2009 Private Well Symposium Agenda

2009 Private Well Symposium Presentations

November 16, 2009
Keynote Speakers Michael Focazio, USGS - The Quality of Privately Owned Domestic Well Water: A National Perspective Robert Marvinney, Maine State Geologist - Ground water and private wells, a Maine perspective
Concurrent Session 1 Education and Risk Communication	Concurrent Session 2 Legal and Regulatory Issues	Concurrent Session 3 Arsenic
Cliff Scherer, Professor, Cornell University Making risk messages meaningful in a time of tweets, Hulu and Yahoo	Jesse Richardson, Policy and Research Advisor, Water Systems Council Public and Private Drinking Water Options for Cluster Development	John Beane, Senior Geologist, Maine Department of Environmental Protection How humans affect the release of naturally occurring arsenic
	John Hopeck and Mark Holden, Maine Department of Environmental Protection Protection of Individual Domestic Wells and Common Wells through Regulatory and Non-Regulatory Approaches	John Peckenham, University of Maine Is It Possible to Solve the Arsenic in Private Wells Problem? An Exploration of Sources, Sinks, and Limits to Knowledge
	Roger Skillings, Skillings & Sons, Inc. Private Wells for Small Public Water Systems	Jennifer Pagach, Environmental Analyst, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection The link between arsenic concentrations and potential geochemical processes

November 17, 2009
Concurrent Session 4 Education and Risk Communication	Concurrent Session 5 Legal and Regulatory Issues	Concurrent Session 6 Land Use and Nitrates	Concurrent Session 7: Public Health Issues
Cliff Treyens, Public Awareness Director, National Ground Water Association Communicating ground water and water well stewardship to the public:Leverage your message, stretch your resources	Arthur Astarita, Water Resource Specialist, RCAP Solutions, Inc. Use of Private Well Water Testing Results Help Determine Aquifer Quality, Identification of Future Public Water Sources and Support Mechanisms	A. Martin Petrovic, Professor, Cornell University Impact of lawns on nitrate contamination of ground water	Ken Cantor, NIH Exposure to Arsenic in Drinking Water in a Case-Control Study in Vermont, New Hamshire and Maine
Andrew Stone, Executive Director, American Ground Water Trust Groundwater Protection Opportunities in the Approved Curriculum of New England States	Judith Louis, Manager, NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection The New Jersey Private Well Testing Program: An Evaluation of Domestic Well Water Quality in New Jersey	Jeff Comstock, Soil Scientist, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets Nitrate Contamination of a Bedrock Aquifer in Sheldon, Vermont: Part I, The Agricultural Context	Courtney Kozul, Graduate Student, Dartmouth Medical School Chronic exposure to low-dose arsenic in drinking water compromises the immune response to respiratory infection
Teresa Thorton, Graduate Student, University of Maine Using Public Schools as the Community Center to Promote Private Well Education, Monitoring and Research	Carol White, Hydrogeologist, C.A. White & Associates LLC Saltwater Intrusion in Residential Wells in Maine – Local Strategies for Managing a Complex Problem	Jon Kim, Geologist, Vermont Geological Survey Nitrate Contamination of a Bedrock Aquifer in Sheldon, Vermont: Part II, The Geologic Context	Matthew Cahillane, Program Manager, NH Dept. of Health and Human Services, Environmental Health Tracking. Modeling and Tracking Arsenic Concentrations in New Hampshire Well Water

Concurrent Session 8 Well Water Treatment	Concurrent Session 9 Geothermal	Concurrent Session 10 Land Use
Joe Harrison, Technical Director, Water Quality Association Household Water Treatment: The Industry Perspective	Garret Graaskamp, Hydrogeologist, American Ground Water Trust Ground Source Heat Pump Technology and Ground Water	Michelle Daley, Research Scientist, University of New Hampshire Water Quality of Private Wells in Suburban NH and Impacts of Land Use
David Hill, Vice President, Spruce Environmental Technologies, Inc. Well Water Testing & Treatment: Don’t Forget the Radon!	Carl Orio, Chairman, Water Energy Distributors Community Health and Geothermal Heat Pumps	Richard Heath, Senior Environmental Hydrogeologist, Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection Impacts to Water Supply Wells from Closed Municipal Landfills in Maine
Peter Meyers, Technical Director, ResinTech, Inc. How Silica and other contaminants affect the behavior of Various Arsenic Selective Medias	Joe Cerutti, Hydrogeologist, Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection MassDEP Underground Injection Control Program Guidelines for Ground Source Heat Pump Wells	Andrews Tolman, Assistant Director, Maine CDC Drinking Water Program Understanding Septic Systems in light of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products; What do we know now?
Workshop Kate Perkins, MPA, Director of Health Improvement Division, Medical Care Development "Social marketing – it’s not about the water cooler conversation, or is it?"

Posters
Crista Straub	A Pilot Study of Groundwater Quality Education Curriculum Using Private Well Water Testing	Graduate Assistant, University of Maine
Kurt Tramposch	The Perennial Dilemma of the Private Irrigation Well (Abstract)	Wellhead Protection Committee, Wayland MA Water Dept
Kurt Tramposch	Ten Reasons Why Water Utilities Should Embrace Private Wells (Abstract)	Wellhead Protection Committee, Wayland MA Water Dept
Alyson McCann	Rhode Island’s Private Drinking Water Well Education Program: Have Workshop Participants Taken Action to Protect Their Drinking Water Quality?	Water Quality Program Coordinator, Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island
Gina DeMarco	Providence Water Supply Board Supports Private Well Water Protection in the Scituate Reservoir Watershed	District Manager, Northern Rhode Island Conservation District
Qiang Yang	Fracture Characteristics and Groundwater Arsenic in Bedrock Wells of Manchester, Maine	Graduate Center and Queens College of City University of New York