The stormwater seminar Hulevesi2020 was organized online 23.9.2020 by the Urban stormwater division of the Finnish Water Association. The seminar gathered over 300 participants and brought together experts working with stormwater in different sectors. The purpose of the seminar was to promote practical implementation of current knowledge, share experiences within the stormwater field and enable discussion and networking. The change to an online seminar created challenges for the networking part, but the chat-function enabled questions and discussion between participants and presenters. The seminar was mainly held in Finnish, but also included a few presentations in English.
The seminar day included 20 presentations divided into six sessions and five stormwater related topics:
– Planning and practices, I and II
– Contaminants
– Heavy rainfall, floods and modelling
– Stormwater management and modelling
– Multidisciplinary and -objective planning of stormwater management
The presentation materials and a recording of the seminar (morning and afternoon separately) are published online and freely available.
From our research group several people were involved in the seminar and the doctoral candidates Ambika Khadka and Camilla Tuomela each held a presentation in the stormwater management and modelling session. Ambika Khadka’s presentation (in English) title was “Stormflow against streamflow –can storage capacity ensure performance efficiency and maintenance of pre-development flow regime?”. Camilla Tuomela’s presentation (in Finnish) topic was impacts of stormwater management structures and climate change on runoff and loading in a residential catchment.
