Michiganders have learned through bitter experience that stormwater runoff can cause catastrophic flooding and huge expense. And thanks to climate change, intense rainstorms are getting more and more frequent.
Government and engineering leaders talk over the latest science on solving that problem on Friday, Oct. 21 at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, during the annual Regional Stormwater Summit. Approximately 150 attendees are expected.
The event ran from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at LTU, 21000 W. 10 Mile Road in Southfield in several meeting rooms of LTU’s Architecture Building and its University Technology and Learning Center (buildings 3 and 4 at www.ltu.edu/map). Ample free parking is available nearby.
Opening remarks will be offered at 9 a.m. by Nabil Grace, dean of the LTU College of Engineering, Mark Brucki, LTU associate vice president for economic development, Oakland County Water Commissioner Jim Nash, and Donald Carpenter, principal at Drummond Carpenter LLC and director of LTU's Great Lakes Stormwater Management Institute.
They'll be followed by experts from around the country making presentations on stormwater management, creating climate change resilience, and nature-based design. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy also make a presentation on funding opportunities for municipalities in fighting stormwater damage.
“In this year’s 10th anniversary of the Regional Stormwater Summit, I want to thank Lawrence Technological University for the long and important role they have played in these meetings,” Nash said. “Stormwater pollution and flooding and the increase in extreme weather due to climate change are challenges that the WRC and LTU are working together to educate the public about and help local policy makers address.”
The event is presented by LTU, the Oakland County Water Resources Commission, and the nonprofit Pure Oakland Water. Event sponsors include the Clinton River Watershed Council, Friends of the Rouge, and the engineering firms Giffels Webster, Hazen and Sawyer, Hubbell Roth & Clark Inc., NTH, OHM, and Spicer Group.
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