Presenting Partner

2016 Biosolids and source ManageMent conference

14-15 november 2016 novotel Melbourne on collins

The 2016 Biosolids and Source Management conference will examine key developments across these two critical areas of the water industry and drive discussion, debates and collaboration. This is an opportunity for specialists from both areas to come together and tackle some of their most pressing challenges, learn from innovative solutions and take away clear steps for improvement in their organisations. Biosolids and Source Management: 30 years of experience: where to from here? After 30 years of experience, the Biosolids industry has really come of age in Australia. This year’s conference offers us a tremendous opportunity to pause, reassess where the industry is at, look at the journey we have taken and examine the lessons learned. These discussions and reflections will help us define where we go from here, examine predicted trends and create an industry fit to support Australia’s society and its sustainability agenda. Source Management – changing practice in changing communities The increasing cost of water and wastewater treatment has been putting pressure on source management practices for many years. In order to stay on top of these challenges and respond to emergent trends in contaminants, as well as the changing needs of customers, innovation, collaboration and sharing of best practice remains of paramount importance to the source management community. Waste reuse initiatives, which once may have seemed impossible are benefiting from innovations and a changing regulatory environment to enter into the market and make their mark on cost recovery, sustainability and effective contemporary source management. More and more, examples of collaboration between the Biosolids and Source Management sectors are generating positive outcomes in terms of cost recovery, energy generation and product quality. But challenges remain, and new ones emerge. This conference offers the opportunity for you to discuss these challenges, learn from innovative solutions and take away clear steps for improvement in their organisations.

Who should attend? Topics, projects and technologies showcased at this conference will provide valuable insights and opportunities for networking and collaboration for the following audiences:

- Biosolids professionals - Source management/Trade waste professionals - Government agencies (local, state and federal) - Wastewater treatment engineers - Environmental scientists and researchers - Soil scientists and agronomists - Manufacturers and distributors - Academics and lecturers - Students and researchers - Community members - Consultants/Contractors operating in these fields - Trade Waste and Biosolids Regulators

Register now at www.awa.asn.au/bsmconference

Sponsors 

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Note from the Chair

Paul Davodelsky – Australian & New Zealand Biosolids Partnership Chair I’m really excited to see this biennial event return to Melbourne in November. This is the foremost opportunity for our industry to come together and explore cutting edge technologies, build our professional networks and share lessons learned from our experiences.

This year’s program showcases work coming out of industry-leading projects that offer the potential to change the way we think about our work, and ensure we are not inhibited by the status quo. This will be furthered in our two workshops, the first debating how we can more

pro-actively tackle the risks posed by emergent contaminants and pathogen, and the second exploring how we can drive forward public education to change perceptions and behaviour.

I invite you to take your place in these discussions and debates, and help shape the future of our industries in innovative ways that support safety, sustainability and public support.

Keynote Speakers

Bill Barber - Cambi Bill currently works as a Technical Director for Cambi, Inc. based in the United States. Previous to this, Bill has worked for the UK's

largest water company, in consultancy, technology development and also research. Bill has worked on all stages of project development inclusive of marketing, contract and tender development, detailed design, site construction and commissioning. Bill has a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from Imperial College London on the topic of anaerobic digestion, and an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering. He is qualified as a Chartered Chemical Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist and a member of the Chartered Institution for Water and Environmental Management. Bill has lived in the UK, Australia and North America, and worked on sludge, municipal and industrial wastewater projects around the world.

Keiran Smith - Sydney Water

Keiran joined Sydney Water as a Communications Advisor in 2010 and currently leads Sydney Water’s ‘Keep wipes out of the pipes’ education

program, the organisation’s most successful communications and behaviour change initiative since the drought last decade. Within the Corporate Public Affairs function, Keiran’s role also manages media relations, brand, social media, corporate social responsibility, campaigns, digital and publications. Keiran has a Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Technology Sydney and has 15 years of experience across the media, government and not-for-profit sectors.

Preliminary Program – Day 1

8:30am REGISTRATIONS OPEN

9:00am WELCOME ADDRESS Paul Darvodelsky ANZBP

9:15am KEYNOTE SPEAKER Bill Barber Cambi

9:45am INNOVATION PITCH SESSION

11:00am Morning Tea

11:30am

SESSION ONE: END TO END BIOSOLIDS MANAGEMENT

BIOSOLIDS MANAGEMENT – THE SMALL TOWN NZ EXPERIENCE

Katie Beecroft LOWE Environmental Impact

THE TASWATER BIOSOLIDS CHALLENGE Bill Wood Taswater

SYDNEY WATER’S NEW APPROACH TO MANAGING BIOSOLIDS

Jean Davis Sydney Water

CANBERRA’S APPROACH TO BIOSOLIDS MANAGEMENT

Kyleigh Victory Icon Water

12:45pm Lunch

1:45pm

SESSION TWO: SOURCE MANAGEMENT

SEWER CATCHMENT EFFECTS ON ODOURS FROM BIOSOLIDS

Ruth Fisher UNSW

UNIQUE SOURCE CONTROL CHALLENGES PRESENTED BY OZONE DEMANDING SUBSTANCES

Jonathan Crook South East Water

2:30pm INNOVATION PITCH SESSION

3:00pm Afternoon Tea

3:30pm

WORKSHOP HOSTED BY THE AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND BIOSOLIDS PARTNERSHIP: PROTECTING HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD

5:00pm DAY ONE WRAP UP

5:30pm DAY ONE CONCLUDES

6:30pm PRE-DINNER DRINKS

7:00pm

CONFERENCE DINNER

Sponsored by

Preliminary Program – Day 2

8:00am REGISTRATION OPEN

8:30am WELCOME AND RECAP OF DAY ONE

8:45am KEYNOTE SPEAKER Keiran Smith Sydney Water

9:15am

SESSION THREE: RESOURCE RECOVERY

INNOVATION TO USE BIOSOLIDS AS A RESOURCE Tim Kempton Stance Global

FUTURE PROOF DECENTRALISED SLUDGE RECYCLING - AN EXAMPLE OF EUROPEAN INNOVATION

Luc Kox Blue Horizon Solutions

GPR OFFERS AN EFFICIENT SLUDGE RECYCLING OPTION

Trevor Bridle Bridle Consulting

10:15am Morning Tea

10:45am

SESSION FOUR: PROCESSING APPROACHES

SEDIMENT HARDNESS FROM SONAR TO DELIMIT SLUDGE TYPES IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PONDS

Darren Smith Oxyjet

ACID PHASE DIGESTION OF WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGE ONLY - SYDNEY WATER’S EXPERIENCE AT WEST CAMDEN WATER RECYCLING PLANT

Guy Ohandja Sydney Water

THERMAL HYDROLYSIS PROCESS FOR TREATING THE WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGE ONLY, WITH PRIMARY SLUDGE BYPASS: AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION FOR WWTP

Julien Chauzy Cambi

BARWON WATER BIOSOLIDS MANAGEMENT PROJECT OPERATIONS

Simon Smith TRILITY

SLUDGE TREATMENT REED BEDS AS A SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY FOR BIOSOLIDS MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIA

Tom Headley The Water and Carbon Group

BIOSOLIDS MANAGEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND - FROM WORMS TO GEOTEXTILE TUBES

Jacqui Horswell Environmental Science Group

12:45pm Lunch

   

1:45pm

SESSION FIVE: CO-DIGESTION SESSION SIX: CONTAMINANTS & PATHOGENS

THERMAL HYDROLYSIS FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT: A CRITICAL REVIEW Bill Barber, Cambi

THE PFAS LEGACY Frances Rutledge, Hunter Water

HIGH RATE BIOSOLIDS CO-DIGESTION Jurgen Thiele, Calibre Consulting

PLANT ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES INHIBIT PATHOGENS IN SOIL Jennifer Prosser, Environmental Science Group

FEED CHARACTERISATIONS FOR CO-DIGESTION Sofia Andriany, Queensland Urban Utilities

PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POPS) IN BIOSOLIDSGeoff Latimer, ASCEND Waste and Environment

2:45pm Afternoon Tea

3:15pm WORKSHOP: MARKETING THE UNMARKETABLE – CREATINGBEHAVIOUR AND ATTITUDE CHANGE AMONGST OUR COMMUNITIES

4:45pm WRAP UP DISCUSSION AND WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

5:30pm EVENT CONCLUDES

Innovation Pitch Sessions

New to the 2016 Biosolids and Source Management Conference is the inclusion of innovation pitch sessions. These are opportunities for delegates and exhibitors to pitch in five minutes how they would solve a problem, answer a question or provide their take on one of the below questions. This is an amazing opportunity to have a platform to discuss your perspectives on pressing issues for the industries and to hear from your fellow colleagues.

Simply click on this link to check out the question options and to register yourself to pitch your perspectives, research findings or industry experience in this field. If you would like to pitch about an alternative topic, please email Kiri Goschnick via kgoschnick@awa.asn.au to pose a question you would like to pitch an answer to.

Workshops WORKSHOP 1 - Protecting Human and Environmental Health in a Rapidly Changing World - Hosted by the Australia New Zealand Biosolids Partnership In an ever changing world, our sectors must always try to stay one step ahead of the game, responding to new risks as rapidly as possible, preferably before they have even been realised. Emerging contaminants and pathogens by their very nature are hard to predict, regulate and mitigate. Finding out where they are entering the system, understanding what happens to them along the way, and identifying what impact they have on health, environment and quality outcomes are huge challenges which require a proactive industry underpinned by facilitative regulation. In this workshop we will discuss how regulators, utilities, councils and other key players in the biosolids and source management industries can adopt more progressive approaches which offer timely insight, facilitate effective decision making and ultimately help protect our environments and communities from the risks posed by emerging contaminants and pathogens. Drawing on diverse perspectives, we will consider whether it is possible to achieve regulation of emergent contaminants and pathogens in the absence of extensive data and we will explore how utilities and councils respond rapidly and proportionately to poorly understood risks. WORKSHOP 2 - Marketing the Unmarketable – creating behaviour and attitude change amongst our communities In our industry, ‘out of sight out of mind’ is often the status quo amongst our customers. What they chose to send down our pipe network can have a huge impact upon the performance of assets, the quality of our waste water products, and more often than not can cause a few raised eyebrows and more than a few headaches for our WWTW staff! It’s our responsibility to ensure that our customers have a strong understanding of their impact on our systems and how to play their part in ensuring the waste water network can keep on flowing. Be it wet wipes or plastics, fats and grease, we should strive to instigate long-lasting behaviour change that contributes to Australia’s water security. This workshop will examine customer engagement and behaviour change approaches which seek to place Australians at the top of the global leader board in waste water ethics. We will hear from Sydney Water on their experience of achieving success with their ‘Keep Wipes out of the Pipes’ campaign; examining the marketing approaches that worked best for them and gaining insight into the critical success factors that can help make your campaigns successful. The Australian Water Association and ANZBP will share relevant research insights from the Australian Water Survey and the ANZBP Community Attitudinal Survey, and you will have the opportunity to help direct future lines of enquiry that the Association can take forward in 2017, offering a hugely valuable data set open for the sector to draw upon. 

Registration Information To attend the conference, please register online: www.awa.asn.au/bsmconference Registration Fees All registration fees include GST. Full Conference Registration AWA or ANZBP Member: $825.00 Non Member: $1040.00 Day Registration AWA or ANZBP Member: $450.00 Non Member: $610.00 Partner dinner ticket: $150.00 Full Registration includes

Attendance at conference and exhibition

Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea (Monday & Tuesday)

Satchel including the program and list of participants

Conference Dinner (Monday) Day Registrations include

Attendance at conference and exhibition (on selected day)

Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea (on selected day)

Satchel including the program and list of participants

Cancellation Policy Cancellations must be made in writing to kgoschnick@awa.asn.au Cancellations received prior to or on Monday, 31 October 2016 will be issued a refund, less a $100 administration charge. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after Monday, 31 October 2016. Substitute delegates will be accepted without charge. Method of Payment Online payment can be made with VISA, MasterCard or invoice. Registration fee must be paid prior to the conference commencing. If payment has not been made, delegates will be asked to pay onsite or they will be unable to attend the conference.

Exhibition Seize this opportunity to showcase your resources, programs and initiatives, exhibit products and brochures, and speak with delegates during tea and lunch breaks in the conference exhibition. The exhibition area will be located in close proximity to the conference rooms. The exhibition will be open to the delegates on arrival each morning and during tea and lunch breaks.

Interested in exhibiting at the 2016 Biosolids and Source Management Conference? Please contact Steve Comey scomey@awa.asn.au for more information or complete an application form.

Venue and Location Novotel Melbourne on Collins welcomes you to experience contemporary style and 4.5 star comfort in the heart of Melbourne. Located on fashionable Collins Street and directly above the upscale St Collins Lane, Melbourne's most unique shopping destinations. This desirable location near Rod Laver Arena, the MCG, Federation Square, the Princess and Regent Theatres and more, at the doorstep to all this cosmopolitan capital has to offer.

Accommodation A special delegate rate for accommodation at the Novotel Melbourne has been arranged. Please complete the Accommodation Booking Form and email it to h1587@accor.com

Organiser/Enquiries

Australian Water Association Kiri Goschnick Event Manager Phone: (02) 9436 0055 Email: kgoschnick@awa.asn.au Web: www.awa.asn.au/bsmconference