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Designing Bioretention Facilities

Jim Newton, P.E., DEE

Course Outline

This four hour course provides valuable information for those individuals who participate in the design of stormwater control systems, specifically bioretention systems, specifically relayed to bioretention landscaping, bioretention system construction and environmental outreach.  Completion of this course will provide the student the necessary information and testing to meet the continuing education requirements in order to renew their licenses.  It was designed by an instructor who has developed and implemented numerous similar training courses. 

This course includes a multiple-choice quiz at the end, which is designed to enhance the understanding of the course materials.


Learning Objective

At the conclusion of this course, the student will be able to:


Intended Audience

The intended audience for this course is any professional who is responsible for the design and installation of stormwater control systems, specifically bioretention facilities.


Benefit to Attendees

Attendees of this course will understand key landscaping and construction aspects of bioretention systems, and how to conduct an environmental outreach program to promote bioretention facilities.


Course Introduction

Bioretention is an upland based water quality and water quantity control practice that uses chemical, biological and physical processes to remove pollutants from stormwater.  Bioretention may also mimic predevelopment hydrology.  Bioretention is considered a low impact development (LID) process.  The designer of a bioretention facility should consider:

Course Content

This course expands on two current PDH Online courses titled “Introduction to Bioretention”, C193 and “Design of Bioretention Systems”, C194 and covers key environmental aspects of bioretention systems including landscaping considerations, construction aspects and selling environmental aspects of the systems.

The text for this course is Chapters 3-5 of the award winning “Prince George’s County Bioretention Manual, revised December 2002”.

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

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Course Summary

This course discusses the landscaping, environmental and construction aspects of bioretention facilities.


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Quiz

Once you finish studying the above course content, you need to take a quiz to obtain the PDH credits.

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DISCLAIMER: The materials contained in the online course are not intended as a representation or warranty on the part of PDH Center or any other person/organization named herein. The materials are for general information only. They are not a substitute for competent professional advice. Application of this information to a specific project should be reviewed by a registered architect and/or professional engineer/surveyor. Anyone making use of the information set forth herein does so at their own risk and assumes any and all resulting liability arising therefrom.