StormCon Topics & Sessions

This technical track discusses methods for evaluating and comparing the effectiveness of best management practices, as well as topics and trends in stormwater research, such as standardizing testing protocols and standards.

• Remediation of Urban Stormwater Using Best Management Practices and Low-Impact Development Green
• Study Design for Swales: Fun with Swales!
• Talking Trash: The Origin and Impact of Consumer Trash in an Urban Environment
• Turbulence and Velocity Reduction in Stormwater Quality Structures
• Understanding Removal Solutions is Key to Mitigating Microplastic Pollution

If a picture is worth a thousand word, a model is worth a million. This track will focus on cutting edge tools and technologies for designing stormwater infrastructure based on hydrology models.

• 2D Modeling & Flooding Resiliency
• A Flood Control Reduction Project Case Study – From Successful Planning to Implementation and Lessons
• Development of International Diplomatic Facilities: Flood Exposure Screening and the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
• Extreme Rainfall Isn’t Coming, It’s Here – Understanding Flood Risk and Developing a Stormwater Resiliency Plan in New York City
• Flood Forecast Alerting Based on NOAA’s National Water Model
• Rock Hill, SC—1-D and 2-D Hydraulic Modeling to Support Flood Mitigation
• Stormwater Management in a Post-Wildfire World
• Stormwater Management Study and Drainage Design for Hydro One’s Lakeshore Substation

This track showcases examples of green infrastructure and low impact development (LID), practices that strive to maintain or mimic the predevelopment hydrology of a site by infiltrating, storing, filtering, and evaporating stormwater runoff rather than moving it offsite to a centralized stormwater system.

• A Design Guide for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Best Management Practices
• Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Communities
• Comprehensive Stormwater Capture Planning, Design, and Construction for a Community College District in Los Angeles County, California
• Double Duty: How Atlanta’s Rodney Cook Sr. Park Is Renewing a Neighborhood While Improving Water Quality
• Innovation Through Utility Decentralization: A Distributed Green Infrastructure Utility Model Designed for Climate
• Optimizing Biofiltration Systems Using Smart Configuration and Controls
• Stormwater Infrastructure in the U.S. and the Challenge Ahead
• The 2021 GSI Design Survey: The Results and Lessons Learned

This track covers industrial stormwater management and permitting, focusing on publicly and privately owned facilities covered by industrial stormwater permits or EPA’s stormwater multi-sector general permit. Such facilities range from small businesses located in urban areas, such as restaurants and automotive repair shops, to large sites such as manufacturing plants, transportation facilities, landfills and waste transfer stations, and mining operations.

• Creating Adaptable Treatment BMPs for Boatyards, Shipyards, and Maritime Facilities
• Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems and Health Issues
• Smart Stormwater Roofing Controls – The Highest Value Method to Manage Stormwater

This track covers the various aspects of complying with municipal stormwater permits as well as funding, staffing and managing municipal and state stormwater programs.

• BMPs and the Public Part II: Incorporating Overburdened Communities
• Integrating Green Assets into a Traditional Gray Asset Management Framework
• Monitoring of Stormwater Facility Retrofits Installed with Washington State Department of Ecology Funding
• National Perspectives on Stormwater: Updates from the National Municipal Stormwater Alliance
• Stormwater Utility Reboot: The Need to Maintain Equity in Stormwater Cost Recovery
• Water Quality Credit and Trading Framework for North Orange County, CA

Roads, bridges, highways, airports and ports convey not only goods and people but also stormwater runoff, transporting pollutants in the process. Sessions in this track will address concerns at these locations, as well as active construction sites, and offer strategies for addressing challenges.

• Evaluation of Cleaning Equipment to Restore Surface Infiltration Rates of Permeable Interlocking Concrete
• Highway Runoff: Italian Best Practices and the Impacts of Microplastic and Emerging Micropollutants
• Hydraulic Testing to Establish a Target Maintenance Interval