NALMS 2022 Workshop: Stormwater Management for Lake Managers

This workshop is designed for students, lake managers, lake community residents and applied limnologists interested in learning more about stormwater management.

The overarching goal of the workshop is to demonstrate the importance of implementing ecologically appropriate, cost-effective green infrastructure stormwater management techniques as part of comprehensive lake restoration plan. The workshop addresses each of the following:

• Provide attendees with a basic introduction to the hydrologic and hydraulic principles of stormwater runoff and management to meet quantity, rate and quality control goals.
• Examine some relatively easy to use, public domain models and tools that lake managers can use to compute runoff pollutant loads and runoff volumes.
• Discuss the role and importance of stormwater management as part of a long-term lake restoration plan.
• Present and discuss the common green infrastructure stormwater management techniques that can be implemented in lake communities at both lot-specific (small) and community-wide (regional) scales.
• Present and discuss design and construction specifications, as well as the maintenance requirements, for the more commonly implemented green infrastructure stormwater management techniques used in lake communities.
• Provide real world examples of the more commonly implemented green infrastructure stormwater management techniques.

Presenter

Dr. Stephen J. Souza, Owner of Clean Waters Consulting, has extensive expertise in the management and restoration of lake and reservoir ecosystems. His expertise includes watershed management, nutrient inactivation, aeration, dredging, invasive aquatic species control, and biomanipulation of fish and zooplankton communities. His experience in stormwater management includes BMP selection and sizing, permitting, cost analysis, and the preparation of maintenance plans. He is an Instructor for Rutgers OCPE and an Adjunct Professor at Temple University.