STORMCON 2025 I PAST CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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)
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM	Annual Public NMSA Meeting
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	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.	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
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	The Future of Assessing SCM Maintenance and Long-Term Compliance Jeremiah Lehman - CONTECH Engineered Solutions	National Legal and Stormwater Policy Michael Trapp - AtkinsRèalis Seth Brown - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance Anya Kwan - Best, Best & Krieger, LLP	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	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
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	PFAS What to Do Before You Do It Phil Farina - Clear Creek Systems	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	Lake Tahoe Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Implementation Progress for Douglas County, Nevada Karin Peternel - AtkinsRéalis Courtney Walker - Douglas County, Nevada
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	Phosphorus and TSS Reduction Utilizing Existing Infrastructure Delia Van Heukelem - Clearflow Group US Inc.	EPA Town Hall James Houle - UNH Stormwater Center Lisa Biddle - US EPA, Office of Water Chris Kloss - Office of Wastewater Management, US EPA Office of Water
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Panel Discussion: Tackling Microplastics Across the Country Monica Arienzo - Desert Research Institute Katie Senft - UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center Sarah Wilkerson - City of Springfield MO
Thursday, August 29, 2024
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	Moosa Creek Ecosystem Restoration Reduces Flooding Richard Besancon - Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc	Regional Nature-based solutions to stormwater management Shayne Paynter - AtkinsRèalis	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	Urban Forestry, Thriving Trees in Urban Stormwater Systems Jason Bailey - Ferguson Waterworks
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM	How to Turn E.coli Data into an Illicit Discharge Investigation Mary Polacek - DOEE	Performance-Based Plant Selection: Developing a Bioretention Plant Selection Tool Ted Shriro - City of Springfield	Modeling of Urban Flooding in Response to Extreme Rainfall Events Julia Atayi - Morgan State University	Swale Longevity Study: I'm Not Old, I Still Feel Swale Kevin Brandhorst - Washington State Department of Transportation Christopher Gustafson - Washington State Department of Transportation
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM	Balancing Water Below Sea Level Andrew Woodroof - Digital Engineering and Imaging, Inc Patrick Stiegman - Digital Engineering and Imaging, Inc	How WIFIA Financing Accelerated Stormwater Infrastructure Investments in Fort Lauderdale, FL Mary Fasano - U.S. EPA Rares Petrica - City of Fort Lauderdale	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	RFP Budgets to Completion A WAG? Matthew Renaud - NV5
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	Basin Instincts: Green Infrastructure Program Management and Municipal Permit Compliance Shawnetta Grandberry - City of Carlsbad	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
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM	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	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	Viewing the Regulatory Landscape for Approvals of Proprietary Manufactured Treatment Devices for Stormwater Quality Mark Miller - AquaShield, Inc.
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM	You Can’t Perform What You Don’t Know: Industrial Stormwater Management Overview Brad Flack - StormwaterONE	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	Results from a National Assessment of Urban Stormwater Runoff Potential Bruk Berhanu - Pacific Institute

2024 Conference Program