Center for the Environment

2012 NH Water & Watershed Conference

Note: Links to available presentations are provided below.

March 23, 2012

8:00 am      Registration

8:45 am      Welcome & Plenary Session on Water Issues in New Hampshire

• The NH Water Sustainability Commission – John Gilbert, Commission Chair and President of Synchrony Advisors, LLC
• Interactions Among Climate, Land Use, Ecosystem Services, and Society – Kevin Gardner, Associate Director of NH EPSCoR, University of New Hampshire

10:00 am   Break & Vendor displays

10:30 am   Concurrent sessions:

Good Night Tropical Storm Irene (If only it was that easy…)

• The Hydrology of the Pemigewasset Valley Flood Following Tropical Storm Irene  – Mark Green, Plymouth State University & U.S. Forest Service
• Lessons learned from Tropical Storm Irene’s Impact on the White Mountain National Forest – Sheela Johnson, U.S. Forest Service
• Tropical Storm Irene: Lessons for the science and management of New Hampshire’s Rivers – Shane Csiki; Jacquie Colburn, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services

Wastewater & Septic Infrastructure: Out of sight, but not out of mind

• The Vision for New Hampshire’s Wastewater Treatment Facilities: Full Resource Recovery – John Adie, Maintenance Supervisor, Nashua WWTF; Shelagh Connelly, President, Resource Management Inc.; Ned Beecher, Executive Director, North East Biosolids & Residuals Assoc.
• Post-Installation Care and Regulation of Septic Systems – Dr. Robert E. Morency, RCAP Solutions Inc., the Northeast Rural Community Assistance Partnership
• Model Pilot Project Design to Motivate Owners to Care for their Septic Systems Properly – Bambi Miller, Lamprey River Advisory Committee

Outreach: From listening, to planning, to action

• The New Hampshire Lakes Association Lake Conservation Corps Program: Helping keep drinking water clean – Andrea La Moreaux, New Hampshire Lakes Association
• Engaging the Public in the Work of the Water Sustainability Commission – Denise Hart, member, Water Sustainability Commission (WSC) and Chair, WSC Public Engagement Committee; Molly E. Donovan, Community Development Program Coordinator, New Hampshire Listens
• Linking the Economic Benefits of LID and Community Decisions – Amanda Stone, UNH Cooperative Extension

Surfacewater: Managing the nutrients

• Effect of Discharge on Nutrient Removal in a Small Headwater Wetland – Katherine Lawrence, University of New Hampshire
• Case Study:  The Mirror Lake Watershed Management Plan – Robert Hartzel, Geosyntec Consultants
• Successful Bacteria Source Tracking in Kittery, Maine and Seacoast, NH – Forrest Bell, FB Environmental Associates

Big Impacts from Low Impact Development and Stormwater Management

• Projecting Culvert and Road Crossing Vulnerability from a Changing Climate and Land Use – Michael H Simpson, Antioch University New England
• LID as Climate Change Adaptation Tool – Steve Miller, NH Coastal Training Program, Robert Roseen, James Houle, University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center, Michael Simpson, Antioch New England, Amanda Stone and Julia Peterson, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension, Todd Janeski, Virginia Commonwealth University 
• The 2010 Report from the NH Stormwater Commission – Steve Kahl, Director, Environmental Sciences Group, Sewall Company

Workshop:

• River Runners: Invasive aquatic plants identification and monitoring workshop - Laurie Callahan, New Hampshire Rivers Council

12:00 pm   Lunch

12:30-1:30 pm    Poster Sessions (posters will be displayed in the room where lunch is served) 

12:30 pm   Remarks by Governor John Lynch

1:30 pm     Concurrent sessions on:

Great Bay:  Insights, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable watershed management

• Non-Point Nitrogen Sources and Transport Pathways in the Great Bay Watershed – Michelle Daley, UNH; NH Water Resources Research Center
• Detecting Storm and Baseflow Biogeochemical Patterns in the Lamprey River Using Continuous In Situ Sensors –Richard O. Carey, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
• Great Bay Adaptive Management Plan: The different road that will work – Peter Goodwin, Woodard & Curran; Dean Peschel, City of Dover/Great Bay Municipal Coalition
• Integrating Water Resource Management in the Great Bay Watershed ­- Julie LaBranche, Rockingham Planning Commission; Alison Watts, UNH

Drinking Water: The more we know…

• Bacteria and Coliphage in Drinking Water Wells in Maine and New Hampshire – Sarah M. Flanagan, U.S. Geological Survey
• Occurrence of 1,4-Dioxane in New Hampshire’s Water Resources – Brandon Kernen, N.H. Department of Environmental Services
• NHDES Leak Detection Contracts - Derek Bennett, NHDES Drinking Water & Groundwater Bureau
• The Utilization of Artificial Recharge as a Tool for Meeting Future Water Demands in New Hampshire -  John Brooks, Ph.D., P.G., Emery & Garrett Groundwater, Inc.

A view from the floodplain: Water, water, everywhere?

• Floodplain Forests: Restoring natural flood storage - Doug Bechtel, The Nature Conservancy; Emily Brunkhurst, NH Fish and Game Department
• Mapping Headwater Streams Using LIDAR – Neil Olson, N.H. Geological Survey
• Flood-Inundation Mapping of the Suncook River for Flood- Early Warning and Response Activities – Robert Flynn, U.S. Geological Survey
• Mapping and Legal Implications of Future Flooding in the Lamprey River Watershed of New Hampshire Due to Changes in Land Use and Climate – Cameron Wake, Fay Rubin, Earth Systems Research Center/EOS, UNH; Robert Roseen, Ann Scholz, Tom Ballestero, UNH Stormwater Center; Steve Miller, Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve; Julia Peterson, NH Sea Grant, UNH; Cliff Sinnott, Rockingham Regional Planning Commission; John Echeverria, Peg Elmer, Vermont Law School

Restoration: Making the best of the mess

• Urban Watershed Renewal in Berry Brook: An examination of impervious cover, stream restoration, and ecosystem response – Robert Roseen, Tom Ballestero, Melinda Bubier, James Houle, University of New Hampshire Storm Water Center; Dean Peschel, City of Dover, NH; David Burdick, University of New Hampshire; Lorie Chase, Cocheco River Watershed Coalition; Viktor Hlas, University of New Hampshire Storm Water Center
• Restoring Water Quality in the Willow Brook Watershed Through LID Retrofits – James Houle, Robert Roseen, Robert Dowling, UNH Stormwater Center; Melodie Esterberg, Rochester Department of Public Works; Lorie Chase, Cocheco River Watershed Coalition; Sally Soule, NH Department of Environmental Services
• The Anatomy of an Impaired Urban Stream Restoration Project – Candace Dolan, Hodgson Brook Restoration Project
• Indian Stream and Nash Stream: A contrast in restoration of streams altered by log driving – John Field, Field Geology Services

Streams: Dammed if you do, cold if you don’t

• Cold Waters Temperature Assessment across the Northeast - Jennifer Jacobs, Environmental Research Group, University of New Hampshire
• The Impact of Natural Dams on Headwater Streams - Denise Burchsted, Center for the Environment, Plymouth State University

Workshops:

• Using the (New!) New Hamphsire Method for Wetland Evaluation and the New Hampshire Wetlands Mapper – Frank Mitchell, Land & Water Conservation, UNH Cooperative Extension; Amanda Lindley Stone, Land & Water Conservation, UNH Cooperative Extension

4:00 pm    Adjourn