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Title Sponsor, Chris Bogdan, Manager for the Southern United States of Ferguson Waterworks Green Stormwater Infrastructure Division.
Born and raised in Florida, Chris is passionate about protecting water. Chris has worked on green infrastructure projects throughout the Southern United States related to water quality and conservation. Today, Chris is focused on helping design engineers, landscape architects, and municipalities implement green infrastructure design. In addition to the design of these systems, Chris works with the owners of green infrastructure assets to communicate effective maintenance practices for prolonged health and performance of the system. He works with developers and contractors to implement green infrastructure practices to meet increased local regulations and improve profitability by providing more buildable land while protecting our most precious natural resource, water.
Chris will speak on overcoming construction challenges for green infrastructure practices.
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Martin P. Wanielista, PhD, PE, Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering & Computer Science, University of Central Florida.
Dr. Marty Wanielista is professor emeritus at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. Marty has been part of teams that have completed over 200 stormwater management plans that have been built and conducted over 100 research projects. He has graduated with advanced degrees over 100 students, has over 300 publications, and has been conducting stormwater management work for 55 years. He has, for the last 20 years, worked with green infrastructure or low impact development and as a designer of systems. He has a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Detroit, a Master's degree from Manhattan College, and a PhD in Environmental Systems from Cornell.
His present research is in the removal of nutrients and in water reuse from stormwater management systems. Marty will speak on the use of BMPTrains 2020, which is used in permit and grant applications to document the nutrient annual removal effectiveness of Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) to include Green Stormwater Infrastructures (GSI). The BMPTrains 2020 can be downloaded from roneaglin.online/bmptrains/. Many of Marty's publications are found in libraries and on stormwater.ucf.edu.
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Lagoon Hero Sponsor, Pete Singhofen, PE, Founder and CTO, Streamline Technologies, Inc.
Pete Singhofen is the founder of Streamline Technologies, Inc., and the original developer of the widely used ICPR stormwater modeling software. He has been a water resources professional for more than 4 decades specializing in physically based integrated modeling of large-scale surface and groundwater systems.
Pete will speak on how to go "Gray to Green with ICPR." It can be a daunting task to go from gray to green on a roadway redevelopment project with fifty or more individual BMPs of varying types, all hydraulically interconnected, with many that depend on percolation. How effective will the overall green system be for pollutant load reductions with so many complex interactions? And let’s say the load reductions are great, will the redeveloped roadway flood? This session will demonstrate how ICPR can be used to model not only the hydrology and hydraulics of these systems but also water quality aspects such as pollutant load removal efficiencies.
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Amy Wicks, PE, Wicks Consulting Group.
Amy has built a career centered around surface water planning and management in Southwest Florida. In 2006, she was assigned to a project that would shape her long-term professional focus: Babcock Ranch, a sustainable town northeast of Fort Myers. Upon joining the project team, Amy pursued and obtained a Master’s of Water Resources Planning and Management with a focus on Sustainability to aid in her design of a new town that would be both sustainable and storm resilient. While the community has been a living laboratory for sustainable development since its groundbreaking in 2016, it wasn’t until 2022 that Amy and her family got to test the storm resiliency of the community in which they now live.
Amy will present a case study on Babcock Ranch, which spent 10 hours in the eyewall of Hurricane Ian on September 28, 2022, with sustained winds over 100 mph for more than 8 hours, with gusts reaching up to 150 mph. In addition to the winds, the community received between 10 and 17 inches of rain. After the storm passed, it was obvious that the resiliency of the community worked as designed. The streets did not flood, and there was minimal damage throughout, with Babcock Ranch being the only place in all of Charlotte County to maintain electricity and clean drinking water. Since the storm, Amy has been even more vocal in her advocacy of implementing the design strategies used in Babcock Ranch throughout the State of Florida to minimize destruction in the wake of climate change.
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Eban Z. Bean, PhD, PE, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Agricultural and Biological, Engineering Department, University of Florida.
Dr. Eban Bean is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist of Urban Water Resources Engineering at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, FL. He holds his position in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and is a faculty member within the Center for Land Use Efficiency. Dr. Bean is also a licensed professional engineer. With a career dedicated to urban water resources management and water quality monitoring, Dr. Bean has accumulated over 20 years of expertise in the field. His primary focus has been on stormwater management, emphasizing the design and evaluation of Low-Impact Development (LID) and Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) techniques.
At UF, Dr. Bean directs his research and extension efforts toward urban stormwater mitigation, water conservation, and the development of innovative water resource monitoring platforms. Dr. Bean's reputation as an expert in stormwater management has led him to deliver workshops on the design and maintenance of various LID and GSI techniques at local, state, and international conferences and meetings. He is the author or co-author of 28 peer-reviewed publications and has contributed two book chapters focusing on stormwater management and water quality-related topics.
Dr. Bean received his BS and MS degrees from the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at North Carolina State University ('03 and '05, respectively). He completed his PhD at the University of Florida in 2010. Before joining the University of Florida, Dr. Bean served as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at East Carolina University from 2012 to 2016 in Greenville, NC, and Senior Staff Engineer with Geosyntec Consultants from 2010-2011 in Kennesaw, GA.
Eban will speak on BMP selection, updating codes, and designing with maintenance in mind, including an overview of training tools and resources.
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Sponsor, Kevin Earley, Director, Commercial Hardscapes, Oldcastle APG a CRH Company.
Mr. Earley is a LEED Green Associate and licensed Professional Geologist with a M.S. in Engineering Geology from Drexel University. He is one of the contributing Principal Authors of the ASCE’s Permeable Pavement Manual and is past Chairman of the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute’s Technical Committee. He currently chairs the ICPI Foundation’s Program Committee overseeing industry-funded research on a variety of topics related to permeable pavement. He is a member of the ASCE Standards Committee on permeable interlocking concrete pavement, and a voting member of ASTM where he is involved in unit concrete standards and infiltration test methods. Mr. Earley has over 25 years’ experience related to concrete products used for environmental site solutions.
Kevin will speak on permeable paver design, construction, and maintenance.
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Evan Shane Williams, PhD, PE, Stormwater Engineer, Environmental Protection Department, Alachua County.
Shane has been the stormwater and water resource engineer for the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department since January of 2018. He is responsible for implementing the stormwater treatment standards in the County’s water quality code, the design and construction of Low Impact Design/Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and climate vulnerability. Prior to working in Alachua County, he worked for Marion County for 14 years overseeing various stormwater retrofit projects, watershed management plans, and floodplain revisions. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Florida and is also a graduate of Villanova University. Shane is the current president of the Florida Stormwater Association.
Shane will speak on the role of low impact development in meeting the requirements of the Statewide Stormwater Rule.
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Claire Lewis, UF/IFAS Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program, Interim Director
Statewide Florida-Friendly Communities Statewide Coordinator.
Claire Lewis has been with the Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program since 2011. Her current title is Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program Statewide Florida-Friendly Communities Coordinator for the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) Extension.
Prior to joining the FFL team, she earned a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Florida and worked 12 years for private landscape architecture firms in Gainesville. Design projects included large-scale commercial, institutional, and residential home sites. Claire’s current job responsibilities include educational outreach to local governments, building professionals, and community decision-makers across the state to provide educational programming to Floridians about sustainable landscape practices and encourage builders, developers, and HOAs to implement the Florida-Friendly Landscaping principles in their communities in order to preserve and protect Florida’s water and natural resources.
Claire will speak on planting considerations for green stormwater infrastructure.
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Nathan Jagoda, Environmental Administrator, Springs and Water Restoration Program Division of Water Restoration Assistance, Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
Nathan manages projects that improve water quality across the state. He is passionate about helping stakeholders develop successful projects and implement green stormwater infrastructure. He also assists the Department’s Nonpoint Source Management Program with educational outreach efforts. Nathan has a M.A. in Applied Sociology from the University of Central Florida.
Nathan will speak on DEP GSI initiatives and funding opportunities.
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Seeking Conference Sponsors, Exhibitors, and Donors!
Download the vendor prospectus at https://savetheirl.org/MRC-2023-LID-Con.pdf.
• Your contribution will go to MRC's efforts to promote and implement LID, GI, and advanced stormwater management practices in Florida.
• ACT TODAY: Exhibit space and sponsorships are limited and confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Questions & Contact Information
Please contact Conference Manager Steve Sharkey
Email: SharkeyMRC@gmail.com
Call: 321.978.8862
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The Marine Resources Council is excited to present this conference as we have challenged Florida communities to reduce the amount of polluted stormwater entering coastal waterways, especially the Indian River Lagoon. Low Impact Development (LID) and Green Infrastructure (GI) represent the most advanced trends in stormwater management to protect water quality and reduce flooding. With your help, we can build community resiliency, control pollution, improve water quality, and protect our paradise. | | | | |
