Designing the Next Generation of Stormwater Practices

Designing the Next Generation of Stormwater Practices

A Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training Partnership Workshop

October 5, 2012

Lancaster County, PA

Objective: To provide practitioners and reviewers with information and design guidelines related to innovations in urban stormwater management.

The Chesapeake Stormwater Partnership: A training program for stormwater managementprofessionals created by the Chesapeake Stormwater Network and the Center for Watershed Protection. It is sponsored by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund. Lancaster County, PA is providing logistical support for the workshop.

Instructors: Tom Schueler, Chesapeake Stormwater Network

Cecilia Lane, Chesapeake Stormwater Network

Greg Hoffmann, Center for Watershed Protection

Andy Gavin, Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Dr. Shirley Clark, Penn State Harrisburg

Mary Gattis, Lancaster County Planning Commission

8:30 – 9:00 / Welcome and Introduction / Mary Gattis, Lancaster PA
9:00 – 9:15 / Pennsylvania Stormwater Program and BMP Overview / Andy Gavin, SRBC
9:15 – 10:15 / LID Practices / Shirley Clark, PSU
10:15 – 10:30 / BREAK
10:30 – 11:15 / Designing Better Basins / CWP
11:15 – 12:00 / Introduction to the Spreadsheet / CWP
12:00 – 1:00 / LUNCH (on your own)
1:00 – 1:30 / Site Design Exercise / CWP
1:30 – 2:30 / Site Design Debrief / CWP
2:30 – 2:45 / Stormwater Design Considerations for Karst / CSN
2:45 – 3:00 / BREAK
3:00 – 3:45 / Maintenance / CSN
3:45 – 4:15 / Developing a Chesapeake Bay Pollutant Reduction Plan / Andy Gavin/
CSN
4:15 – 4:45 / Discussion, Wrap-Up, Evaluation / CSN
4:45 / Adjourn

Andrew Gavin is Manager of the Monitoring and Protection Program at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (Commission).Hismajor work responsibility is directing the Commission’s efforts in developing and implementing projects related to water quality monitoring, protection, and restoration.

Shirley E. Clark, Ph.D., currently is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at Penn State – Harrisburg (PSH). She regularly teaches courses in hydrology, conveyance system design, open-channel hydraulics, erosion control and risk assessment at both the graduate and undergraduate level. She has worked in the environmental field since 1987 and in water resources and stormwater since 1992. She is a registered professional engineer in the state of Alabama and is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. She is a member of several professional organizations (WEF, AWRA, ASCE/EWRI, and AEESP) and serves on a variety (too many!) of stormwater-related committees.

Since 1992, the Center for Watershed Protection(CWP)has been working in numerous communities to provide the solutions for clean water and healthy natural resources. Their work is based on sound scientific research and guided by a passion for advancing the state-of-the art, ensuring practitioners have the right tools, and promoting the widespread implementation of the most effective watershed management techniques.

A Wisconsin native, Greg Hoffmann is a Professional Engineer with a Masters and Bachelors degree Michigan Tech University. Greg joined the Center for Watershed Protection in 2008, and focuses on development of stormwater regulations and guidance documents, stormwater retrofitting, and training on various stormwater and watershed topics.

The Chesapeake Stormwater Network (CSN) is an organization whose mission is to improve on the ground implementation of more sustainable stormwater management and environmental site design practices in each of 1300 communities and seven states in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The Network is coordinated by Tom Schueler and Cecilia Lane is located in Ellicott City, MD.

Tom has more than 30 years experience in practical aspects of stormwater practices to protect and restore urban watersheds. As executive director of CSN, Tom works on a number of projects in the Bay including the Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training Partnership, which provides webcasts, workshops and on-line training modules to train engineers on new practices. Tom also serves as the stormwater technical coordinator for the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program. Cecilia has recently joined the Network coming from the Center for Watershed Protection where she served as a Watershed Technician for 3 years working on stormwater management issues, specifically retrofitting. At the Network, Cecilia is heading up several tasks on the Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training Partnership including developing training content on LID Maintenance and Retrofitting.