Stormwater University

Webinar: Tiny Plastics with a Big Impact: Exploring the Connection Between Microplastics and Trash in Stormwater BMPs
2023-12-12 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
FREE WEBINAR | DECEMBER 12, 2023 | This webinar will explore the latest research and regulations on plastic trash and secondary microplastics in our receiving waters, including their sources, transport and removal in proprietary and non-proprietary BMPs.

Webinar: Stormwater Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance
2023-12-06 13:00 - 14:00
FREE WEBINAR! December 6, 2023 | 2:00 PM EST/1:00 PM CST | A review of the most common repair calls and the various causes for corrective maintenance, repairs, and rehabilitation. (1.0 PDH/0.1 CEU)

Watershed Protection from a Stormwater Perspective: Regulations and Components – Part 3
2023-09-21 13:00 - 14:00
Date: September 21, 2023 | 2:00 PM EST/1:00 PM CST
Speaker: Angela Walker
Credits: 0.1 CEU / 1.0 PDH
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This 3-part webinar series will delve into the EPA regulations that govern watershed protection and the crucial role of stormwater permitting in this regard. The series will also offer an overview of the 9 elements required by the EPA for a watershed protection plan and how they are put into practice. Join speaker Angela Walker from Stormwater University on September 21st, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. CST, as she explores stakeholders and how the federal government supports the implementation of these plans through grants and funding. You will also learn how to identify problematic pollutants in a watershed and how to limit their impact.
Moreover, the series will discuss why watershed protections sometimes fail and how to avoid such pitfalls. Lastly, it will explore the significance of water quality standards and how protecting the watershed can substantially improve the quality of water in a region, state, territory, or tribal land.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, attendees should be able to:

Identify what causes watershed protection plans to fail and how to avoid the pitfalls
Discuss new and pending regulations and how the regulatory climate has evolved in recent years
Describe how successful watershed programs help improve water quality standards and how protecting the watershed greatly increase the quality of water in a given area
Explain how the Federal government helps implement watershed protection plans with grants and funding

StormCon 2023
2023-08-29 - 2023-08-31 | Sheraton Dallas
Welcome to the stormwater industry’s premier event connecting stormwater managers, erosion control specialists, and engineers from around North America. We bring together attendees from around the country for idea-sharing, information exchange, and networking. Featuring a multi-track conference program led by top leaders in the industry, StormCon provides exceptional opportunities to learn, engage and build key contacts.

Tunnels – A sustainable solution for flood control
2023-08-09 13:00 - 14:00
Date: Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM GMT
Duration: 1 Hour
Credits: 0.1 CEU / 1.0 PDH
Sponsors: Contech and Invisible Structures
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Large diameter tunnels have been successfully deployed for flood mitigation and water conveyance in North America. More and more owners are taking a step back when it comes to large water infrastructure projects that disrupt quality of life by causing surface interruptions, and evaluating tunnels as an alternative. The costs and risks associated with tunneling has decreased over time with the development of specialized and highly effective construction equipment suitable for most ground conditions. Because tunnels are deep underground, the surface space required for construction is limited and hence the disruption to the public. Tunnels are designed for 100-150 year service life, but are known to well outperform the design life with routine inspection and maintenance. We will present case studies where successful implementation of tunnel projects has led to long term flood mitigation success in a sustainable manner. The webinar will provide an overview of the flood control tunnels, how they work and provide case studies of such tunnels in Charleston, SC and Dallas, TX.
Speakers

Stephen O’Connell
East Region Heavy Civil Lead, Black and Veatch
Stephen is East Region Heavy Civil Lead for Black & Veatch and the Project Manager for the City of Charleston’s deep stormwater tunnel system. His focus is planning and management of heavy civil projects for municipal and federal clients in the southeast.

Aswathy (Ash) Sivaram
Coastal infrastructure Lead, Black and Veatch
Ash Sivaram is a tunnels and coastal infrastructure practice lead with Black & Veatch in Houston, TX where she focuses on heavy civil projects for clients in the Gulf Coast.

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Live Webinar: Designing Manufactured Treatment Devices (MTDs) with Maintenance in Mind
2023-07-11 13:00 - 14:00
This presentation aims to help engineers better understand how to design MTD’s with maintenance in mind, the integration of O&M information into the BMP selection process and the factors that impact MTD maintenance cost. 0.1 CEU / 1.0 PDH

Live Webinar: Refining the Indian River Lagoon Pollutant Loading Model
2023-05-23 13:00 - 14:00
A custom model of nutrient loadings to Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, IRL, was developed by three counties and 13 municipalities. Join Stormwater University speaker, Gordon England, on May 23rd, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. CST as he explains the Spatial Watershed Interactive Loading model, SWIL, used satellite data and current modeling methods to more accurately predict nutrient loadings in the IRL than the method utilized by EPA for TMDL allocations. The resultant nutrient load model reduced EPA’s projected TMDL loadings and BMAP requirements in a subsection of the IRL by 29,000 pounds a year. This equated to an approximate reduction of $14,400,000 per year over 15 years of retrofit costs by local governments. This webinar will discuss SWIL demonstrated that groundwater baseflow loadings were higher than stormwater runoff loadings for the IRL and that EPA’s nutrient TMDL allocations were not achievable by runoff treatment alone.

Live Webinar: Porous Paving
2023-05-09 13:00 - 14:00
This course is designed to provide information on all types of porous pavements, their differences, similarities, maintenance plans and general benefits.

StormCon
2022-09-26 08:00 - 2022-09-28 17:00 | Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, MD, United States
Endeavor Business Media, LLC and the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) will hold their annual conferences, StormCon and WaterPro Conference, as parallel events on September 26-28, 2022 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. Each event will feature separate conference programs with the added benefit of a joint exhibit hall where attendees can network with vendors and service providers from both events.

Stormwater Regulations Done Right
2022-07-19 13:00 - 14:00
Stormwater regulations are a hodgepodge of different rules, methods, and calculations for different components of the hydrologic cycle. Everyone is completely focused on their separate piece of the stormwater pie without their acknowledgement of the bigger stormwater picture. Doug Beyerlein described this problem in his article “It is all the same water” in the November/December 2019 issue of Stormwater magazine.
Now in his webinar, STORMWATER REGULATIONS DONE RIGHT, Beyerlein presents a single, coherent picture of how all of the components of stormwater can be managed using one engineering tool that encompasses the entire hydrologic cycle. Whether you are dealing with hydromodification, water quality, drawdown time, LID, or wetland protection, all of the required stormwater regulations can based on the same set of data using the hydrologic cycle.
Learning Objectives
Attendees can expect the discussion and education of the following learning objectives.

Explain how solving just one component of stormwater runoff results in creating other problems in the process.
Discuss the importance of understanding the whole hydrologic cycle and how it can be used to solve stormwater problems.
Recognize the hurdles to producing consistent stormwater regulations.
Identify the one tool that can tie together all stormwater regulations in a coherent, useful package.
