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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Climate Change Impacts to Stormwater

This course discusses how climate change impacts stormwater runoff, how to account for these changes in the design of stormwater and flood control facilities, and how secondary effects such as sea level rise indirectly impact stormwater runoff.

0.1 CEU/1 PDH

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