ORANGE CO., N.Y. — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Orange County will be continuing its Stormwater Management Training series with the next workshop being held on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. The program offers a series of workshops for professionals involved in stormwater management. Professionals will be able to learn about the latest trends and standards along with new techniques and evolving research, policies and performance data change. The trainings are designed to provide private and public sector administrators, consultants, architects, planners and administrators with up-to-date techniques. 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. All trainings emphasize applications to real-world conditions, and involve hands-on, group, and individual exercises.
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
–Cornell Cooperative Extension of Orange County
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