WASHINGTON STORMWATER CENTER &
CONTECH
RAINWATER HARVESTING TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Thursday, June 23, 2011
7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
7:15-8:15 Complimentary Breakfast Buffet
8:15-8:20 Introductions
Kurt Marx – Washington Stormwater Center, Lead Scientist
Doug Maxwell – District Manager
8:20-8:25 Washington Stormwater Center Tasks and Services Overview
Kurt Marx
8:25-9:00 Current Status of Rainwater Harvesting Regulations in
Washington State Kurt Unger, PhD – WA Ecology
9:00-9:30 Rainwater Harvesting Cisterns Design and Their Use in the City of Tacoma
David Nason – AHBL
Jessica Knickerbocker – City of Tacoma
9:30-9:45 South Seattle Transfer Station Rainwater Harvesting Project
Becca Ochiltree – URS Corporation
9:45-9:55 Break
9:55-10:45 CONTECH Rainwater Harvesting Solutions Overview
Greg Kowalsky – UrbanGreen Product Manager
10:45-11:00 Questions and Answers
11835 NE Glenn Widing Drive
Portland, OR 97220
11:00-11:30 Transfer to the Center for Urban Waters by Shuttle Bus
Michael Macnoskey, Doug Maxwell, Kurt Marx
11:30-12:15 Facility Tour of Center for Urban Waters Harvesting System Jessica Knickerbocker, David Nason
12:15 Shuttle bus to the UWT Campus
Please RSVP to Doug Maxwell by June 15.
Call:
Email:
360-951-1129
dmaxwell@contech-cpi.com
Seminar to be held at:
University of Washington Philip Hall
Jane Thompson Russell Commons
1900 Commerce St.
Tacoma, WA 98402
Knowledge.
bridges & structures
erosion control drainage earth stabilization stormwater
Solutions.
Service.
Please circulate this invitation among your associates and RSVP by calling
360-951-1129, or emailing Doug Maxwell at dmaxwell@contech-cpi.com.
Please respond by June 15.
PDH Certificates for 3 credit hours will be available upon request.
Keynote Speakers
University of Washington Tacoma Philip Hall – Jane Thompson Russell Commons
1900 Commerce St.
Tacoma, WA 98402
Meet the Team
Kurt Marx is the lead scientist/engineer for the Washington Stormwater Center’s collaboration with the Washington State
Department of Ecology’s program for approving emerging stormwater treatment technologies – Technology Assessment
Protocol -Ecology (TAPE). As a member of the Washington Stormwater Center, he also provides assistance to industrial and
municipal stormwater NPDES permit-holders. Kurt earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Michigan Technological
University (1996) and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington (1999).Prior to joining the
Center, Kurt was a consultant for twelve years. His earlier work focused on the treatment of wastewater, landfill leachate, and
stormwater. Kurt’s later work involved helping clients meet the requirements of their stormwater NPDES permits, as well as
assessing green roof hydrologic performance.
Kurt Unger has worked for the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Water Resources Program since 2005 on policy
and rule development as well as code and statutory modifications focused on instream flows, water conservation and
efficiency, low impact development, drought and climate change. Kurt is also an adjunct professor at the Evergreen State
College where he teaches a graduate class on climate change science and policy. Kurt holds an MS (environmental science)
and PhD (hydrology) from the University of Nevada and is also licensed attorney in Washington (JD, University of Oregon).
David Nason, PE, is a project manager for AHBL’s civil engineering division. He brings 10 years’ of progressive responsibility in
civil design. His experience includes design of recreational, municipal, and educational site development projects throughout
Western Washington. His work on these projects includes road, water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater design. David has
extensive experience with projects implementing low impact design strategies, including innovative stormwater management
approaches. He specializes in the design of LID projects and is intimately familiar with the current and developing LID
technologies through his work on Sehmel Homestead Park, Les Gove Park Expansion and multiple other projects.
Jessica Knickerbocker is an environmental engineer with experience in the design, analysis, and review of municipal
stormwater projects. Her design experience includes site development and public infrastructure focusing on Low Impact
Development. Jessica has been responsible for the management of system wide stormwater, sanitary sewer and water main
conveyance capacity analysis, and master planning for the multiple municipalities. She has developed and tracked capital
improvement plans from initiation to implementation.
Becca Ochiltree, PE, is a senior civil engineer at URS Corporation with a wide range of experience in civil engineering
including stormwater management, modeling, and design including Low Impact Design; surface water restoration; water
quality and detention facilities design; geotechnical evaluation and design; solid waste design; permitting support; and
construction projects. She has successfully prepared alternative analyses, plans, specifications, estimates, and permits for
municipal and private clients throughout the Pacific Northwest. Ms. Ochiltree received her B.S. degree in Civil Engineering
from the University of Washington in 2003.
CONTECH Construction Products Inc.
South Transfer Station Rainwater Harvesting
Greg Kowalsky is the UrbanGreen Product Manager and has been with CONTECH for over five years. He has helped to grow
the installed-base stormwater filtration systems to 100,000+ units, which includes thousands of installations. In addition
to Filtration he also has responsibility CONTECH’s products focused on Low Impact Development applications. Greg has a
mechanical engineering and business education that has allowed him to assist the development and design of our filtration
and UrbanGreen products overall and on hundreds of individual projects.
Seattle Public Utilities and the design-build team of Mortenson Construction and URS Corporation are
currently constructing the first new solid waste transfer station in the city of Seattle in over 40 years. The
new South Transfer Station, in the South Park neighborhood of south Seattle, will be a highly-efficient
LEED certified building that will meet the city’s solid waste needs for the next 40 years and beyond. Lowimpact design was an important element of the project design. Two rainwater cisterns capture and store
roof runoff from the 100,000 square foot transfer building for irrigation and washdown water reuse.
Becca Ochiltree, PE, is a senior civil engineer at URS Corporation with a wide range of experience in civil
engineering including stormwater management, modeling, and design including Low Impact Design;
surface water restoration; water quality and detention facilities design; geotechnical evaluation and
design; solid waste design; permitting support; and construction projects. Ms. Ochiltree has served as
assistant project manager, task manager, design engineer, and construction administrator on a wide
range of projects. She has successfully prepared alternative analyses, plans, specifications, estimates,
and permits for municipal and private clients throughout the Pacific Northwest. Ms. Ochiltree received her
BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington in 2003.
The UW Tacoma campus is located across the street from
the Washington State History Museum and Union Station.
To reach campus, from I-5 take the I-705/Tacoma City Center
exit (exit 133). From I-705 take the South 21st Street exit.
Turn left at the traffic light onto 21st Street. Go through the
light at Pacific Avenue, and the campus is on the right.
Michael Macnoskey, PE, is the Stormwater Regulatory Manager for Western U.S. and Pacific Region in Canada. Michael
has been with CONTECH since 1999. His previous experience includes work as the Northwest Area Manager for CONTECH
Stormwater Solutions with a focus on stormwater treatment and detention products. Michael has an M.S. degree in
Mechanical Engineering and he is a registered Civil Engineer.
Doug Maxwell is a District Manager for Washington and the Idaho panhandle for CONTECH Construction Products. He has
been with the company for more than 23 years. Doug earned his B.A. degree from Western Washington University.
Other CONTECH Representatives present will be Deon Lourens – Project Consultant, Mike Scott – Project
Consultant and Kathryn Thomason, PE – Senior Design Engineer.