LID Overview Workshop Objectives – To ensure that participants have a good understanding of:
- Florida’s water resource management program framework
- Florida’s stormwater program legal and technical framework
- The principles of Low Impact Design and LID BMPs
- How improved site planning and using LID BMPs can increase development flexibility, environmental benefits, and cost benefits.
- The design criteria, stormwater treatment mechanisms, construction and operation/maintenance of the LID BMPs in the Escambia County LID Manual.
- How LID BMPs have been used successfully locally and in Florida
- How the BMPTRAINS Model can be used to evaluate the costs and treatment effectiveness of LID BMPs use in BMP Treatment Trains.
Workshop participants should bring a laptop computer to the afternoon session. Participants should also download the BMPTRAINS software prior to the conference by clicking
here.
A total of six continuing education credits will be offered through the University of Central Florida through the LID workshops. In order to obtain the credits, participants will need to: 1) attend both a morning and afternoon session, 2) bring their laptop with BMPTRAINS installed and 3) bring a check for $25 made payable to UCF Continuing Education.
