Natural Channel Concepts for Stormwater Channel Design

In this seminar, you will learn from expert practitioners how to incorporate fluvial processes and biotechnical engineering and soil bioengineering principles into proper stream corridor management and stormwater channel design.

Course Outline

After attending this course, you will be able to:

• apply bioengineering principles that apply to contemporary stormwater channel design
• develop a basis for plant selection in slope stabilization in view of natural habitat considerations
• assess stormwater management needs from a watershed perspective
• gain new insights into stream channel design methods.
• understand how to design stormwater management facilities in urban areas that will not disrupt channel functions
• study hydraulic engineering and bioengineering applications

Description

The traditional approach to stormwater management is to route flow through concrete lined channels and pipes away from the site as quickly as possible.  The result of this strategy has often been degradation of the downstream environment due to flooding, habitat destruction and unaesthetic channels through urban and rural settings.

More recently, feasible alternatives to the traditional approach have emerged, employing broader perspective that includes understanding of stream channel processes and advances in biotechnical engineering and soil bioengineering.  These new strategies integrate specific characteristics of structure and function of natural channels and the complementary use of vegetation to prevent shallow slope failures and erosion, and new plantings to repair slope failures and improve watercourse stability.

In this seminar, you will learn from expert practitioners how to incorporate fluvial processes and biotechnical engineering and soil bioengineering principles into proper stream corridor management and stormwater channel design.

Objectives

To incorporate a watershed perspective into stormwater engineering design, to understand river corridor measurements and their implications for the design process, to understand the various approaches to stream rehabilitation and design, to learn how to select and acquire plant materials for biotechnical engineering and soil bioengineering, to understand how to incorporate this information into a comprehensive stream corridor management.

Who Should Attend

• Design and Consulting Engineers
• Landscape Architects
• Municipal Personnel
• Technologists and Technicians who work with stormwater, site developers, planners and regulators
• Individuals who have a basic understanding of hydrology will get the most from the seminar

Program Outline

Day I

8:00 Coffee and Registration

8:20 Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Preview, Learning Outcomes and the Assessment Method

8:30 Stream Management and Restoration Guidelines

• Stream corridor management guidelines
• Problem formulation
• Planning assessment
• Detail design

10:00 Refreshments and Networking

10:15 Assessing the Watershed and its Stream Corridors

• Functions That Stream Corridors Provide
• Discussion of the changes of watershed hydrology and sediment yield in those functions

11:20 Tools for Analyzing Geomorphic Data

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Data Collection Methods

2:45 Catch up, Review, Q and A Session

3:00 Rapid Assessments

4:30 Adjournment
 
Day II

8:30 Recap of Day 1 and Questions

9:00 Approaches to Channel Design

10:00 Refreshments and Networking

10:20 Structures and Treatments Within Channel Design

11:20 Plant Selection and Suitability

• Selecting suitable plants for the riparian function

12:00 Lunch

1:00 The Design Process - Getting Beyond Channel Form

2:20 Refreshments and Networking

2:40 Monitoring Stream Channels and Corridors

3:20 Case Study

4:00 Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcome

4:30 Concluding Remarks and Final Adjournment

Faculty

Chris Cummings graduated from Sir Sandford Fleming College in 1995 with the Diplomas: Fish and Wildlife Technician and Fish and Wildlife Technology. After several years as a Field Technician with the Ministry of Natural Resources, he joined PARISH Geomorphic in May of 1998. Since joining the company, Chris has been responsible for leading and coordinating detailed field investigations on over 100 watercourses throughout Ontario, ranging from small ephemeral channels to large rivers. Other responsibilities with the company include review and analysis of historical information (including air photography and topographical mapping), data analysis and reporting. Chris has also supervised the construction of and provided on-site consultations for several of PARISH Geomorphic Ltd.'s channel designs.

Aaron P. Corr is a river restoration specialist with experience in channel assessment, design and restoration, aquatic habitat enhancement, fish passage, sediment transport, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, structural channel controls, and applied hydrology and geomorphology. His experience includes four years as a design engineer on stream restoration and environmental remediation projects, three years as the principal and co-founder of an engineering design firm specializing in geotechnical, water resources and fluvial engineering, and another 5 years in the field of applied hydrologic and hydraulic engineering and construction in private practice.  Aaron has worked with government agencies, municipalities, engineering firms and private clients to offer innovative and technically sound solutions since 1994. By working closely with a broad network of planners, scientists, biologists and geomorphologists, Aaron has learned to integrate engineering with the complex variability and subtleties of these disciplines. This experience has made him a valuable leader for all phases of a projects development, including: planning, assessment, permitting, design, preparing design documents and drawings, and construction oversight.


 

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Certificates offered

1.2 CEU / 12 PDH

Cancellation Policy

To withdraw from a course, you must send a request, in writing, with the official receipt to our office. Fifteen or more business days in advance: full refund less $50.00 administration charge. Five to fifteen business days in advance: non-refundable credit of equal value for any future EPIC seminar within one year. Credits are transferable within your organization. In case of an unexpected event occurring after this time, you may send someone else to take your place without any additional cost.

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Would have liked more interactive problem solving.

Reviewed by Allen A. 2011