CTS Webinar: Updating the Minnesota Stormwater Inspection and Maintenance Resource Guide

About the Event

In 2009, the Minnesota Stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) Maintenance Resource Guide presented guidance on inspection and maintenance activities for stormwater ponds, bioretention facilities, underground treatment devices, underground detention, and infiltration. This maintenance guide was developed to complement the Minnesota Stormwater Manual. 

Since the guide's publication, a lot has been learned about inspection, operation, and maintenance of these and other stormwater management practices through field applications, practical experience, and research. This webinar shared results from a new project to update, revise, and expand the 2009 resource guide to incorporate over a decade’s worth of knowledge gained. For example, guidance was added for inspection and maintenance on iron-enhanced sand filters and nutrient release from bioretention-based practices and stormwater ponds, among others. The revised and expanded Stormwater BMP Maintenance Resource Guide serves as a handy reference tool for practitioners to optimize decisions and increase the cost-effectiveness of stormwater management.

The webinar was held in conjunction with a joint meeting of CTS's Transportation Infrastructure Council and Environment and Energy in Transportation Council.

Speaker

Andy Erickson is a researcher and engineer at the University of Minnesota's St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. He studies water quality in urban watersheds, develops stormwater assessment and maintenance best practices, and designs innovative stormwater treatment technologies. Erickson is the co-director of the Cold Climate Center of Excellence for Stormwater Infrastructure Technologies and chair of the ASTM International E64 Committee on Stormwater Control Measures. He is the chair for the U of M's Water Council, a fellow at the U's Institute on the Environment, a CTS Research Scholar, and a member of CTS's Environment and Energy in Transportation Research Council. 

Questions?

Please contact Samantha Hahn-Douville at [email protected].