Watershed and Stormwater Webcast Series
Since 2009, CWP has been providing high quality webcasts for stormwater and watershed professionals. In that timespan, an estimated 22,000 professionals have participated in CWP’s webcasts. CWPA members can view past webcasts for free.
2024 Webcast Series
All webcasts are currently scheduled for Wednesdays at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.
All webcasts are recorded and a link to the recording is provided to registrants. If you have to miss a live webcast, you can purchase and view the recording within 60 days of the original webcast date.
Webcast recordings are not permitted to be downloaded, but can be viewed online.
We have webcast packages that will save money if you’re a CWPA member
Please note: You may only access the webcast bundles if your membership is active
Webcast Packages available:
CWPA Member webcast bundle (existing members)If you are a current member and would like to purchase a webcast package, please contact Marlyn Argueta at mia@cwp.org or Karen Titus at kmt@cwp.org |
694.00 |
New Individual CWPA Membership + webcastsPlease contact Marlyn Argueta at mia@cwp.org or Karen Titus at kmt@cwp.org if you are interested in this option |
909.00 |
Webcast Schedule
Webcast 1: Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination (IDDE)
Wednesday January 24, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Dan Angelescu, Fluidion US, Inc.
ALERT: A Rapid Portable Microbiology Tool for Illicit Discharge Detection and Quantitative Risk Assessment
Exposure to waterborne pathogens is a leading cause of disease and mortality worldwide, with significant economic repercussions. Identifying illicit discharges that compromise water quality can be a very complex, laborious, and costly operation. In this talk we will introduce ALERT, an automated rapid technology for comprehensive quantification of culturable fecal indicators (E.coli, total or fecal coliforms, and enterococci). We will explore several applications of ALERT in both urban settings and remote areas, highlighting its superior ability over traditional culture-based methods to detect bacteria attached in high numbers to aggregates, a key indicator of recent sewage contamination. The presentation will delve into ALERT’s practical applications such as illicit discharge detection, but also highlight its role as an accurate risk assessment tool for safeguarding public health
Ken Schiff, Deputy Director, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Can sewer exfiltration be a source to stormwater runoff?
There are thousands of examples of infiltration to the sanitary sewer collection system in the literature, but there are zero published papers measuring exfiltration of raw sewage from the collection system. If the water can get in, can it get out and possibly be a source of contamination to urban runoff? This talk will address this unmeasured and unmonitored issue, and provide some context whether watershed managers should consider this potential source. The talk will cover three aspects of exfiltration: (1) what evidence exists that sanitary sewer collection system could be exfiltrating? (2) How does one measure exfiltration from underground sewer pipes? And (3) What do the results of exfiltration measurements tell us about potential exfiltration volumes? Attendees will be caught up on the latest research findings in this burgeoning issue and be on the leading edge of potential application once the technology becomes commercially available.
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Webcast 2: Stormwater Funding
Wednesday February 21, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Kelsey Brook, Program Manager, Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the University of Maryland
Brenton McCloske, Director of Strategic Development and Communications, Water Center at University of Pennsylvania
The presentation will be focused on stormwater funding strategies and opportunities. There will be discussion on financing strategies for stormwater management programs including identifying funding sources and tapping into available technical assistance.
Charles Flink, Director, Initiative for Community Growth and Development, NC State University
Mr. Flink’s webcast will explore a variety of federal, state, local and private funding sources that have been deployed in greenprint, floodprint, urban stream restoration, and other green infrastructure projects. Case studies from North Dakota, Arkansas, South Carolina, and North Carolina will be featured to highlight design principles, project objectives and the variety of funding that supported project development. One of the key takeaways will be to define and describe a “funding quilt” approach to project development, and describe how public and private sector funds are leveraged to support various green infrastructure projects.
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Webcast 3: New Tools for Stormwater Management
Wednesday March 20, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Tom Jacobs, Chief Resilience Officer, Mid-America Regional Council
Charlie Jewell, Director of Planning and Sustainability, Boston Water and Sewer Commission
In the City of Boston, storm sewer systems typically collect rainfall runoff and discharge by gravity into a receiving waterbody. If the sea level is sufficiently high, discharge by gravity is limited or no longer possible, which can lead to surcharging and interior flooding during intense rain events. During extreme storm events, the combined effect of sea level rise (SLR) and storm surge could restrict or prevent stormwater discharge in many locations, leading to widespread flooding throughout the City. This can occur even if the shoreline is protected from the direct impact of storm surge by measures such as shoreline elevation. Considering this, the Boston Water and Sewer Commission (Commission) undertook the Coastal Stormwater Discharge Analysis to achieve the following goals:
- Identify Commission-owned outfalls that are vulnerable to higher sea levels, and which may not function (i.e., discharge stormwater) as intended due to future SLR and storm surge.
- Develop conceptual designs at an initial set of locations to adapt the Commission-owned outfalls with the greatest coastal flood vulnerability.
- Create a planning framework that could be used to continue to adapt the remainder of the Commission’s coastal flood vulnerable outfalls.
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Webcast 4: Design with Maintenance in Mind
Wednesday May 15, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Derek Berg, Director- Stormwater Regulatory Management – East, CONTECH Engineered Solutions LLC
Derek will provide an overview of how decisions made during the SCM design process can impact both the maintainability and the long term operational costs of SCMs. This discussion will highlight how choices relative to citing impact maintainability, identify and discuss design variables that may extend or shorten maintenance intervals, as well as detail how design variables can have significant implications for long term operation and maintenance costs.
Shawn Hill, Marketing and Sales Director, SWIS Corp (Storm Water Innovative Solutions)
Shawn will be drawing from his extensive experience maintaining a wide variety of SCMs and will discuss the real world implications of how different design decisions impact maintainability and speak to some of the costs and complexity associated with different design choices and SCMs types.
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Webcast 5: Biochar: Applications and Research
Wednesday June 12, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Ed Matthiesen, Principal, Senior Civil Engineer, Stantec
Biochar case study in field application for bacteria removal.
There are numerous Best Management Practices designed to remove conventional pollutants from stormwater, but very few that target bacteria. Biochar, a charcoal-like substance made via pyrolysis of organic material, has recently been gaining attention as a potential filter media amendment for removing bacteria. Sustainably produced and carbon neutral, biochar has been used to help fight climate change by sequestering carbon while simultaneously providing energy to plants and increasing crop yields. Following a series of successful small-scale field trials that reduced E. coli concentrations in urban stormwater by 49-97%, the Coon Creek Watershed District, UCLA, Stantec, and the Cities of Blaine and Coon Rapids, Minnesota teamed up to construct two full-scale biochar- and iron-enhanced sand filters. Each filter is split into two identical cells, one with 30% biochar by volume added and one without. This design allows for head-to-head performance monitoring, testing the ability of biochar to remove E. coli while reducing nutrient and bacteria loading to two impaired creeks: Woodcrest Creek and Pleasure Creek. The combined filters are sized to treat runoff from 1.5 square miles of previously untreated drainage area before discharging to the two creeks and the Mississippi River.
Tom Miles Executive Director, U.S. Biochar Initiative
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Webcast 6: MS4 Permit Basics
Wednesday July 17, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Learn about the basics of the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit. This training is perfect for new or soon-to-be MS4 permittees. The training will cover each of the Six Minimum Control Measures and provides guidance for meeting the permit requirements as well as tracking and reporting. The training will review strategies for meeting impervious area restoration goals or volume reduction goals. Additionally, the presentation will highlight ways to fund your MS4 program.
Speakers:
Beth Uhler, Center for Watershed Protection
Amanda Pollack, Center for Watershed Protection
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Webcast 7: Behavior Change
Wednesday September 18, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Jiaying Zhao, PhD, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability,University of British Columbia
Jade Radke, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability,University of British Columbia
How do we fuse happiness and climate action?
Humanity has six years left to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent the worst effects of climate change. However, current narratives, steeped in despair and doom, are failing to motivate the masses. This talk presents a radical paradigm shift: A fusion of happiness science and climate science designed to ignite widespread climate action by tapping into the power of joy. This integrative approach focuses on the conjunction to identify high-impact actions to reduce carbon emissions, while also increasing individual happiness at the same time. Our lab has conducted a series of pre-registered experiments to demonstrate how to design climate action that also promotes happiness and how happiness benefits can increase the likelihood to take climate action. Emerging results suggest that this approach can not only address the climate crisis but also enhance individual happiness, leading to more impactful climate action.
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Webcast 8: Agriculture and Watershed Management
Wednesday October 23, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Lisa Blazure, Soil Health Coordinator, Stroud Water Research Center & Pennsylvania Soil Health Coalition
Gurpal S. Toor, PhD, Professor & Extension Specialist, University of Maryland
Connecting Healthy Soils & Healthy Streams: Engaging farmers in restoration efforts
The health of a stream system depends primarily on the management practices within its watershed. In rural agricultural areas, effective engagement with farmers is critical for meeting stream and watershed restoration goals. Critical practices include improving soil health, managing nutrients, and planting riparian forested buffers. This session will explore several strategies used by conservation organizations and which approaches resonate best with farmers.
Establishment of Field Observatories to Investigate the Fluxes of Nitrogen and Phosphorus from Small Agricultural Catchments in Maryland
Losses of nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus) from agricultural lands continue to plague efforts to protect and improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. As part of our ongoing projects in Maryland, we have established a network of small agricultural catchments (acres scale) on farmer’s fields to investigate the origin, sources, and mechanisms driving nutrient losses. These small agricultural catchments are instrumented with various instruments to determine rainfall and flow, collect water samples for lab analysis, and determine concentrations using insitu sensors. This presentation will outline our ongoing efforts in Maryland and how the data generated could be useful in developing and fine-tuning best management practices to keep nutrients in farmers’ fields and protect water quality in receiving waters.
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Webcast 9: Green Infrastructure
Wednesday November 20, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Michael Radabaugh, Stormwater Division KC Water
This presentation shows how KCMO set about remediation of private Green Infrastructure from unmaintained or undermaintained to functional as designed assets. Utilizing existing laws and enforcement mechanisms. Attendees will see the step-by-step process Kansas City uses for handling deficiencies in regard to the privately owned Green Infrastructure improving Stormwater Quality and Quantity handling. Better minimizing flooding downstream of unmaintained or undermaintained facilities. The presenter found that Kansas City had laws in place to solve flooding and erosion from upstream development post construction that were not being utilized and leveraged for the good of the Citizenry. “I’m from the City and I’m here to help.”
Lauren Moore, Burns & McDonnell
Stormwater design criteria defines standards and requirements for managing stormwater runoff. Our current standards are based on decades old methodologies that have resulted in failing and inefficient infrastructure systems across the region. The Kansas City Metro Region has a vision to define resilient stormwater management practices using a sustainable watershed management approach that manages risk, enhances value, and stewards of natural ecosystems. The Mid-America Regional Council, in partnership with the Kansas City Chapter of the American Public Works Association, is working on a new stormwater manual that is based on the latest data and best practices available. The overarching goal of this modern approach is to provide for more resilient and cost-effective infrastructure. This new manual presents a layered approach to stormwater management in order to conserve our limited natural resources, use rain close to where it falls, improve the function of expensive stormwater storage, and provide multiple paths to move water downstream. When these layers work together, construction and long-term maintenance costs can be reduced. This presentation will discuss the process the Burns & McDonnell team has taken towards developing this regional manual and present the key preliminary stormwater management design criteria that will be updated to achieve more sustainable stormwater management.
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Webcast 10: New Tools for Watershed Management
Wednesday December 11, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:
Nate Herold – NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Introduction to NOAA’s High Resolution Coastal Land Cover
Current, accurate land cover is a common foundational data set that can be in support of a wide range of management issues. Knowing what exists on the ground and how it has changed through time gives planners more information to better address issues from flooding risk and natural infrastructure, to policy evaluation and land use planning. Come learn more about current efforts to develop higher resolution (more detailed) versions of these data than have historically been available, and see some examples of how the data can be used in water quality screening and more.
Kate Quigley – NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Introduction to Economic Valuation
Do you want to be a better consumer, user and communicator of economic data? This webinar will provide the audience with the economic terminology, knowledge about economic approaches and methods, tools and resources to determine options for economic analysis for your region’s needs. From economic impact analysis to ecosystem service valuation, a wide array of economic approaches and methods will be introduced and links made to the results you can expect. All examples will involve natural infrastructure solutions in coastal areas.
Registration for Nonmembers
If you are a member and want to register, please contact Karen Titus at kmt@cwp.org.
Refund Policy
If a registrant is unable to attend a webcast, there are three options:
- Watch the archived recording. All webcasts are recorded, and registered attendees are provided with the link and all relevant materials. No action is required if selecting this option.
- Email webcast@cwp.org to let us know, and select another webcast to attend in place of the one you will miss.
- Request a refund. Refunds are provided as long as the cancellation request occurs more than 48 hours in advance of a webcast. The amount charged for the webcast will be refunded, except for a $25 processing fee.