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1991 Georgia Water Resources Conference
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PLENARY SESSION
volution of the Current Wetlands Policy
Lee
Thomas, CEO and Chairman, Law Companies Environmental Group
Water Management in the Next Century
Warren
Viessman, Jr., College of Engineering, University
of Florida, Gainesville
Environmental Ethics: Why Do We Care?
P.
Aarne Vesilind, Chair, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
LUNCHEON SPEAKERS
Environmental Priorities - Are We Regulating the Right
Things?
Charles
Jeter, Corporate Vice-President of Environmental Affairs, RMT, Inc., Greenville
Coordinated Water Resources Management: An Approach for the Eastern
United States
Colonel
Michael Thuss, District Director, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Mobile District
PANEL
DISCUSSION: Safe Drinking Water Act
Amendments
Moderator: Bruce Barrett, Vice
President of Marketing, Jordan,
Jones & Goulding, Inc
Sponsored
by: American Water Works
Association, Georgia Section
Panelists: Fred Finley, Drinking Water Program, Georgia
DNR, Environmental Protection
Division;
Philip Karr, General Manager, Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority; Elaine
Nash,
Soil and Water District Supervisor, Rockdale
County; and Frank
Sherrill, Mayor,
Social
Circle, Georgia
PANEL
DISCUSSION: Water Quality
Regulations
Moderator: Jack Dozier, Executive Director, Georgia
Water and Pollution Control Assoc
Sponsored
by: Georgia Water and Pollution
Control Association
The Origin, Development and Implementation
of Water Quality Regulations - Nationally >and in EPA Region IV
Phil
Vorsatz, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV
The Development and Implementation of Water Quality
Regulations in Georgia
David
Word, Chief, Water Protection Branch,
Georgia
Environmental Protection Div.
The Effect of Water Quality Regulations on Municipal
Wastewater Treatment
George
Barnes, Director, Bureau of Pollution Control, City of Atlanta
Legal Perspective on Water Quality Regulations
Michael
Davis, Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore
The Effect of Water Quality Regulations on Industry
Don
Holder, Georgia Power Company
The Effects of Water Quality Regulations on Industrial
Pretreaters
Charlie
Jones, Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Inc.
Laboratory Analytical Limitations Related to Water
Quality Regulations
Albert
Liabastre, Principal Chemist, Environmental Lab Division, U.S. EPA
POSTER SESSION
Water Use in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers Basin,
1985
Richard
L. Marella, U.S. Geological
Survey, Tallahassee
Water Use in Georgia, 1980-89
Julia
L. Fanning, U.S.
Geological Survey
Ground-water Availability in the South Metropolitan
Atlanta Region, Georgia
John
S. Clarke and Michael F. Peck, U.S.
Geological Survey
ADrastic@ Mapping to Determine the Vulnerability of
Ground-water to Pollution
Victoria
P. Trent, Georgia
Geologic Survey
High-yielding Wells in Metamorphic Rocks: Influencing Factors
Melinda
J. Chapman, U.S.
Geological Survey, and Thomas J. Crawford, Dept.
of
Geology, West Georgia College
Application of Geographic Information
System Technology to Sanitary Landfill Site Selection
Alan
C. Sandercock, Georgia Geologic Survey, and Randy Weathersby, Albany
Dougherty
Planning Commission, Albany,
Georgia
Unique Well Construction in a Weathered Pegmatite of
the Georgia
Piedmont
H.
Dan Harman, Jr., Engineering Science, Inc.
Georgia's Underground Injection Control
Program Protects Ground Water from Improper Waste Disposal
Wayne
Fuller, Georgia Geologic Society, Georgia
DNR, Environmental Protection Div.
Investigation of Petroleum Migration in a Saprolite
Unit of the Piedmont in Northern Georgia
Michael
E. Hermann, Engineering Science, Inc.
Migration of Petroleum from a Tank Farm
into a Fractured Bedrock Aquifer in the Piedmont of Georgia
W.
Mark Bailey, Engineering Science, Inc.
Using Compost to Reduce Soil Erosion
H.
Clark Gregory, Richard M. Kashmanian, and Steven A. Dressing, Fulton
County Soil
and
Water Conservation
The Quantity and Quality of Rainfall
at the National Atmospheric Deposition Site in Middle
Georgia:1979-1989
Jerry
T. Walker and John B. Melin, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Univ. of Georgia
Surface Water Quality in Three Interdunal
Ponds, South End Ponds Ecosystem, Cumberland
Island, Georgia
Thomas
R. Kozel, Dept. of Biology and Life Sciences, Savannah
State College
Restoration of a Forested Wetland, Stone Mountain
Creek, DeKalb County, Georgia
James
R. Renner, WAPORA, Inc.
W.E.P.P. Hillslope Erosion Model Predictions for
Natural Runoff Plots
L.M.
Risse and M.A. Nearing, Agricultural Engineering Dept., Univ. of Georgia
Selecting a Dechlorinating Chemical for a Wastewater
Treatment Plant in Georgia
Dipak
Bagchi and Roy Thomas Kelley, Jr., Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Inc.
Use of Organic N-Halamines as Water Disinfectants
Elisabeth
Elder, Alisha Ward and Jesse Scott, Dept.
of Biology, Georgia
Southwestern College
Nitrates by Ion Chromatography
Adolf
von W¨¹rttemberg, Gwinnett County Public Utilities
Diffuser Design and River Modeling
Paul
D. Christiano and Daniel M. Loudermilk, Dames & Moore
Alternative Dam Construction Techniques
Randall
P. Bass, Dames & Moore
COMPREHENSIVE RIVER
BASIN MANAGEMENT
Sponsored
by: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Mobile District
Comprehensive River Basin Planning: Principles, Need, and Applications in
the Southeast
Neil
S. Grigg, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State
University
Cooperative Water Management in the Susquehanna River Basin
Noel
E. Beegle, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Baltimore District
Drought Management in the Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan Area
Roland
C. Steiner, Interstate Commission of the Potomac River Basin
WATER SUPPLY PLANNING
Applying the IWR-MAIN Water Demand Forecasting Model
for a Georgia City
Jackie
Sellers, Institute of Natural Resources, Univ. of Georgia
Use of Land Use Coefficients to Forecast Utility
System Demand
Kip
Duchon and William Zieburtz, Jr., CH2M HILL; and Gary
Cornell, Gwinnett
County
Responsible Policy-making Leads to Realistic
Water/Sewer Rates in Georgia
James
Melvin Ewing, Georgia
DNR, Environmental Protection Division
Water Resources Planning for Dalton, Georgia
Hugh
Gauntt, Riley, Park & Hayden & Associates; A. Terry McClean, Golder
Associates
Inc.;
and V. DeForrest Parrott III, Dalton Utilities, Georgia
The Design and Construction of the Conasauga Reservoir
A.
Terry McClean, Golder Associates Inc.
WATER CONSERVATION
Water Rate Setting Policy for Water Conservation and
Peak Load Management
P.
Michael Thomas and Patricia A. Stevens, Atlanta
Regional Commission
A Water Authority's Conservation Program
- Its Role with the Georgia Water Wise Council
Fox
McCarthy, Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority, and Andy Hull, Post Landscape
Local Government's Role in Water-Efficient
Landscaping
James
M. Santo, Atlanta
Regional Commission
Xeriscaping Saves Water - But Does It Save Money?
Gary
Wade and E. Neal Weatherly, Jr., Cooperative Extension Service, Univ. of Georgia
A Native Plant Community Approach to Landscape Design
for Water Conservation
Darrel
G. Morrison, School of Environmental Design, Univ. of Georgia
REGIONAL RESERVOIRS
The Role for Regional Reservoirs in Georgia.
Nolton
Johnson, Water Resources Management Branch, DNR Environmental Protection Div.
The West Georgia
Regional Reservoir Wetlands Impact Assessment and Mitigation
J.
Patrick Barber and David E. Hawkins, Dames & Moore
Groundwater Supply Assessment and Section 404
Permitting for Water Supply Reservoirs
James
Renner, WAPORA, Inc., and Thomas Crawford, Dept. of Geology, West Georgia
College
Optimization Model for the Development of a Regional
Water Supply System
James
Buddy Atkins, South Carolina Water Resources Commission
WETLANDS ISSUES
Enforcement of Sections 301 and 404 of the
Clean Water Act: A Review of
Enforcement Actions
Pursued by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region IV
Laura
Ellen Mazanti, U.S..
Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV
Activities of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service in Protecting Georgia's Wetlands
Ronnie
J. Haynes, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service
Wetlands Mapping in Georgia Using LANDSAT Imagery
Christopher
G. Canalos and Jonathan P. Ambrose,
Georgia DNR,
Freshwater Wetlands
and
Heritage Inventory; and Robert R. Robinson, Jr., Erdas, Inc.
RESERVOIR OPERATIONS
A Control Model for the Savannah
River System
Aris
P. Georgakakos, School of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Reallocation of Water Storage in Lake Lanier
Edmund
Burkett, Water Management Section, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
Operations of the Federal Hydropower Resources in the Southeastern United States
John
Mixon, Southeast Power Administration
SAVANNAH RIVER BASIN TOPICS
Sponsored
by: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah
District Reallocation of Water Storage
in Federal Water Projects
H.
Al Pless, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Savannah District
Water Resource Development Act of 1986: Implementation
in the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
D.L.
Parrott, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District
Savannah River Basin Study - Reassessment of Basin Needs and
Priorities
Leroy
G. Crosby, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District
APALACHICOLA-CHATTAHOOCHEE-FLINT RIVER BASIN TOPICS
Reallocation of Lake
Lanier, Georgia
Patricia
A. Stevens, Atlanta
Regional Commission
A Perspective on Water Management Practices
and Programs in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Drainage Basin from the Bottom Up
Steve
F. Leitman, Florida
Defenders of the Environment, and Christopher D. Howell,
Northwest
Florida Water Management District
Legal Issues of Water Allocation for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint
River Basin
Stephen
E. Draper, Draper Engineering Research
WEST POINT LAKE
Sponsored
by: Georgia Lake
Management Society;
Factors Related to Trophic Upsurge of West Point Lake
David
R. Bayne, Dept. of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University
Changes in the Sport Fishery and Fish Population of West Point Lake, Since Impoundment
Leslie
M. Ager, Game and Fish Division, Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources
West Point Lake
Water Quality
Studies: 1987-1990
David
Kamps, Water Quality Management Program,
Georgia Dept.
of Natural Resources
West Point Lake Predictive Chlorophylla Modeling Report
James
M. Greenfield, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV
LAKE MANAGEMENT I
Federal/Georgia Clean Lakes Program
Howard Marshall, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV
Lake Management from a Regulatory Perspective
Charles
J. Zimmerman, Jr., Dames & Moore
Lake Water Level Management as a Tool for the Control of
the Littoral Zone: An Optimization
Approach
Ioannis X. Tsiros, Agricultural Engineering
Dept., Agricultural University of
Athens, Greece
The Trophic Status of Lake Sidney
Lanier
Edmond Mayhew and Mary Mayhew,
Dept. of Biology, Gainesville
College
LAKE MANAGEMENT II
Sponsored
by: Georgia Lake
Management Society
Some Considerations for Managing Urban Lakes
F.
Randolph Cooper, III, Southeastern Lake
Management
Aquatic Plant Management in Georgia Power Company
Reservoirs
Thomas
L. Broadwell, Georgia Power Company, Smyrna
Nutrient Contributions of a Coastal Plain Stream to Lake Blackshear
H.E.
Cofer, Dept. of Geology (retired); William Tietjen, Dept. of Biology; and
William
Wysochansky,
Dept. of Chemistry, Georgia Southwestern College
WATER RESOURCES LEGAL
ISSUES
Water Resources Legislation in the 1991 Georgia
General Assembly
James
E. Kundell, University
of Georgia
Protecting Life Functions, Economic
Interests, Property Rights and Aesthetic Preferences
in Georgia's Waters
J.
Owens Smith, Institute of Natural Resources andMarine Extension Service,UGA
Survival Guide for S.L.A.P.P.s: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public
Participation
Grayson
Roquemour
DRINKING WATER
QUALITY
Water Quality from Private Wells in Georgia
Anthony
Tyson and Robert Isaac, Cooperative Extension Service, Univ. of Georgia
Evaluation of Water Treatment Processes through Pilot
Studies
David
L. Haas and Kim W. Fox, Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Inc.
Levels of Radium and Uranium in Georgia Public Water
Systems
Robert
Rosson and Bernd Kahn, Environmental Resources Center, Georgia Institute
of
Technology; and Clifford Blackman and James Hardeman, Georgia
DNR, EPD
Groundwater Radon Risk Mapping in Athens
Region, Georgia
Shahrokh
Rouhani, School of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology;
and
Marc
E. Dillion, Golder Associates Inc.
Developing Watershed Protection Criteria for Georgia
David
M. Ashley, Jordan, Jones & Goulding Inc., and David M. Word, Georgia
DNR,
Environmental
Protection Division
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Stormwater Drainage Inventory System - The Gwinnett County Case History
David
B. Chastant, Gwinnett County Dept.
of Transportation, Georgia
Comparison of Infiltration and Detention in
the Georgia Piedmont Using Recent
Hydrologic Models
M.
Morgan Ellington and Bruce Ferguson, School of Environmental Design, UGA
Evaluation and Control of the Long-term Water Balance
on an Urban Development Site
Bruce
Ferguson and M. Morgan Ellington, School of Environmental Design, UGA;
and
P. Rexford Gonnsen, Beall Gonnsen & Co.
N.P.D.E.S. Permits for Industrial Facility Stormwater
Discharges
William
E. Hall, Dames & Moore
NON-POINT SOURCE
MANAGEMENT
The Role of Georgia's Soil and Water Conservation
Districts in Water Resources Programs
Dennis
Hopper, Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission
Gum Creek Watershed Demonstration Project
William
I. Segars, Cooperative Extension Service, Univ. of Georgia;
and Betty Barton,
Georgia
Soil and Water Conservation Commission
Urban Erosion -The Off-site Consequences
Stephen
Martin, Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission
FOREST WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
Erosion Studies in Burned Forest Sites of Georgia
A.K.
Shahlaee, W.L. Nutter, and L.A. Morris, School
of Forest Resources, Univ.
of Georgia;
and
P.R. Robichaud, USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, Moscow, Idaho
Water Management on the Chattahoochee-Oconee
National Forests
Kenneth
Henderson, Kirby Brock, Ray Ellis, Dick Rightmyer and William Hansen, USDA
Forest
Service, Chattahoochee-Oconee
National Forests
Reed Creek Watershed and Fishery Improvement Project
William
Hansen, Dick Rightmyer, Jim Kidd and Monte Seehorn, USDA Forest
Service,
Chattahoochee-Oconee
National Forests
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
I
Nuisance Problems at Gwinnett County¡¯s Yellow River Water Reclamation Facility
Dennis
A. Brown, Gwinnett
County Dept. of Public
Utilities
Optimal Real-time Activated Sludge Regulation
John
Kabouris and Aris Georgakakos, School
of Civil Engineering, Georgia
Tech
Low Cost Approach for Dechlorination
Richard
Grubbs and Tom Ladshaw, Gwinnett
County Dept. of Public
Utilities
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
II
Wetland Treatment System Feasibility Study
Billy
Lee and Larry Stuber, EMC Engineering Services, Inc.
Constructed Wetlands for Assimilation of Dairy
Effluents: Monitoring Studies
Hoke
Howard, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region IV
Use of a Nitrogen Leaching Model as a Design Criterion
for Land Application of Waste Water
L.T.
West and M.L. Cabrera, Dept. of Agronomy, Univ. of Georgia
SURFACE WATER QUALITY
Georgia Stream Temperature Characteristics
Thomas
R. Dyar and S. Jack Alhadeff, U.S.
Geological Survey
Biological Approach to Use Attainability
Thomas
Simpson, CH2M HILL, and Robert Troxler, Gwinnett County Public Utilities
Water Quality Investigations Related to Proposed
NPDES. Permit Limits for Metals
William
Kreutzberger, CH2M HILL, and Robert Troxler, Gwinnett County Public Utilities
Bioaccumulative Contaminants in Fish, Risk Assessment
and Fish Consumption Advisories
Q.J.
Stober, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region IV, Athens
ENVIRONMENTAL
MONITORING
Use of Modified Bioassessment Protocols for Evaluation
of Water Quality
Gail
Cowie, James Cooley and Aditi Dutt, Inst. of Community and Area Development,
UGA
Remote Sensing/GIS for Water Resource Management
Applications in the Southeast
Roy
Welch and Marguarite Remillard, Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science,
Dept.
of Geography, Univ.
of Georgia
The Development of the Georgia Automated Environmental
Monitoring Network
Gerrit
Hoogenboom, B.P. Verma and E.D. Threadgill, Dept. of Agric. Engineering, UGA
AGRICULTURAL WATER
ISSUES
Justification for Water Table Management in Georgia
Daniel
Thomas and Matt C. Smith, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Univ. of Georgia
A Comparative Study of Mathematical Models
for Migration of Pesticides in Surface
and Subsurface Waters
Ioannis
Tsiros and Mansour Zakikhani,
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV
Chemical Leaching in Large Conventional and No-tillage
Soil Columns
D.E.
Radcliffe, M.H. Golabi and W.L. Hargrove, Dept. of Agronomy, Univ. of Georgia
Field Testing Pesticide Transport Models at a
Cooperative Test Site Near Plains, Georgia
Charles
N. Smith and David Brown, Environmental Research Lab,
U.S. EPA, Athens; Rudolph Parrish,
Computer Sciences Corp., U.S.
EPA, Athens;
Loris Asmussen and Ralph Leonard, USDA
Southeast Watershed Research Lab; D. Woodrow Hicks, U.S. Geological Survey; William
Payne, Environmental Research Lab, U.S.
EPA, Athens;
and R. Shaw Fletcher, Southwest
Georgia Experiment Station, Univ.
of Georgia
COASTAL RESEARCH
Sponsored
by: Georgia
Sea Grant College
Program
Sea Gran's Role in Coastal Oceans Research
Mac
V. Rawson, Georgia
Sea Grant College Program, Univ.
of Georgia
Lignin-Derived Organic Matter in Georgia Coastal Waters
Mary
Ann Moran, Dept. of Microbiology and Institute
of Ecology, Univ.
of Georgia; Lawrence Pomeroy,
Dept. of Zoology and Institute
of Ecology, UGA; Edward
Sheppard, Dept. of Microbiology and
Institute of Ecology,
UGA; Larry Atkinson, Oceanography Dept., Old Dominion
University; and
Robert Hodson, Dept. of Microbiology and Institute of Ecology,
UGA
Transformation of Riverine Organic Matter in Estuaries
John
Ertel, Dept. of Geology and Marine Science Program, Univ. of Georgia;
and James Alberts and
Mary Price, Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Univ.
of Georgia
PIEDMONT GROUND-WATER
HYDROLOGY I
Sponsored
by: Georgia Ground Water Association
hydrogeologic Evaluations for High-yieldingWells in the Piedmont Province of
Georgia and Alabama
Thomas
Crawford, Dept. of Geology, West Georgia College,
and U.S.
Geological Survey;
and
Melinda Chapman, U.S.
Geological Survey, Water Resources Division
Well Location Technology for the Georgia Piedmont
H.
Dan Harman, Jr., Engineering Science, Inc.
Results of Pumping Tests Performed at the Barnesville
Site, Lamar County,
Georgia
William
Steele, David Brackett, Madeleine Kellam and Mark Hall, Georgia Geologic Survey
PIEDMONT GROUND-WATER
HYDROLOGY II
Sponsored
by: Georgia Ground Water Association
Present and Future Directions for Isotope Hydrology
Research in the Georgia
Piedmont.
Seth
Rose, Department of Geology, Georgia
State University
Geology, Hydrogeology, and Ground-water
Chemistry of the Plant Yates Gypsum Stacking Area, Coweta County, Georgia
J.C.
Redwine, R.J. Tinsley and D.V. Patel, Southern Company Services Inc., Birmingham,
Alabama; and D. Bloomburg, Ardaman
and Associates, Orlando, Florida
Areas in Georgia Poorly Suited for Municipal
Landfills
David
R. Hipple, Georgia
Geologic Survey
AQUIFER PROTECTION I
Sponsored
by: Georgia Ground Water Association
Construction and Operation of a
Biotreatment Facility for Remediation of Hydrocarbon
Contaminated Soil
Robert
E. Moore, Jr., Dames & Moore
Cost-effective Design of a Treatment System
for Cleaning Up Soils and Ground Water
Contaminated with
Petroleum Hydrocarbons
Elio F. Arniella, Envirosoft
Leachate Tests for Solidified Hazardous Wastes
Leslie
J. Blythe, B & G Environmental, and Elio F. Arniella, Envirosoft
AQUIFER PROTECTION II
Sponsored
by: Georgia Ground Water Association
A University Landfill Site Investigation
Warren
Safter, Public Safety, Univ.
of Georgia; and William
Clister, Peter Robinson
and
Benjamin Young, Brown and Caldwell
Geostatistical Mapping for Hazardous Waste Sites
Richard
L. Satkin, Engineering Science, Inc., and Aris P. Georgakakos, School of Civil
Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Willingness to Pay for Groundwater Protection
Jeffrey
Jordan and Abdelmoneim Elnagheeb, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, and William
L.
Hargrove, Dept. of Agronomy, Univ.
of Georgia
Groundwater Withdrawals Needed to Meet Irrigation
Demands During Drought Years.
James
E. Hook, Dept. of Agronomy, Univ.
of Georgia