A DEQ 319 water quality grant was awarded to Tualatin Riverkeepers to maximize canopy cover in existing parking lots without losing parking spaces. Using structural soil, a 12’ wide continuous trench supports tree health & vehicular loads.

• Coordinate teams to implement demonstration sites at Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation District's Sunset Swim Center (Beaverton/Clean Water Services jurisdiction) and PCC Sylvania (Portland jurisdiction)
• Assist with engineering design & modeling to obtain permits (retrofit in Portland & redevelopment in Beaverton)
• Create Operations & Maintenance Manual
• Collaborate with PCC staff and provide trainings on stormwater, urban canopy, and structural soil

A commercial redevelopment of a constrained urban site. Includes a rain garden, vegetated wall, depaving, & native plants, overland conveyance, & soil restoration.

• Engineering design
• Provided information and helped team implement best practices for soil restoration, erosion control, & habitat.
• Landscape design review
• Developed Maintenance Manual for site

Working as a subcontractor to HWA, engineering consultant to the City of Bend Transportation Department. Project uses infiltration rain gardens and planters to solve flooding at a downtown site and to meet new stormwater management standards for planned sidewalks under a Safe Routes to School grant at a more suburban site.

• Design review and technical assistance
• Develop maintenance & monitoring plam
• Provide quality assurance

A faith community that expanded their building and reconfirgured parking to meet current development standards. Project includes rain gardens & native buffer restoration.

• Design review and technical assistance by providing design modifications to engineering grading & details
• Construction meeting with contractors to help them meet post-construction functional goals for rain gardens

A 5-acre green field where the new Food Bank, Head Start, and Child & Family Resource Center buildings will be built. Site amenities designed around existing sensitive wetlands include parking, sidewalks, community garden, playground, and gathering spaces.

• Assembled an LID Technical Assistance team through an OR DEQ 319 grant to assist Oregon Coast Community Action
• Reviewed master plan
• Reviewed engineering and landscape design and provided designs, details and specifications for porous pavement, rain gardens, soil protection and restoration, and erosion prevention and sediment control.

• Design review and technical assistance to the developer and design team of the master plan and design documents
• Developed and facilitated eco-charrette workshop
• Ongoing: Provide narratives, details, and decision making guidance on most appropriate best management practices

• Design review and technical assistance
• Attended brainstorming meeting to calm traffic at drop-off
• Performed literature review and generated decision-making report comparing water quality of different facilities
• designed and modeled the water quality facilities and trouble shoot construction issues
• Assisted with LEED documentation on stormwater

• Worked collaboratively on a grading approach to limit disturbance
• Cut and fill calculations

• Comprehensive design review and met with client to discuss (i.e. no report generated).
• Designed a grading and stormwater plan

• Redesigned master plan of site to save money and increase sustainability
• Coordinated with the City of McMinnville to establish design standards and performed infiltration testing
• Provided an informal set of plans to communicate ideas to the design team as well as specifications, details, and additional non-spatical sustainable approaches to be considered.

• Design review and technical assistance

• Performed a feasibility site visit to recommend reasonable stormwater strategies

Outreach effort to Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Siskyou, and Del Norte county residents and small developers to reduce water consumption and manage stormwater.

• Developed a body of interconnected fact sheets: Minimize Impervious Areas, Disconnect Impervious Areas, Restore Disturbed Soil, Build a Rain Garden, Build a Rain Barrel, Harvest Rainwater in a Cistern, Test Your Soil, Siting Bioretention for Infiltration, Find Native Plants in Your County, Amend Soils for Bioretention, Convey Water in Swales

• Review, comment, and provide resources

• Review, comment, and provide resources

• Review, comment, provide resources and discuss in detail with client

• Review, re-write and write from scratch fact sheets
• Provide and develop additional resources such as specifications and AutoCAD details

• Review, comment, and provide resources for LID overview brochure

• Sustainable Principles for Land Development: Presented an overview on sustainable principles for land development and a number of low-cost best management practices

• Developed workshop and facilitated

• Developed a talk with a focus on developing curriculum around sustainable land development principles and practices

• Developed a talk and tour in Portland with the class' focus in mind

• Developed a talk and tour in Portland with the class' focus in mind

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