advisor to Mayor Nutter and Chief of Staff Clay Armbrister on a wide range of policy issues. Prior to joining the Administration, Katherine worked on the Nutter for Mayor campaign and transition. From 2004-2006, Katherine was the Campaign Coordinator for the Breathe Free Philadelphia Alliance, the coalition that led the successful grassroots campaign to pass smoke-free legislation in Philadelphia. In 2007 she served as an Aide in the 4th Council District of fice of then-Councilman Nutter.

Jonathan Grabowy















service on the boards of Philadelphia’s Center City District, the New Jersey State Aquarium, the New Jersey Network, and the Housing Finance Agencies of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 1991. 1991. Houstoun has published articles on growth management, gubernatorial leadership, housing, and linkages between between business districts and transportation. She is a regular columnist for Management Insights, a joint publication of Governing Magazine and the Ash Institute of Democratic Governance at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Prior to joining the Foundation, Houstoun was an executive with AmeriChoice, a United Health Group company serving Medicaid clients in 13 states, and was a senior visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania teaching and conducting research on public management issues.

Marla Jurosek Manager, Planning & Regulatory Compliance Division San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Ms. Jurosek is the manager for Planning, Regulations and Compliance Division at the San Francisco Public Utility Commission, Wastewater Enterprise. The Wastewater Planning and Regulatory Compliance Division provide leadership in change management for the Enterprise in anticipating and preparing for potential changes in its business environment. Ms. Jurosek oversees Regulations

















holistic, watershed-based approaches to water quality and quantity challenges. He has held the position of Executive Director of NACWA for more than 20 years and prior to joining NACWA, he worked with a Washington, DC-based private consulting firm, where he had responsibility for the management of several associations focused on various environmental issues faced by municipalities. He has also worked in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Of fice of Legislation; and served as Public Affairs Manager at the Water Environment Federation. Mr. Kirk has degrees from New York University, the Georgetown University Law Center and the George Washington University Law Center, where his specialty was environmental law. Mr. Kirk also serves as chair of the Water Water Infrastructure Network, a broad-based coalition dedicated to preserving and protecting the health, environmental and economic gains that America’s drinking water and wastewater infrastructure provide.















tion of environmental restoration projects. He also provides technical expertise in conjunction with the protection and restoration of sensitive natural areas that may may be affected by private development and public works projects. Ecological designs that can signi ficantly reduce initial restoration and future maintenance costs while greatly increasing immediate environmental benefits are his primary objectives. Prior to coming com ing to NYCEP, NYCEP, he worked at the Fresh Kills land fill and was part of team of professionals charged with restoring lost environmental function of the site. In addition to the innovative and sustainable restoration of inactive hazardous waste land fills, he has developed, implemented and collaborated on many large scale ecological designs for freshwater and tidal wetlands, coastal woodlands and grassland restorations. He also directed the development of the















His service on non-pro fit boards has included many national and local groups and today includes the Delaware Valley Green Building Council, the Tookany-Tacony Frankford Watersheds Partnership, the Schuylkill Action Network, and the Clean Water America Alliance where he chairs the Urban Water Sustainability Council. He is a Professional Engineer and a graduate in Civil and Urban Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently teaching a course on How to Use Water, Water, Science and Politics to Create a More Sustainable Philadelphia.

The Honorable Michael Nutter















Karen Sands Manager of Sustainability Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

Karen Sands is the Manager of Sustainability for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. Besides sustainability, Karen has worked on planning, public involvement and watercourse programs for about 9 years at MMSD. With over 20 years of professional planning experience, she also has a Masters degree in Regional Planning and a Bachelors degree in Geography, both from the State University of New York at Albany. She is certi fied by the American Institute of Certi fied Planners and also has a certi fi-















Esther Siskind Assistant Commissioner New York City Department of Environmental Protection

Esther Siskind is an Assistant Commissioner for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) and the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Environmental Planning and Assessment (BEPA). (BEPA). She has worked at NYCDEP for 14 14 years and has also worked for the Delaware River Basin Commission and an environmental consulting firm. She has a broad background in the technical, economic, economic , policy, and regulatory issues related to water, wastewater, wastewater, and stormwater planning. She was a lead













































































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