For those professionals involved in Stormwater management, keeping up with the latest trends and standards can be a challenging task. New techniques, standards, and regulations are evolving as research, experience, policies and performance data change.

This series of Stormwater trainings is designed to provide private and public sector engineers, architects, administrators, planners and consultants with up-to-date techniques for understanding, evaluating, designing and reviewing Stormwater management plans and practices. The program emphasizes the standards in New York State, based on NYS-DEC’s August 2010 Stormwater Design Manual, the NYS-DEC Erosion and Sediment Control Manual, FEMA flood standards, and related permits, and also examines national standards and future trends.

Trainings for the workshop series include:

April 18: Stormwater Filtration and Infiltration Practices

This class will examine the essential aspects and design standard of stormwater practices that use filtration and infiltration, including initial design considerations, evaluation of options, testing, sizing, construction, and most importantly long term maintenance. Numerous design examples, case studies and class exercises will be provided.

May 23: Stream Restoration

This class will explore the natural stream restoration techniques developed by CWP, NYSDEC, USACE, and NRCS that can be used to restore the resilience of waterways, and to reduce flooding and pollution impacts. Beginning with assessment techniques for watersheds, soils, channels geomorphology, and bed-loads, the class will then explore the numerous site specific practices available for clean-up, repair, and restoration of stream channels, including bioengineering, de-channelization, revetments, j-hooks, drops, jacks, deflectors, weirs and veins. Numerous design examples and case studies will be provided.

May 30 (Rescheduled from March 21): Adapting to a Changing Climate

This class will examine how climate change is affecting precipitation, runoff, and the criteria that is used to establish the design standards for stormwater management and floodplain regulations. Recent precipitation trends will be examined, and the class will explore alternative design criteria that can be used to assess and adopt projects and communities to these trends

All trainings emphasize applications to real-world conditions, and involve hands-on, group, and individual exercises. NOTE: Registration with payment is required. Deadline for registration is ONE WEEK prior to each course. Cost (which includes lunch and materials) is $260 per person, per course, if registered by the deadline; $320 per person, per course after the deadline. Discount of 15% when registering with payment for all five training courses by February 15, 2018!

PDH’s, LU’s, and CEU’s have been requested for each course. The course provides 7 contact hours for landscape architects towards their CEU credits. Code Enforcement Officer Credits may be available for some courses. Questions? Contact Maire Ullrich at mru2@cornell.edu or 845-344-1234. Register online or contact Kathy at 845-344-1234 or kal64@cornell.edu or 845-344-1234. Register online or contact Kathy at 845-344-1234 or kal64@cornell.edu.