Low Impact Development Basics for Water Quality Protection
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Course dates:
- Tuesday, September 28
- Tuesday, October 26
- Tuesday, November 30
This is the same workshop hosted three times. Registration is limited to 20 people per workshop. Please carefully choose which date you plan to attend below.
8:45 - 12:30pm
NOAA-NERR Auditorium, Pivers Island, Beaufort
The goal of this workshop is to introduce participants to the interconnectedness between land use choices and water quality. Participants will learn about the major pollutants that degrade water quality; sources of these pollutants; and methods to prevent this degradation, including stormwater management practices and low impact development (LID).
What is Low Impact Development? LID is a site planning, design, implementation, and maintenance program aimed at promoting environmental integrity with development and growth. Low Impact Development integrates stormwater practices into site design using a customized layout for each project. Some of the most commonly used stormwater management practices include: permeable pavement, cisterns, grassed swales, bioretention, rain gardens, and level spreaders. These are small-scale practices that fit unobtrusively into a landscape.
Dwane Jones, with the NC LID Group, will give detailed information on LID as well as on the NC LID Certification Program.
The target audience for this event is planning board members, elected officials, or anyone needing introductory information on water quality and low impact development.
These are FREE workshops!
Agenda
- 8:45am - Registration
- 9:00am - The Land Use-Water Quality Connection
- 9:30am - The NC Watershed Game
- 10:15am - Break
- 10:30am - Low Impact Development Principles
- 12:15pm - The NC LID Certification Program
- 12:30pm - Adjourn
Registration is required, please click the "Register" button below to secure your spot at the workshop, carefully choosing the September, October or November date. If you have not registered on our site before, please create a user login first. Once your user login is created, come back to this page to register. A registration confirmation email will be automatically be sent once your registration is complete.
If the workshop is full, please add your name to the waitlist, as space often becomes available. Please note that you will receive a confirmation email, however you are on the waitlist until you receive an email stating that a spot has opened for you.