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Iowa Certified SWPPP Designer (ICSD) Webinar

February 10 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

About This Training

The Iowa Certified SWPPP Designer course provides comprehensive training for professionals who prepare, review, and approve Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans for construction sites. This full-day training combines regulatory requirements, technical design principles, and hands-on exercises to give you practical skills you can apply immediately.

This certification is essential for engineers, plan reviewers, municipal staff, environmental consultants, and anyone responsible for SWPPP development or implementation.

Earn 6.25 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

What You’ll Learn

Throughout the day, you’ll gain expertise in:

  • NPDES General Permit #2 requirements and compliance documentation
  • Soil erosion and sedimentation processes, including the Universal Soil Loss Equation
  • The six phases of SWPPP preparation
  • Erosion, sediment, and velocity control BMPs, plus post-construction practices
  • BMP selection, placement strategies, and staging/sequencing
  • Good housekeeping, winter operations, and common SWPPP shortfalls

The training includes two hands-on exercises where you’ll practice BMP placement on site maps and review SWPPP narratives, giving you real-world experience you can apply immediately.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Create detailed, site-specific SWPPPs that effectively prevent erosion and control sediment
  • Apply regulatory requirements for General Permit No. 2 compliance
  • Implement appropriate erosion, sediment, and velocity control practices
  • Incorporate good housekeeping pollution prevention measures
  • Navigate the six phases of SWPPP preparation
  • Properly implement a SWPPP at a construction site

Your Instructors

Pat Sauer, CPSS
Strategic Advisor at ISWEP

Pat founded ISWEP in 2005 and grew the organization into a statewide leader serving 75 members across Iowa. As a Certified Professional Soil Scientist, she developed ISWEP’s comprehensive certification and training programs. Pat continues to support ISWEP in an advisory role, contributing her expertise to training events and educational resources.

Mike Heller, PWS, CPESC
Lead Environmental Scientist at Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC

Mike has been working with Midwest natural resources since 1992, specializing as a wetland ecologist and stormwater manager. His experience includes wetland and stream mitigation, restoration, Section 404 permitting, stormwater pollution prevention design and compliance, MS4 compliance, and designing best management and post-construction practices.

Register Now

Register for the February 10, 2026 ICSD Training

Questions?

Contact Pat Sauer at psauer@iowastormwater.org for more information about this training or the ICSD certification program.

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