Ecopliant Institute

Ecopliant is proud to introduce our Ecopliant Institute division, our goal is to offer our registrants a location where they can find various options for continuing education that can help in obtaining their required Professional Development Hours (PDHs).

Ecopliant Offered Trainings:

Ecopliant will over the course of the year offer various Lunch and Learn Live Webinar Trainings to Registrants. Below is a list of upcoming events:

Free Lunch and Learn for Registrants Only:
January 15, 2025:
Estimating Parameters for Effective Construction Site Sediment Basins/Traps
By Jerald Fifield, Ph.D., CDSEC, CISEC, President of HydroDynamics, Inc.
One (1) PDH

Class Time:
Hawaii: 9:00 a.m.
Aleutian-Alaska: 10:00 a.m.
Pacific: 11:00 a.m.
Mountain: Noon
Central: 1:00 p.m.
Eastern: 2:00 p.m.
Atlantic: 3:00 p.m.
Malaysia: 3:00 a.m. (January 16, 2025)–note the difference in days

An email will be sent out in November with registration links, if you do not receive this, please contact us (contactus@ecopliant.org) for the information.

Description:

The most effective method for removing sediment from runoff waters is by a professionally designed sediment basin or sediment trap. Contributing soils, runoff volume, structural shape, discharge rates, particle diameter, internal flow length, fall distance, pond surface volume must be part of any design and approval process.

This presentation will demonstrate why capturing 250 cubic metres/hectare (3,600 cubic feet/acre) is not the most important parameter to consider for these structures. Instead, the development and evaluation of parameters necessary for an effective sediment basin/trap design requires applying science, mathematics, and engineering principles along with:

  • Assessing sediment pond/trap concepts that incorporate turbulent, laminar, and accelerated flow conditions,
  • Understanding why discharge rates are the most important parameters to assess for an effective SCS,
  • Evaluating why pond surface area and internal flow path lengths are critical sediment basin/trap parameters,
  • Applying climatic and runoff assessments to update minimum runoff detention volumes applicable for arid/semi-arid, humid, and tropical climatic regions is important,
  • Implementing equations that provide “estimates” for effective parameters, and
  • Showing how the use of flocculants can reduce the size of an effective SCS.

This is considered an Intermediate to Advanced level training.

IECA/Ecopliant Offered Training:

Ecopliant is proud to be sponsoring live webinar Lunch and Learns through IECA. For current CISEC and CDSEC registrants, you will be able to attend this session for free!
Please email us at contactus@ecopliant.org for the Discount Code to be used at the time of purchase.

Industry Organizations:

IECA
Stormcon Image
Stormwater University

California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA)

Please come back as our content will be updated on a regular basis to include webinar continuing education classes!