An Intro to Low Impact Development

Course Description:

This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts of Low Impact Development (LID)  a storm water management strategy concerned with maintaining or restoring the natural hydrologic functions of a site to achieve natural resource protection objectives and fulfill environmental regulatory requirements. You will learn about storm water management using the hydrologic cycle approach, LID design goals and objectives, a comparison of LID to conventional storm water management practices, and how distributed micro-scale systems are used in LID.  This course will give engineers and others an introduction to the concepts underlying the Low Impact Development (LID) approach to storm water management.  It will give you an understanding of the basic principles of LID that will allow you to apply LID strategies when addressing regulatory and environmental requirements associated with land development projects.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the storm water management using the hydrologic cycle approach
• Know the lid design goals and objectives
• Understand the distributed micro-scale systems