A Practical Design Workshop for Professionals
Sponsored by Seattle Public Utilities and UW Botanic Gardens

Rainwater can be a resource. This practical course shows professionals how to use simple “Low Impact Development” stormwater management techniques to slow, infiltrate, and celebrate rainwater in our landscapes. It’s designed for landscape architects, landscape contractors, designers, builders, engineers, architects and planners. Speakers will focus on successful projects around our region, large and small, municipal and private, as teaching tools. Rain gardens, cisterns, permeable paving options, bio-retention swales, soil improvement, plant selection, and landscape design for projects will be presented, along with “how to” guidelines. Upcoming stormwater regulations will require many of these practices, customers are asking for them, and there are many reasons to start using them now. This seminar will show you how.

Instructors include: Chris Webb PE (Chris Webb Engineering), Curtis Hinman (WSU), Tracy Tackett PE, Jim Johnson and David
McDonald (Seattle Public Utilities), Peg Staeheli and Kathy Gwilym PE (SvR Design), and Shane DeWald ASLA (SDOT).