LLC Profile/Overview
Storm & Stream
Solutions
Storm and Stream Solutions, LLC provides professional services in the water sector ranging from technical review, design and analysis of water resources projects, stormwater management consulting and stream restoration efforts, and MS4 permitting compliance and policy support to adult education/training development and delivery to research in public-private partnership (P3) investments and market-based approaches for stormwater and green infrastructure programs.
Storm and Stream is led by Seth Brown, who has a career with 25 years in the water sector in areas ranging from fluvial geomorphology to technical training to policy aspects of the water sector.
Storm and Stream is led by Seth Brown, who has a career with 25 years in the water sector in areas ranging from fluvial geomorphology to technical training to policy aspects of the water sector.
His first 15 years in the private sector has focused on design, analysis and modeling of natural water systems – stream assessment / restoration and watershed management and GIS services.
Additionally, Seth is a Certified Master Trainer for the National Highway Institute (NHI) based upon the development/delivery of technical training focused on erosion and sediment control (E&S) as well as post-construction stormwater management and has led over 70 trainings for over 20 state departments of transportation.
Over the last 15 years, Seth added to his background the dimensions of policy and economics, funding and financing in the stormwater, Clean Water, and water resources space.
Specifically, Seth established and led the stormwater program with the Water Environment Federation for five years and subsequently launched the National Municipal Stormwater Alliance (NMSA).
As the Executive Director for NMSA, he tracks legislative, regulatory and policy dynamics in the stormwater/MS4 sector and provides technical input through his own background and through the facilitation of information dissemination from experts in the field.
Throughout this time period, Seth worked with EPA through Storm and Stream on the Community-Based Public-Private Partnership (CBP3) model, which is an alternative project-delivery model to accelerate the implementation of green stormwater infrastructure in a cost-effective way with a focus maximizing community benefits over private-sector interests.
Mr. Brown obtained his Ph.D. in 2019 from George Mason University and led research focusing on the use of agent-based modeling (ABM) to investigate emergent behavior of environmental markets in the water sector. Specific areas of interest include investments in stormwater management / green infrastructure in urban areas and how incentive-based approaches can lead to cost-efficiencies, especially in retrofit efforts. Areas of special interest include innovative financing frameworks for stormwater management infrastructure investment, such as P3s, trading, and credit/rebate incentive-based approaches.
