Public works agencies are charged with addressing multiple, intersecting—and sometimes conflicting—water-related goals, including water quality improvement, water supply augmentation, flood protection, and the community co-benefits associated with stormwater management. Southern California’s dense urban landscape and vulnerability to the changing climate are driving municipalities and n-governmental organizations to convergently address these challenges with multi-benefit stormwater harvesting programs and projects. The creative infrastructure stemming from these programs includes regional-scale stormwater capital projects, networks of distributed capture on public and private parcels, and diversion of ruff to the sanitary sewer for reclamation and/or indirect potable reuse. But with so many alternative stormwater capture strategies available, how can agencies design cost-effective programs that maximize benefits across multiple goals? And how can they ensure the programs are financially, operationally, and politically sustainable? This facilitated panel discussion will interview municipal, n-governmental, and professional stormwater harvesting experts and visionaries from throughout Southern California to explore the key elements of building successful harvesting programs from the ground up. After this session, participants will be able to:
• Design a stormwater capture/harvesting program from the ground up, including planning, implementation, management, and funding.
• Identify what types of capture/harvesting projects can maximize benefits in different conditions/settings and how to quantify those benefits to gain support for their program.
• Determine what potential hurdles and constraints could scuttle their program and how others have overcome them.

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Chad Helmle

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