Stormwater Workshop: Is LID For Real?

A stormwater technical workshop to define LID planning, design & engineering criteria and techniques.

 

Developed for municipal officials, developers, engineers, architects and contractors, this workshop will put solid engineering parameters on LID for northern climates; help Phase II communities use LID for better compliance, and give solid implementation tools to achieve better, cost-effective development results (whether you call it LID or not).

 

8:00-8:30         Registration & Continental Breakfast

 

8:30-9:00         Keynote Speaker: A Municipal Perspective on Better Developments

How Municipalities and Developers Can Benefit from Using Low Impact Development and other Techniques.

 

9:00-9:30         Why change is needed and how much will it cost in dollars and water lost?

                        Today’s traditional drainage designs cause downstream flooding, loss of

groundwater recharge and produce lots of polluted stormwater, but is the problem really that bad? Will changing the status quo cost more and will it really fix these problems?

 

9:30-10:00       Drainage Design Criteria: Making ‘Pre and Post’ More Equal

                        Most developers assure Planning Boards that runoff will be ‘equal’ for

pre and post development – but exactly what does that mean and is it good

enough? This presentation detail how to make pre and post MORE equal using LID and other techniques.

 

10:00-10:30     Break

 

10:30-11:00     Detention Basins: Effective Tool or Wasted Expense?

Detention basins have been the tool of choice for subdivisions for many years, but new studies show many of them are practically useless. This presentation focuses on how to make them work more effectively, both as new basins and retrofitting old basins.

 

11:00-12:00     Best Treatment Technologies for New and Redevelopment Projects

This presentation covers the best (and the not so great) techniques for stormwater management on new and redevelopment projects. Whether you call them Low Impact Development or just plain effective, some methods are clearly better than others and nearly all of them can be designed better for lower maintenance and improved performance.

 

12:00   1:00     Lunch

 

1:00-1:30         Maine Limits Treatment to Proven Methods: What they are and why

Maine’s has dumped TSS in favour of limited BMP choices. This presentation will describe the allowed designs including why these were chosen.

 

1:30-2:30         Is TSS Dead? State Panel Discussion

                        Like Maine, some other New England states are also considering big

changes in their stormwater regulations and policies. In this panel

discussion, we’ll hear from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Maine.

 

2:30-3:00         Break

 

3:00-3:30         Latest Research: Early Results from UNH and URI on porous asphalt and other techniques

These two universities are getting results on how porous asphalt and other

techniques will work in New England. In Taunton, URI will report, in Westford, UNH will report their findings and progress. Handouts from each research program will be available for attendees.

 

3:30-4:00         A Developer’s Perspective on LID – Does it Cost More?

Last but hardly least, we’ll hear from an innovative developer who’s actually implemented LID – how and why he did it.