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Monday, July 06, 2009 8:00 PM

LOW-IMPACT DEVELOPMENT TRACK - Tuesday Morning, August 18, 2009

By: Scott Nania, StormCon Coordinator Comments
Design Considerations for Retrofitting LID and Green Infrastructure Into Existing Streets and Neighborhoods
9:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
Presenters:  Jennifer Belknap Williamson, Brown and Caldwell, Portland, OR
Description: Two case studies highlight lessons learned during LID retrofit feasibility studies and design projects. A retrofit project in Portland, OR, involved 15 LID vegetated stormwater facilities to collect stormwater from existing streets in a 100-year-old neighborhood. Issues addressed included facility sizing; integration into street infrastructure; traffic, pedestrian, and bicyclist safety and accessibility; protection of potable water and gas lines; relocation of utility meters; tree protection; and property owner concerns. The city is now planning a large-scale application of LID retrofits to reduce CSOs and meet NPDES Phase I requirements, involving 600 retrofit LID facilities over 1,500 acres, drawing on lessons from the smaller project.


LID for—and Greening of—a Beach Parking Lot
10:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.
Presenter: Neal Shapiro, City of Santa Monica, CA
Description: The city of Santa Monica promotes the use of LID design, and a runoff mitigation ordinance requires runoff from newly constructed or redeveloped buildings to be reduced through the use of post-construction BMPs. This presentation describes the Beach Greening Project, a demonstration project in which a completely asphalted and impervious beach parking lot was converted into a partial green multiuse space. Benefits
include recreational uses of the space in addition to parking, capture and infiltration of stormwater, and reduction of pollution to the bay.


Indianapolis’s Sustainability Pilot Project: Using Green Solutions to Reduce Long-Term Control Plan Implementation Costs
10:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
Presenters: Jeremy Kosegi, RW Armstrong and Associates, Indianapolis, IN and John Hazlett, City of Indianapolis Department of Public Works, Indianapolis, IN
Description: This presentation outlines a procedure to assess the ability of sustainable approaches to reduce project costs in combined sewer areas. A preliminary evaluation considered both partial sewer separation and LID applications for representative areas in Indianapolis’s Fall Creek basin. Spatial analysis and hydraulic modeling were used to assess which areas were suitable for LID techniques, and a hydraulic model was used to quantify the impact each LID technique had on inflow to the combined sewer system. Effects on the city’s long-term control plan implementation costs were also assessed.

StormCon
This conference will intertwine four tracks through many workshop sessions in this premier conference. For complete details please visit StormCon.com. This event is not one to miss!

We would like to welcome our new sponsor AECOM!
AECOM
Madison, WI
Phone: 608-836-9800
http://www.aecom.com

From planning to future expansions, AECOM mitigates problems associated with stormwater pollution, drainage, flooding, and SSO and CSO detention and treatments.

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