The document discusses a Clean Water Optimization Tool being developed by the Center for Watershed Protection to help municipalities develop cost-effective strategies for meeting water quality goals like the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load. The tool will evaluate practices like bioretention, permeable pavement, and land conservation. It will recommend strategies based on minimizing costs per pound of nutrient or sediment reduced. The tool is being piloted in Maryland's Eastern Shore and will incorporate local data on practice costs and effectiveness.
This presentation was given as part of the EPA-funded Catchment Science and Management Course focusing on Integrated Catchment Management, held in June 2015. This course was delivered by RPS Consultants. If you have any queries or comments, or wish to use the material in this presentation, please contact catchments@epa.ie
It is increasingly being recognised internationally that integrated catchment management (ICM) is a useful organising framework for tackling the ongoing challenge of balancing sustainable use and development of our natural resource, against achieving environmental goals. The basic principles of ICM (Williams, 2012) are to:
• Take a holistic and integrated approach to the management of land, biodiversity, water and community resources at the water catchment scale;
• Involve communities in planning and managing their landscapes; and
• Find a balance between resource use and resource conservation
ICM is now well established in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In Europe the ICM approach has been proposed as being required to achieve effective water and catchment management, and is the approach being promoted by DEFRA for the UK, where it is called the “Catchment Based Approach” (CaBA). The principles and methodologies behind ICM sit well within the context of the Water Framework Directive with its aims and objectives for good water quality, sustainable development and public participation in water resource management. In Ireland it is proposed that the ICM approach will underlie the work and philosophy in developing and implementing future River Basin Management Plans.
This presentation was given as part of the EPA-funded Catchment Science and Management Course focusing on Integrated Catchment Management, held in June 2015. This course was delivered by RPS Consultants. If you have any queries or comments, or wish to use the material in this presentation, please contact catchments@epa.ie
It is increasingly being recognised internationally that integrated catchment management (ICM) is a useful organising framework for tackling the ongoing challenge of balancing sustainable use and development of our natural resource, against achieving environmental goals. The basic principles of ICM (Williams, 2012) are to:
• Take a holistic and integrated approach to the management of land, biodiversity, water and community resources at the water catchment scale;
• Involve communities in planning and managing their landscapes; and
• Find a balance between resource use and resource conservation
ICM is now well established in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In Europe the ICM approach has been proposed as being required to achieve effective water and catchment management, and is the approach being promoted by DEFRA for the UK, where it is called the “Catchment Based Approach” (CaBA). The principles and methodologies behind ICM sit well within the context of the Water Framework Directive with its aims and objectives for good water quality, sustainable development and public participation in water resource management. In Ireland it is proposed that the ICM approach will underlie the work and philosophy in developing and implementing future River Basin Management Plans.
Slideshow presentation for Flood Mitigation Symposium, October 4, 2013.
Scott Edelman - Senior Vice President, AECOM Water Resources and past president of the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) Foundation
Jenny Deakin and Donal Daly,Environmental Protection Agency present on the Water Framework Directive Integration and Coordination Unit's approach to delivering successful catchment management in Ireland.
This presentation was given on 26.11.15 at the Catchment Management Network Meeting in Tullamore.
The day included presentations on the approach to characterisation for the 2nd Cycle of the Water Framework Directive and how this would involve both the EPA and Local Authorities, along with other public bodies.
A key focus was the new Local Authority Water and Communities Office and its role in the 2nd cycle.
Presentations on integrating planning and the WFD, the UK 'Love Your River Telford' project and 'The Living Loobagh' from Limerick were also included.
Flood forecasting methodology in Alberta - Evan FriesenhanYourAlberta
Evan, Acting Director of River Forecasting with Alberta Environment and Sustainable, presented at Alberta’s Watershed Management Symposium: Flood and Drought Mitigation. He explained Alberta’s approach to river forecasting, warning systems, and tools and resources to keep the public informed.
Watershed management along the Colorado River - Michael GabaldonYourAlberta
Michael is an Associate Vice-President with AECOM and a presenter at Alberta’s Watershed Management Symposium: Flood and Drought Mitigation. Using the Colorado River and recent flood events in the State of Colorado as backdrops, Michael talked about bringing diverse stakeholders together to create an effective total watershed management plan.
This presentation was given at the EPA’s National Water Event 2019, which took place on 29 and 30 May 2019 in Galway. This presentation by Caroline Johnston from the Commission for Regulations of Utilities is on the cost and value of water.
Slideshow presentation for Flood Mitigation Symposium, October 4, 2013.
Scott Edelman - Senior Vice President, AECOM Water Resources and past president of the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) Foundation
Jenny Deakin and Donal Daly,Environmental Protection Agency present on the Water Framework Directive Integration and Coordination Unit's approach to delivering successful catchment management in Ireland.
This presentation was given on 26.11.15 at the Catchment Management Network Meeting in Tullamore.
The day included presentations on the approach to characterisation for the 2nd Cycle of the Water Framework Directive and how this would involve both the EPA and Local Authorities, along with other public bodies.
A key focus was the new Local Authority Water and Communities Office and its role in the 2nd cycle.
Presentations on integrating planning and the WFD, the UK 'Love Your River Telford' project and 'The Living Loobagh' from Limerick were also included.
Flood forecasting methodology in Alberta - Evan FriesenhanYourAlberta
Evan, Acting Director of River Forecasting with Alberta Environment and Sustainable, presented at Alberta’s Watershed Management Symposium: Flood and Drought Mitigation. He explained Alberta’s approach to river forecasting, warning systems, and tools and resources to keep the public informed.
Watershed management along the Colorado River - Michael GabaldonYourAlberta
Michael is an Associate Vice-President with AECOM and a presenter at Alberta’s Watershed Management Symposium: Flood and Drought Mitigation. Using the Colorado River and recent flood events in the State of Colorado as backdrops, Michael talked about bringing diverse stakeholders together to create an effective total watershed management plan.
This presentation was given at the EPA’s National Water Event 2019, which took place on 29 and 30 May 2019 in Galway. This presentation by Caroline Johnston from the Commission for Regulations of Utilities is on the cost and value of water.
Urban Public Policy and Sustainability: Policy recommendation for the City of...Vanessa Davis
This presentation represents a segment of a group project in a capstone course at Arizona State University on "Urban Public Policy and Sustainability".
Our group was tasked with working with the City of Mesa to identify and research an urban planning policy that could be improved to support a more sustainable trajectory. The final outcome was a policy recommendation delivered to the city and presented to a mock city council. (While we did not present to the actual City Council for Mesa, our "mock council" participants included the Mayor of Mesa, a City Council Member from Tempe and a few other well qualified judges.)
Our group's policy recommendation was concerned with decreasing wastewater for sustainable development via suggested policy changes concerning development impact fees.
Presentation by John Sutton of the Texas Water Development Board's Municipal Water Conservation Program for the 2019 Gulf Coast Water Conservation in Houston, Texas.
The overall goal of this project was to develop an implementation framework for an offsite BMP program
to maximize the environmental and economic effectiveness with which the City of Wichita meets its
NPDES stormwater permitting requirements to ultimately improve water quality in the Little Ark and
Arkansas Rivers. This program aims to integrate watershed stakholders across sociopolitical bounds and
provide a sustainable funding mechanism to implement and maintain water quality practices in the rural
landscape, a critical need as watershed managers struggle to meet water quality targets (e.g., TMDLs).
Based on dialogue between stakeholders representing the watershed’s agricultural (represented by the
Little Ark Watershed Restoration And Protection Strategy program, or WRAPS) and urban (represented by
the City of Wichita’s Stormwater Advisory Board and City officials) communities and the Kansas
Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), which administers TMDLs and water quality permits, the
program works to optimize the placement of BMPs within the watershed for maximum water quality
benefit of the integrated system. Rural management practices tend to be less costly, thereby enabling
greater pollutant load reduction per dollar spent on BMPs in rural versus urban areas. For this reason, net
costs to urban developments participating in the offsite program should be significantly less than if
traditional urban water quality control practices were installed and maintained. A program framework was
developed in which a “sediment credit” fee is paid annually by urban developments participating in the
program to finance implementation and maintenance of offsite BMPs as facilitated through the Little
Arkansas WRAPS program. Adoption of this offsite program is anticipated to lead to greater reductions in
sediment (and other pollutant) loads leaving the watershed than could be achieved through conventional
implementation of BMPs within urban bounds to meet MS4 permit requirements. The program is currently
in its first year of implementation.
What You Need to Know about Small Drinking Water Systems: Barnesnado-web
This presentation was delivered at NADO's 2018 Annual Training Conference, held in Charlotte, NC on October 13-16. For more information, visit: https://www.nado.org/events/2018-annual-training-conference/
Clean Air Partnership Green Infrastructure CAC Meeting - Don Mills Channel Fl...Robert Muir
Presentation on the application of Cost Benefit Analysis to water resources engineering projects, including for municipal flood control as part of Municipal Class Environmental Assessment infrastructure projects and city-wide programs. Evaluation of green infrastructure (Low Impact Development (LID)) capital costs and grey infrastructure costs.
Green Infrastructure / Low Impact Development LID Design Tool and Lifecycle C...Robert Muir
National Water and Wastewater Benchmarking Initiative Stormwater Task Force Fall Workshop, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
by Robert J. Muir, M.A.Sc., P.Eng.
Manager, Stormwater, City of Markham
Presentation reviews the history of low impact development best management practices in Ontario, York Region and the City of Markham. Application of Analytical Probabilistic Models to assess LID performance and capacity for cost-effective design is reviewed. Lifecycle costs of distributed and centralized green infrastructure LID features are compared with conventional grey infrastructure stormwater management approaches. Normalized unit costs of various LID technologies are compared including annualized capital depreciation and operation and maintenance costs. Recent Ontario green infrastructure LID BMP implementation costs for bioswales, infiltration trenches, rain gardens and permeable pavement are summarized. City of Markham North Markham's LID servicing strategy is reviewed including impact of new development LID servicing on tax rates or stormwater utility fees.
about how to establish a program to make that a reality. Learn about tools like the Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard, how to set a measurable goal and implement your project, and address challenges in financing.
Learn about tools like the Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard, how to set a measurable goal and implement your project, and address challenges in financing.
A more robust cost benefit analysis model of permeable pavement for stormwater management in the Hudson Valley.
Presented at the 2014 Southeast NY Stormwater Conference
Audience: planners, municipal decision makers, consultants and general public
A presentation about protecting clean water during construction projects. Presented by Robert Roseen of Geosyntec Consulting during the Buzzards Bay Coalition's 2014 Decision Makers Workshop series. Learn more at www.savebuzzardsbay.org/DecisionMakers
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
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Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
2. We Work Here…..
National non-profit 501(c)3 organization
21 staff
Offices in MD, VA, NY, PA
• Distill research into practical tools
• Provide local watershed services
• Train others to manage watersheds
What we do
15. New BMPs vs. Retrofits
(Shenandoah Valley MS4s
Average Cost-Effectiveness ($ per pound of
Phosphorus Removed)
New Retrofits = $56,000
Retrofits/Conversions of Existing BMPs = $24,000 (some
½ of this)
16. Sports:
Contractors Roll Over Inspectors
in BMP Installation Bowl
Inspectors Fail to Show Up During
Critical Match-Up
17. Drainage Area Stabilized?
Installed too early during construction;
fouled with construction sediment
Inlet blocked temporarily during
bioretention installation
18. Make Sure Water Gets In!
Inlets blocked or small elevation
change diverts flow from inlet
Inlets unimpeded with pretreatment
stone strip or inlet channel
25. D.C. (up and coming)
MN – Capital Regional Watershed District
City of Fredericksburg, VA (policy stage)
Chesapeake Bay
Neuse River, NC
MD Critical Areas
Maine sensitive lakes
Some Existing Off-Site Compliance/Trading
Programs
27. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Overview
The Center for Watershed, Inc. is developing a Clean Water
Optimization Tool.
• Municipalities can develop the lowest cost implementation
strategy possible to meet the Chesapeake Bay TMDL and
other local water quality goals
• Use defaults from the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office
and override options
• Develop strategies to optimize by cost, pollutant, or user
defined value
28. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Overview
• Pilot areas on the Eastern Shore are Wicomico Co., Talbot Co.,
Kent Co., and Queen Anne’s Co.
– Case studies
• Robust communications strategy will guide widespread
dissemination and help increase the credibility of the Bay
restoration effort
• Disseminate the Clean Water Optimization Tool
– Website, newspaper, emails, etc.
29. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Background and Importance of This Work
Cost for meeting WIP Targets are all over the place
Source: MDE Nutrient Allocation Files (CBP Model 5.3.2.), MDE prepared 2010 Progress MAST loading decks, and the Core Planning Team
Loading Decks
Urban Sector Bar Graphs Representing TN and TP Loads for 2010 Progress,
2017 Interim Strategy and Target, and 2025 Final Strategy and Target.
30. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Background and Importance of This Work
Innovative BMPs can substantially reduce costs
Annual cost to remove equivalent annual TN load
The cost-effectiveness of stormwater controls for nitrogen removal.
Practice Type of practice Equivalent Annual cost
($/lb N/IC1 ac)
Bag filter Structural $691
Bioretention (new, suburban) Structural $335-$6342,3
Wet pond (new) Structural $7334
Street sweeping Non-structural $1655
1 Based practice life expectancy of 10-years.
2 Costs for other practices based on King and Hagen (2011) over a 20-year period and an urban loading rate of 14.1 lb TN/acre.
3 Range represents a removal efficiency of 45% and 85% from Simpson and Weammert 2009.
4 20% removal efficiency for TN from Simpson and Weammert 2009
5 Berretta et al. 2011 expressed as lb N/year
31. Illicit discharge elimination is a cost effective
approach to nutrient management
Common sense housekeeping practices can be
extremely cost effective also
32. 36 Urban Practices:
• Pavement/Impervious Cover
• Rooftop
• Bioretention
• Filtering/Infiltration
• Channels
• Ponds/Wetlands
• Conservation/Enhancement
• Land Use Change
• Social/Programmatic
• Also Includes cross-sector trading and user-defined options
Clean Water Optimization Tool
Cost
BMPs
33. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Cost
Cost Components
• Initial Costs - design, construction, land costs
• Operation and Maintenance – annual routine maintenance,
intermittent maintenance, county implementation cost
(inspection and enforcement)
• Annualized life cycle costs are estimated as the annual bond
payment required to finance the initial cost of the BMP (20-
year bond at 3%) plus average annual routine and intermittent
maintenance costs.
34. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Cost
User-Adjusted Values
User-Adjusted Input Default
Land Cost per Developable Acre $100,000
% Project Acres Developable 50%
# Years to Project Cost Estimate Over 20
County-Specific Cost Adjustment 0.97
35. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Cost
• Additional BMP Benefits should be quantified:
– Public Health/ Safety
– Public Education
– Recreation
– Neighborhood Beautification
– Urban Heat Island
– Carbon Footprint
– Wildlife Habitat
– Stream Habitat
– Flood Control
36. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Research – Pollutant Load and BMP effectiveness
BMP Effectiveness Component
– Structural practices based on Chesapeake Bay Program Expert
Panel Recommendations
– Land use changes
– Programmatic practices are based on various sources
• IDDE Expert Panel
• Watershed Treatment Model (WTM)
• Previous CWP publications, research, and experience
37. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Steps to Use the Tool
• Step 1: Desktop Assessment/Informative Exercise
– Use local knowledge
– Accepted data sources
• National
• State
• County
• Town Field work in the South Prong, Wicomico
County
38. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Steps to Use the Tool
• Step 2: Entering Practical Estimates
– Apply information gathered to selected/accepted BMPs
• This will allow practical maximums to be set
– Practical maximum amount of permeable pavement to be installed,
for example
– Apply local knowledge and practical experience
• For example, sand filters may not be readily accepted by the
community
– This would limit installation of this particular practice
39. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Steps to Use the Tool
• Step 3: Override Default Cost Values & Specify
Programmatic Information
– Enter information about local costs, if available
• Important for realistic scenario development
– Modify land cost, and length of time to project costs
– Estimate parameters for programs
• Quantity of Promotional and education materials for a pet
waste program, for example
40. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Steps to Use the Tool
• Step 4a: Enter Structural Practices Already Installed
– These entries will count towards TMDL goals
• For example, over an entire county there may be 20 acres treated
by a bioretention, these can be aggregated and entered as one
41. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Steps to Use the Tool
• Step 4b: Enter High Priority Practices
– Enter information about high priority practices
• Practices that are publicly accepted
• Practices proven to be effective
• High comfort level with installation/maintenance
– These practices will be weighted heavier during
optimization
• Estimated costs will not be changed
Outfall net in Talbot County
42. Clean Water Optimization Tool
Steps to Use the Tool
• Step 5: Optimize
– Select optimization goals
• Based on cost per pound of nitrogen reduction
• Based on cost per pound of phosphorus reduction
• Based on cost per pound of sediment reduction
• Based on a nitrogen and phosphorus weighting
– 50/50 would equally weight optimization based on cost per pound of
N AND cost per pound of P
– Results will show pertinent information
• Pounds reduced, if less than goals
• Estimated cost
• Number of acres requiring treatment for each practice to achieve
total reductions
43. Center for Watershed Protection
Questions/Comments
Sadie Drescher
srd@cwp.org or sdrescher@chesapeakebay.net
410.461.8323 xt 215 or 410-267-5717
Bill Stack, P.E.
bps@cwp.org or wstack@chesapeakebay.net
410.461.8323 xt 222 or 410-267-5717