Past Stormwater Solutions Workshops

Download the flyer for the workshops we held in the spring of 2009.

View presentations and additional resources from past workshops.

 

Low-Impact Site Development from Start to Finish (Eugene workshop)

WHEN: Nov. 18 (Wed.) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

WHERE: 500 East 4th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401

COST: $50. Includes lunch. Scholarships are available.

SPEAKERS & AGENDA: Maria Cahill, sustainable site development specialist with Green Girl Land Development Solutions and Derek Godwin, watershed management specialist and Marion County chair for OSU Extension Service and Oregon Sea Grant. Learn how the site development process impacts sustainability goals for stormwater management in this hands-on workshop. Multidisciplinary teams will collaborate with guidance from trainers on a case study to prevent and mitigate these impacts throughout the master planning, design, construction, and operations and maintenance phases, revisiting earlier phases and updating the plan as new insights are made.

 

Rain Gardens: Landscaping for clean water & healthy streams: Train-the-Trainers Workshop

Cost: $30 registration fee includes training materials and lunch

What: Train-the-trainers course for gardeners, landscaper design professionals, and others.  

When: Wednesday, June 10th, 9:00AM - 5:00 PM.

Cross-section graphic of a rain garden

Where: Lane Community College
Center for Meeting and Learning
4000 E 30th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97405

The rain brings many benefits for watersheds and residents. But it can also be a bane for both if it carries pollutants or excessively floods our local streams.  Capturing, controlling and filtering some of this stormwater runoff in rain gardens is one way to help beautify our landscapes while we improve the health of our watersheds.

The purpose of the training is to help gardeners learn the skills needed to design, build and maintain rain gardens and serve as local resources to other community members interested in building rain gardens. It will include both an indoor and outdoor component. Seating priority will be given to those willing to work with OSU as rain garden representatives and provide assistance to local communities in which they live.

 

Sustainable stormwater solutions for the Rogue Valley

Cost: $20 for general public, $10 for HBA members. Includes lunch.
Continuing education credits available.

WHEN: Thursday, April 2, 8:30 am – 1:00 pm

WHERE: RCC-SOU Higher Education Center, 101 South Bartlett, Medford, Oregon 97501
Guest Speaker: Larry Coffman is a national low-impact development expert and pioneer of the innovative stormwater management practice “bioretention” or “rain gardens”. Mr Coffman was the principal author of Prince George’s County, Maryland’s low-impact development design approach and has conducted hundreds of seminars across the country.
Stump the expert with your tough questions!

What’s working? What’s not?: Panel discussion with local builders, designers and planners.

Visit on-site examples of stormwater planters and pervious pavers.

Sustainable stormwater solutions for the Willamette Valley

Cost: $35 for general public, $20 for HBA members. Cost includes lunch. Continuing education credits available.

WHEN: Friday, April 3, 8:30 am – 1:00 pm

WHERE: EWEB, 500 East 4th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401

Guest Speaker: Larry Coffman is a national low-impact development expert and pioneer of the innovative stormwater management practice “bioretention” or “rain gardens”. Mr Coffman was the principal author of Prince George’s County, Maryland’s low-impact development design approach and has conducted hundreds of seminars across the country.
Stump the expert with your tough questions!

What’s working? What’s not?: Panel discussion with local builders, designers and planners. 

Followed by an optional tour of demonstration sites. 1pm to 3pm.  Tour sites include:

• “Watershed Building” on 3^rd and Mill, a mixed use building that features large cisterns and pervious pavers
• Tiara neighborhood “Stormwater Management Demonstration Home”
• Vegetated bioswale at Oregon Medical Group
• Street bioswales at 18^th and University

 

Making Low Impact Development a reality in your community - Willamette Valley

Cost: $35 for general public, $20 for HBA members. Cost includes lunch. Continuing education credits available.

WHEN: Thursday, April 30, 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
WHERE: Lane Community College Center for Meeting and Learning, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405

Guest Speaker: Maria Cahill is a land development sustainability consultant with a background in civil engineering design and project management and twelve years of experience working on green projects. She provides a look at how non-structural (i.e. good planning, conservation) and structural (i.e. good engineering, mitigation) practices can reduce environmental impacts and develop healthy communities.

Guest Speaker: Barry Beyeler is the Community Development Director for the city of Boardman, Oregon. He pioneered the city’s adoption of low-impact development requirements for all new development. Barry calls this choice “Cowboy Logic” because it just makes sense.

Small communities leading the way: Case study of Veneta, Oregon

Followed by an optional tour of demonstration sites. 1pm to 3pm. Tour sites inlcude:

• Sequential Biofuels green roof and bioswales
• Pepsi plant bioswales
• BRING bioswale
• Springfield LTD Station rain garden

 

Making Low Impact Development a reality in your community - Rogue Valley

Cost: $20 for general public, $10 for HBA members. Includes lunch.
Continuing education credits available.

WHEN: Friday, May 1, 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
WHERE: Josephine County Courthouse, 500 NW 6th Street Dept. 6, Grants Pass, OR 97526

Guest Speaker: Maria Cahill is a land development sustainability consultant with a background in civil engineering design and project management and twelve years of experience working on green projects. She provides a look at how non-structural (i.e. good planning, conservation) and structural (i.e. good engineering, mitigation) practices can reduce environmental impacts and develop healthy communities.

Guest Speaker: Barry Beyeler is the Community Development Director for the city of Boardman, Oregon. He pioneered the city’s adoption of low-impact development requirements for all new development. Barry calls this choice “Cowboy Logic” because it just makes sense.

Small communities leading the way: Panel discussion with local builders, designers and planners.

Followed by an optional site visit to Redwood Park, 1pm to 2pm. Provide your own transportation.

 

Untangling the codes: Governments and developers working together

Cost: $20 for general public, $10 for HBA members. Includes lunch. Continuing education credits available.

Online registration is now closed. Contact Teresa Huntsinger at 503-222-1963 ext. 112 for more information.

WHEN:  Thursday, May 28, 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
WHERE: Rogue Valley Sewer Services, 138 W. Vilas Rd.
Central Point, OR 97502

Make the most of the current construction slowdown to ensure that you will be ready when things pick back up again. Learn how local governments around the region and the state are encouraging innovation, protecting water quality, and ensuring that local development codes and incentives make it easy for developers to do the right thing.

Visit on-site examples of bioswales and grassy pavers.