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.

• Introduction to Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
• Increasing Competition for Critical Drainage Infrastructure in Texas
• Evaluating Maintenance Needs for Manufactured Treatment Devices following the TAPE Protocols paired with Monitoring and Testing Stormwater Treatment Systems
• Stormwater Structural Design for Pretreatment and Trash, Debris and Sediment Removal

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

• Aurora Ohio’s Stormwater Master Plan and Asset Management Program
• Using HSPF Special Actions to Model Recirculation Flows in the San Antonio River Tunnel System
• Brentwood Bound Flood Mitigation
• A Proactive Approach to North Central Texas Growth and Development: Integrating Transportation and Stormwater Infrastructure (TSI)
• A Texas Sized Planning Effort – TWDB’s Statewide Flood Planning

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.

• Green Stormwater Infrastructure/Low Impact Development Standards in an Arid Environment
• Stormwater BMPs can be Beautiful! Native Plants Not Only Reduce O&M Costs, They Can Add Value to Your Site
• Reimagining the Schoolyard as a Stormwater Practice and Incentive Programs That Will Help
• Overcoming Construction Challenges of Green Infrastructure Best Management Practices
• Green Infrastructure for Flood Resilience: An Approach to Increase Institutional Adoption with Community Involvement in the DFW Metroplex

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.

• Operation Sweep the Creek: An Initiative to Address Pre-production Plastic Pellet Loss in Stormwater from Plastic Manufacturers in Toronto, Canada

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

• Recipe for Success! A Joint Stormwater Management Program Story
• The Washington State Department of Ecology's Construction Stormwater Program
• Integrated Stormwater Management Program in North Texas: Overview, Enhancements and Implementation
• Environmental Program Guide for Sustainable Land Development
• Don't Let Stormwater Be Stale

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.

• Gravel Lane TSS Abatement Study and Pilot Projects
• MNDOT’s I35W Stormwater Storage Facility: Design and Constructing Hydraulic Resiliency in a CMGC Procurement Environment
• Planning and Progress of Green Stormwater Infrastructure Solutions for Transportation Infrastructure in New Mexico
• Key Components of Effective Sediment Basins
• Digital Transformation in Action: Improving Construction Stormwater Compliance in the City of Denton
• Large Diameter Culvert Spray Applied (SAPL) Geopolymer Linings for City of San Antonio and Bexar County, TX