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Description: Green Stormwater Infrastructure has many definitions, many forms, and myriad benefits – all highly dependent on a given project’s setting and context. Fitting GSI into existing communities requires collaboration between a variety of disciplines, stakeholders and funding sources. While this can seem daunting, GSI projects that have been successfully completed across North Carolina are strengthening community resilience, environmental protection and connecting people with nature. This presentation will highlight multiple GSI case studies – from urban architecture to rural conservation - and discuss how the benefits of each project far outweigh the challenges faced during design, permitting, and implementation.
Speakers:
Hunter Freeman, Sr Advisor, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, McAdams
Daniel Wiebke, Green Stormwater Infrastructure Practice Lead, McAdams
Hunter is a senior advisor to the green stormwater infrastructure practice for McAdams in Raleigh, NC. He specializes in permitting and execution of green infrastructure, nature based solutions, and community planning. Hunter’s work highlights the power of merging stormwater engineering with multiple disciplines to integrate environmental protection measures into the built environment. In addition to his design work, Hunter is a board member on the Southeast Stormwater Association and chairman of the Policy Committee.
Daniel is the green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) practice lead at McAdams. He has provided stormwater design and oversight across North Carolina from the mountains to the coast. Daniel provides design and permitting assistance to clients across the southeast, including drainage system design and analysis, dam management and rehabilitation, permitting tool development, SCM design and floodplain management. Daniel serves as a stormwater control and GSI expert for many organizations and has been a contributor in ordinances, design manuals, and nature based design strategies.
Continuing Education Credits: This forum will provide 1 PDH (professional development hour) credit upon completion of registration and online evaluation that will be sent with the final event information. Each professional must determine if the content is relevant to his/her individual practice and suitable for his/her continuing education.
Bring a Friend Along to the NCWRA Luncheon! (with the purchase of a regular member luncheon forum admission fee)
Is there a young professional who has recently arrived on the scene at your company or co-worker that is new to North Carolina? Are you looking for quality, affordable, PDHs? Is there someone at your workplace interested in meeting others in the water resources field, learning about what’s happening in water resources research, policy and implementation? If so, then we encourage current NCWRA members to bring a friend to the next NCWRA luncheon. We are looking for “fresh faces” to benefit from the valuable, yet affordable, professional development and networking opportunities that our state chapter of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) has to offer.
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