Committee
Council Name: Applied Eco-hydraulics and
Eco-hydrology for Effective Design of Water Resources
Parent Committee/Council: Hydraulics and Waterways Council, Environmental Hydraulics Technical
Committee
Description:
The use
of hydraulics and hydrological analyses has now matured into an established and
efficient part of water resources project. However, there is always a tendency
to use a simplified approach for stream restoration and water resources
projects so that biologists, landscaping architects, fluvial morphologists and
engineers can all practice in accordance with a certain guideline or manual.
However, the approach usually fails to encapsulate the environmental knowledge
and water-related natural processes necessary to produce a successful design.
In other words, by just simply meeting the minimum requirements, we may just
try to provide a minimum environment for the next generation.
The
emphasis of the article (or this special issue) is two-fold. First, it would
provide insights into and understanding of Eco-hydraulics and Eco-hydrology.
Second, it will enforce the concept designing with nature is preferable to
imposing hard engineering or artificial solutions as it sustains natural
biodiversity and minimizes costs.
Objectives:
To
enhance practitioner’s knowledge in the latest practices of water resources
engineering.
To
develop skills for selecting appropriate structures and for making designs more
innovative.
. Committee
Officers
Chair Name
Prof. Tai D. Bui
Address: Weslake
Inc. 10-120 Lancing Dr., Hamilton, Ontario L8W 3A1
Preferred E-mail: bui@weslake.com
Preferred Telephone Number: (905) 574-2300
Who would be benefit?
Designers
of water resources projects, design manual developers whether in preparing
/modifying federal, state or municipal guidelines, consultants, municipal water
resource engineers and managers, and college faculty in water resources, and
researchers on novel approaches to enhance our environment will find this
in-depth course useful.
Key topics:
· Definitions of Eco-hydraulics and Eco-hydrology
o The differences between traditional and Eco-hydraulcs and the implications on water resources engineering practices.
o Why Eco-hydrology?
· Climate change and Eco-hydrology
o Impacts of climate changes on SWM and storm drainage design.
o Relationship between climate change and Eco-hydrology
·
Eco-channel design
o
Can we ever be able to
“restore” a channel?
o
Re-naturalize a
channel using Eco-channel approach
·
Stormwater management
for streambank protection and river needs
o
Is there a better way
to define “Level of Protection”?
o
How to improve the
current SWM practices?
·
Environmental flows:
Design and assessment
o
Living river concept
o
Advance criteria for
assessing a river re-naturalized project
·
Design of hydraulic
structures in an eco-hydraulics context
o
Hydraulic structures
classification
o
Design hydraulic
structures for fish and wildlife services
Workshop:
Participants will work on a design exercise problem under
instructor guidance
·
Water quality/quantity
benefits of green building design
o
Advantages/disadvantages
of green building
o
Potential obstacles
·
And more ideas/sub-topics could be add here
Case Studies
·
Case study 1: Build
your own software for natural channel or hydraulic structures design.
·
Case study 2: Design
a SWM pond using Eco-hydrology concept
After participating in the seminar, you
will be able to:
1. Identify certain required improvements to certain guidelines and design manuals related to water resources protection/enhancement practices
2. Design with nature for sustaining natural biodiversity and minimizing costs in preference to imposing hard engineering or artificial solutions.
3. Replace conventional follow-the-manual design approach with innovative design methodology for your water resources projects
4. Make use of water-related natural processes to produce a successful design