Innovative Storm Water Solutions: Landscape Engineering Beyond Grading and Drainage

Wednesday January 15, 2025 

11:00 AM - 12:00 NOON

What is more precious than water ? Conservation and water quality is one of the most critical environmental issues we face in landscape ecology. We will explore techniques and processes for managing water in the landscape environment. Focusing on residential watersheds, we will consider innovative best management practices to optimize our use and treatment of water in constructed landscapes. Taking a holistic view, we will examine design, construction and maintenance/management practices ranging from physical engineering (catch basins, piping, drywalls, etc. ) to soils, topography and plant selection. Includes basic soil biology, organic land care, and permaculture.

CEU Credits: TBD

Jay Archer
Landscape Ecologist
Green Jay Landscape Design
Rye, NY

Jay Archer is one of the East Coast’s leading advocates for ecological landscaping, native plants, and organic land care. He is a landscape designer, naturalist, landscape ecologist, and environmental educator. His firm works to improve the landscape environment, while conserving, preserving and protecting our precious natural resources for our children and our children’s children. In addition to his creative design, construction, and management pursuits, he lectures extensively across the region on subjects ranging from rain gardens, and stormwater management, to wetland and ecological restoration. Jay says, “any given living space can be improved aesthetically, ecologically, and economically by analyzing and examining the existing conditions and then developing a design plan and an action protocol.”