Stormwater Management for Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s)
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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
Understanding Stormwater Permit Requirements
and Procedures for MS4s
Defining MS4s: large, medium and small
Understanding Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality requirements for general and individual permits
Obtaining Individual Permits for Phase I
(Large and Medium-Size) Systems
Permit application requirements
Special conditions for sensitive waters
Review and permitting process
Complying with program requirements
Obtaining General Permits for Phase II (Small) Systems
Permit application requirements
Special conditions for sensitive waters
Review and permitting process
Complying with program requirements
Developing MS4 Best Practices for Phase II Systems
Public education/InvolvementIllicit discharge
Construction
Post-construction
Pollution prevention/good housekeeping
Industrial stormwater sources
Complying with Requirements for Phase II Monitoring,
Recordkeeping and Reporting
Understanding the science and terminology of stormwater
management and monitoring
Implementing monitoring plans
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW CEPHs/Contact Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
6.5 HSW CEPHs/Contact Hours
6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Floodplain Managers
6.5 ASFPM CECs
Contractors
Non-Credit Cont. Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public. It offers 6.5 HSW CEPHs to Texas architects and landscape architects and 6.5 PDHs to Texas professional engineers to whom the subject matter is professionally relevant. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Texas.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architect Continuing Education System for 6.5 HSW PDHs.
Architects, landscape architects and engineers seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this event for 6.5 CECs.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any state that has a continuing education requirement for contractors.
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
Krista Pender
City of CarrolltonStormwater Coordinator, City of CarrolltonMs. Pender has served as the stormwater coordinator for the City of Carrollton, TX since 2007. As stormwater coordinator her primary responsibility is to develop, implement, and manage Carrollton’s Stormwater Management Program per the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer system (MS4) permit requirements. Ms. Pender also provides inter-departmental training on stormwater-related subjects, including general stormwater education, pollution prevention, construction, illicit discharge detection and elimination (IDDE) and other topics as the need arises. She has earned the designation of advanced certified stormwater inspector through the National Stormwater Center and is also a registered sanitarian and a registered environmental health specialist. Ms. Pender is the past chair for the Regional Stormwater Coordinating Council through North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG). She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental and Public Health from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.