Stormwater and Green Stormwater Infrastructure Short Course

This is a WEFTEC Curated Short Course, compiled from the most topical and in-demand content from WEFTEC and other WEF events.

This short course consists of 4 learning modules, as well as some bonus content and additional resources.

As stormwater and green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) are increasingly recognized as important tools in a community’s tool box to deal with many different issues, the need to further understand and maximize the benefits are also increasing. It is important that treatment professionals understand the tools so that they can share information across multiple agencies and help the decision makers to have confidence regarding land use and economic development. In addition, there is an increasing need to quantify the impacts of design and siting choices on the longevity and total life cycle costs of GSI systems—particularly of subsurface GSI—in order to control, mitigate, and anticipate long-term program costs. This short course will help the learner:

• Describe how GSI can be successfully implemented using the examples of several case studies in both large and small cities
• Explain how controlling stormwater at the source can be an effective way to limit pollution
• Respond to increased urbanization, which results in less impervious area and drastically increases stormwater runoff
• Give examples of how to improve workflows from manually derived data to machine learning derived data delivered annually
• Explain different GSI technologies and discuss future trends, barriers, and potential evolutions over the next 5 to 10 years
• Identify how GSI design and siting choices impact the longevity and total life cycle costs

This WEFTEC Curated Short Course consists of 4 learning modules (Stormwater and Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Stormwater Technologies, Alternative Strategies for Managing Pollutants in Stormwater, Stormwater Planning) as well as some bonus content and additional resources. On completion of all three learning modules, learners will receive a badge that can be shared on networking sites such as LinkedIn.