Sustainable Design

90-Minute Education Session

FRI-A08 - IT Flows Downhill: CSO and Wastewater Treatment as an Integrated Design Strategy

1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW, CMAA

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Manisha Kaul, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP

  Associate
  Design Workshop, Inc.

Speaker(s)

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  Keith Bowers, FASLA

  President
  Biohabitats
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  Tim Duggan, ASLA

  Principal
  Phronesis

Green stormwater infrastructure is popular with landscape architects. While cities are faced with multibillion-dollar combined sewer overflow consent decrees, is anyone advocating for constructed wetlands as part of an integrated water treatment strategy? It’s time to expand our GSI vocabulary and look beyond bioswales and rain gardens.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the magnitude of the dilemma cities are facing in dealing with CSOs and meeting current regulations, and discuss the benefits and challenges of incorporating natural/nature-based solutions to address CSOs.
• Learn, through case studies, about scalable green infrastructure strategies for treating CSOs and wastewater that can also be integrated into the genre of multifunctional landscapes.
• Gain insight into benefits of a “treatment train” and “urban acupuncture” approach to CSO and wastewater treatment.
• Explore if the data supports using nature-based solutions for preventing shit from flowing downhill.