Water - Stormwater Management

Education Session - Presentation Format

MON-A09 - Trees, Stormwater, and Suspended Pavements: Research and Reality

1.5 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, GBCI CE, NY/HSW

Lead Presenter(s)

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  Rob Gray, ASLA, LEED AP

  Principal
  Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects

Co-Presenter(s)

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  Bryan Seipp

  Watershed Manager
  Center for Watershed Protection
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  Ryan Winston

  Research Assistant Professor
  The Ohio State University

Trees and soils are key components in urban stormwater management, with suspended paving systems proving to be a best practice toward increasing their vitality in these challenging environments. We will address the stormwater mitigation capacity of trees and use case studies to support their value as a resource.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the important role that tree canopy and their associated soil systems can play in the management of urban stormwater.
• Identification of key forest types/tree characteristics and other factors used in stormwater mitigation and how urban tree canopy has been credited as a stormwater mitigation tool in watershed jurisdictions.
• Understand what suspended pavement systems are and the processes that they employ for stormwater management.
• See how suspended pavement has been used as a mechanism to manage stormwater, promote urban tree vitality, and aid in the transformation of a downtown using a project case study.