Workshops and Trainings

Give a man a fish, or teach him how to fish himself? We conducted more than 40 workshops and trainings with the goal of sharing useful knowledge about the problems with and solutions to stormwater runoff.

Topics were wide-ranging and our audiences were diverse, including participants from all 39 municipalities, 6 institutions and other “non-traditional” MS4s, state and federal employees, private sector, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions.

Over the life of the project, we compiled all workshop presentations, attendance lists, and summaries of evaluations. These are available on the RI NEMO Workshops website. For a detailed list of communication about these, please visit our E-news Archive.



Workshops and Trainings

Workshops and trainings covered topics such as:

• Technical trainings on new RI Stormwater Standards Manual. Nine statewide workshops were held in cooperation with RIDEM and CRMC, with support by Horsley Witten Group.

• Stormwater facility maintenance

• Construction site stormwater management

• Public education and involvement

• Implementing stormwater programs

• Low Impact Development

• Rain garden design and installation

We developed two, comprehensive train-the-trainer manuals:

• Preventing Stormwater Pollution At Your Public Works Facility, A Trainer’s Guide

• Stormwater System Maintenance— A Trainer’s Guide