Overview
This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts of Low Impact Development (LID) …. a stormwater management strategy concerned with maintaining or restoring the natural hydrologic functions of a site to achieve natural resource protection objectives and fulfill environmental regulatory requirements. You will learn about stormwater management using the hydrologic cycle approach, LID design goals and objectives, a comparison of LID to conventional stormwater management practices, and how distributed micro-scale systems are used in LID. This course will give engineers and others an introduction to the concepts underlying the Low Impact Development (LID) approach to stormwater management. It will give you an understanding of the basic principles of LID that will allow you to apply LID strategies when addressing regulatory and environmental requirements associated with land development projects.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty-five (25) questions at the end of this course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- The definition of Low Impact Design (LID)
- About LID site design strategies
- About LID devices
- About integrated management practices (IMP)
- The principles of bioretention
- How to use dry wells, filter strips and swales
- About tree box filters, vegetated buffers, cisterns and rain barrels
- About the hydrologic cycle how it forms the basis of LID
- About LID infiltration concepts
- About LID evapotranspiration concepts
Course
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An Introduction to Low Impact Development
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