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1997 Professional Activities of District Staff Scott Tucker, Executive Director .Chaired program on Stormwater Management at National Association of Flood and Stonnwater Management Agencies (NAFSMA) annual conference, in Orlando in November. .Member of Board of Directors and Chairman of the Stonnwater Management Committee ofNAFSMA. .Member of the Stonnwater Phase II Advisory Subcommittee, formed pursuant to the Federal Advisoty Committee Act to assist in developing the Phase II stonnwater program. .Presented a paper on "An UJban River Renewed - Denver's South Platte River," at Engineering Foundation Conference on Stonnwater Management - Creating Sustainable UJban Water Resources for the 21- Centwy, in MaImo Sweden in September. .Presented talk entitled "Flooding be Damned" at Conference Assessing the July 28 Flood in Fort Collins, CO at Colorado State University in Fort Collins in November. .Speaker on Phase II Stonnwater Regulation Requirements at the annual conference of the American Public Worl<s Association (APW A) in Minneapolis in September. .Presenter on Stonnwater Phase II Regulatory Program on The Local Government Perspective, for the APW A Satellite Teleconference on "Strategies for UJban Wet Weather Management" in Stillwater, OK in December. .Discussant at session on Planning and Design of Water Systems in Light of Changes in Climate, at Symposium on Climate Variability, Climate Change and Water Resource Management at Colorado Springs in October. .Speaker on District activities at Colorado University student chapter of ASCE in April in Boulder. .Speaker on South Platte River Rehabilitation Activities at University Hills Rotary Club in October in Denver. Dave Uoyd, Chief, Design and Constl1lCtion Program .Co-authored, with Bill DeGroot, and presented "Integrating Flood Control and Recreation in Denver Area Projects" at ASCE's 24th Annual Water Resources Planning and Management conference in Houston in April. .Co-authored and co-presented, with Chuck McKnight from Sellards and Grigg, Inc., "A Case Study of the Goldsmith Gulch Flood Control Project" at the same ASEC conference. Bill DeGroot, Chief, Floodplain Management Program .Chair of the Floodplain Management Committee of the National Association of Flood and Stonnwater Management Agencies (NAFSMA), and chaired a session on Floodplain Management Issues at NAFSMA's annual meeting in Orlando in Nov. .NAFSMA's technical advisor to the Technical Mapping Advisory Council. .Member of ASCE's Technical Mapping Advisory Task Committee. .Co-authored, with Dave Uoyd, "Integrating Flood Control and Recreation in Denver Area Projects." Kevin Stewart, Project Engineer, Floodplain Management Program .National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) Representative for the Southwestern Association of ALERT Systems (SAAS). .Member of the Colorado Natural Hazards Mitigation Council's (CNHMC) Dam Safety and Warning Subcommittee. .Keynote Speaker at NHWClSAAS National Conference and Exposition in St. Louis in Oct, .Org:mi7OO and hosted the first meeting of the NHWC Narrowband Radio Transitioning Committee in Denver in April. .Member of Emergency Services Public Information Officem of Colorado, and participated in their worl<shop in Golden in Sept .Member of Colorado Emergency Management Association, and attended their annual conference in Breckenridge in Oct. .Speaker at the 8th Annual Conference of the Colorado Association of Stonnwater and Floodplain Managers in Vail in Sept. .Participated in the FEMA and National Weather Service Hazardous Weather and Warning Coordination Pilot Short Coun;e in Lakewood in July. .Served on Colorado's FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Proposal Review Team. . Attended "Conference on Assessing the July 28, 1997 Flood in Fort Collins, CO" held at CSU in Fort Collins in Nov. Ben U rbonas, Chief, Master Planning & South Platte River Programs · Serving on the French NOVA TECH 98 conference's scientific group responsible for the evalnation of abstracts and the selection of conference papers. .Principal co-investigator (Eric Strecker & Jonathan Jones principal co-investigatom) for an EPA funded ASCE effort to develop Nationwide BMP Evalnation Data Management software and to accumulate and evaluate BMP data for perfonnance and its relationships to design parameters. .Co-authored a paper with Ian Lawrence of Australia, Jiri Marsalek of Canada and Brian Ellis of Great Britain on Review of Sionnwater Detention and BMPs which was published in a special volume of the Journal of the International Association of Hydrologic Research. .OrgllDi7OO and chaired a session on the topic of BMP Selection and Design at the Engineering Foundation Conference on Sionnwater Manage1!'ent. Sustaining Urban Waier Resources in the 21" Century, MaImo, Sweden, September, 1997. .Continues to Chair the Urban Gauging Networks Comminee of the UJban Water Resources Research Council of ASCE. .Contributed to an effort by the International Association for Water Quality to develop an international Urban Drainage Glossary which will be published in 1998 in RngJi.h. French, German and Japanese. (Continued on page 23) 2 k~'2;'~"'~5 ~"';~