NZ Stormwater Seminar - 13, 17 September 2007
03 Aug 2007
NZ Stormwater Seminar - 13, 17 September 2007
In association with New Zealand Water and Waste Association Stormwater 360 is running a Stormwater Special Interest Group Lunchtime Seminar
"Stormwater BMP Evaluation and the Regulatory System for Innovative BMP's in the USA"
Jim Lenhart, PE, D.WRE
Chief Technology Officer CONTECH Stormwater Solutions
Christchurch 13 September- Venue: Holiday Inn, Cnr. Cashel & High St, Christchurch
Auckland 17 September- Venue: Crowne Plaza, 128 Albert St, Auckland
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Email catherinew@nzwwa.org.nz to register
Jim is a professional agricultural and environmental engineer with over 20 years of experience in consulting engineering and research and development in the stormwater industry. Jim has recently been awarded the status of Diplomat Water Resource Engineer (D. WRE) by the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (AAWRE). This rank honors those who have the knowledge, skill, attitude and commitment towards the professional practice of water resource engineering.
His strong technical background is demonstrated as an adjunct instructor of Civil Engineering at Portland State University where he taught hydrology, hydraulics and water resources engineering. This technical experience has also seen him appointed as a board member of the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology (NJCAT), member of the Water Environment Research Foundation Stormwater Issue Area Team, and the American Society of Civil Engineers Stormwater BMP evaluation committee. These Public/Private partnerships have been established in the USA for evaluating the performance of Environmental and Stormwater technologies.
Jim's stormwater experience has seen him have an instrumental role in the establishment of the NJCAT TARP Demonstration Protocol. This Protocol primarily deals with the demonstration of BMPs that are designed for one or more of the following: 1) directing and distributing flows 2) reducing erosive velocities and 3) removing contaminants such as suspended or dissolved pollutants from collected stormwater through physical and chemical processes such as settling, media-filtering, ion-exchange, carbon adsorption, and precipitation. Current BMPs used in industrial, municipal, and construction stormwater pollution control applications include vegetated swales, detention basins, infiltration basins, wet ponds, constructed wetlands, media filtration, bio-retention, and sedimentation units (e.g., hydrodynamic structures, oil/sediment separators, and screen separators).
In this seminar Jim will be talking about experience learnt in monitoring and evaluating stormwater BMP's and establishing a verification and evaluation program on a local and regional basis.