Become familiar with best practices regarding the design and maintenance of rainwater harvesting systems.
Many design teams are tasked with providing a rainwater harvesting system and often do not understand or have experience with the variety of codes, equipment, and multiple disciplines they may need to interface to get to an effective and cost-effective solution. They often think of the system as simply a tank and do not understand the fundamental components required to meet most plumbing or irrigation end-use water quality standards. This topic will help you create a basis of design to establish a system size and develop the primary pieces of equipment in a system. We will review system standards, codes, and maintenance of a well-designed rainwater system along with lessons learned and things to avoid. This course will highlight the integration of the rainwater harvesting system into the overall site development and stormwater management plan with a few case studies from different parts of the country.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to identify the primary components of a rainwater harvesting system.
- You will be able to discuss the multiple disciplines typically involved in a commercial rainwater harvesting system and the information they should provide to a system integrator.
- You will be able to describe and have resources to specify the major components of a rainwater harvesting system and typical system maintenance.
- You will be able to define rainwater harvesting and differentiate it from stormwater or graywater re-use.
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Agenda
Introduction to Rainwater Harvesting
- Rainwater Harvesting Defined - Not Stormwater or Graywater
- Design Teams - Where Do We Start and Who Does What?
- Market Drivers and Other Reasons to Capture Rainwater
- Code Review and Other Building Standards
Planning and Design Development
- End Uses
- Tank Sizing - Supply and Demand
- Irrigation Design
- Plumbing Design
- Site Conditions - Groundwater, Bedrock, Depth, and Elevations
- Automated and Protected Domestic Water Supply
Specifying Equipment or a System
- Prefiltration and Four Steps
- Storage Options
- Pumping Options
- Treatment System Options
- Day Tanks
- Controls and Sensors
System Maintenance
- Design to Minimize Maintenance
- Do the Maintenance
- Water Quality Testing and Recordkeeping
Bringing It All Together
- Managing Overflow - Integrating Rainwater Harvesting Into Your Stormwater Management Plan
- Cost-Effective RWH Systems
- Questions and Answers
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Credits
OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on January 25, 2022.
Call 1-866-352-9540 for further credit information.
No Credit AvailableThis program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Faculty
David Stark
Rainwater Management Systems
- Lived with and evolved the design of a potable rainwater harvesting system in my home that I have maintained for over 17 years
- Owner of Stark Rainwater, provided the first permitted rainwater harvesting systems for indoor and combined outdoor uses in the cities of Duluth and St. Paul, MN, and the second fully certified residential Living Building Challenge project in Ann Arbor, MI, 6 years
- Installed residential and light commercial systems
- Current position - International Design and Sales Specialist at Rainwater Management Solutions
- Design, source, and manufacture rainwater, stormwater, and graywater systems with a team from Roanoke, VA
- Gives presentations on rainwater harvesting and integrating rainwater harvesting and stormwater management for AIA, ARCSA, and Stormconn
- Lead author for Rainwater Harvesting on a Superblock Scale, Plumbing Engineer, March 2019; contributing author for Saving a Rainy Day - Rainwater Capture at a Minnesota Shopping Center Supports Conservation and Stormwater Management Goals., Stormwater, May 2020
- Served on a technical committee for the first national standard for rainwater harvesting for ARCSA/ASPE Standard 63 Rainwater Harvesting
- Memberships - ARCSA, USGBC, ASPE
- M.S. degree in water resource science, University of Minnesota; B.A. degree in environmental conservation, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Can be contacted at 218-428-4413 or [email protected]
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