Do-It-Yourself BMPs for Lake Tahoe residents and contractors

Submitted by paula on Sat, 04/04/2015 - 9:48pm

Learn how to design and install Best Management Practices (BMPs) for homes and small businesses in a series of workshops being presented by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency in coordination with the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and Nevada Tahoe Conservation District.

Due to limited grant funding, this will be the last year the workshops for both the contractor and the do-it-youselfers will be held. The workshops will also be the last time businesses can qualify for the BMP Installation Service Providers List by having at least one supervisor per business attend.

Workshop topics will include how to use TRPA’s online resources, TRPA’s new electronic approval process for small BMP retrofit designs, and commercial and multi-family residential BMP permits and maintenance.

A “Basic Contractors BMP Workshop” is scheduled for Friday, April 24, from 8 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences on the campus of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village. Registration is $25 before April 8 and $45 after. The walk-in price is $55.

A “Half-Day Refresher BMP Workshop” is scheduled for Wednesday, April 29, from 8 a.m. to noon at the TRPA offices in Stateline. To attend, you must have successfully completed the basic workshop or a refresher workshop within the past two years. Registration is $18 before April 8 and $35 after. The walk-in price is $45.

Refreshments and a standard drawings booklet are included in the registration fee.

Register online at www.unce.unr.edu/adhoc/bmpworkshop or call the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension at 775-336-0244. The contractors’ manual, “How to Install Residential Scale Best Management Practices in the Lake Tahoe Basin,” is optional for $25. The manual is also available online at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/nr/2011/cm1102.pdf.