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Often in the solid waste management industry, new leadership is brought in from the outside. How can someone without extensive knowledge succeed in jumping into this complex and important role? This fast-paced Pecha Kucha presentation will feature the tricks of the trade and the hard lessons-learned from solid waste leaders who have made the same transition. We’ll also address succession planning and the steps to building a strong solid waste management team.
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The City of Crawfordsville, Indiana, had three goals when they first established their roadeo: 1) provide classroom training for the operators and crews; 2) improve driver skills through competition; and 3) check out the readiness of their winter equipment prior to the first snow. Over the years, they’ve worked hard to keep the roadeo evolving by introducing new topics to the classroom training, setting up new obstacles on the roadeo course, and inviting local officials and media representatives to participate in a Celebrity Roadeo. The roadeo now has widespread community interest and support.
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In today’s connected world, weather information can be accessed with a click of a button. But what does it all mean? Standard weather forecasts deal in percentages of chance and ranges of accumulation. This session will offer you tips for understanding the weather data available to you and how to improve decision-making regarding allocation of materials, equipment, and staff for potential winter storms.
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Global Positioning System/Automatic Vehicle Location (GPS/AVL) solutions have become essential tools for mitigating liability, reducing costs, and increasing accountability and transparency for winter maintenance operations. Examine how to align your solution with your agency’s key service-level indicators, obtain buy-in from all affected groups, and prepare your agency to manage the changes that come with implementing new technology.
Read MoreLearn what some of the most enlightened communities are doing these days to make their neighborhoods a great place to work, live and thrive today and into the future.
Read MorePerched just above the Roaring Forties in latitude and geologically young, New Zealand is exposed to a wide-range of naturally occurring hazards including flooding, earthquakes, windstorms, snowstorms, volcanic activity, and tsunami. The Manawatu-Whanganui Civil Defence Emergency Management Group is a collection of lifeline utilities in the region. Learn about how they prepare for these types of events – from asset and risk management to preparation, response, and recovery. Shakespeare said that all the world is a stage. If that’s true, lifeline utilities are the backstage crew that keeps it all running. The goal is to respond to emergencies and bounce back with more resilient networks.
Read MoreThe cheerful TV weather person comes on the local news on Friday and talks about a 40% chance of rain for Monday. But come Monday, a severe storm causes local flooding and a combined sewer overflow! Precipitation forecasting has improved exponentially over the last 20-years, yet for public works operations, a profound disconnect exists in how forecast information is acquired (access and timing), perceived (interpreted), and used for decision-support (mitigation.) This presentation will discuss the tools that are available to resolve this issue and provide innovative approaches for using hydro-meteorological information in managing stormwater and wastewater programs.
Read MoreThe panel will focus on the process of developing maintenance strategies using CMMS and GIS spatial analysis tools and applying criticality scoring to asset decision-making.
Read MoreAcross the nation, higher rents and a shortage of low-income housing are increasing homelessness and challenges to public works departments in keeping the public-rights-of-way safe and clean. The City of Berkeley, California, activated their emergency operations center in the winter of 2017 to facilitate the creation an emergency homeless shelter on city property. The City of Alameda, California, has implemented a comprehensive action plan to address an increased number of homeless encampments in the community. This joint presentation will discuss how this issue affects public works and steps that are being taken.
Read MoreThis session will include presentations from Norway and Australia about 21st Century solid waste management technologies, practices, and advancements. • Dulverton Waste Management operates 60,000 tonne per annum landfill and a 30,000 tonne per annum compost facility in northwest Tasmania, Australia. (1 metric tonne = 1.10231 US tons.) In 2017, the facility claimed the Waste Management Association of Australia’s Award for Landfill Excellence. This presentation will note the challenges overcome to turn this business, with many shortcomings, around to one that achieved this prestigious award. • Does this sound like science fiction to you? The City of Bergen, Norway uses a pneumatic waste collection system (PWCS) to collect and dispose of solid waste. The waste is disposed of and transmitted pneumatically in underground pipes beneath city streets. The construction of PWCS can be combined with other infrastructure projects installing fiber optics or water/sewer projects.
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