Event Speakers

Fort Wayne City Utilities is committed to providing our customers and the residents of the region with information about a variety of topics. Staff members from City Utilities are available to speak to groups about these topics, a complete list is below. The City also provides pre-written articles that are available for use in neighborhood or company newsletters or other publications.

To request a speaker for your organization, please contact Fort Wayne’s Citizen Services call center by dialing 311 or 260-427-8311.

Topic

Speaker and Department

Type of Presentation

Fort Wayne City Utilities’ Strategic Plan for Excellence Justin Brugger, Controller & Chief Financial Officer PowerPoint

Fort Wayne’s Combined Sewer Overflow Management Plan

  • Projects to be done
  • Time frame
  • Costs to the community

Matthew Wirtz, PE, Deputy Director of Engineering

Kristen Buell, PE

PowerPoint
Brochure
Executive Summary
FAQ
Tabletop display

How Will Fort Wayne Pay to Improve Its Aging Sewer System?

  • Cost
  • Affordability study
  • Alternative funding sources

Matthew Wirtz, PE, Deputy Director for Engineering

Justin Brugger, Controller & Chief Financial Officer

PowerPoint
Executive Summary
FAQ

How Fort Wayne’s Sewer Systems Work

  • Combined Sewers
  • Where are the Combined Sewer Overflows?
  • How are CSO controlled

Joe Johnson, Superintendent of Maintenance

Kristen Buell, PE

Fort Wayne’s Sewer Repair and Rehab Program

  • Sewer televising
  • How priorities are set for sewer repair
Eric Steinman PowerPoint
Maps
Energy Conservation: Using Food Waste to Create Electricity and Heat Doug Fasick, CEM
City Utilities’ Sustainability Programs Doug Fasick, CEM

Septic Tank Elimination

  • How your neighborhood can obtain public sewer service
Lisa Ramos, Development Services Brochures

Growing the Utility System

  • Who pays for new utility infrastructure
  • How much it costs
  • Plan review process
Maria Gomez-Espino, Development Services

Connecting to City Utilities

  • How to obtain water and sewer services
  • Costs to connect
  • Connection process
Maria Gomez-Espino, Development Services

Storm Water Quality

  • Pollution prevention
  • Watershed protection
  • What citizens can do to protect river water quality
Anne Marie Smrchek, PE, Manager of Sewer and Stormwater Engineering PowerPoint
Brochure
Handouts
Tabletop display
Easements: What They Are and What They Mean to You Seth Weinglass, Utility Engineering PowerPoint
Brochures

Stormwater Quantity Management/Drainage

  • How the storm sewer system works

Anne Marie Smrchek, PE, Manager of Sewer & Stormwater Engineering

Kristen Buell, PE

Oral presentation with time for discussion

Storm Drain Marking

  • Why and how to
  • How your neighborhood can get involved in water quality protection
Jennifer Lash, Program Manager – MS4 Compliance Handouts
Storm drain marking material

Fat Free Sewers

  • Impacts of cooking waste on the sewer system, cost of maintenance and how citizens can reduce costly accumulation of fat in sewers

Joe Johnson, Superintendent of Maintenance

Brenda Stopher, Industrial Pretreatment Section

PowerPoint
Brochure
Tabletop display
Kitchen grease handling tools

Mercury Reduction at Home and in the Workplace

  • How to identify and reduce possible sources of mercury contamination in your home
Tom Mann, Industrial Pretreatment Program Manager PowerPoint
Fact Sheets
Tabletop display

Camp Scott Wetlands

  • Location
  • Benefits of wetlands
  • What it helps to protect
Jennifer Lash, Program Manager – MS4 Compliance Brochure
Fact Sheets
Tours available

Fort Wayne’s Rain Garden Program

  • Program overview
Anne Marie Smrchek, PE, Manager of Sewer & Stormwater Engineering PowerPoint
Tabletop display
Brochures
Rain Garden How-To Training
(3 hours workshop)
Workshop Facilitator and City Utilities staff PowerPoint
How-To Manual, worksheets
Maintenance Brochure

Sewage Treatment Plant for Elementary School

  • Learn how Fort Wayne treats the waste water from homes and businesses
Brian Robinson, Superintendent of Plants PowerPoint

Water Filtration Plant

  • How the Plant functions and water quality
Jason Anspach, Assistant Superintendent – Filtration PowerPoint
Brochure
Tabletop display
Tours available

Fort Wayne’s Water System

  • How it functions
  • Infrastructure projects
Andrew Schipper, PE, Manager of Water Engineering PowerPoint
Maps
Keeping the Drinking Water System Safe: Backflow Prevention and Cross Connection Control Miranda Braun, Program Manager of Cross Connection & Environmental Compliance

Utility Ownership and Management

  • Who “owns” City Utilities?
Justin Brugger, Controller & Chief Financial Officer

311 Citizens Services

  • Services 311 provides to citizens
  • Work request process
Eric Harris, Manager of 311 – Citizen Services

City Utilities Customer Support

  • Bill payment options
  • Bill payment assistance
  • Preventing frozen pipes
  • Protecting your pipes

Matt Land, Deputy Director of Policy & Planning

Abigail Welch, Chief Customer Officer

PowerPoint
Brochures