Balancing Water Below Sea Level

This presentation explores the efforts by Jefferson Parish and the City of New Orleans to evaluate integrated gray and green infrastructure strategies within two adjacent neighborhoods separated by the 17th Street Canal, which was one of the failure points to cause historic flooding in the City of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

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Becoming Sea Level Wise: City of Virginia Beach Resiliency Planning to Adapt to Rising Seas

Virginia Beach is among the top ten cities in the country at risk from sea level rise. In 2015, Virginia Beach launched the Comprehensive Sea Level Rise and Recurrent Flooding Capital Improvement Program, which is now known as Sea Level Wise. This session will discuss the effort and its aim to produce information and strategies that enable Virginia Beach to establish long-term resilience to sea level rise and associated recurrent flooding.

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Bioretention Done Right

This course discusses how bioretention systems are designed, how different engineered soil media impact the movement of stormwater runoff through the engineered soil layers, and how this is typically modeled.

0.25 CEUs/2.5 PDHs

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Brentwood Bound Flood Mitigation

Flooding has long been a plague in the City of Brentwood along Deer Creek between Hanley Road and South Brentwood Boulevard with 26 floods since 1957, which caused significant public safety issues and property damage. The Brentwood Bound Project is a comprehensive plan to renew the Manchester Road corridor via three main components to the plan: Deer Creek Flood Mitigation, Manchester Road Improvements, and Deer Creek Greenway Connector.

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