August 2025 Technical Meeting - PFAS

When:  Aug 13, 2025 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM (MT)
Join EWRI for a technical meeting on forever chemicals and how they are impacting our water resources. The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 pm for virtual and in person attendees. Please see below for sign up options and email Tasha Neel ([email protected]) for dietary restrictions. 
 
Title: How Are Utilities Supposed to Manage PFAS If They Are Around Forever?
PDH Available
 
Virtual Link: Teams Meeting Link
 
Abstract: Trace concentrations of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to challenge water resources across the world due to their persistence in the environment and recalcitrance to water and wastewater treatment processes. The USEPA is matching this challenge with historic regulation: six PFAS are currently regulated in finished drinking water with more regulatory efforts expected in waste streams and wastewater discharges. These growing regulations stem from links between PFAS occurrence and potential human health risks associated with reproductive and childhood development effects, and potentially some increased cancer risks.
This presentation will highlight sources of PFAS in the environment, the fate and transport within the environment, and what water treatment utilities are doing to eliminate PFAS in drinking water supplies. This presentation will highlight relevant case studies from utilities starting forensic investigations to determine when and where PFAS discharges to their source waters might have begun. Further, fate and transport investigations will be used highlight the accumulation and/or removal of PFAS in drinking water treatment system. Finally this presentation will answer how utilities can cost-effectively manage PFAS to provide safe drinking water while keeping water rates low.
Dr. Murray is Hazen and Sawyer's national PFAS subject matter expert where for the last 4 years, his work has focused on all things PFAS. He specializes in the treatment of PFAS from impacted water and wastewater matrices. He completed his PhD on PFAS treatment from Colorado School of Mines and is a PE in Colorado.

Location

McGregor Square RES-Group Office
1601 19th St
3rd Floor
Denver, CO 80202

Pricing Information

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Non-member $15.00
   
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Contact

Tasha Neel

[email protected]
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