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Spend the day with some of the nation’s leading stormwater experts who will present comprehensive, accredited full-day workshops addressing the critical areas of construction-site compliance and BMPs, LID, and the Draft Municipal Regional Permit for the San Francisco Bay area. 

Preventing Stormwater Pollution on Construction Sites
Friday, May 2, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
0.5 Continuing-Education Unit

Course Description
This course reviews 50 ways vegetation and soil can be lost during the construction process and how it can be protected through the successful design, selection, and implementation of best management practices (BMPs). Soil characteristics, topography, natural resources, public safety, BMP effectiveness, longevity, time until effective and duration of need, construction schedule, season and climate, stormwater volume, prioritization and combination of BMPs, product and material composition and characteristics, and chemical and physical laws will be covered. BMP installation successes, failures, and catastrophes also will be highlighted. BMPs reviewed will include hydraulic mulch, fiber rolls, silt fence, check dams, drain inlet protection, erosion control blankets, and more—including BMPs for construction materials and waste.

Can’t we all just get along? Skillful communication is one of the best BMPs for stormwater compliance and can make the difference between a positive and a negative construction experience. Construction managers, superintendents, inspectors, regulators, subcontractors, vendors, environmental groups, and neighbors who know and respect each other’s goals will be most effective in achieving their own goals. The communication skills program section will encourage participation by attendees and bring together their perspectives.

Projects utilizing low-impact development (LID) designs that incorporate permanent post-construction BMPs to address both water-quality and water-quantity (runoff hydrology) concerns also will be covered. These BMPs increasingly are being required for new construction. From grassy swales to porous concrete, LID BMPs have design, installation, and long-term operations and maintenance parameters that must beunderstood if they are to be effective and long-lived. Examples of success and failure will be reviewed.

Course Outline

1. 50 ways to lose your cover
2. Principles of erosion and sediment control
• The BMP toolbox
• The most over-looked erosion control
• Why gawking and pondering works
• Adaptation and innovation of BMPs
• When increasing infiltration comes back to bite
• Why rocket science is easy
• When the solution becomes the pollution
3. Pollution from construction materials and waste
4. Communication skills
• Strategies for jobsite relationships
• Recognizing different points of view
• Compliance via communication
5. Controlling BMP budgets
• How $ compliance and how some compliance requires $
• Poor Richard’s penny wise-dollar poor BMPs
6. How to:
• Think like a beaver
• Act like a drip
• Live like a farmer
7. Post construction BMPs
• design, installation, maintenance and destruction

Instructor
David Franklin, CPESC, environmental project manager, AEI-CASC Consulting,
Petaluma, CA

David is an award-winning landscape professional with over 30 years’ experience in the green industry, including 15 years in the erosion control and water-quality sectors. He has worked on stormwater issues as a consultant, specifier, stormwater pollution prevention plan writer/manager, contractor, and inspector on projects including vineyards, mines and quarries, river restoration, and freeway and home construction. David is also past chapter president of the California Landscape Contractor’s Association, current executive officer for the Western Chapter of the International Erosion Control Association, instructor for Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control, and instructor for California Department of Transportation training courses throughout the state. He has published numerous articles on topics ranging from erosion control to native grass establishment, and currently is developing EcoTech, a process for the certification of erosion control operations technicians.

The Future of Stormwater Management in the San Francisco Bay Area: Meeting Technical Challenges in the Draft Municipal Regional Permit
Friday, May 2, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
0.5 Continuing-Education Unit

Course Description
The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board has prepared a draft of the Municipal Regional Stormwater NPDES Permit, called the MRP, that will apply to all the Phase I stormwater programs in the Bay Area. The MRP contains significant technical challenges for the Phase I co-permittees and other stakeholders in the San Francisco Bay region, including the development and construction industries. This workshop will introduce key technical issues raised by the MRP and explain technical approaches for permit compliance based on experience gained by Geosyntec Consultants in work conducted in the Bay Area and elsewhere in California.

Course Outline

1. Welcome and Introduction
• Course Overview and Agenda
2. Key Technical Requirements in the MRP
• BMP Implementation
• Hydromodification Control
• Hg and PCB TMDL Compliance
• Receiving Water Monitoring     
3. BMP Implementation
• Science and Practice
• BMP selection and unit processes
• Role of Low Impact Development 
• Trash Management                       
4. Hydromodification Management
• Science and Practice
• Integration of Hydromodification, Water Quality, and Flood Control
• Lessons learned from projects conducted in Bay Area, Sacramento, and Southern California
5. Mercury and PCB TMDL Compliance    
• Effectiveness of Stormwater BMPs
• Implementation of Pilot Projects
6. Monitoring
• Scope of Monitoring Requirements
• Linking Monitoring to other Program Components, including TMDL implementation and Program Effectiveness
• Regional Collaboration
7. Questions and Answers
• Wrap-up
• Feed-Back

Instructors
Eric Strecker, P.E., principal, Geosyntec Consultants
Peter Mangarella, Ph.D., P.E., associate, Geosyntec Consultants
Lisa Austin, P.E., senior water resources engineer, Geosyntec Consultants
Gary Palhegyi, P.E., senior project manager, Geosyntec Consultants
Donna Bodine, senior scientist, Geosyntec Consultants
Ed Ballman, P.E., principal engineer/hydrologist, Balance Hydrologics

LID Principles and Implementation: A Hands-On Workshop
Friday, May 2, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
0.5 Continuing-Education Unit

Course Description
Considered a new approach to stormwater management, Low Impact Development (LID) has firmly established itself over the past few years as a powerful component in the stormwater management toolkit. Known also as environmentally sensitive stormwater management and sustainable urban drainage systems, LID minimizes the impact of stormwater flows on the receiving waters (our creeks, streams and oceans) and the impact of stormwater infrastructure on the environment. Including LID in new development and in redevelopment restores and protects ecosystems and supports compliance stormwater regulations. LID also reduces the financial burden of construction and maintenance of stormwater management infrastructure. Implementation of LID BMPS is gaining increasing public support and funding. This is due largely to the multiple benefits of implementation of LID BMPs such as bioretention facilities, bioswales, and permeable pavement to water quality enhancement, wildlife habitat creation, open space preservation, and aesthetic improvements.

This workshop is a unique training opportunity on LID design and application. With a balance between principles and hands-on experience, the first part of the workshop will provide the attendees with first-hand knowledge from some of the foremost LID practitioners in the country, as well as the latest developments in computational tools. The workshop will present applications in urban and suburban environments, for new development and re-development. The second part of the workshop will involve actual design exercise that the participants will undertake as a group. The workshop will end with presentation of the group designs to all of the participants.

This workshop is designed for representatives from municipalities, regional agencies, government agencies, environmental groups, commercial facility operators, land developers, and engineering consultants.

Course Outline

1. The philosophy and principles of Low Impact Development and their   relation to ecosystem protection and development needs
2. Planning concepts of LID including BMP selection
3. Design principles for LID stormwater management controls including an  overview of existing design criteria and standards, and their application to California
4. Adapting local planning and design criteria for LID. Regulatory and public education components of LID
5. Hydrology, pollutant loadings and removal computations and overview of the latest modeling tools for LID
6. Applications to new residential and commercial developments, re-development, urban retrofits, and CSO controls
7. Capital and Maintenance Components for LID
8. Modeling of pollutant loading and removal calculations for BMPs using the LIFE™ model and specifically, how it will support compliance with TMDLs
9. Bioretention Facility Design
10. Hands-on exercise

Instructors

Daniel E. Medina, Ph.D., P.E., CFM, senior water resources engineer,
CH2M HILL
Dr. Medina is a senior water resources engineer and CH2M HILL's Global Technology Leader for Watershed Management. He has more than 18 years of experience in hydraulics and hydrology, water resource systems planning, environmental policy formulation, watershed management, stormwater management, permitting and compliance, stream assessments, GIS applications to water resources, hydrogeological investigations, modeling, economic analysis, and research and teaching in water resources. He was formerly a professor of Civil Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, and a lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department of Catholic University, Washington, DC; and George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Avinash S. Patwardhan, Ph.D., P.E., principal water resources engineer,
CH2M HILL
Dr. Patwardhan is principal water resources engineer at CH2M HILL. Dr. Patwardhan currently has three U.S. Patent pending in the area of water resources simulation models and in 2004, The National Academy of Engineers selected Dr. Patwardhan as one of young engineers of the year. He has more than 18 years of experience conducting watershed studies that deal with water resources management, watershed modeling, and watershed management plans, and water quality studies for watersheds, rivers, streams, and lakes. Dr. Patwardhan has worked on over 20 water resources management studies for watersheds ranging from few hundred kilometres to several thousand kilometres. As project manager, senior consultant, and technical advisor, he has applied emerging and established technologies to a broad range of water resource problems across the US, Canada, and China.

Dr. Patwardhan is an author or co-author of more than 30 technical publications in watershed management and modeling. He is the past national chair of the Water Environment Federation, Watershed Management Committee and a current committee member of the Urban Water Resources Research Council—American Society of Civil Engineers.