NEW for 2013

Live In-Person Workshop

November 14, 2013

9 AM to 4 PM EST

Pittsburgh, PA

On September 10, 2013 the US EPA Science Advisory Board published the draft, “Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands to Downstream Waters: A Review and Synthesis of the Scientific Evidence.”

This report is still a draft, and EPA specially discloses that this is not the official policy. However, it does present a fairly accurate view of the culture and tone of the future Waters of the US (WoUS) policy.

This workshop will discuss the current status of the determination of a WoUS and how that may change as a result of this new report. We will break down the report in to the key sections including:

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  Effects of Streams and Wetlands on Downstream Waters: A Conceptual Framework
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  Streams: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Connections to Rivers
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  Wetlands: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Connections to Rivers

Finally we will discuss how this new “policy” may affect how we determine if a stream or wetland is under Federal Jurisdiction under either the Clean Water Act or the Rivers and harbors Act or both.

We will also discuss some of the new terms including:

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  Unidirectional Wetlands
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  Bidirectional Wetlands
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  Geographically Isolated Wetlands
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  Biogeochemical Interactions
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  Hyporheic Zones
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  Alluvial Aquifers
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  and a lot more!

This workshop is a blend of some slightly technical topics as well as a lot of common sense approaches to manage these new jurisdictional interpretations.

Join us on November 14, 2013 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for an informative, interactive and just a little controversial workshop.

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