December Bi-Monthly Meeting
Please return registrations by: December 11, 2025
Join us at December 2025 Bi-Monthly Meeting. We will start the meeting off with the Business Meeting including all of our committee’s yearly reports. This will be followed by the technical program, “Removal of PFAS.” Our speakers are Darrin Lary, Wright-Pierce; Patick McKeown, PE, ECT2-Montrose Environmental Group; John Perko, Calgon Carbon Corporation; and Christopher Savino, AdEdge Water Techologies
Overnight rooms for December 17th: Fairfield Inn & Suites, S14 Anthony Avenue, 207-623-2200, $110 plus tax per night. Reservations need to be made by December 6th.
8:00AM – 8:30AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30AM – 8:45AM MWUA Welcome, Andy Begin, President, Maine Water Utilities Association and Assistant General Manager at Greater Augusta Utility District
8:45AM – 9:00AM Welcome to Gardiner
9:00AM – 10:00 AM Business Meeting
Committee Reports
o Education Operations Committee
o Legislative Committee
o Public Awareness Committee
o Program Committee
o Technology Committee
o Utility Finance Officers Committee
o Water Resource Committee
DWP Update, Amy Lachance, Maine Drinking Water Program
PUC Update, Stephani Morancie, Maine Public Utilities
Commission
Legislative Update, Roger Crouse, Vice President, Maine Water Utilities Association
and General Manager, Kennebec Water District
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Removal of PFAS
PFAS in drinking water continues to be an important discussion for safe drinking water. This class of durable manufactured chemicals may have health effects at very low levels and have been deemed as important emerging contaminants for removal from drinking water.
This session will discuss various treatment medias for the removal of PFAS chemicals from public drinking water. Manufacturers of several different treatment medias will discuss the chemical and physical properties of each treatment process and the advantages/disadvantages of each different type of treatment media. Medias for discussion include granular activated carbon (GAC), anion exchange resin media, and novel adsorbent modified clay media.
Topics of discussion will include physical/chemical processes for contaminant removal, treatment process design and methodology, treatment media expected lifespan, disinfectant and inorganic contaminant interaction, and media disposal recommendations. A Q & A session will follow the treatment media discussion.
Speakers, Darrin Lary, PE, Wright-Pierce; Patrick McKeown, PE, ECT2-Montrose
Environmental Group; John Perko, Calgon Carbon Corporation; and Christopher
Savino, AdEdge Water Technologies
12:15 PM Lunch (included)
