Wastewater Advisory Committee to the MWRA
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2022-2023 Meeting Schedule

(Meeting dates, times, locations and topics may change)

Go to archive of Agendas 2003-2021

Updated September 7, 2022

Date Time Location Topic Presenter(s)

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

 

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Deer Island Permit  

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

 

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Deer Island Permit  

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Joint meeting with WSCAC/AB/WAC

10:00AM-12:00PM

Virtual

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What We Are Doing in 2023-24 Fred Laskey, Matthew Romero, Lexi Dewey, Andreae Downs
Friday, October 13, 2023 10:30AM-12:00PM

Virtual

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Draft Deer Island NPDES Permit  

Friday, November 3, 2023

10:30AM-12:00PM

Virtual

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Discussion/ vote of the Draft Deer Island NPDES Permit comments  

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Joint meeting with WSCAC/AB/WAC
10:30AM-12:00PM

Virtual

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Overview on MWRA's Energy & Sustainability Program Kristen Patneaude

Thursday, March 21, 2024 (changed from Friday 2/15)

Joint meeting with WSCAC/AB/WAC

10:00AM-12:00PM

Virtual

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MWRA Budgets Tom Durkin, MWRA Budget Director
Friday, May 3, 2024 10:30AM-12:30PM Tour of Nut Island Nut Island Headworks Tour Charlie Ryan
Friday, June 7, 2024 10:30AM-12:00PM

Virtual

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WAC Year Ahead Planning  

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Date Time Location Topic Presenter(s)

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Joint meeting with WSCAC/AB/WAC

10:00AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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What We Are Doing in 2022-23 Fred Laskey, Joe Favaloro, Lexi Dewey, Andreae Downs

Friday, October 7, 2022

 

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Combined Heat & Power Plant plans for Deer Island

David Duest

Friday, November 4, 2022 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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TRAC Updates/PFAS Matt Dam, Rebecca Weidman
Friday, January 6, 2023 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Design Progress in Headworks Rehabilitation Charles Ryan
Friday, February 3, 2023 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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The Public Health Uses of Wastewater Testing: Past, Present & Future  

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Joint meeting with WSCAC and MWRA Advisory Board

10:00AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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MWRA’s Proposed Fiscal Year 2024 Current Expense Budget & Capital Improvement Program Tom Durkin, MWRA Budget Director

Friday, April 14, 2023

 

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Cambridge Partial Sewer Separation project & Charles River Water Quality

Catherine Woodbury, Senior Project Manager, Cambridge DPW & Jim Wilcox, Cambridge City Engineer and Assistant Commissioner for Engineering, Cambridge DPW

Friday, May 12, 2023

 

10:00AM-12:00PM

Virtual

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Combined Sewer 2022 Annual Update Jeremy Hall, Brian Kubaska and Michael O'Keefe

Friday, June 2, 2023

 

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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WAC Year Ahead Planning  

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Date Time Location Topic Presenter(s)

Thursday, September 16, 2021

10:00AM-12:00PM Virtual What We Are Doing in 2020-21 WAC

Friday, October 8, 2021

Joint meeting with WSCAC

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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PFAS Legislative Task Force update

Dr. Phil Brown, Northeastern University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences

Friday, November 5, 2021 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Big Rain, Big Infrastructure projects and MWRA Charlie Ryan
Friday, January 7, 2022 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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OMSAP (Outfall Monitoring Science Advisory Panel) Discussion TBD
Friday, February 4, 2022 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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DI NPDES draft permits - data  
Friday, March 4, 2022 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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CSO Post-Construction Monitoring and Performance Assessment Update  

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Joint meeting with WSCAC

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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MWRA Budgets Tom Durkin, MWRA Budget Director

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Joint meeting with WSCAC

10:00AM-12:00PM

Virtual

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PFAS  

Friday, June 3, 2022

 

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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WAC Year Ahead Planning  

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Date Time Location Topic Presenter(s)

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Joint meeting with WSCAC and the Advisory Board

11:00AM-1:00PM Lexington DPW, 201 Bedford St, Lexington State of the MWRA Fred Laskey

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Joint meeting with WSCAC

10:30AM-12:30PM Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 PFAS in pellets/water OMSAP

Mark Smith, DEP

MWRA Staff

Rep. Kate Hogan

Friday, November 1, 2019 10:30AM-12:30PM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston User-friendly Ways to Communicate MWRA’s Environmental Data  Sally Carroll, Senior Analyst, MWRA Environmental Quality Department
Friday, December 6, 2019 10:30AM-12:30PM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston CSO update David Kubiak, MWRA

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Joint meeting with WSCAC

10:30AM-12:30PM Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 MWRA Education Program Meg Tabacsko, MWRA
Friday, March 6, 2020 10:30AM-12:00PM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston Innovations in wastewater solids destruction Lystek

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Joint meeting with WSCAC

10:30AM-12:30PM

To be held VIRTUALLY

MWRA Budgets Thomas Durkin, Michael Cole, MWRA
Friday, May 15, 2020 10:30AM-12:30PM

To be held VIRTUALLY

Reduce, Recycle, $ave

 

Friday, June 5, 2020 10:30AM-12:30PM

To be held VIRTUALLY

WAC Year-ahead Planning  

 

Date Time Location Topic Presenter(s)

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Joint meeting with WSCAC and the Advisory Board

10:00AM-12:00PM Virtual Year Ahead Planning (2020-21) Fred Laskey, Joe Favoloro, Lexi Dewey, Andreae Downs
Friday, October 9, 2020 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Inflow/Infiltration & wastewater metering Carl Leone, Steve Estes-Smargiassi, MWRA
Friday, November 6, 2020 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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PFAS Removal Technology Aclarity UMass
Friday, December 4, 2020 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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CSO Update David Kubiak, Jeremy Hall, MWRA
Friday, February 5, 2021 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Post-Covid Facilities Planning Steve Estes-Smargiassi, MWRA
Friday, March 5, 2021 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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PFAS, TRAC and residuals Becky Weidman, EoEA

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Joint meeting with WSCAC

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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MWRA Budgets Tom Durkin, MWRA Budget Director
Friday, May 7, 2021 10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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Boston Water's Climate Change Strategies Charlie Jewell, BWSC

Friday, June 4, 2021

 

10:30AM-12:30PM

Virtual

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WAC Year Ahead Planning  

 

Date Time Location Topic Presenter(s)

Thursday, September 20, 2018
(Jointly with MWRA Advisory Board and WSCAC)

11 AM

Samuel Hadley DPW building, 201 Bedford St, Lexington

State of the MWRA—Jointly with AB and WSCAC

Fred Laskey, MWRA

Friday, October 5, 2018

10:30 AM

MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston

Presentation on New Wastewater Technologies

 

Friday, November 2, 2018

10:30 AM

MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston

Toxic Reduction and Control (TRAC)

Becky Weidman, TRAC Director, MWRA

Friday, December 7, 2018

10:30 AM

MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston

CSO Update

David Kubiak, MWRA

Tuesday, February 12, 2019
(Jointly with WSCAC)

10:30 AM Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 MWRA Master Planning, System Maintenance Stephen Estes-Smargiassi, MWRA
Friday, March 8, 2019 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston

Building and campus level wastewater treatment for non-potable reuse in MWRA sewer areas

Introducing the Director of Wastewater

Bruce Douglas

 

Stephen Cullen

Tuesday, April 23, 2019
(Jointly with WSCAC)
10:30 AM Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 MWRA Budgets Thomas Durkin and Jim Halloran, MWRA
Friday, May 10, 2019

10:30 AM

Cottage Farm CSO Facility, Magazine Beach, Cambridge TOUR Staff
Friday, June 7, 2019 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston

WAC Year-Ahead Planning

 
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 11:00 AM Lexington DPW, 201 Bedford St, Lexington Joint meeting with WSCAC and the Advisory Board:
Year Ahead for MWRA, AB, WSCAC and WAC
 

 

Date Time Location Topic Presenter(s)
09/21/17 10:30 AM Lexington DPW Annual Assessment: MWRA, Advisory Board, WSCAC, WAC  
10/06/17 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston Inflow and Infiltration: The Latest Guidance and MWRA Communities

Kevin Brander, DEP
Carl Leone, MWRA

11/14/17
(Tuesday)
10:30 AM Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Delegation/Primacy MWRA Advisory Board, Mass Rivers
12/08/17 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston

Thoughts on the Next Deer Island Permit

 

MWRA
02/02/18 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston Order of the Court: How is MWRA verifying that it has attained the goals for combined sewer overflows (CSOs)?  Jeremy Hall, MWRA Project Manager
03/02/18 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston CWERCs Might Work: Wastewater Treatment that Pays for Itself, with the Charles River Watershed Association Charles River Watershed Association
04/24/18
Joint with WSCAC
10:30 AM WaterWorks Museum
2450 Beacon St.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
MWRA Budgets Kathy Soni, MWRA
05/04/18 10:30 AM Lawrence, MA Tour - Greater Lawrence Sanitary District Co-Digestion Project  
06/01/18 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston WAC Year-Ahead Planning  

 

Date Time Location Topic Presenter
08/18/16   Nut Island Advisory Board Field Trip to Nut Island MWRA Advisory Board
THURSDAY
09/15/16
10:30 AM Hadley DPW Building, Lexington, 201 Bedford St. State of the MWRA, Jointly with the MWRA Advisory Board and WSCAC Fred Laskey

10/07/16

10:30 AM

MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston

DEP and MWRA Water Monitoring

DEP, MWRA

11/04/16 10:30 AM Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Climate Change and Boston Harbor, MWRA Facilities Panel: Boston Harbor now, NOAA, MWRA
12/02/16 10:30 AM Mass Department of Environmental Protection, One Winter St., Boston, Second Floor, Conference Room A Boston's Green Infrastructure for Flood Prevention and Clean Stormwater BWSC
02/03/17 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston Underground Utility Coordination in Construction Projects Revere
03/03/17 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston How We Prevent Sewage Spills: MWRA TV Inspections and Pipe/Interceptor Maintenance MWRA

04/18/16
Tuesday

10:30 AM Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 MWRA Budgets MWRA
05/05/17 10:30 AM Deer Island Tour: Deer Island Old Power Plant and New Valves MWRA
06/02/17 10:30 AM MAPC, 60 Temple Place, Boston WAC Year-ahead Planning  

 

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Updated May 13, 2024