Stormwater Landscape Maintenance Training

In many cities and towns, homeowner associations (HOAs) own and are required to maintain some of the stormwater infrastructure in their neighborhoods, including ponds, swales, check dams, shoreline plantings, rain gardens, pervious paving, and other features located on common property.

Stormwater Features and Development

Many developments, both commercial and residential, were designed and built with stormwater infrastructure for which the property owners—including HOAs and their property managers—are often now responsible.

Local governments are beginning to enforce maintenance requirements associated with these stormwater features. The lack of maintenance can cause a negative impact on important local water quality and quantity management.

In response, the White River Alliance, in conjunction with several municipalities, designed the Stormwater Landscape Maintenance Training Seminar in order to help Homeowners Associations, property managers, landscape contractors, and land developers understand these maintenance requirements and how to read Operation & Maintenance Plans in order to avoid corrective action.

The goal is to maintain properly functioning stormwater treatment facilities in order to prevent flooding, pollution, and other stormwater-related impacts, and keep infrastructure costs down in the long run.

The Seminar

New in 2022, the Stormwater Landscape Maintenance Seminar is available as an online course through our LearnDash platform. The seminar consists of 10 modules of video presentations that you can take at your own pace, simple (and voluntary) quizzes, and helpful resources that you can download or print.

The Stormwater Landscape Maintenance Seminar will help any responsible for maintaining property understand their obligations to any stormwater features that may be present.

The seminar is free of charge. Registration will be available soon.

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