Highlights from the 2024 Onsite Wastewater Mega-Conference
Even if you missed out on attending this year’s Onsite Wastewater Mega-Conference in Spokane, you haven’t missed out on the opportunity to learn from the conference proceedings! The National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA), the lead organizer of the conference, has posted select papers and posters as well as most presentation slides for public access.
In this post, we list a selection of highlights that we particularly recommend taking a look at, but we highly encourage you to check out the entire list of offerings available at the NOWRA website. Many of these links and documents will also be added to our Resources Library in due time.
And when you’re done, be sure to mark your calendars for October 19-22, 2025: next year’s Onsite Wastewater Mega-Conference in Sandusky, Ohio!
- PAPER — Higher Linear Loading Rates based on Water Table Mounding Measured during Full-Scale Multi-Day Testing, by Michael Payne and Ian Ralston
- POSTER — Wastewater Infrastructure Data Gap: An Inventory of OWTS Data at State and Local Scales, by Mallory Jordan | Auburn University
- PRESENTATION — Decoding AI: Is It Relevant to the Septic Industry? by Mick Credere | Advanced Wastewater Promotion
- PRESENTATION — EPA’s Decentralized Wastewater Program: Overview and Updates; by Carolina Cantu, Kruttika Gopal, and Michael Mezzacappo | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- PRESENTATION — EPA’s Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap Initiative, Zach Lowenstein and Kruttika Gopal | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- PRESENTATION — Design, Installation & Management Considerations for Septic Systems Serving Vacation Home Rentals, by Dr. Sara Heger | University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- PRESENTATION — Strengthening Hawaii’s Onsite Wastewater Future, by Paul Young | Honu Island Wastewater Solutions
- PRESENTATION — Volcanic Media in Nature Based Treatment Systems, Ben Kele | Arris
- PRESENTATION — PFAS in Septic Systems and Private Drinking Water Wells, by Sushama Pradhan | North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
And last but not least, we highly recommend checking out the presentation given by our team’s own Hideyuki Terashima: “Online Support and Resources for Onsite Wastewater Professionals,” which explains how to use all the free tools on this very website to find training events and educational resources.
If you have any more questions about how to use DecentralizedWastewater.org, or about NOWRA or the Onsite Wastewater Mega-Conference, please feel free to email us at info@decentralizedwastewater.org.