Registration is now open for the annual Omaha Green Infrastructure Tour. 

 

On September 15, the UNL Stormwater Team, the City of Omaha Stormwater Program, and the UNO Center for Urban Sustainability will be sponsoring the annual Omaha Green Infrastructure Tour.  This year’s tour will provide a great opportunity to see how people across the city are implementing porous pavements, bioretention gardens, green spaces, wetlands, green roofs, tree planters and more!  More information is available at water.unl.edu/stormwater. Registration is available online at go.unl.edu/OmahaGreenInfrastructureTour

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One of NeFSMA’s core goals is to promote public awareness of floodplain and stormwater management. We are looking for volunteers from the NeFSMA community to help accomplish this important goal. We currently have three opportunities available for volunteers to help demonstrate NeFSMA’s floodplain model. We are looking for 2 to 3 volunteers to fill each available time slot. This is a very fun and rewarding way to help educate our community about floodplains.  

Event #1 – Demonstrate Floodplain Model and discuss the importance of floodplain and stormwater management for visiting families at the Omaha Children’s Museum

Date: May 21st, 2016

Location: Omaha Children’s Museum, 500 S 20th Street, Omaha, NE

Time Slot #1: 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

Time Slot #2: 12:00 P.M – 3:00 P.M.

Click here to sign up for this event.

Event #2 – Demonstrate Floodplain Model and discuss the importance of floodplain and stormwater management for visitors for Lincoln’s 2016 Waterfest

Date: June 4th, 2016

Location: Holmes Lake Park, 70th & Normal, Lincoln, NE

Time Slot #1: 5:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.

Click here to sign up for this event.

 

Event #3 – Demonstrate Floodplain Model and discuss the importance of floodplain and stormwater management for visiting families at the Omaha Children’s Museum

Date: August 13th, 2016

Location: Omaha Children’s Museum, 500 S 20th Street, Omaha, NE

Time Slot #1: 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

Time Slot #2: 12:00 P.M – 3:00 P.M.

Click here to sign up for this event.

Training on the flood model demonstration can be provided.  If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please contact Mike McIntosh at 402-496-2498.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha Center for Urban Sustainability is hosting "Accelerating Innovative Urban Ideas in Water" a panel discussion about current critical regional water issues and how to address them.

You are invited to participate in a conversation with state and local water experts to discuss challenges and opportunities relevant to urban sustainability. Meet with other attendees to enjoy complimentary food and drinks, and participate in a dialogue on water quality, availability, policy, politics, and citizen engagement. In addition, this will be the LAST EVENING that the Kaneko Water Exhibit will be open.

This panel discussion will be held on April 22, 2016 at The Kaneko, 1111 Jones Street in Omaha.

Click here for more information or to RSVP.

Have you been considering ordering a NeFSMA shirt?  Well, now's your chance to order and save.

We will be putting in a group order at the end of January for a 15% discount.  You can see all the items we have to offer here.

If you're interested please email Rocky Keehn at rkeehn@sehinc.com with your choice and size by January 29th.

It's hard to believe that 2015 is almost behind us.  It's been a great year for us and we hope it was for you as well.

As we start to prepare for the new year, we are looking at doing a few new things.  One will be a 2016 photo contest.

We're looking for the best pictures you can send of your projects.  No project is too small, no flood too large.  We want to see Nebraska and our members at their finest!

At the end of the year, we will choose the best photos to feature in a wall calendar to be available at our Annual Membership meeting in November.

Photos can be sent to nefsma@hotmail.com throughout the year.  If you submit a photo, please provide a brief description of the subject, the names and professional affiliations of any persons in the photo, and the name and affiliation of the person who took the photo.

We want to wish you all a happy and safe holiday season and we can't wait to see what our members will do next year!

The Lincoln Journal Star was in attendance at our Annual Conference on July 30.

Here's a link to their write-up of our Keynote Address discussing the May 7, 2015 flooding in Lincoln.

Flood control dams did their job; four lakes set record storing May storm.

There have been a lot of flooding events in Nebraska over the last year.  And we know our members always have awesome projects in the works.

If you have some high-quality pictures of flooding or a new project that has been installed, or even an old project that's working well, we want to feature them at our upcoming Annual Conference!

These must be your original photos and by sending them you are giving us permission to display them publicly.  

Please send your photos to Lori Laster at llaster@papionrd.org along with a caption describing the photo, the names of any people featured in the photo, and the name and employer of the person who took the photo.

They must be received by July 24 to be considered!

EPA Region VII has accepted our invitation to participate in the Clean Water Act Round Table discussion at our Annual conference.  To aid in our discussion, a survey will be sent to those registered for the conference.  This will allow us to group similar questions and try to cover as many questions as possible.  We will also allocate time for questions during the discussion.

Thank you EPA Region VII for participating!

Click here for more information about our conference.

We are excited to announce our 7th Annual Conference will be held July 30, 2015 at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center in Nebraska City!

We are in the process of finalizing the agenda, but it's shaping up to be our best conference yet.

Once again, we will partner with Nebraska Silver Jackets to bring you a pre-conference workshop on July 29, 2015, also in Nebraska City.

And if you will be joining us for both events, we have a block of rooms at the Lied Lodge (800.546.5433).  

Click here more information or to register.