Partners for Clean Water

Event Calendar

September 16th - Teacher's Night Out -

Teachers in southwestern Idaho are invited to Teachers' Night Out -- a night of fine food, drink, prizes, socializing and musical entertainment!

At this free teacher-appreciation event, you'll also have the opportunity to visit with staff members of local non-profit organizations and pick up valuable curriculum, field trip and classroom resources. For more information contact Kurt Zwolfer at 208-334-2120 ext. 11.

September 18th - RiverSweep - join us for our 9th annual river clean up! The Boise River is a treasure we all take for granted. We love it, but it has a litter problem. Throughout the year our trash accumulates along the banks and in the channel of the Boise River as we recreate, ultimately harming the environment and the enjoyment of this precious community resource. For more information or to register please visit www.boiseriversweep.org

On-going events:

Erosion and Sediment Control Training for Responsible Person and Plan Designer Training. Registration and class details.

Boise Environmental Education is a multi-agency partnership providing environmental lessons and programs to children and adults. The city departments of Public Works and Parks & Recreation cooperate to bring you an assortment of classroom lessons, field trips, regular monthly programs and special events designed to educate, inform, and entertain. Be sure to check out our Calendar of Events!

Past events

Green Highways and Green Streets for 21st Century Infrastructure: Strategies, Technologies, and Funding, Live Interactive Web Seminar. This webinar served as an introduction to the concepts that will be presented at the in-depth 3-day training sponsored by the Green Highways Partnership Training and Development Center in the spring of 2010 and the first ASCE conference on Green Highways and Green Streets in the fall of 2010.

Thank you to Brown and Caldwell for sponsoring this webinar. Download the presentation.

The 2009 Partners for Clean Water Stormwater Technical Conference took place at the Boise WaterShed Environmental Education Center. Over 50 architects, engineers, landscape architects, and stormwater professionals attended to learn about sustainable urban drainage designs. The Partners for Clean Water Expo offered an opportunity for those attending to view products offered by many vendors in the stormwater industry.

Presenters shared their design and maintenance experiences with swales, green roofs, stormwater re-use, and other innovative stormwater solutions.. Presenters included: Lance Warnick of Aspen Engineers, Adam Lyman of American GeoTechnics, Chad Jones of Lochsa Engineering of Idaho, Peter Goodwin of The University of Idaho, Jeff Moeller with WERF, Christine Pomeroy with WERF, C. Dasch Houdeshel of The University of Utah, Johanna Bell with the City of Boise, and Brian Murphy with the City of Boise.

Two panel discussions were held that dealt with Development Perspectives and Permitting Agency Perspectives. The panel members were Steve Burgos of Brown & Caldwell, Joe Canning of B&A Engineers, Jeffer Fereday of Givens Pursley, Michael Fuss with the City of Nampa, and Greg Lanning with the City of Pocatello.

Note: Some of these presentations are large pdf files, if you have problems opening the files or would like copies of the presentations, feel free to contact Aimee Hughes at 208-388-4703 or ahughes@cityofboise.org.