Using Management Systems to Reduce Costs and Improve Performance

Saturday, October 18, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
1 day, 0.6 CEUs

The purpose of the workshop is to make the environmental and business case for implementing an environmental management system to municipalities, water utilities and wastewater utilities.  Specifically, the workshop will demonstrate that environmental management systems (EMS) are a proven way for utilities to reduce their operating costs and to improve operating performance, and realize significant other benefits that help to make their operations sustainable.

Then, having demonstrated the efficacy of the management systems approach,  the workshop will provide detailed, step by step, instructions to the attendees to enable them to establish an EMS at their own facility.

The workshop will be conducted by members of the WEF Environmental Management System Committee who have direct experience in implementing a successful EMS at his or her utility.  As a result, the attendees will hear real life examples, from their colleagues in the industry, detailing how management systems helped utilities to reach their key objectives.   They will be shown how they can achieve the same results for their own organization.

A representative from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s national Office of Water will summarize benefits that several other wastewater utilities have seen from their EMS and advise the attendees of the additional resources available to enable them to take the next steps to implement a management system for their utility once they return home.

Chair
Andrew Kricun, Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority

Co-Chair
Grady Coomes, City of Dallas Water Utilities

Speakers
Tom Pedersen, CDM
Jim Newton, Kent County Department of Public Works
Dave R. Meyer, Brown and Caldwell
Michael E. Van Brunt, First Environment, Inc.
James Horne, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Peter T. Maynard, CDM
William T. Maynard, University of Florida TREEO Center