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Designing Highway Stormwater BMPs for TMDL and NPDES Compliance
Highway stormwater is regulated differently from site stormwater. A corridor has many outfalls, limited right of way, and a permit obligation that increasingly arrives as a TMDL wasteload allocation. This five-hour course covers how to design treatment practices that can actua...
Urban Drainage Design: Pavement, Gutters, and Roadside Channels
This course covers the hydraulic design of roadway pavement drainage and roadside conveyance systems, drawing from Chapters 5 and 6 of FHWA's Urban Stormwater Management in the United States: Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 22 (HEC-22), 4th Edition. The course addresses des...
Guidance for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping: Coastal Structures
This course adapts FEMA's Guidance for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping: Coastal Structures (Guidance Document No. 42, November 2024) for engineers serving as the engineer of record on certified coastal flood protection structures or as a Mapping Partner under the National Floo...
Living Shorelines: Monitoring, Adaptive Management, and Emerging Practice
This course covers the monitoring, inspection, and adaptive management of living shorelines projects, drawing on engineering guidance developed for coastal practitioners in alignment with ASCE MoP 130 and New Jersey regulatory frameworks. The course addresses the three-part tr...
Living Shorelines: Nature-Based Techniques — Reefs, Coir, and Beach Nourishment
This course covers three nature-based living shoreline techniques — living reef breakwaters, coir mats and logs, and beach and shoreface nourishment — examining the design parameters, constructability considerations, and adaptive management requirements for each approach. Draw...
Living Shorelines: Marsh Sill and Breakwater Design and Application
This course introduces the engineering principles and design methodology of living shorelines, drawing on guidance developed for coastal practitioners in alignment with USACE natural and nature-based features frameworks and New Jersey Coastal General Permit 24. The course cove...
Living Shorelines: Site Assessment and Engineering Design Fundamentals
This course draws on engineering guidance developed for practicing coastal engineers to introduce the principles and design methodology of living shorelines as an alternative to traditional hard shoreline stabilization. The course covers site assessment, the four categories of...