Conference Program: StormCon 2024

Monday, August 26, 2024
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Certified Designer of Sediment and Erosion Certification (Day 1 of 2)
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM	CISEC Certification Course (Day 1 of 2)
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Certified Designer of Sediment and Erosion Certification (Day2 of 2)
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM	CISEC Certification Course (Day 2 of 2)
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM	Truckee River Tour
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM	Annual Public NMSA Meeting
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Private Guided Kayaking Tour		Private Guided Natural History Hiking Tour
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM	Keynote Address: Extreme Weather and Climate Change Impacts to National Critical Infrastructure Sunny Wescott - Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM	Implementation of the Stormwater Testing and Evaluation for Products and Practices (STEPP) Program Jay Holtz - Oldcastle Infrastructure Seth Brown - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance Greg Williams - StormTrap	Applying Site-Specific Bench-Scale Testing to Characterize Stormwater Pollutants and to Improve Advanced Filtration Systems Chris Hsu - GSI Environmental Blake Van Drimlen - GSI Environmental Nate Hasal - GSI Environmental	Optimizing Stormwater Basin Inspections in the City of Reno: Harnessing the Power of ESRI and GIS Technologies for Adaptive Field Inspections, Automated Reporting, and Progress-Tracking Dashboards David Lake - City of Reno Norm Nash - City of Reno	Protecting Watersheds through Erosion Control Methods Mike Everhart - Everett J Prescott, Inc.
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Stormwater Quality Management in Lake Tahoe Andrea Buxton - Tahoe Resource Conservation District Alan Heyvaert - Desert Research Institute Marc Leisenring - Geosyntec Consultants	TBA Joey Jiang - Washingston State Department of Ecology	National Legal and Stormwater Policy Michael Trapp - AtkinsRèalis Seth Brown - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance	Lower Las Vegas Wash Stabilization: An Erosion Control and Flood Mitigation Program for Infrastructure Protection Masih Bari - AtkinsRèalis Matthew Wilkinson - AtkinsRéalis Anita Marquez - Southern Nevada Water Authority
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM	From Storms to Supply: Creating Frameworks to Integrate Stormwater Capture into Water Supply Planning Shannon Spurlock - Pacific Institute Dave Smith - Water Innovation Services Seth Brown - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance	Applied Innovations for MS4 Programs Scott Meyer - Office of Water Programs, California State University, Sacramento Brian Currier - Office of Water Programs, California State University, Sacramento Trey Shanks - Freese and Nichols	Sediment Control Treatment Alternatives to Sediment Basins in Restricted-Space Locations Kevin Wolfe - Friendly Environment	PFAS What to do Before You Do It Phil Farina - Clear Creek Systems
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM	Using Polyacrylamide (PAM) to Achieve MS4 and TMDL Compliance Brian Free - Applied Polymer Systems	Why We Don’t Infiltrate: A Regional Approach to Managing Stormwater in the Las Vegas Valley John Tennert - Clark County Regional Flood Control District Angela MacKinnon - Brown and Caldwell	EPA Town Hall Rachel Urban - U.S. EPA, Office of Water Lisa Biddle - US EPA, Office of Water James Houle - UNH Stormwater Center	Phosphorus and TSS Reduction Utilizing Existing Infrastructure Brad Griko - Clearflow Group US
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Panel Discussion: Microplastics
Thursday, August 29, 2024
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	Regional Nature-based solutions to stormwater management Shayne Paynter - AtkinsRèalis	Moosa Creek Ecosystem Restoration Reduces Flooding Richard Besancon - Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc	Urban Forestry, Thriving Trees in Urban Stormwater Systems. Jason Bailey - Ferguson Waterworks	Lower Rio Grande Valley Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Stormwater Task Force – An MS4 Coalition of 33 local governments Sharing 1 Storm Water Management Program – A Success Story Since 1998 Augusto Gonzalez - Cameron County, TX/Task Force
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM	How to Turn E.coli Data into an Illict Discharge Investigation Mary Polacek - DOEE	Swale Longevity Study: I'm not old, I still feel swale. Kevin Brandhorst - Washington State Department of Transportation Chris Gustafson - Washington State Department of Transportation	Modeling of Urban Flooding in Response to Extreme Rainfall Events Julia Atayi - Morgan State University	Performance-Based Plant Selection: Developing a Bioretention Plant Selection Tool Ted Shriro - City of Springfield
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM	Overcoming Subsurface Challenges: Implementing Green Infrastructure in NYC’s Right of Way George Papasmiris - NYC Department of Environmental Protection Tony Li - NYC Department of Environmental Protection	Balancing Water Below Sea Level Andrew Woodroof - Digital Engineering and Imaging, Inc Patrick Stiegman - Digital Engineering and Imaging, Inc	RFP Budgets to Completion A WAG? Matthew Renaud - NV5	How WIFIA Financing Accelerated Stormwater Infrastructure Investments in Fort Lauderdale, FL Mary Fasano - U.S. EPA Rares Petrica - City of Fort Lauderdale
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM	Dude, Where’s my Parking Space? Retrofitting Neighborhood-Scale Green Stormwater Infrastructure Vincent Steiner - Bohannan Huston Inc. Shellie Eaton - City of Albuquerque	Empirical Model for Estimating Upstream Water Levels at a Tide Gate Control During Coincident Rainfall and High Tide Events Madeleine Alwine - Fairfax County Government Dipmani Kumar - Fairfax County Government	Collecting and Managing Data for Tahoe’s Regional Stormwater Monitoring Program: A 10-year Retrospective Andrea Buxton - Tahoe Resource Conservation District Alan Heyvaert - Desert Research Institute Marc Leisenring - Geosyntec Consultants	Basin Instincts: Green Infrastructure Program Management and Municipal Permit Compliance Shawnetta Grandberry - City of Carlsbad
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM	Viewing the Regulatory Landscape for Approvals of Proprietary Manufactured Treatment Devices for Stormwater Quality Mark Miller - AquaShield, Inc.	Unprecedented Times: A Perspective on How Under-designed and Underdeveloped Stormwater Systems are Affected by Unprecedented Storm Events Justin DeAngelis - Envista Forensics Aaron Rogge - CDM Smith	Managing Stormwater with Drones- A Pilot Project Ben Nield - The Northwest Seaport Alliance Mindi Kellar - The Northwest Seaport Alliance	Detroit’s First Green Decade – A review of the City of Detroit’s stormwater management efforts over the last 10 years and a discussion of future goals and opportunities Barry Brown - Detroit Water and Sewerage Department Anna Timmis - Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM	Results from a National Assessment of Urban Stormwater Runoff Potential Bruk Berhanu - Pacific Institute	The Future of Assessing SCM Maintenance and Long-Term Compliance Jeremiah Lehman - CONTECH Engineered Solutions	Disaster Recovery & Hazard Mitigation Funding And Stormwater Parks Jason Bernagros - Jacobs Dustin Atchison - Jacobs	Public Facing Stormwater Mapping David Mora - Department of Ecology, Washington State Rachel Yonemura - Department of Ecology, Washington State
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Sparks County Tour

2024 Conference Program