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Instructor Information: Sam Shamsi, Ph. D.
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
This webinar was co-sponsored by ASCE's ASCE's Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) and ASCE Continuing Education.
Purpose and Background
Stormwater Low Impact Development / Green Infrastructure (LID/GI) controls are sustainable development practices designed to capture surface runoff using some combination of detention, infiltration, and evapotranspiration. Recently, stormwater utilities have started to embrace the use of LID/GI controls as a viable means of managing stormwater runoff from new and existing development. However, the benefit that this type of sustainable infrastructure can play in the reduction of combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges is not well understood and is often overlooked.
New hydrologic & hydraulic modeling programs (e.g., LID Modules in U.S. EPA's SWMM5) are now available to quantify the water quality and quantity benefits of green solutions to control stormwater runoff and CSO discharges. New GIS program (e.g., U.S. EPA's SUSTAIN) can help us locate the high potential areas for implementing green solution using user-specified LID/GI siting criteria. Such tools require specific input data at various resolutions depending on the size of study area. This Webinar summarizes the capabilities and limitations of software tools, data requirements, and required effort.
- Triple bottom line: Benefits and limitations of green infrastructure for CSO and stormwater management
- Green infrastructure types and placement criteria for CSO and stormwater management
- GIS applications to determine potential green infrastructure locations
- Hydrologic & hydraulic modeling applications to estimate the performance of green infrastructure
- Examples and case studies
Learning Outcomes
- Triple bottom line: Benefits and limitations of green infrastructure for CSO and stormwater management
- Green infrastructure types and placement criteria for CSO and stormwater management
- GIS applications to determine potential green infrastructure locations
- Hydrologic & hydraulic modeling applications to estimate the performance of green infrastructure
- Examples and case studies
Webinar Benefits
- Compare green and gray solutions
- Learn how to quantify runoff and sewer overflow reductions using green solutions
- Find out the latest green infrastructure mapping and modeling programs
- See innovative GIS and modeling applications for planning and designing green solutions
- Customize the default criteria for your LID/GI projects
- Evaluate the cost effectiveness of your LID/GI projects
- Avoid costly mistakes by using wrong data and programs
Intended Audience
- Civil engineers
- Environmental engineers
- Water resources engineers
- Planners
- Landscape architects
- GIS professionals
- Webinar introduction
- Green infrastructure types
- Triple bottom line: benefits and limitations of green solutions
- LID/GI design criteria
- GIS applications
- Hydrologic & hydraulic modeling applications
- Examples and case studies