An Introduction to Low Impact Development

In An Introduction to Low Impact Development, you'll learn ...

• The definition of Low Impact Design (LID)
• About LID site design strategies
• About LID devices
• About integrated management practices (IMP)

Overview

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Credit: 3 CPD

Length: 39 pages

This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts of Low Impact Development (LID) .... a stormwater 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 stormwater management using the hydrologic cycle approach, LID design goals and objectives, a comparison of LID to conventional stormwater 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 stormwater 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 completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• State the definition, hydrologic basis, and core principles of low-impact development.
• Differentiate LID site-design strategies, integrated management practices, and devices such as bioretention, dry wells, swales, filters, buffers, cisterns, and rain barrels.
• Explain how infiltration and evapotranspiration processes are used to reduce runoff impacts.
• Propose a combination of LID practices for a representative development-site scenario.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 25 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.