Building the LID Center
At the core of the LID Center beginning was a major retrofit project that transformed many areas of the WSU-Puyallup campus. Included in this project was the installation of several rain gardens, porous pavement parking areas, a gravel pave demonostration site, bioretention demonstration areas, and much monitoring and research data feed equipment.
Take a look at the retrofit brochure, or click through the pictures from the construction below. More images from the completed site will be posted soon.
Photos, Video, Audio
Views Around the Project.
Photographs and videos were taken regularly to chronicle the progress on the City of Puyallup – WSU Puyallup LID Stormwater Project.
Click on the thumbnails shown below to enlarge the picture.
Looking south at parking lot in foreground and bioretention areas and mesocosms in background. |
Looking east at parking lot on left and bioretention areas on right. |
Looking north at bioretention areas and mesocosms in foreground and parking lot in background. |
Looking west at parking lot. |
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October 20, 2009
Porous Concrete Infiltration Rate Test 2
WSU Webcasts
Stormwater Management - archives several webcasts:
"Stormwater Management from a Watershed Perspective: Extreme Western Climates" - This is the fifth program in the award-winning Watershed Issues Satellite workshops offered by the Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program. In this program Anchorage, Alaska's Municipal Public Works Department, Anchorage Waterways, and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation join with the Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Team to demonstrate the strategies used in a northern city to manage contaminant movement from salted and graveled city streets and parking lots snowpiles to the City's numerous salmon bearing creeks.Working with the Coordinator of Arizona's NEMO (Non-point Education for Municipal Officials), the cameras record strategies used to control the massive runoff caused by summer 'monsoon' rains. One of the working strategies for controlling storm water runoff in Arizona is harvesting rainwater fro irrigation. Managing storm event caused sediment erosion is a major problem; we visit with state and local government entities to view their strategies.A panel that includes practitioners from the two areas and an EPA permit writer will be available on camera to answer questions that may be generated by the prescriptions shown. Audience participation is available through telephone, fax, and e-mail in hopes that no question goes unanswered. On the air discussions are invited in the final segment of the programming.
Stormwater Management from a Watershed Perspective - The Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program’s Watershed Issues Series is turning its focus to strategies used by municipalities and homeowners to manage stormwater. The case studies reflect use of Low Impact Development techniques to manage runoff on-site and minimize pollution loading to waterways. Every year, billions of gallons of untreated stormwater flow into streams and rivers across the nation. The Environmental Protection Agency calls it the “number one water quality problem.” To learn how you can be part of the solution, please join us as we explore successful stormwater management strategies used in three watersheds across the nation - Boone, NC, Willoughby, OH and Portland, OR.
WSU Webcasts
Stormwater Management - archives several webcasts:
"Stormwater Management from a Watershed Perspective: Extreme Western Climates" - This is the fifth program in the award-winning Watershed Issues Satellite workshops offered by the Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program. In this program Anchorage, Alaska's Municipal Public Works Department, Anchorage Waterways, and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation join with the Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Team to demonstrate the strategies used in a northern city to manage contaminant movement from salted and graveled city streets and parking lots snowpiles to the City's numerous salmon bearing creeks.Working with the Coordinator of Arizona's NEMO (Non-point Education for Municipal Officials), the cameras record strategies used to control the massive runoff caused by summer 'monsoon' rains. One of the working strategies for controlling storm water runoff in Arizona is harvesting rainwater fro irrigation. Managing storm event caused sediment erosion is a major problem; we visit with state and local government entities to view their strategies.A panel that includes practitioners from the two areas and an EPA permit writer will be available on camera to answer questions that may be generated by the prescriptions shown. Audience participation is available through telephone, fax, and e-mail in hopes that no question goes unanswered. On the air discussions are invited in the final segment of the programming.
Stormwater Management from a Watershed Perspective - The Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program’s Watershed Issues Series is turning its focus to strategies used by municipalities and homeowners to manage stormwater. The case studies reflect use of Low Impact Development techniques to manage runoff on-site and minimize pollution loading to waterways. Every year, billions of gallons of untreated stormwater flow into streams and rivers across the nation. The Environmental Protection Agency calls it the “number one water quality problem.” To learn how you can be part of the solution, please join us as we explore successful stormwater management strategies used in three watersheds across the nation - Boone, NC, Willoughby, OH and Portland, OR.