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2000 Professional Activities of District Staff

Scott Tucker, Executive Director

  • Presenter at National League of Cities workshops on Phase II Stormwater Regulatory Program in Washington, DC, in March.
  • Presenter at Conference on Southwest River Management and Restoration in Phoenix in April.
  • Participant in the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) meeting to discuss current and future District programs with SAME members in June.
  • Invited participant in meeting with FEMA Director James Lee Witt to discuss FEMA programs, at the ASFPM annual conference in Austin in June.
  • Authored an article titled "Municipalities Face Specter of New TMDL Rules" for Water World, July/August, 2000.
  • Participant in Aspen’s Public Forum on Drainage Issues in August.
  • Chaired Stormwater Management session at National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies (NAFSMA) annual conference in San Diego in October.
  • Member of Board of Directors and Co-Chairman of the Stormwater Management Committee of NAFSMA.
  • Member of Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of Future Programs Committee of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District.

Bill DeGroot, Chief, Floodplain Management Program

  • Chair of the Floodplain Management Committee of the National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies (NAFSMA), and chaired a session on Floodplain Management Issues at NAFSMA’s annual meeting in San Diego in Oct.
  • NAFSMA’s technical advisor to the Technical Mapping Advisory Council.
  • Member of ASCE’s Technical Mapping Advisory Task Committee.
  • Co-authored, with Ben Urbonas, "Added Benefits of Grade Control Structures," which was published in the Journal of Floodplain Management in July.
  • Presented an update on FEMA’s Cooperating Technical Communities Initiative at the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers annual conference in Steamboat Springs in August.

Kevin Stewart, Project Engineer, Floodplain Management Program

  • National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) Representative for Southwestern Association of ALERT Systems.
  • NHWC Representative to Interstate Council on Water Policy as member of Advisory Committee on Water Information ("ACWI"), Streamgaging Task Force, Washington DC.
  • Alternate member of ACWI Hydrology Subcommittee, Washington DC.
  • Guest Instructor at Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology ("COMET") Symposium on Heavy Precipitation and Flash Floods, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ("UCAR") in Boulder in September.
  • Presenter and session moderator at 17th Annual Conference of the ALERT Users Group in Monterey, CA in May.
  • Coordinator for the 12th Conference and Exposition of SAAS in Lakewood in October.

Ben Urbonas, Chief, Master Planning & South Platte River Programs

  • Continuing as a Principal co-investigator (Eric Strecker & Jonathan Jones principal co-investigators) for an EPA funded ASCE effort to develop Nationwide BMP Evaluation Data Management software and to accumulate and evaluate BMP data for performance and its relationships to design parameters.
  • Co-authored papers with Jonathan Jones, Eric Strecker, Jane Clary and Marcus Quigley on the EPA-sponsored ASCE-BMP database project.
  • Co-authored, with Bill DeGroot, "Added Benefits of Grade Control Structures," which was published in the Journal of Floodplain Management in July.
  • Spoke at the APWA National Congress in Louisville, KY at a special session on the Environmental Friendliness of BMPs.
  • Participated in a training session on stormwater management and BMPs sponsored by the Water Environment Federation at WEFTEC 2000 in Anaheim, CA in October.
  • Participated in a national broadcast as a part of the Technology Transfer Program of the Center for Transportation and the Environment at North Carolina State University.
  • Participated in a training session on stormwater BMPs, Urban Storm Drainage Criteria Manual Volume 3 – Best Management Practices, at the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers annual conference in Steamboat Springs in August.
  • Serving as the general chairman to organize a United Engineering Foundation conference on the topic of "Stormwater BMP use and receiving water impacts.". This conference is being sponsored by U.S. EPA and the ASCE Urban Water Resources Research Council and will take place in Snowmass, Colorado, August 19-24, 2001.

Cindy Thrush, Project Engineer, Maintenance Program

  • Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers (CASFM).
  • Presented a paper titled "Retrofitting Drainage Facilities for Water Quality" at the 31st annual conference of the International Erosion Control Association in Palm Springs in February.
  • Accepted the James Lee Witt award for Local Excellence for the Willow Creek Project, on behalf of the District, at the annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers in Austin in June.

Paul Hindman, Project Engineer, Design and Construction Program

  • President of the Colorado Chapter of APWA.

John Doerfer, Project Hydrologist, Master Planning Program

  • Chairman of the Stormwater Quality Committee, Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers (CASFM).
  • Chairman of Awards Committee, 2000 CASFM Annual Conference.
  • Chairman of Municipal Workgroup, Colorado Stormwater Task Force.
  • Speaker on stormwater monitoring program at Southwestern Association of ALERT Systems Conference in Lakewood in October.
  • Panelist on stormwater regulations at American Public Works Association – Colorado Section Conference in Lakewood in February.
  • Speaker on construction-site sediment control measures at International Erosion Control Association workshop in Ft. Collins in June, and at Kaufman & Broad of Colorado, Inc. in Aurora in October.

Mark Hunter, Chief, Maintenance Program

  • Member of International Erosion Control Association (IECA) standards committee on riprap and standards committee on articulating blocks.
  • Secretary of the Board of Directors for the IECA-Mountain States Chapter.
  • Member of IECA Conference Planning Committee, Technical Review Committee and Awards Committee.

David Bennetts, Project Engineer, Maintenance Program

  • Presented the Lower Boulder Creek Stream Rehabilitation Project for Award at the 11th Annual CASFM Conference in Steamboat Springs in September.
  • Presented a Paper on Bio-engineering at the High Altitude Revegetation Conference in Ft. Collins in March.
  • Speaker on Soft Approaches to Drainage and Flood Control Facilities at the 11th Annual Conference of the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers (CASFM) in Steamboat Springs in September.
  • Presented a Paper on Emerging Technologies in Bio-engineering at the 22nd Annual Conference of the National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs in Steamboat Springs in September.

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