Communities across the country are increasingly faced with permit directives to maintain the integrity of water infrastructure, manage stormwater, improve watershed function, and reduce flood impacts. Learn how the “brown, gray, green, and blue” approach to integrated water management can help your community embrace water resources as assets, build physical connections to water that strengthen sense of place, and balance built and natural systems for improved function and better community resilience and vitality.
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Josh Ellis
Program Director
Metropolitan Planning Council
Robert Newport
Stormwater Specialist
U.S. EPA
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Bio: Bob Newport is a Stormwater Specialist who works in the Region 5 (Chicago) office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He works with States and local units of government on stormwater management and combined sewer overflow control programs. Bob works closely with States on NPDES permits for wet weather discharges. He leads work in the Region related to the use of green infrastructure practices for capturing wet weather flows. Bob is also part of a team in the Chicago office working to implement the Agency's "Sustainable Infrastructure" initiative.
Juli Beth Hinds, AICP
Principal
Birchline Planning LLC
Lisa J. Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICP
Associate Director/River Restoration
American Rivers
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Bio: Associate Director for River Restoration for American Rivers. Assist state and local government, industry, and landowners with all phases of removing outdated dams to restore the form and function of rivers. Over 25 years' experience in community planning, environmental planning and resource management.
Education: BS, Geology, State University of West GA Graduate Study, Hydrogeology, GA State University
Key Publications: Co-author of a regular column for PlannersWeb with Jim Segedy. Author of a series of environmentally-focused community planning and plan implementation articles for Georgia County Government Magazine in mid-1990's.
Past Assignments: Sessions on small town revitalization and farmland preservation for American Farmland Trust, Virginia Chapter APA and Michigan Association of Planning, 2005-08. Sessions on using storytelling in community plans for APA-PA, APA-MS, APA-VA in 2012. Sessions on water resource planning and preparing for unconventional gas extraction at APA-MS in 2012. Two sessions at UMass Ecohydrology and Fish Passage Conference, 2012: a) effective public involvement for dam removal projects and b) Top 10 Dam-Bustin' Lessons Learned in PA.
James A. Segedy, FAICP
Director of Community Planning & Design
The Planning Guild
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Bio: Director of Community Planning - Pennsylvania Environmental Council; Director Emeritus of Community-Based Projects and Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning - Ball State University; Chair, Environment, Natural Resources & Energy Division, APA; Past Chair, Small Town and Rural Planning Division, APA
Education: PhD; Urban, Technological and Environmental Planning; The University of Michigan M.U.P; The University of Michigan B.S. Architecture; Lawrence Institute of Technology B.S. Microbiology and Public Health; MIchigan State University
Key Publications: Co-Author: Small Town Planning Handbook, 3rd Edition Many
Other Publications: Over 125 professional reports
Past Assignments: Over 250 presentations at International, National, State, Regional and Local Conferences.
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