Exploring Urban Hydrology and Environment Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Principles of Urban Hydrology
Stormwater flow and frequency
Watershed definition
Using the rational method
Stormwater modeling
Collection network design
Urban storage options: detention and retention
Separate Versus Combined Storm Sewer Systems
Examples of cities and age, planning and results
Consent decrees in place
Remediation and compliance
Tunnels for storage
Green versus gray solutions
Introduction to Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI)
Potential benefits of GSI
GSI technologies:
– Permeable pavement types
– Bioinfiltration swales
– Raingardens
– Stormwater harvesting
– Graywater reuse
– Stormwater treatment
– NPDES compliance
– Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans
Establishing Municipal Goals and Working Towards a Green Future
Effluent quality
Flow control
Reimbursement programs
Cost benefit analysis
Examples
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHS
Floodplain Managers
6.5 ASFPM CECs
Landscape Architects &
Architects
6.5 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers, 6.5 CECs to certified floodplain managers, and 6.5 HSW continuing education hours to landscape architects and architects in most states, including Michigan architects and engineers. Educators and courses are not subject to pre-approval in Michigan.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education an approved Florida architect continuing education provider and is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects and landscape architects.
This course has been approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Provider No. J885) and the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 6.5 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to LA/CES and AIA/CES.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this activity for 6.5 CECs.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any contractor licensing entity with a continuing education requirement.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Jim Albertz
Albertz EngineeringPresident at Albertz Engineering
Mr. Albertz is a professional engineer with 25 years of experience in feasibility studies, design, construction, operation and improvement of municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment and soil and groundwater remediation. He has designed and installed treatment systems that use gravity separation, filtration, pH neutralization, adsorption, oxidation, and biological processes. Mr. Albertz has designed landfill gas, leachate collection, and stormwater management systems. Using creative problem solving, Mr. Albertz has designed process control systems, and has developed robotic manufacturing systems and integrated machine guarding. A member of the Construction Specifications Institute, Mr. Albertz has prepared specifications for multimillion-dollar construction projects including treatment, remediation, and vehicle maintenance facilities.