Monday, February 8, 2010

Message from Dr. Vogel on Training opportunity

Hello everyone,

John Harrington, director of ACOG's Water Resources Division, recently described recycled water as “the way to go as the City of Norman looks at ways to meet its future water needs” (Norman Transcript, Feb. 5, 2010). Water recycling could also be said to be “the way to go” for much of the rest of Oklahoma. While the article Mr. Harrington was quoted in was discussing treating wastewater for recycling, rainfall runoff from roofs, parking lots, and other impervious areas are also a great opportunity for water recycling for uses such as urban and lawn irrigation and outdoor water features. The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service is exploring the possibility of hosting a training event on March 8, 2010, on the topic of engineered rainwater collection if there is interest.

The link below describes the potential training opportunity entitled “Engineered Rainwater Collection and Case Studies for Sustainable Water Management”. As you will see, the training has a single site fee for as many folks as we can get to the site. I am interested to know if there is interest in Oklahoma in gathering at a central location, such as OSU-OKC which has an engineering rainfall collection system, to watch this webinar training. The training is put on by ASCE and is good for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (1.5 PDHs). What I would propose is to split the site fee, plus the cost of any food that we could provide, amongst all of the folks who come to the training. The training would also include a discussion of the construction and operation of the rainfall collection system at OSU-OKC.

If you are interested, please email me at jason.vogel@okstate.edu by Wednesday, February 17. If enough people respond positively, we will set it up. Feel free to forward this announcement.

Link: http://now.eloqua.com/es.asp?s=1360&e=761&elq=905c91d6ec7c42febc6917555e23a32a

Thanks!

Jason

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Jason R. Vogel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Stormwater Specialist

Department of Biosystems Engineering

Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, OK 74078

Phone: (405) 744-7532

Cell: (405) 334-6512

Fax: (405) 744-6059

Email: jason.vogel@okstate.edu

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