Asset Management for Stormwater

This course is designed to provide stormwater managers, professionals, and local leaders and their staff with an overview of the components necessary to implement a comprehensive asset management program. Asset management is maintaining a desired level of service at the lowest life cycle cost. In simple terms, it provides a means of determining the best way to spend your limited dollars to achieve the maximum impact.

Funding Urban Forestry Programs

Despite strong regional and local goals to expand urban forests within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, implementation lags behind intentions. A major impediment to increasing urban tree canopy in many communities is a lack of adequate funding to plan and carry out tree planting and maintenance programs. This course provides municipal elected officials, their staff, and anyone involved in promoting the development and maintenance of thriving community forests with guidance on how to design an effective funding program to implement community forestry goals in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Landscaping for Resilience in a Changing Climate

The Earth’s climate is changing. Impacts - including higher temperatures, warming water temperatures, rising sea levels, and longer periods of extreme weather - are already being felt in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and are expected to worsen. The good news is there are actions we can all take to help mitigate and adapt to these impacts. Landscape professionals, in particular, have a unique opportunity to address the effects of our changing climate.

Integrating Green Infrastructure into Capital Improvement Planning

As communities across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed face challenges with regulatory compliance, growth, flooding, and maintaining existing infrastructure, significant capital investments in stormwater infrastructure will be required. Green infrastructure is a preferred stormwater best management practice that can achieve multiple community benefits. This course outlines strategies for integrating green infrastructure into capital projects such as roads, utilities, parks, and schools.

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The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s 14th Annual Chesapeake Watershed Forum (held November 15 – 17, 2019 in Shepherdstown...

The West Virginia Potomac Tributary Team, a partnership consisting of local and state agencies which include but are not...

The West Virginia Potomac Tributary Team, a partnership consisting of local and state agencies which include but are not...

A webinar to provide an overview of Virginia's Draft Phase III Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan and provide...

Maryland Department of the Environment is hosting a webinar on May 17, 2019, to provide an overview of the Draft Phase III...

Three information sessions and one webinar will be held in April and May 2019 as part of Maryland's engagement strategy for...

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