A Low Impact Development (LID) workshop will be featured on Sept. 6 during Florida’s 31th Annual Conference on Water Management at the Westin Innisbrook Golf Resort in Tarpon Springs. The conference is being held Sept. 6-8.
The LID workshop will provide builders and developers an open forum with government stormwater regulators. The workshop will also allow builders and developers to learn from their contemporaries who have successfully implemented LID practices.
Paul R. Brown, AICP, President of CDM’s Public Services Group, will present the LID workshop keynote address. Brown will talk about the revitalization of three communities through sustainable solutions as seen on the PBS television show, “Edens: Lost and Found.”
LID is an environmentally friendly approach to developing land and managing stormwater runoff. If stormwater is controlled where it originates, it is easier to keep pollutants from entering ground water and the stormwater stream. This control can be accomplished by protecting and planting native vegetation, reducing the amount of hard surfaces and compaction of soil, treating stormwater runoff close to the source and slowing the flow of runoff closer to predevelopment rates.
The Annual Conference on Water Management will also focus on the weather phenomenon of the Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation, the severe storm effects associated with it and the “new reality” of water management in Florida. Conference participants will also be able to take field studies to the Lake Maggiore and the Kapok Park restoration sites.
Water managers, state and local government officials, representatives from academia and the business community, and other interested people are invited to attend the conference.
For more details about the conference, and the LID workshop, please contact Holly Banks at (850) 906-0099 or visit the conference web site at www.mcraeco.com .