AC21 - Sustainable Nutrient Management: Trends, Risks, and Opportunities

Jenny Reina is a senior technologist at Jacobs Oakland Office in California. Jenny has more than 20 years of experience in water, wastewater, and water reuse projects for the public sector and private industry. She has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and a M.S. in Environmental Systems. Ms. Reina is an active member of the Water Environment Federation and the California Water Environment Association. She is currently serving as the chair of the WEF Disinfection and Public Health Microconstituents Subcommittee.

Mike Harrison is currently the California Central Valley Wastewater Sector lead for Brown and Caldwell. Michael has 26 years of experience related to wastewater treatment plant planning, design, and construction. Mike received his master's degree in Civil Engineering at California State University at Sacramento and is a registered professional civil engineer in both California and Nevada. Mike has completed multiple wastewater treatment plant expansion designs in Northern Nevada and California serving in a variety of roles including project engineer, project manager and Principal-in-Charge.

Michael is the Treatment Plant Manager for the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility and is responsible for keeping this facility fully in compliance with super stringent discharge requirements as well as a number of challenges facing the aging Facility. Prior to this role Michael worked for the City of Reno as an associate engineer at the Reno Stead Water Reclamation Facility

Seppi is a supervising engineer at Brown and Caldwell and has 10 years of wastewater treatment process planning and design experience. He holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is a licensed professional engineer in California. Seppi was a process engineer for the TMWRF Facility Plan and compared process alternatives for this project.

Casey is a licensed wastewater treatment plant operator and the process engineer at the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facilities. Casey oversees process modifications at the facility including pilot studies. Casey has developed several modifications at the facility that has enabled the facility to maintain permit compliance with significant O&M cost savings. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, a Master’s of Public Administration from the University of Nevada, Reno and is a registered Professional Chemical Engineer in Nevada. Casey also currently serves as the president-elect for the Nevada Water Environment Association.