Schedule of Presentations and
Q/A
|
Time
|
Topic
|
Speaker
|
Content
|
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6:00
PM
|
Introduction
|
Melanie
Schumacher, Soquel Creek Water District
|
Welcome
and Introductions
|
|
6:05-6:25 PM
|
Integrated Water Plan and Desalination as a supplemental
Supply
.PDF
of Presentation
|
Laura Brown,
Soquel
Creek Water District
|
What are
the water supply issues for the City of
Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water
District and how desalination may be a viable supplemental
supply source
|
|
6:25-6:45 PM
|
scwd2
Seawater Desalination Pilot Plant
|
Paul Meyerhofer,
P.E., Pilot Plant Project Manager, CDM
|
Overview
of the seawater
desalination pilot plant investigations, test
results and recommendations
|
.PDF
of
Presentation |
|
6:45-7:05 PM
|
Energy and Desalination
.PDF
of Presentation
|
Linette Almond, P.E., Santa Cruz
|
Addresses how to manage and reduce
energy and green house gas emissions for a full-scale plant
|
|
7:05-7:25 PM
|
Environmental Review Process
|
Heidi Luckenbach,
P.E., City of Santa Cruz
Stephanie Strelow, Strelow Consulting
|
Addresses
how the public can be
involved in the environmental review process.
|
.PDF
of
Presentation |
|
7:25-7:55 PM
|
Q/A
Session with Panel
|
|
7:55-8:00 PM
|
Wrap -Up
|
Presenters
Laura Brown, General Manager, Soquel
Creek Water District. Laura has been a resident of Aptos
and a customer of Soquel Creek Water District since 1977 and has
worked in local government in the Monterey Bay Area for nearly 30
years. From 1979 – 1991, she held four increasingly responsible
positions with the City of Santa Cruz beginning in the Public Works
Department, then serving as Personnel Director and ultimately as
Assistant City Manager. In 1991, she was appointed Assistant City
Manager for the City of
Monterey. In 1995, she became the third
General Manager in the history of the Soquel Creek Water District.
Professionally, she serves on the Association of California Water
Agencies Desalination Sub-committee and the three-person Northern
Santa Cruz County Integrated Regional Water Resources Management
Plan steering committee.
Paul Meyerhofer,
P.E., CDM.
Paul is a senior Vice
President with CDM and the Project Manager for the
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Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Pilot Test Program.
Paul is a registered civil engineer
in the State of California
and has 35 years experience in pilot testing, designing, and
constructing water treatment and desalination facilities.
Recent desalination projects that Paul has been involved with
include the Newark Desalination Facility (Alameda County
Water District), a 5 MGD plant that desalinates brackish groundwater
and the Groundwater Recharge Project (Orange County Water District),
a 60 MGD facility that pre-treats and desalinates secondary
wastewater influent for groundwater recharge.
Linette Almond,
P.E., City of Santa Cruz.
Linette Almond is the Deputy Water
Director / Engineering Manager for the City of Santa Cruz Water
Department. She has been with the City’s Water Department for
the past 14 years and oversees the department’s capital improvement
program. She has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
from the University
of Tennessee and a Masters
in Public Administration from California State University,
Sacramento.
She is a licensed professional engineer with over 30 years
experience in a variety of civil engineering fields with an emphasis
on project management and project development. Linette was the
project manager for the IWP and the program EIR for the IWP.
Heidi Luckenbach,
P.E., City of Santa Cruz.
As the Desalination Program Coordinator, Heidi is responsible for
overseeing the various studies related to the potential 2.5 MGD
desalination plant that the City of
Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District is
evaluating as a supplemental supply source.
Heidi has worked for the City of Santa
Cruz for almost 10 years and previously worked in
Phoenix, Arizona, Illinois, and Southern California.
Stephanie
Strelow , Principal, Strelow Consulting.
Stephanie has worked in the
Santa Cruz and Monterey
Bay area for over 25 years and has
regularly worked with the City of
Santa Cruz for over 20 years. She has
worked on various projects with the Water Department as well as
Public Works, Planning, Parks and Redevelopment, preparing all
levels of environmental documentation required by the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Strelow Consulting is
currently preparing the EIR on the City’s update to the General
Plan, as well as environmental documentation for several private and
public projects within the City of
Santa Cruz. In addition to
doing project-specific CEQA documents, Stephanie provides
environmental advisory services to the City. She has
also served as a contract planner and CEQA consultant to other local
jurisdictions and agencies, including
Monterey County, Santa Clara Valley Water District, the Town of
Los Gatos and the cities of Pacific
Grove, Capitola, Seaside, Morgan Hill and Gonzales.
Panel for Q/A Session
Bill
Kocher,
Water Director, City of
Santa Cruz
Laura
Brown,
General Manager, Soquel Creek Water District
Heidi
Luckenbach,
City of
Santa Cruz
Paul Meyerhofer,
CDM
Jim Sandoval, CH2MHILL
