notice of conference on disinfection byproducts

[haascn@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Chuck Haas) (by way of Pawel Gluszynski <uugluszy@cyf-kr.edu.pl>)]

Disinfection By-Products Symposium
History, State-of-the-Art, and Research Needs
In Honor of Dr. James M. Symons
March 20-21, 1997
University of Houston
Houston, Texas

        Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the water supply industry's
concern about disinfection by-products (DBPs), counting from Rook's 1972
unpublished
discovery of chloroform in finished water. It will also mark the retirement of
Dr. James M. Symons, who has been researching this issue from the beginning.

        The intersection of these two events prompted the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston to organize
a technical
symposium to critically evaluate what is known about DBPs at this milestone
and to plan the future direction of research, as well as to honor Jim.
Currently, the symposium is co-sponsored by the Cullen College of Engineering
(University of Houston), the Environmental Institute of Houston, The American
Academy of Environmental Engineers, and is partially supported by the U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Other co-sponsors may also join. The
technical meeting and banquet for Jim and his family will be held on the
University of Houston campus, March 20 and 21, 1997.

        The 1-1/2 day symposium will bring together 20 national and
international experts, each of whom will present papers on various aspects
of the DBP
problem. The speakers, and their co-authors, will also contribute chapters to
a book on DBPs to be published by the American Water Works Association in late
1998. This book will update and replace the out-of-print Treatment Techniques
for the Control of Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water. In addition to the
formal presentations, posters detailing the findings of significant current
research will be displayed during the coffee breaks.

        The registration fee will be $50 ($25 for students w/o banquet),
which will include admission to the symposium, Thursday's lunch, Thursday's
banquet, and
a discount coupon for the book. The cost for only attending the banquet will
be $25. For further information or an abstract form to be considered for a
poster presentation (one-page abstract forms are due Friday, January 24,
1997), please write to Ms. Maureen Taillon, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-4791,
or call her at 713-743-4251 (FAX 713-743-4260). E-mail <mtaillon@uh.edu>.

        Additional information may also be found at:
<http://www.eng.uh.edu/Departments/CIVE/research/current.html>.

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Charles N. Haas

Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering
Drexel University

Philadelphia PA 19104
owner: ENVENG-L
haascn@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu
http://httpsrv.ocs.drexel.edu/faculty/haascn
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