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MAP-21 for Small Cities and Rural Communities

Sponsored by APWA’s Small Cities and Rural Communities Committee Don’t miss this discussion of the implications, on small and rural communities, of any new legislation being considered to reauthorize the…

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Who’s Following the Leader? Succession Planning in Public Works

Sponsored by APWA’s Emerging Leaders Academy The 2013 APWA Emerging Leaders Academy conducted a project to research the current state of succession planning in public works. Review their findings about…

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Spotlight on Winter Maintenance: Communicating your Winter Maintenance Plan

Discover the ins and outs of the City of London, Ontario’s Winter Operations Plan in this comprehensive education session. The city’s Division Manager of Roads Operations will be on hand…

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Successfully Overcoming Challenges of Green Infrastructure to Transform Public Spaces

While the benefits of green infrastructure are becoming more widely accepted, communities often encounter challenges—like public support funding and concerns about maintenance and community impacts—that limit widespread implementation. However, Milton…

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MS4 Self-Audit, Compliance Gap Tracking, and NPDES MS4 Audit Lessons Learned

Over the past three years, the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, with support from consultant Brown and Caldwell, prepared for an audit of the City’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System…

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Mapping on the Fly: Intergrating GIS with Low-Cost Sensors to Provide Continuous Real-Time Flood Inundation and Impacts

Mecklenburg County (home to Charlotte) is the most populated county in North Carolina. The County has had significant exposure to urban flooding exacerbated by explosive growth over the last two…

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The High PAH Pavement Sealant Prohibition in Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Stormwater Ordinance: History and Process

In 2020, the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, adopted a new Stormwater Pollution Control Ordinance which included, for the first time, a prohibition on the use of…

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Mature (But Evolving!) Stormwater Utilities

Stormwater utilities started emerging as a popular mechanism to fund community stormwater needs in the 1980s and 1990s. Regulatory drivers, particularly municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) requirements, led to…

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Small Town – Big Technology

Find out how a small town (under 20,000) has ventured into the realm of AVL/GPS and advanced asset management systems to enhance its winter operations program. The advanced asset management…

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Operation Stream Shield: Enhancing Communities While Building Lives

After a very successful pilot program in 2019, Fairfax County created a permanent program, Operation Stream Shield, in early 2020 to remove litter reaching the county’s waterways. Originally developed to…

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