Field Session

FRI-FS-03: Green Stormwater Infrastructure Tour: Planning, Design, Equity, and Environment

Friday, October 27, 2023

7:45am – 4:00pm CT

Sponsored By

3.50 PDH. LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW
Ticket price: $95 per person;. includes transportation. Lunch on your own. Moderate walking.

Field Session Leader(s)

Stephanie E. Hurley, ASLA

Associate Professor
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Andy Erickson, PE

Research Manager
St. Anthony Falls Lab - Univ. of MN
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Field Session Presenter(s)

Della Schall Young

CEO, Principal Scientist
Young Environmental Consulting Group, LLC
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Jennifer Ehlert (she/her/hers)

Vice President
Metro Blooms Design+Build
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sustainable stormwater runoff management is a design challenge that integrates equity, environment, and economy. Join design and planning professionals, researchers, and community partners to tour a wide variety of select local ‘green stormwater infrastructure’ projects. Gain knowledge and strategies to take home and apply to your own professional jurisdictions.

Learning Outcomes:

Visit multiple green stormwater infrastructure projects selected for their positive functional, aesthetic, socioeconomic, equity, and ecological impacts.
Go beyond stormwater basics to discuss specific lessons learned about design, implementation, and maintenance with professionals and experts leading the tour, and project partners at each stop.
Understand current research and design solutions to stormwater challenges including soil media design specifications, flood resilience, intermittent droughts, cold-climate and road salting, and pristine and impaired surface and groundwater management.
Engage with local people, projects, and permitting issues in Minnesota to gain knowledge and resources that can be directly applied in other professional jurisdictions.