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Tim Braun, founder of BluTerra, on the movement toward “Clean Water 2.0” — digital integration, decentralized systems, and what innovators should understand before bringing new technology to utilities.
Dan DeLaughter (SPR) and CSU research soil scientist Steve Blecker on the long-standing SPR–CSU collaboration behind beneficially reused biosolids.
Izaiah Kruenegel, Deputy Director of Operations & Maintenance, on SPR Safe: Job Hazard Analyses, tailgate meetings, and a culture where anyone can stop work.
SPR Laboratory Manager Adele Rucker and CDPHE's Abby Wharton on how wastewater samples reveal circulating pathogens — often before clinical testing catches up.
Maintenance Manager Caleb Vannice on FARM, the surplus-equipment marketplace that won RMWEA's Innovative Water Technologies Shark Tank Competition.
Live from WEFTEC 2025: Carollo's Bryan Coday on sidestream enhanced biological phosphorus removal and a joint SPR pilot that turned existing infrastructure into a fermenter.
Per Henrik Nielsen of VCS Denmark on energy-positive utilities, calculated risks, and a culture built on trust and a willingness to fail.
Brown and Caldwell's Jamie Lefkowitz on machine-learning “chemical fingerprints” for PFAS sources, and Aquasight founder Mahesh Lunani on Ava, an AI water assistant.
Tetra Tech's Deena Davidson on building flexibility into SPR's master plan — and the groundbreaking PdNA pilot happening on-site.
Anna Schroeder, Engineering and PARC Manager, on what's new at the Pilot and Research Center and what it takes to be a good innovator.
Hampton Roads Sanitation District CEO Jay Bernas and SPR Director Pieter Van Ry on why R&D at public utilities keeps rates low, recorded at the NACWA Utility Leadership Conference.
Engineer Brianna Miller asked whether biosolids could be concentrated without polymer — and turned persistence, trial, and error into a pilot heading to its next phase.
Brown and Caldwell's Andy Safulko on transforming biosolids into biochar and bench-testing foam fractionation against “forever chemicals.”
Breckenridge Brewery innovation brewer Justin Fisher on Project Green 2025, a lager brewed with 100% purified water from the DPR trailer hosted at PARC.
Dr. Tzahi Cath of Colorado School of Mines breaks down carbon-based advanced treatment, reverse osmosis, and the first-of-its-kind DPR demonstration trailer.
SPR Director Pieter Van Ry and Hazen and Sawyer's Ben Stanford on the Utility Diagnostic Tool — an idea from the back of a napkin, now a framework for utility leaders.
NREL's Matt Yung and SPR's Bryan Schmerber on low-temperature CO2 methanation: converting biogas's carbon dioxide into renewable natural gas with nickel catalysts.
SPR engineer Shannon Harney on the RA Basin Denitrification Pilot with Laws Whiskey House: distillery carbon waste feeding the microbes that remove nitrogen.
From the WEFTEC floor: how PARC was created and constructed, with Pieter Van Ry, Anna Schroeder, PCL Construction's Raymond Torrejon, and Brown and Caldwell's Allegra da Silva.
Today, Innovation Flow lives a click away on Pinecast. In this redesign it lives on southplatterenew.com: episodes embed from the same Pinecast feed SPR already maintains, so publishing an episode there publishes it here — no second workflow. Type a topic, pick a season, press play.
Episode titles, dates, durations, and audio come from SPR's public Pinecast feed for PARC Innovation Flow, checked June 9, 2026. Players stream from Pinecast and load nothing until you press play.
Accessibility & search
Addendum 1 calls transcript support strongly desired and searchable episode content encouraged. In the production build, publishing an episode kicks off automatic transcription; staff review the draft, and the finished transcript publishes on the episode's own page — readable, skimmable, and indexed by site search alongside pages, documents, and events.
That means a resident who searches the site for a topic discussed on the show finds the episode — not because someone hand-tagged it, but because every spoken word becomes searchable text.
This prototype demonstrates the embedding and episode search; transcripts are part of the production workflow, generated from the real audio rather than mocked up here.
Keep exploring
Two of these episodes — the DPR trailer and the Breckenridge Brewery collaboration — became the Project Green story: a scroll-driven feature showing how PARC research reaches the public.