The green stormwater revolution: what have we learned, and what's next?





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Minnesota Stormwater Seminar Series

The green stormwater revolution: what have we learned, and what's next?





Please join us in person or online on February 19, 2026 at 9:00 am for the next Minnesota Stormwater Seminar Series event - a monthly experience featuring national, state, and local experts on stormwater and green infrastructure.

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* Keynote: Rob Traver, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University, Professional Engineer, a Board Certified Water Resource Engineer, and a Fellow of ASCE.
* Panelist: Jennifer Ehlert, Vice President & Landscape Architect, Metro Blooms Design+Build
* Panelist: Joe Barten, Program Management Supervisor, CPSWQ, Dakota County SWCD & Administrator, Lower Mississippi River WMO
* Panelist: Liz Stout, Principal Professional Engineer & Water Resources Manager; City of Minneapolis – Public Works

*Abstract:
*What have we learned as a profession over the transition from detention ponds to resilient green infrastructure over the past 40 years? Dr. Rob Traver will focus on lessons learned based upon field and laboratory research at Villanova University. The discussion will focus on both the analytic side of representing the unit processes, to the practical design, construction, and maintenance lessons learned. Those involved with researching the performance of these sites have the unique opportunity to follow the site from design, through construction, and then to operation, and to contrast the performance of the site with others.

*Date and Time*: Thursday, February 19, 2026, 9a – 11a US Central (note earlier start)

*In-person:* St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Auditorium (2 Third Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN [ [link removed] ])

*Online: *[link removed] [ [link removed] ] (active 10 minutes prior)

*Registration: *Click here to Register [ [link removed] ]

This seminar series is a partnership between the University of Minnesota's St. Anthony Falls Laboratory [ [link removed] ] and Water Resources Center [ [link removed] ], and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency [ [link removed] ], and made possible through the Minnesota Stormwater Research and Technology Transfer Program in collaboration with the Minnesota Stormwater Research Council [ [link removed] ].






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