Appendix A
Workshop Agenda
From Source Water to Drinking Water: Ongoing and Emerging Challenges for Public Health
Sponsored by The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine
National Academy of Sciences Auditorium
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
October 16, 2003
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2003
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8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks The Honorable Paul G.Rogers, J.D. Roundtable Chair Partner, Hogan and Hartson |
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8:40 a.m. |
Remarks and Charge to Participants Mike Shapiro, Ph.D. Deputy Assistant Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
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9:00 a.m. |
Workshop Objectives Charles Groat, Ph.D. Roundtable Member Director, U.S. Geological Survey |
Session I: Status of Science and Policies for Ensuring the Protection of Source Water and Drinking Water
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Moderator: |
Lynn Goldman, M.D. Roundtable Vice-Chair Professor, Johns Hopkins University |
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9:15 a.m. |
The Interface of Science and Policy: Are the Current Policies Able to Meet Current and Future Challenges Frederick W.Pontius, P.E. Pontius Water Consultants, Inc. |
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9:35 a.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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9:40 a.m. |
Are Recent Advances in Science and Technology Able to Meet the Health Challenges of Providing Safe Drinking Water? Jeffrey K.Griffiths, M.P.H., T.M. Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Tufts University School of Medicine |
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10:00 a.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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10:10 a.m. |
Break |
Session II: Assessment and Management Practices—Impact on Health
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Moderator: |
Christine Moe, Ph.D. Department of International Health Emory University |
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10:30 a.m. |
Source Water Assessment at the State Level Greg Rogers, M.S. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality |
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10:50 a.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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10:55 a.m. |
Land-Use Planning: A Concern for Source Water Protection? Douglas L.Hall, M.S. Manager, Watershed Initiative Miami Conservancy District |
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11:15 a.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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11:20 a.m. |
Impacts of Nonpoint Source Pollution on Drinking Water and Human Health Tom Christensen, M.S. Director, National Resource Conservation Service’s Animal Husbandry and Clean Water Programs Division United States Department of Agriculture |
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11:40 a.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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11:45 a.m. |
Nutrient Loading: Critical Link in the Chain Kenneth Reckhow, Ph.D. Director, Water Resources Research Institute University of North Carolina Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Duke University |
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12:05 p.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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12:10 p.m. |
Lunch (provided) |
Session III: Emerging Issues in Providing Safe Drinking Water
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Moderator: |
Yank Coble, M.D. Immediate Past President, American Medical Association |
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1:00 p.m. |
Status and Trends in Atmospheric Deposition of Nitrogen and Mercury in the United States Mark Nilles Program Manager, U.S. Geological Survey Office of Water Quality |
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1:20 p.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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1:25 p.m. |
Nonregulated Contaminants: Emerging Research. Existing and Future Pollutants in Water Supplies: Old Pollutants, New Concerns—New Pollutants, Unknown Issues Christian Daughton, Ph.D. Chief, Environmental Chemistry Branch National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
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1:45 p.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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1:50 p.m. |
Pathogens in Water: Addressing a Public Health Threat via the Potential Synergism of the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act Joan Rose, Ph.D. Homer Nowlin Chair for Water Research Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University |
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2:10 p.m. |
Audience Discussion |
Special Address
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2:15 p.m. |
Change: Implications at the Water-Human Health Interface Peter Gleick, Ph.D. President, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security |
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2:45 p.m. |
Audience Discussion |
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3:00 p.m. |
Break |
Session IV: Charting a Course for the Future
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3:15 p.m. |
Panel Discussion. Panelists were asked to react to the earlier discussions and answer questions that lay out the challenges to health: |
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• Have we missed any of the new stressors at the interface of source water and drinking water? • How important are these stressors to human health? • If these stressors are important, where do we go from here? • Where are we in the process of meeting these challenges? • Is there a disconnection between the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act? If so, how will we balance recreation, ecological protection, and drinking water sources? |
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Moderators: |
Richard Harris, National Public Radio James Crook, Ph.D., P.E., Principal Water Reuse Consultant Cynthia Dougherty, Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Barker Hamill, P.E., Chief of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Safe Drinking Water |
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Brian Ramaley, P.E., Director, Public Utilities, City of Newport News, Virginia Kenneth Reckhow, Ph.D., Director, Water Resources Research Institute, University of North Carolina Paul Schwartz, National Policy Coordinator, Clean Water Action Susan Seacrest, M.S., President, Groundwater Foundation |
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3:45 p.m. |
General Discussion |
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4:45 p.m. |
Final Summation Henry Falk, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Director, National Center for Environmental Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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5:00 p.m. |
Adjourn |
