Course Schedule
Week 1: Introduction to Stormwater Management
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the four major types of stormwater impacts on the environment
- Trace the impacts to their causes
- List mechanisms by which stormwater controls can mitigate the four types of impacts
Topics:
- Effects of stormwater on water quantity, water quality, channel form, and aquatic biota
- What is the nature of the impact?
- Why do these impacts happen?
- How can the impacts be controlled?
Week 2: Setting Performance Standards for Stormwater Management
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe goals of stormwater management
- Outline the general integrated approach to stormwater management
- Relate stormwater control objectives to performance goals
- Name the most common unified stormwater sizing criteria
- Apply the two methods to select performance criteria
- Explain the flaw behind the concept of percent pollutant removal to select stormwater controls
Topics:
- Fundamentals of stormwater control
- Relationship between stormwater control and performance goals
- Unified stormwater sizing criteria
- Methods for establishing performance criteria
- Preferred approach to evaluate pollutant removal
Week 3: Stormwater Treatment Concepts: Unit Processes and Unit Operations
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain how unit processes (UPs) and unit operations (UOs) apply to stormwater management
- Describe what each UP does to control water quantity or water quality impacts
- Select the appropriate UPs to address given stormwater problems
- Select the appropriate UOs in which given UPs take place
- Name the six categories of stormwater controls and the governing physical principles in each of them
Topics:
- Unit processes (UPs) and unit operations (UOs) applied to stormwater
- Unit processes for water quantity control
- Unit processes for water quality control
- Unit operations and stormwater systems
- Classification of stormwater controls
Week 4: Fundamental Principles of Low Impact Development
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the basic principles of LID
- Categorize LID controls according to the major classes of stormwater controls
- Reconcile the LID and conventional stormwater management approaches
- Summarize the benefits of applying LID principles
Topics:
- Basics concepts of LID
- The role of site planning and engineering in stormwater management
- Benefits of LID
- LID stormwater controls
- Operation and maintenance
Week 5: Stormwater Controls – Filters
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the essential features of filters
- Recognize variants
- List the unit processes present
- Select the proper design principles
- List additional design considerations
Topics:
- General characteristics
- Types of filters and applications
- Design principles
- Additional design considerations
Week 6: Stormwater Controls – Infiltrators
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the essential features of infiltrators
- Recognize variants
- List the unit processes present
- Select the proper design principles
- List additional design considerations
Topics:
- General characteristics
- Types of infiltrators and applications
- Design principles
- Additional design considerations
Week 7: Stormwater Controls – Strips and Swales, Gross Pollutant Traps
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the essential features of strips and swales
- Identify the role of gross pollutant traps
- List the unit processes present
- Select the proper design principles
- List additional design considerations
Topics:
- General characteristics
- Applications
- Design principles
- Additional design considerations
Week 8: Stormwater Controls – Basins
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the essential features of basins
- Articulate the role of basins with respect to LID
- Recognize variants
- List the unit processes present
- Select the proper design principles
- List additional design considerations
Topics:
- General characteristics
- Types of basins and applications
- Design principles
- Additional design considerations
Week 9: What Works and What Doesn’t Work
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize the potential for failure of various types of stormwater controls
Topics:
- A collection of examples of ineffective stormwater controls
Week 10: Operation, Maintenance, and Inspection
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the importance of proper maintenance
- List the major maintenance tasks associated with each type of controls
Topics:
- General considerations
- Detailed maintenance for each type of stormwater control
Week 11: Performance Assessment
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply the principles to design monitoring programs
- Select appropriate objectives for monitoring
- Recognize well implemented monitoring plans
- Explain the flaw in the concept of percent pollutant removal
- Select proper methods to assess performance of stormwater controls
Topics:
- The importance of monitoring
- Monitoring plan development
- Monitoring plan implementation
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment methods
Week 12: Modeling Stormwater Controls
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the challenges in modeling stormwater controls and their combined effect
- List the most common approaches to model the processes in stormwater controls
- Develop conceptual models for the various types of stormwater controls
- Cite models suitable to simulate the effect of stormwater controls
- Select the appropriate model for a given analysis need
- Demonstrate the criticality of reliable input data
Topics:
- The need for models in stormwater management
- Conceptual models for stormwater controls
- Modeling approaches
- Model selection criteria
- Data needs
- Model application
This course outline is subject to change.