Introduction to Low Impact Development (LID)
Who Should Attend?
Contractors, Consultants, Inspectors, Planners and Municipal staff
responsible for preparation and implementation of stormwater controls
Cost?
$25.00 Includes Continental Breakfast and workshop materials
For more information see link to event flier or contact:
Jack Betourne NCFCD, 707-253-4823, or
Wendy Atkins, City of Sonoma, 707-933-2204
Essentially LID is a suite of practices for controlling stormwater runoff volume and reducing pollutant loadings to receiving waters. It is a relatively new concept in stormwater management. LID is a site design strategy with a goal of maintaining or replicating the predevelopment hydrologic regime through the use of design techniques to create a functionally equivalent hydrologic landscape. Hydrologic functions of storage, infiltration, and ground water recharge, as well as the volume and frequency of discharges are maintained through the use of integrated and distributed micro-scale stormwater retention and detention areas, reduction of impervious surfaces, and the lengthening of flow paths and runoff time. Other strategies include the preservation/protection of environmentally sensitive site features such as riparian buffers, wetlands, steep slopes, valuable (mature) trees, flood plains, woodlands and highly permeable soils. [Excerpted from EPA-841-B-00-005]
Contractors, Consultants, Inspectors, Planners and Municipal staff
responsible for preparation and implementation of stormwater controls
Cost?
$25.00 Includes Continental Breakfast and workshop materials
For more information see link to event flier or contact:
Jack Betourne NCFCD, 707-253-4823, or
Wendy Atkins, City of Sonoma, 707-933-2204
Essentially LID is a suite of practices for controlling stormwater runoff volume and reducing pollutant loadings to receiving waters. It is a relatively new concept in stormwater management. LID is a site design strategy with a goal of maintaining or replicating the predevelopment hydrologic regime through the use of design techniques to create a functionally equivalent hydrologic landscape. Hydrologic functions of storage, infiltration, and ground water recharge, as well as the volume and frequency of discharges are maintained through the use of integrated and distributed micro-scale stormwater retention and detention areas, reduction of impervious surfaces, and the lengthening of flow paths and runoff time. Other strategies include the preservation/protection of environmentally sensitive site features such as riparian buffers, wetlands, steep slopes, valuable (mature) trees, flood plains, woodlands and highly permeable soils. [Excerpted from EPA-841-B-00-005]