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IGWA Spring 2025 Conference

Date and Time

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM

Location

Indian Creek Nature Center
5300 Otis Road SE
Cedar Rapids, IA  52403
USA

Event Contact(s)

Bob Libra

Category

Spring Meeting

Registration Info

Registration is required
Payment in Full In Advance Or At Event
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Monday, March 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM

About this event

Spring 2025 IGWA Conference Agenda

 


Schedule:
8am: Registration and Refreshments

8:30: Welcome! 

8:45: Investigating the Prevalence of Microplastics and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Agricultural Streams Affected by Varying Land Uses and Inputs - Kendra Markland and Shannon Meppelink, USGS

9:30: Maximizing Wellfield Yield in a Shallow and Variable Alluvial Aquifer - Lindsey Wanderscheid, DMWW and Jeff Henson, Black and Veatch 

10:15: Break

10:30: Data Centers and Water: Hydropolitics of the Cloud - Lauren Bridges, University of Virginia and Sustaining the Silicon Prairie: Data Centers and Groundwater Impacts in Iowa - Chad Fields, IDNR

11:30: Who Took the Water? - Building Drought Resiliency - Steve Beck, City of Belle Plaine

Noon: Lunch

1:00: Court Decisions and Groundwater: Chevron and Supreme Beef - Shannon Roesler and Nina Marquardt, UI College of Law

2:00: Iowa's Hydrogen Potential - Ryan Clark, IGS

2:30: Break

2:45: An Enhanced Risk-Based Aquifer Vulnerability Index Applied to Black Hawk County, Iowa - Keith Schilling, IGS

3:15: Water Woes: Uncovering the True Costs of Summit's Carbon Capture Project - Wally Taylor, Attorney and Sierra Club

4:00: Meeting Discussion and Wrap-up


CEUs:

TBD 

Number of People Who Will Attend

Non-Member *
$120.00
Student Non-Member *
(No Fee)
Legislators/Media
(No Fee)
Speaker
(No Fee)
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