The public is invited to attend any part of an all-day, FREE meeting on stormwater management. The Green Infrastructure Conference takes place Tuesday, September 17 from 8:00am-3:30pm at the iHotel Conference Center in Champaign. The conference is sponsored by local government, the University of Illinois, and Prairie Rivers Network.
The agenda is as follows:
8:00am – registration
8:30am – opening remarks (city and university officials)
9:00am – detention pond maintenance (Scott Tess, Urbana)
9:20am – Fox Development Corporation projects (Juan Cruz, FDC)
9:45am – BREAK
10:00am – Weaver Park case study and roundtable (Urbana staff)
10:45am – regulatory update (Bob Newport, USEPA)
11:15am – green infrastructure and mosquitoes (Brian Allen and Andrew Mackay, UIUC)
Noon – lunch with keynote speaker Marcus de la fleur
1:15pm – tour of green stormwater practices in Champaign-Urbana
3:30pm – adjourn
The lunchtime speaker will be giving a talk called “One Drop at a Time,” in which he will discuss his work on residential stormwater management. This talk may be of great interest to those of you looking to green up your home with water-smart stormwater practices like rain gardens and permeable pavement.
Registration is required; visit http://go.illinois.edu/greenconference.
