Join us for another seminar in our Water Research Series, featuring experts examining emerging challenges shaping water, wastewater, public health, and infrastructure.

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Description: Urban flooding has become an increasingly urgent challenge for cities facing intensifying rainfall and expanding impervious surfaces. As storm events grow more frequent and severe, understanding where flooding occurs and how mitigation strategies can reduce its impacts is critical for sustainable urban water management.

This presentation shares the findings from high-resolution surface flooding in a dense urban watershed. The results reveal spatial patters of flood depth, extent, and exposure under current storm conditions, providing a clearer picture of localized flood risks. This presentation will also cover the effectiveness of green infrastructure (GI) interventions, including permeable surfaces, soil rehabilitation, and distributed retention practices in reducing runoff generation and surface water accumulation. Findings demonstrate how strategically implemented GI can decrease flood depth, limit areal inundation, and attenuate peak surface flows during extreme rainfall events.

By quantifying the hydrologic performance of GI within a physically based modeling framework, this research offers evidence to support data-driven planning and climate adaptation strategies. The results contribute to advancing resilient stormwater management practices, providing decision-makers and water professionals with clear insights into how targeted landscape interventions can mitigate flood risk in rapidly urbanizing environments.

Presenter: Julia Atayi, PhD Candidate (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Morgan State University

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

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