Green Infrastructure and MS4 Workshops focus on Municipalities’ Wet Weather Concerns
EPA’s Green Infrastructure & MS4 Compliance Workshops are coming to Charlottesville, Atlanta, and various locations in New York. The workshops are “intended primarily for municipal governments with wet weather management responsibilities, i.e., stormwater, combined sewer overflows, sanitary sewer overflows and nonpoint source runoff. The workshop[s] will focus on how these programs can be effectively managed using green infrastructure technologies and approaches.”
Details:
Charlottesville, April 29 & 30.
Atlanta, May 4 & 5.
New York, May 7.
Chesapeake Stormwater Network Update No. 8 Just Released. Stormwater Guru Tom Schueler’s latest News blog looks at everything from the status of Bay State Stormwater Regs to Specs for Permeable Pavement and Grass Channels and more. Get in tune with this valuable resource here.
Call for entries to the Stormwater BMP Recognition Program! The Philadelphia Water Department is partnering with the Temple-Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative to recognize the best projects that have been implemented in southeast Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties). Entries are being accepted until June 1, 2009. Details.
From the May issue of Stormwater, the Journal for Surface Water Quality Professsionals:
Challenges of Stream Restoration as a Stormwater Management Tool
“As the first of a three-part series on stream restoration intended to realize the disparity between design and construction, and how this contributes to failure, this article provides the designer’s perspective on which challenges pose the greatest risk to the success of a stream restoration project.” See the rest of the article here.
Beating Bacteria
“A new methodology for identifying and prioritizing water bodies with high concentrations of fecal coliform is helping Florida address the problem of elevated bacteria levels.” Go to the article.
Project Profile
“City of Chattanooga Urban Stormwater Retrofit.” Check it out.
Earlier this year, New Jersey updated its Stormwater BMP Manual with Chapter 9.1, “Standard for Bioretention Systems.” See it here.
