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SUMMARY:Winter Salt Week Webinar: Salt Monitoring 101
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Eaton and Paige Vichiola-Silva will share their monitoring experiences on the Farmington River in Connecticut and the Rouge River in Michigan before fielding participant questions and discussion topics. \nPresenters \nLauren Eaton is the Monitoring Manager at Friends of the Rouge and joined the team in 2023. She is so excited to be a steward of the watershed and to affect positive change for all beings that live in and around the Rouge River. She has volunteered for many years with the Huron River Watershed Council\, and some of her most memorable learning moments were outside or in the stream during those volunteer events so she hopes to be able to foster moments like those for others by serving as the Monitoring Manager. \nPrior to working at Friends of the Rouge\, Lauren was a contractor working for the United States Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLSC). At the GLSC\, Lauren worked on projects monitoring larval fish\, zooplankton\, and water quality in Lakes Michigan\, Huron\, Erie\, as well as the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers. She studied Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, and Aquatic Ecology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. \nPaige Vichiola-Silva is the Water Quality Manager at the Farmington River Watershed Association. Her work involves assessing the health of our watershed throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut by conducting water quality monitoring and research projects. Paige manages the chloride monitoring program and various in-situ continuous data loggers for temperature\, conductivity\, water level\, and dissolved oxygen. She is responsible for managing data\, conducting data analysis\, and ensuring that quality assurance and quality control align with data quality objectives. Additionally\, Paige writes research reports and the annual water quality report. \n1 CBLP CEU
URL:https://cblpro.org/event/winter-salt-week-webinar-salt-monitoring-101/
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SUMMARY:Winter Salt Week Webinar: Engineering Solutions
DESCRIPTION:Discover how innovative engineering can dramatically reduce the need for winter salt. This webinar will highlight design approaches—such as optimized grading\, drainage\, and material choices—that set the stage for safer\, more efficient winter maintenance. We’ll also explore the growing role of smart sensors and connected infrastructure in tracking conditions in real time. Finally\, learn how AI-driven storm management tools can support crews in making faster\, more precise decisions that keep surfaces safe while minimizing salt use. \nPresenters \nConnie Fortin is the Low Salt Strategist at Bolton & Menk and a nationally recognized leader in chloride reduction strategies. As the inventor of the Low Salt Design approach\, Connie has pioneered innovative methods to minimize salt use in winter maintenance\, infrastructure design\, and planning\, helping communities protect freshwater resources while maintaining public safety. Her work bridges science\, design\, and policy\, empowering engineers\, and decision-makers to implement sustainable\, low-impact solutions that reduce chloride pollution at the source. \nWilf Nixon is the Director of Public Works for the City of Pella\, Iowa\, a position he started in fall 2025. Prior to that\, he served as the President of the Professional Snowfighters Association\, a winter maintenance consulting business. Wilf was a key developer of the American Public Works Association Winter Maintenance Certificate programs. He regularly writes a column for the APWA Reporter on winter maintenance and speaks at National APWA Conferences on topics ranging from winter maintenance\, to AI\, to employee retention\, and more.
URL:https://cblpro.org/event/winter-salt-week-webinar-engineering-solutions/
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CATEGORIES:CEU Opportunity,Free
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SUMMARY:Winter Salt Week Webinar: Smart Salting Contracts
DESCRIPTION:Knowing how to ask for best practices can be difficult. If you aren’t an industry professional\, you likely feel out of your league when deciphering terms like deicing vs anti-icing\, pre-treatment vs pre-wet. What chemical deicers should you ask for or steer away from? Learn the basics about industry best practices and valuable resources that are available to support you to get the services you need and reduce liability at your property. \nPresenters \nMartin Tirado has been the CEO of the Snow & Ice Management Association for over 18 years with the mission of empowering snow and ice management professionals for success. \nJim Turcan serves as the president of Cornerstone Partners Horticultural Services Co. Cornerstone provides an array of commercial and residential services from landscape design and maintenance to snow and ice management. Their teams are led by Certified Snow Professionals (CSP) and Advanced Snow Managers (ASM)\, who are educated in the most up-to-date industry techniques and materials for anti-icing\, deicing\, and snow and ice management. They use environmentally friendly and non-corrosive materials when possible\, and utilize liquid brine anti-icing and deicing solutions for select sites. \n1 CBLP CEU
URL:https://cblpro.org/event/winter-salt-week-webinar-smart-salting-contracts/
LOCATION:Virtual/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CEU Opportunity,Free
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SUMMARY:Winter Salt Week Webinar: Salt Wise Stories
DESCRIPTION:Hear directly from winter maintenance practitioners who have made the shift to smarter salting. In this webinar\, they’ll share how they built the business case for change—reducing costs\, improving efficiency\, and protecting local waters. You’ll learn how they retooled their operations\, from equipment upgrades to staff training\, and what results they’ve seen on the ground. These leaders now pay it forward by educating peers\, supporting contractors\, and inspiring communities to adopt Salt Wise practices of their own. \nPhill Sexton is the Founder & Managing Director for WIT Advisers\, who developed the Sustainable Winter Management (SWiM®) standards and certifications\, and manages the SWiM® program and contract model for a diversity of private properties\, municipalities and watershed initiatives throughout North America. \nPhill also serves as a Professor (Adjunct) at the Center of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cobleskill and served on the Governor’s NY / Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force.  Phill’s past industry experience includes leading the nation’s largest privately held snow & ice management contracting firm (Brickman) and worked with the Snow & Ice Management Association (SIMA) to lead their education and outreach initiatives. \nPhill holds degrees in agriculture\, horticulture and business economics from the State University of NY and a master’s degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard University\, where he focused his studies on corporate innovation & sustainability\, and authored a thesis researching salt use by the winter management industry. \nAron Rodman owns Extra Mile Snow Plowing LLC in West Bend\, Wisconsin. They are the community’s largest snow and ice removal company\, and have been providing exceptional snow-clearing services for 15 years. They pride themselves on the newest cutting-edge technology in the realm of plowing to ensure a cleaner scrape to reduce salt usage. Aron has presented at the SIMA Midwest Snow and Ice Conference in 2024 and 2025. Listen to a short podcast with Aron discussing frequently asked questions on snow removal. Watch his 2025 webinar “Less Salt\, More Profit: The Smarter Future of Snow and Ice Management.” \n1 CBLP CEU
URL:https://cblpro.org/event/winter-salt-week-webinar-salt-wise-stories/
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SUMMARY:Winter Salt Week Webinars: Freshwater Salinization
DESCRIPTION:Get the big-picture view of freshwater salinization and why it’s emerging as a critical water-quality challenge across the country. We’ll break down the major drivers\, the ecological and infrastructure impacts\, and the trends scientists are tracking in rivers\, lakes\, and groundwater. Then we’ll zoom in on a real-world case study from the Occoquan Reservoir\, where researchers and managers are grappling with the complex mix of land use\, weather patterns\, and human behavior that fuels rising chloride levels. This case will illustrate both the challenges and the practical management strategies communities can use to protect their drinking water supplies. \nPresenters \nDr. Stanley Grant is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech\, and Director of the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab (OWML) in Northern Virginia. He studies pollutant fate and transport through aquatic systems. In 2020\, Stan and his team were awarded a $3.6M NSF-funded Growing Convergence Research grant to study novel approaches for managing inland freshwater salinization. \nDr. Megan Rippy is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at VT\, stationed at the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab in northern Virginia. Her professional interests include 1) the effects of urban stormwater on aquatic ecosystems and public health\, 2) characterization and modeling of green infrastructure co-benefits and their social\, ecological\, and hydrological drivers and 3) urban water security (particularly during times of drought). She is currently working on extending ecosystem service valuation frameworks to include constructed urban greenspaces like green stormwater infrastructure\, and is part of a multi-university team working together to characterize how green infrastructure is perceived by the public\, and what drives those perceptions. Ecosystem Services Lab website. \n1 CBLP CEU
URL:https://cblpro.org/event/winter-salt-week-webinars-freshwater-salinization/
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CATEGORIES:CEU Opportunity,Free
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