January 2016 - Green Stormwater Infrastructure Mapping and Modeling
The January presentation featured a state of the art review of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) mapping and modeling tools that can be used for proper planning and design of sustainable GSI facilities. The speaker for this presentation was Dr. Sam Shamsi, the Northeast Wet Weather Practice Leader at Jacobs Engineering Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a modeling consultant at the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSDGC).
GSI, such as rain gardens, green roofs, and porous pavement is likely to play an important role in stormwater management for controlling combined sewer overflow (CSO) and sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) discharges to receiving waters. Many US cities, such as Cincinnati, are spending, or planning to spend, billions of dollars on implementing such wet weather plans mandated by US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The presentation explored the planning and design tools for sustainable wet weather solutions, reviewed new methods to quantify runoff and sewer overflow reductions using green solutions, and covered the latest discoveries for green infrastructure mapping and modeling programs.
