CWRA 2017 Conference · 69th annual ICID conference, “Innovative and Sustainable Agri-water...

CWRA 2017 Conference

Water: A Continental Asset June 5-7, 2017 Lethbridge Alberta

Conference Program

Water: A Continental Asset June 5-7, 2017

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Table of Contents Introduction to the CWRA .................................................................................................. 4

CWRA National Conference 2018 – Victoria BC ............................................................... 6

ICID Conference 2018 – Saskatoon SK ............................................................................. 7

CWRA Conference Program ............................................................................................... 8

Organizing Committee ...................................................................................................... 17

List of Exhibitors ............................................................................................................... 18

Conference Sponsorship .................................................................................................. 19

Introduction to the CWRA The CWRA is a national organization that is committed to raising awareness of the value of water and has been an advocate of effective management of Canada's water resources since the 1940s. CWRA raises awareness and understanding of the value of water and provides a forum for the exchange of information and opinion. CWRA membership consists of water users and water resource professionals including managers, administrators, scientists, academics, environmentalists, landowners, students and young professionals.

For more information on CWRA in general, and local and national events, go to:

• National CWRA webpage – www.CWRA.org

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CWRA National Conference 2018 – Victoria BC The BC Branch will be hosting the CWRA’s 71st National Conference and Annual General Meeting in the week of May 28th - June 1st in Victoria. Conference theme and Venue will be announced soon.

VICTORIA: By Marlene Watson

Photos by: Tourism Victoria

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ICID Conference 2018 – Saskatoon SK

Innovative and Sustainable Agri-water Management: Adapting to a Variable and Changing Climate On behalf of the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) and the Canadian Committee for Irrigation and Drainage (CANCID), we would like to welcome you to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the heart of the Canadian Prairies! Surrounded by close to 25 million hectares of farm land in the Province of Saskatchewan, the agriculture and the agri-food sectors drive this economy. Saskatoon is home to world class agriculture research and education institutions that support sustainable innovations in agriculture. Managing water effectively is key to sustainable agriculture for ensuring food and water security and for creating greater resiliency to climate variability. The theme of the 69th annual ICID conference, “Innovative and Sustainable Agri-water Management: Adapting to a Variable and Changing Climate,” will focus on these issues and more.

Saskatoon is a relatively young city: a city of arts, culture, food and drink. But you have only to scratch the surface to immerse yourself in centuries of deep cultural heritage from First Nations’ traditions to the early days of settlement. Weaving through the city, witness to these important and historical changes, is the beautiful South Saskatchewan River Valley.

CWRA and CANCID are honoured to host the 69th Annual ICID Executive Council Meeting and International Conference.

We look forward to seeing you in 2018!

Dave Murray National President, CWRA Roger Hohm President, CANCID

ICID2018.org

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CWRA Conference Program

Monday - 5 June 2017 7:30 Speakers Breakfast

Delegates' Continental Breakfast

8:30 Welcome - Conference Chair Welcome - CWRA President - Dave Murray

Coments - AWRA President 9:00

Keynote - David Percy

9:30 Keynote - Bob Sandford

10:00 Keynote - Robert Laboucane on FN Perspectives

10:30 Break (30 minutes)

11:00 Session 1A

Institutional and Legal Arrangements for Water

Management 1

Session 1B Water Quality 1 - Water

Quality in the Great Lakes

Session 1C CSHS Modelling 1

Session 1D Prairie Hydrology 1

Session 1E Arctic/Northern Waters 1

Alexandre Lillo Seth Foldy Vinod Chilkoti Paul Whitfield Carmen de la Chevrotière and Meghan Beveridge

Affinity or Discord? Exploring the Compatibility of

Watershed Management and Constitutional Law in

Canada

Protecting Human Health from Great Lakes

Cyanotoxins - Emerging Concerns

Multi-objective Calibration of SWAT Model for Improved

Performance

Patterns of Spatial Change in Canadian Prairie

Hydrology

Alberta-Northwest Territories Bilateral Management

Agreement

11:30 Mike Renouf Bereket Negasi Isaac Masoud Zaerpour John Diiwu Mike Wilton

The Prairie Provinces Water Board's Efforts to Develop and Maintain Methods for Determining the Equitable

Apportionment of Transboundary Streams and

Lakes on the Canadian Prairies

Discourse Around Nutrient Problem in Western Basin of

Lake Erie

A Fully Spatial Stochastic Reconstruction Framework

for Analysis of Water Resource System

Vulnerability to Potential Changes in Streamflow

Regime

An Integrated Tool for Watershed Protection under Changing Climate in Alberta

Diversions - Redirecting Arctic Waters - Dream or

Nightmare?

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Monday - 5 June 2017

12:00

Lunch (90 minutes) Award Presentations:

(1) Ken Thompson Scolarship Award (2) Memorial Scholarship Award,

(3) CWRA Scholarship Awards (x 2) (4) Dillon Scholarship Award and Presentation

13:30

Session 2A Bi-National Agreements

- Sharing the Water Over the Canada-USA

Border 1

Session 2B Land Use and Climate

Change Effects



Session 2E Institutional and Legal

Arrangements for Water Management 2

Paul Allen Ramesh Rudra Kelsey Cartwright KuangYin (Bill) Zhao Kristin Bruce

The Treaty and the Commission - Keeping the Peace in Shared

Waters

Effect of Landuse and Climate Change on

Stream Flow in Ontario

Inter- and Intra-annual Consistency of Seasonal

Snowpack Properties using Conventional Snow Data and

Airborne LiDAR

Regional Flood Coefficients at Prairie Pothole Area in

Manitoba

A Study of Saskatchewan's Water Governance - Has

Anything Changed?

14:00 Reed Benson Babak Farjad Robert Chlumsky Jennifer Regier Judy Stewart

Transboundary Environmental Flows on

U.S Rivers

Forecasting Hydrological Processes under

Combined Climate and Land-Use/Cover Change

Scenarios

Novel Approach for Inflow Matching and Prediction in

Support of Reservoir Management

Direct Measurements of Evaporation from Prairie

Reservoirs: Progress Towards Improving Evaporation Estimation Techniques

Integrated Watershed Management in the Bow River

Basin - A Brief Overview of Approaches, Challenges and

Successes

14:30

Wes Dick James Craig

Mike Renouf

The 2013 Flood and River Morphology in Calgary

Decision Crash Testing: Assessing and Improving Model Skill for Informing Management Decisions

The Prairie Provinces Water Board's Current Efforts to Prepare an Agreement on Transboundary Aquifers

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Monday - 5 June 2017 15:00 Poster Presentations and Break (60 minutes)

16:00 Session 3A

International Experiences in Transboundary Water

Sharing

Session 3B Water Quality 2 - Biology

Doesn't Recognize Boundaries



Session 3E Evolving Policy and

Regulation

Thibaut Lachaut Jay White Alida Thiombiano Fisana Unduche Joey Hurley

Water Supply Long Term Vulnerability in Highly

Stressed Regions: A Multi-Agent Analysis of Jordanian

Cities

Threats of Aquatic Invasive Species in Alberta

Development of a Hybrid Generalized Pareto Model for the Frequency Analysis of Extremes in Hydrology

Effect of Data Assimilation and Uncertainty on Flood

Forecasting - A Case Study on a Prairie Watershed

Adaptive Risk-Based Policy and Guidelines for

Wastewater Reuse and Stormwater Use in Alberta

16:30

Barry Olson Hasab-Ul Alam Chowdhury Kevin Shook Sophia Yee

Developing a Method to Control Invasive Mussles in

Alberta's Irrigation Infrastructure

Watershed Delineation of the Humber River Basin in

Newfoundland

Development of a Conceptual Model of the

Hysteric Relationship between Water Storage and the Contributing Fraction for large-Scale Models of Prairie

Basins

Varying Provincial Water Regulations and Issues

Facing the Evolving UCOG Sector

17:00 SYP AGM Exhibitor Hosted Meet-and-Greet

18:00 BBQ at Fort Whoop Up - Busses Provided

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Tuesday - 6 June 2017 7:30 Speakers Breakfast

Delegates' Continental Breakfast 8:30 Keynote - Howard Wheater - Global Water Futures: Solutions to Water Threats in an Era of Global Change

9:00 Keynote - Richard Moy - International Joint Commission

9:45 Keynote - Michael Campana - Grand Theft Groundwater? What Would Elvis Do? The Ground-breaking Mississippi v. Tennessee U.S. Supreme Court Case


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Session 4A Managing Flood Risk in a Changing Environment 1 - Evolving Understanding of

Flood Mechanisms

Session 4B Water Quality 3

Session 4C Arctic/Northern Waters 2

Session 4D "R" Modelling

Session 4E Wetlands and Riparian

Areas

Dave Murray and Nancy Davy Wayne Jenkinson Emily Anderson

rapid-fire presentations (1) Kevin Shook: R-function:

Session Introduction (2) Paul Whitfield: R-function: get_peaks (3) Paul Whitfield: R-function: booth_plot

(4) Kevin Shook: R-function: ExtractBasinShapefile

(5) Kevin Shook: R-function: PowerLawPlot

Carly Silver

Locally, Regionally, Provincially or Nationally: What is the Best Way to

Manage Flood Risk?

Binational SPARROW Modelling of the

Midcontinental Region

Modelling Changes in Multi-decadal Streamflow

Contributions - Bologna Glacier, Selwyn Mountains,

NWT

Keeping Urban Wetlands Wet

11:00 Stewart Rood Sharon Reedyk Santosh GC Dongnan Zhu

Are Floods Worsening from the Crown of the Continent?

Developing Nutrient Targets for the Red River

Riviere des Rochers Little Rapids Weir - Boat Passage

Alternatives

Implications of Long-Term Wastewater Effluent

Diversion to Frank Lake

11:30 Eric-Lorne Blais Eric Akomeah Mike Nemeth George Roman

The 2014 Flood Event in the Souris River Basin: Causes, Assessment and Damage

Seasonal Variation in Sediment Oxygen Demand

in a Northern Chained River-Lake System

A Roadmap to Long Term Sustainable Management of

Water Resources in the Athabasca River Basin:

Science, Models, Collaboration and Dialogue

City of Calgary Riparian Action Program

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Tuesday - 6 June 2017 12:00 Lunch (90 min)

Project Wet Award

13:30 CANCID AGM (45 min)

14:15 CSHS AGM (45 min)

15:00 Alberta Branch AGM (45 min)


16:15 CWRA National AGM (60 min)

17:00 Pre Banquet Reception

18:00

CWRA Banquet Award Presentations:

(1) Hoskin Scientific Award, (2) CANCID Award,

(3) National Distinguished Service Award Keynote Speaker: Dr. James (Jim) Byrne, University of Lethbridge

2018 Conference Presentation

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Wednesday - 7 June 2017 7:30

Speakers Breakfast Delegates' Continental Breakfast

8:30 Session 5A

Water Quality 2 - Water Quality in Riverine

Environments

Session 5B Managing Flood Risk in a Changing Environment 2

Session 5C Bi-National Agreements -

Sharing the Water Over the Canada-USA Border 2

Session 5D Hydrological Assessments in Ungauged or Remote Basins

Session 5E Water Management in Agricultural Settings 1 - Hydraulics (CANCID)

Nadine Taube Julien Cousineau Graham Waugh Matthew K MacDonald Willemijn Appels

Nutrient Distribution between Different Compartments of a

Wastewater Treatment-Effluent Impacted River Before and After a Major

Flood Event

Developing an Interactive Flood Forecasting and

Visualization Tool for the Magaguadavic River, New

Brunswick

Climate Change, the Columbia River Treaty, and

Considerations for a Successful Renegotiation

Improved Hydrological Modelling of the Hudson Bay Drainage Basin: Implications for Predictions in Ungauged

Basins

Simulating Lateral Redistribution of Water in

Agricultural Fields

9:00 Nancy Martin Andrew Rushworth Michael Shantz Andrew A.G. Tefs Gerald Ontkean

A Detailed Accounting of Direct TP Loadings to the

Bow River Mainstem Including Urban and Rural

Sources

Groundwater Inundation Mapping in Calgary

Developing a Binational Adaptive Management

Initiative to Support Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Water Level Management

Coupling Regulation Hydraulics and Hydrologic Modelling for Streamflow

and Water Supply Projections on the Nelson

River

Testing Protocols for Open Channel and Closed

Pipeline Flow Meter Testing in Irrigation Infrastructure in

Alberta

9:30 Drew Lejbak Erika Klyszejko Khalid Oubennaceur Devi Thapa

Drought and Flood Planning in the Okanagan Region of

B.C.

The International Rainy and Namakan Lakes Rule

Curves Review

Uncertainty Analysis of a Two-Dimensional

Hydrodynamic Model

An Experimental Investigation of Reducing

Flow Energy Losses in Irrigation Channel Diversions


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Wednesday - 7 June 2017

10:30 Session 6A Arctic/Northern Waters 3

Session 6B Managing Flood Risk in a Changing Environment 3 -

Understanding and Mitigating Risk

Session 6C NASH 1

Session 6D Bi-National Agreements -

Sharing the Water Over the Canada-USA Border 3

Session 6E Water Management in Agricultural Settings 2 - Water Quality (CANCID)

Gongchen Li Eva A. Bogdan Stuart Hamilton Norman Midtlyng Barry Olson

Hydrocarbon Substance Levels in Alberta's

Transboundary Waterbodies

Room for Rivers and Voices: A Comparison of Room for

the River Approaches in Alberta and The Netherlands

Below Gaugings: The Uncertain Art of Downward

Stage-Discharge Rating Curve Extension

The International Apportionment of the St.

Mary and Milk Rivers

Risks of Manure Spreading to Groundwater Quality in

Southern Alberta

11:00 Tim Taylor Ziyang Zhang Gabriel Sentlinger Jerome (Jerry) Wagner-Watchel Cassandra Jokinen

Arctic Waters Spill Protection

Statistical Distribution and Regionalization Techniques

for Flood Frequency Analyses in Canada

WQMM for Environmental Flow Release Monitoring

St. Mary and Milk Rivers: Procedures and

Computations of Natural Flow and Apportionment

Pilot Study: Ensuring that Alberta's Irrigation Water

Quality Meets Increasingly Stringent Food Safety Regulatory Demands

11:30 Robyn Andrishak / Derek Faria Robin Bourke

Reza Ghanbarpour

The Mackenzie River Basin Hydraulic Model: A Platform

to Support Interprovincial Water Management

Agreements

Federal Floodplain Mapping Guidelines

Application of Water Resources Allocation Model

in Trans-Boundary and Interprovincial Water Management Projects

12:00

Lunch (90 minutes) Award Presentations: (1) CWRA SYP Award

(2) Our Water Our Life The Most Valuable Resource Award (3) Professor Bill Stolte Student Paper Award

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13:30 Session 7A CSHS Modelling 4

Session 7B Prairie Hydrology 4

Session 7C NASH 2

Session 7D Adapting to Climate Change

in B.C.

Session 7E Water Management in Agricultural Settings 3 -

Management Approaches (CANCID)

Alan Barton Michael Seneka Stuart Hamilton Brian Guy Jollin Charest

An update on CHyMS: A Canadian National Modelling

Stewardship Asset

Reconstruction of Area-Capacity Curves for Alberta

Lakes

Flow Measurements in Slow, Weedy Streams

How Climate Change is Influencing Water

Management in the Okanagan and Similkameen

Watersheds

The "Alberta Irrigation Information" Booklet - 25 Years of Annual Data for

Understanding the Trends in Alberta's Irrigation Industry

14:00

Lisa Atkinson Gabriel Sentlinger Drew Lejbak Lloyd Healy

Hydrogeological and Geological Characterization of the Calgary-Lethbridge

Corridor to Support a Management Approach for

Groundwater

Quantifying and Controlling Uncertainty in Salt Dilution

Flow Measurements

Similkameen Valley Watershed Plan: Climate Change Adaptation for an

International River

Tools Alberta's Irrigation Districts Deploy to Manage and Account for Water Use

14:30

Daniel Wagenaar Sanjeev Jha

Application of Acoustic Doppler Technology in Estimating Suspended

Sediments

An Evaluation of Post-Processed Ensemble

Precipitation Forecast for Coastal Watersheds of

British Columbia 15:00

Break (30 minutes)

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15:30 Session 8A CSHS Modelling 5

Session 8B Managing Flood Risk in a Changing Environment 4

Session 8C NASH 3 Session 8D

Session 8E Water Management in

Agricultural Settings 4 - Case Studies (CANCID)

Alan Barton David Roche Daniel Wagenaar

Jeffrey Olitch and Carl Wirzba

Recent Enhancements to Green Kenue and its

Environment: A Hydrological Visualization Tool

Squamish, BC: A Success Story for Integrated Flood

Management Planning

FlowTracker2 Velocity and Pressure Sensor

Performance in Laboratory Towing Tanks

Bullhorn Flood Control Wasteway

16:00 Nandana Perera Steve Brown Francois Rainville

Jordan Brandenburg

Representation of Surface Water-Groundwater

Interactions in Runoff Modelling

Waterloo Floodplain Mapping Update

Defining Our Path Towards Continuous Data Production

Women's Coulee Diversion Project - Fish Exclusion

Measures

16:30

Steve Baxter

Shahadat Hossain

Monitoring Stage in High Velocity Streams: How

Accurate Is It?

Challenges to Protect Gully Erosion at North Tangent

Drainage, Alberta

17:00 End of Conference

Speaker Gifts CWRA Alberta branch has made a commitment to continue our tradition of making a donation to the CWRA National Scholarship Fund in lieu of speaker gifts. For more information on the scholarships go to www.cwra.org/about/scholarship. Each year CWRA Alberta donates approximately $2000 to the fund.

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Organizing Committee

Conference Chair Rick Carnduff - Stantec Consulting Ltd.

Treasurer Robyn Andrishak - North West Hydraulics

Program:

Monica Wagner - AMECFW,

Sean Douglas - Alberta Environment and Parks, Paul Whitfield - University of Saskatchewan

Terrence Lazarus - St. Mary Irrigation District, Carly Silver - Stantec Consulting Ltd. Stuart Hamilton - Aquatic Informatics

Dr. Abdel-Zaher Kamal Abdel-Razek - CANCID/CWRA Nick Heisler - International Joint Commission

Wayne Jenkinson - International Joint Commission

Sponsorship: Sarah Fruin - Priddis Environmental Andrew Chan - Matrix Environmental Engineering

Facilities: Rick Ross - CWRA

Registration / Website

Iain Girvan - Alberta Environment and Parks Sean Douglas - Alberta Environment and Parks

Sarah Fruin - Priddis Environmental

Awards Jennifer Hiebert Dr. Abdel-Zaher Kamal Abdel-Razek - CANCID/CWRA

Other Support

Andrew Szojka - Kerr Wood Leidal Bill Rozeboom - EBA Engineering

Cody Kupferschmidt - North West Hydraulics Peter Morgan – Golder

Bruce Maclock Bob Halliday

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List of Exhibitors

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Conference Sponsorship The Conference Organizing Committee wishes to recognize the financial supporters of the Conference. Gold Sponsor (Contributions of $5,000 or more): Silver Sponsor (Contributions of $2,500 to $4,999): Bronze Sponsor (Contributions of $1,500 to $2,499):

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