August, 2025 Luncheon

Speaker: Hunter Freeman, PE

Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025

Topic:  At the Intersection of Gray and Green: How GSI can reduce flooding and improve water quality

Presentation: N.A.

Summary: Have you been affected by nuisance flooding recently? With our changing rainfall patterns, continued development, and aging infrastructure, any dark cloud seems to cause anxiety. Even small cloudbursts are disrupting our ability to move around town and threatening our quality of life. From the coast to the mountains, North Carolina communities are struggling to find ways to effectively manage existing flooding problems and prepare for future challenges. Recently completed green infrastructure projects in Raleigh and Beaufort, North Carolina, and upcoming projects across the state highlight ways that green infrastructure might be used to effectively mitigate flooding and increase the lifespan and effectiveness of existing gray stormwater infrastructure. This presentation will use case studies from across the State to explain the challenge facing communities, and showcase how GSI might be implemented to add sustainability and resiliency to our communities.

Bio: Hunter is a senior advisor to the green stormwater infrastructure practice for McAdams in Raleigh, NC. He specializes in permitting and execution of innovative stormwater strategies including green infrastructure, nature based solutions, and community planning. Hunter’s work highlights the power of collaboration, merging stormwater engineering, landscape architecture, and multiple disciplines to integrate high performing innovative environmental protection measures into the built environment. In addition to his design work, Hunter is a board member on the Southeast Stormwater Association and is Past-President of the North Carolina APWA Stormwater Division.