Join us for the 3rd webinar in this 10-part series focused on the financial, managerial, and technical aspects of green infrastructure. Experienced practitioners, policy and funding experts, as well as academics, will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the implementation of green infrastructure. These informative sessions will be offered quarterly, from April 2024 to July 2026.

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Series Host: Shannon Pepper, Research Scientist, Southwest Environmental Finance Center

January 23, 2025 | Session 4 | Asset Management for Green Infrastructure

Description: Water, wastewater, and stormwater systems are often understaffed and underfunded. This leads to a conflict between the time and money it takes to complete all the basic tasks of the system, as well as the additional burdens of extraordinary events and the funding available. System staff must make decisions regarding the trade-off between funds and activities. Asset management (AM) provides a set of tools and practices that can assist a system in operating, maintaining, and managing assets in a cost-effective, sustainable fashion. In this webinar, we will explore the five key principles of the AM approach and apply these to green infrastructure. We will also delve into an integrated asset management framework (IAMF) that blends green and grey assets.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the benefits of an AM approach to managing water, wastewater, and stormwater systems.
• Gain a basic understanding of the AM five core principles: Level of Service, Current State of the Assets, Criticality, Life Cycle Costing, and Long-Term Funding.
• Learn AM strategies for green infrastructure by itself and as a complement to existing gray infrastructure.

Guest Speaker: Brooke Bushman, Storm to Shade Program Green Stormwater Infrastructure Maintenance Manager, City of Tucson

Certificate: This webinar has NOT been submitted for continuing education credit approval. We can provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements.

Who Should Attend:

We invite rural, small, and tribal wastewater personnel, as well as planners, landscape architects, architects, consultants, engineers, designers, managers and board members, elected officials, policy experts, citizens, and community groups to join us for this series. We hope to build a community of systems, municipalities, and individuals interested in participating in a wide-ranging conversation about green infrastructure.

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