06-11-15 EBC Dam Management and Renewable Energy Program: In-Conduit - Hydropower’s New Frontier
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EBC Dam Management and Renewable Energy Program In-Conduit – Hydropower’s New Frontier Thursday, June 11, 2015 Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Westborough, Massachusetts AGENDA 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction: Chad Cox, P.E., Program Co-Chair and Moderator Chair, EBC Dam Management Committee Civil Engineer/Principal, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Celeste N. Fay, Program Co-Chair President, Hydropower Consulting Specialists, LLC 8:40 a.m. NYC Water/Wastewater System Hydroelectric Potential Evaluation Jill Griffiths, P.E., Water Resources Engineer/Ecologist Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC Richard Stewart, P.E., Senior Civil Engineer Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC 9:05 a.m. MWRA Conduit Hydropower Program Update Pamela Heidell, Policy and Planning Manager, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority 9:25 a.m. Conduit Hydropower Technical Issues Mahadevan Padmanabhan, P.E., Ph.D., Senior Engineer, Alden Research Laboratory 9:50 a.m. Municipal Water & Wastewater Facilities – Connecting Technical & Resources Together Michael DiBara, Project Manager, MA Department of Environmental Protection 10:05 a.m. MA DEP Conduit Hydropower Tool Celeste N. Fay, President, Hydropower Consulting Specialists, LLC 10:30 a.m. Panel Discussion Moderator: Chad Cox, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Panel Members: Michael Dibara, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Celeste N. Fay, Hydropower Consulting Specialists, LLC
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Transcript of 06-11-15 EBC Dam Management and Renewable Energy Program: In-Conduit - Hydropower’s New Frontier
An Evening with MEPA Director Deerin Babb-Brott
EBC Dam Management and Renewable Energy ProgramIn-Conduit Hydropowers New Frontier
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and WildlifeWestborough, Massachusetts
AGENDA
8:30 a.m.Welcome and Introduction:
Chad Cox, P.E., Program Co-Chair and ModeratorChair, EBC Dam Management CommitteeCivil Engineer/Principal, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
Celeste N. Fay, Program Co-ChairPresident, Hydropower Consulting Specialists, LLC
8:40 a.m.NYC Water/Wastewater System Hydroelectric Potential Evaluation Jill Griffiths, P.E., Water Resources Engineer/EcologistGomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC Richard Stewart, P.E., Senior Civil EngineerGomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC
9:05 a.m.MWRA Conduit Hydropower Program Update Pamela Heidell, Policy and Planning Manager, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
9:25 a.m.Conduit Hydropower Technical Issues Mahadevan Padmanabhan, P.E., Ph.D., Senior Engineer, Alden Research Laboratory
9:50 a.m.Municipal Water & Wastewater Facilities Connecting Technical & Resources Together Michael DiBara, Project Manager, MA Department of Environmental Protection
10:05 a.m.MA DEP Conduit Hydropower Tool Celeste N. Fay, President, Hydropower Consulting Specialists, LLC
10:30 a.m.Panel DiscussionModerator: Chad Cox, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.Panel Members: Michael Dibara, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Celeste N. Fay, Hydropower Consulting Specialists, LLC Jill Griffiths, Gomez and Sullivan Engineers Pamela Heidell, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Mahadevan Padmanabhan, Alden Research Laboratory Richard Stewart, Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC
11:30 a.m.AdjournPROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Chad W. Cox, P.E., Civil Engineer / PrincipalGZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.249 Vanderbilt Avenue, Norwood, MA 02062781-278-5787 | Cell: 781-760-6430 | [email protected]
Chad Cox is a civil engineer and the head of the Dams Practice Group for GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. He has a bachelors degree in civil engineering / water resources from Princeton University and a Masters of Engineering (Civil) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts. Mr. Cox is involved with a wide variety of dam safety engineering efforts including inspection, analysis, design, and construction-phase services for both dam rehabilitation and dam removal projects. Mr. Cox has worked on a number of small hydropower projects which seek to retrofit hydropower at existing dams. His hydropower work has ranged from feasibility studies, to FERC licensing, to project design. Prior to beginning his career as a consultant, Mr. Cox served with the US Peace Corps for two years in Nepal. He has authored papers and made presentations for the Association of Dam Safety Officials, the US Society on Dams, and Hydrovision.
Celeste N. Fay, PresidentHydropower Consulting Specialists, LLC4145 Church Street, Thorndike, MA 10179413-310-4153 | [email protected]
Celeste Fay is a civil engineer and founder of Hydropower Consulting Specialists, LLC. She is responsible for a variety of hydropower evaluation and analysis. She has experience with the conceptual design of fish passage and protection facilities, engineering design of hydropower facility components and evaluation of turbine performance, among others. She has been working in the hydropower industry for the last 12 years, receiving her B.S. degree in civil engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2008. Aside from her work at HCS, Ms. Fay's credentials on hydro site evaluations and challenges are informed by her experience as a small hydropower owner.
SPEAKERS AND PANEL MEMBERS
Michael DiBara, Project ManagerMassachusetts Department of Environmental Protection 8 New Bond Street, Worcester, MA 01606508-767-2885 | [email protected]
Michael DiBara is a Project Manager at MassDEP, and has over 22 years of experience as an environmental manager in both the public and private sectors. Currently, Michael is leading MassDEPs energy-saving efforts at drinking water and wastewater plants. He was a 2002 recipient of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Fellowship for Excellence in Public Administration at Suffolk University. Michael holds a Masters of Science in Public Administration from Suffolk University in Boston.
Jill Griffiths, P.E., Water Resources Engineer/EcologistGomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPCPO Box 2179, Henniker, NH 03242603-428-4960 | [email protected]
Ms. Griffiths is a water resources engineer and ecologist at Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC with over 7 years of experience in water resources projects involving dams, hydropower, stream restoration, and flood studies. She is a registered Professional Engineer and certified floodplain manager (CFM) with bachelors degrees in both civil engineering and biology from The Pennsylvania State University. Her experience relative to dams includes hydropower feasibility studies, hydropower licensing and compliance, dam safety inspections, and dam rehabilitation and removal design. Through this work, Ms. Griffiths has been involved in project management, field data collection, hydrologic and hydraulic studies, alternatives analyses, cost estimating, development of design drawings and specifications, reporting, permitting, and public outreach.
Pamela Heidell, Policy and Planning ManagerMassachusetts Water Resources Authority100 First Ave, Boston, MA 02129617-788-1102 | [email protected]
Pam Heidell has been at MWRA for 25 years, managing various policy initiatives, projects, and complex permitting assignments. Prior to MWRA, she was a project manager at a consulting firm where her portfolio included energy projects, and prior to that, she worked in the state of Maine Energy Office as the Hydropower Resource Planner. She has an M.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in Geography from Clark University.
Mahadevan Padmanabhan, P.E., Ph.D., Technical AdviserAlden Research Laboratory30 Shrewsbury St., Holden, MA 01520-1843508-829-6000 x6442 | [email protected]
Dr. Padmanabhan has over 40 years of experience in the areas of fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering solving a wide spectrum of closed conduit flow and free surface flow problems. With over 35 years experience at Alden, he has supervised very large studies that have resulted in guidelines in the areas of pump intakes, vortex formation and swirl, debris transport and air entrainment. He is a recognized expert in the areas of closed conduit flow, pump intakes, reactor hydraulics, and transient flow. He is a past Senior Vice President of Alden and formerly an Adjunct Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech. He is a Fellow of ASME and recipient of the prestigious 2011 ASCE Hydraulic Structures Medal.
Richard Stewart, P.E., Senior Civil EngineerGomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPCPO Box 2179, Henniker, NH 03242603-428-4960 | [email protected]
Mr. Stewart is a senior civil engineer at Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC with over 35 years of experience in hydropower, water resources, stormwater management, transportation, civil engineering, and site development projects. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in civil engineering from Northeastern University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. He is a registered Professional Engineer in several New England and mid-Atlantic states, including Massachusetts. Mr. Stewart is experienced in the engineering analysis and design for a variety of water resources projects including dams, hydropower developments, and other water control structures, and has managed projects from the planning stage through the preparation of construction drawings and bidding documents. He has conducted several feasibility studies to investigate the hydropower potential, which involved the development of conceptual design drawings, opinions of probable construction costs, and net present value economic analyses.
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