In addition to the two and one-half day, six track course curriculum offered at StormCon each year, we also offer full-day courses in a variety of disciplines specific to stormwater and erosion control.
New Full Day Class
Stormwater Pollution Modeling for LID, TMDL, and Retrofitting Analyses — An Overview of WinSLAMM
Monday, August 2, 2010
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
0.5 Continuing Education Unit
**This course requires all attendees to have a laptop computer with them for use during the course. If you plan on attending with someone from your organization, you may also share a computer.
Attendees with their own laptop may use a temporary license of the model during the course. WinSLAMM can be run on a PC with Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7, and will need a CD drive and/or a USB port to load the program. You will need administrative privileges for the computer if the program is not pre-loaded.
Course Description
This hands-on computer-based course will demonstrate how to use WinSLAMM to utilize source area stormwater controls to maintain or create a hydrologically functional landscape that mimics natural watersheds’ hydrologic functions (volume, frequency, recharge, and discharge). By integrating source area controls into site design, you can approach the pre-development sites ability to retain water and pollutants.
You will learn to:
* Quantify pollutant sources in complex urban watersheds
* Predict the performance and impact of many interacting development and control options
* Calculate pollutant loads and runoff volumes from various structural and non-structural management scenarios
* Estimate and compare the costs of stormwater control practices.
About WinSLAMM
WinSLAMM is a Windows-based, continuous simulation computer program, that helps water resources professionals make effective decisions by modeling the stormwater impacts of new or existing developments and evaluating the benefits of various control measures. The WinSLAMM model has been used for over 15 years to calculate urban stormwater runoff volume, pollution loads, and assess a wide range of management measures. The model enables accurate planning-level and design-level analyses. Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources has adopted the model for regulatory compliance purposes. The WinSLAMM batch processor provides data for decision makers to select the most cost-effective alternative stormwater control practices. WinSLAMM is typically used in continuous simulations of at least one year of local rain events to examine these issues over a wide range of actual site conditions.
The 1-day course will cover:
* Modeling terminology and preparing to model
* WinSLAMM theory and practice
* WinSLAMM model features and navigation
* Base file setup
* Grass swale & filter strip modeling/design
* Biofilter modeling/design
* Analyzing an example LID subdivision development for stormwater volume & TSS loads
**This course requires all attendees to have a laptop computer with them for use during the course. If you plan on attending with someone from your organization, you may also share a computer.
Instructors
Robert Pitt, PhD, PE, BCEE, D.WRE
Professor Pitt is Cudworth Professor of Urban Water Systems at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama. Professor Pitt is a nationally recognized authority on the modeling, detection and control of contaminants in urban drainage systems. He has been recognized for his work on the development of new analytical methods for the rapid and sensitive detection of toxicants. He is the author of more than 100 books, journal articles and reports, and recipient of numerous honors and awards from various national engineering and environmental organizations.
John Voorhees, PE, PH, AECOM senior water resource engineer
John is co-developer of WinSLAMM (Source Loading and Management Model). This model is widely used as a tool for evaluating stormwater pollution and BMP effectiveness in urban areas, and is also recognized by the Wisconsin DNR as a model of choice for compliance with the state stormwater regulatory program. He has 21 years of experience on many aspects of stormwater management in both the public and private sectors, with extensive experience working on innovative BMP design, regulatory compliance, and evaluation of BMP effectiveness.
James Bachhuber, PH, AECOM national stormwater practice leader
James is a nationally respected hydrologist with extensive experience in urban stormwater management planning, pollution modeling, stormwater permitting, ordinance development and the analysis of urban stormwater BMPs. At the Wisconsin DNR, he helped develop applications for rural and urban nonpoint source pollution load models. As a consulting engineer, he manages water resource projects dealing with urban stormwater runoff, environmental impacts, and TMDLs.
Caroline Burger, PE, AECOM water resource engineer
Caroline has 10 years of experience in stormwater management planning, pollution modeling and monitoring, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, stormwater permitting, ordinance development, and analysis of BMPs. She has extensive experience using WinSLAMM and has been a key part of the team involved with the calibration and development of the WinSLAMM model itself.
Please join us for the 9th Annual StormCon, the North American Surface Water Quality Conference & Exposition.