Engineering Professional Programs

Course Faculty: Dwight Reagan

Today's roadway designer faces increasing challenges as a result of urbanization, land costs, environmental restrictions, public interest in ecological preservation, water quality issues, and the potential for riparian litigation. All of these variables can be relevant when designing for storm water management and control. As in the case of basic drainage design, storm water facilities have become a major cost component for many projects, requiring careful consideration of economic as well as environmental and engineering factors.

Proper storm water facility design is crucial to the safe and optimum operation and maintenance of a roadway. Controlling storm water runoff and its impact on water quality and other ecological concerns has become a routine but still critical practice for roadway designers.

This three-day course provides the roadway designer with advanced knowledge and applications in roadway drainage design. The course focuses on material which the designer will need in handling the challenges of storm water management and design while drawing on the most effective erosion, sediment and pollution control management practices available. Design considerations such as pumping stations and other storm water management components will also be discussed. Like other TRANSPEED courses, this course provides workshop exercises for important hands-on application experience.

Course Topics

Storm water management overview

Storm water management and design practices

Storm drain design

Pumping stations

Erosion and sediment control

Best management practices relative to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)

Who Should Attend

This course is useful for persons new to drainage design and hydraulics and for engineers in need of an update in the technical areas of storm water engineering. Because of new requirements, regulations and methods, personnel involved at all levels of road, street, highway, and storm drainage system design will benefit from this three-day program. The Hydrology and Basic Hydraulics course covers hydrology and is a prerequisite for this course. This prerequisite may be waived for those with a grasp of current hydrology concepts and fundamentals.

Continuing Education Units and Professional Development Hours

Course participants will earn 2.1 CEUs/21 PDHs upon successful completion of this course. The CEU is a nationally recognized measure of participation in a noncredit continuing education program that meets established criteria for increasing knowledge and competency.