Bill Hunt

Bio

Dr. William F. Hunt III is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished University Professor and Extension Specialist in North Carolina State University’s Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Hunt holds degrees in Civil Engineering (NCSU, B.S., 1994), Economics (NCSU, B.S., 1995), Biological & Agricultural Engineering (NCSU, M.S., 1997) and Agricultural & Biological Engineering, (Penn State, Ph.D., 2003).

Since 2000, Hunt has assisted with the design, installation, and/or monitoring of over 150 stormwater control measures (SCMs), including bioretention, stormwater wetlands, innovative wet ponds, green roofs, permeable pavement, water harvesting/cistern systems and level spreaders. He teaches 20-25 short courses and workshops each year on stormwater design, function, and maintenance throughout North Carolina and the United States.

Hunt is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), where he serves on the Urban Water Resources Research Council, the LID committee, and is co-chair of the Bioretention Task Committee. He was chair of the 2nd National LID Conference held in Wilmington, NC, in March 2007 and co-chaired the same conference in Philadelphia in September 2011.

Area(s) of Expertise

Stormwater management, and low impact development and green infrastructure

Publications

• Calibration and validation of DRAINMOD to predict long-term permeable pavement hydrology , JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (2024)
• The potential to manage releases of Bacillus anthracis using bioretention and a high flow media filter: Results of simulated runoff testing with tracer spores Bacillus globigii , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2024)
• EVALUATING THE OCCURRENCE AND RELATIVE ABUNDANCE OF MOSQUITOES IN RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEMS , JOURNAL OF THE ASABE (2022)
• Effect of Visibility on Maintenance Investment and Consequent Performance of Urban Stormwater Control Measures , JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE WATER IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (2022)
• Fine scale hydrologic modelling of bioretention using DRAINMOD-urban: Verifying performance across multiple systems , JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (2022)
• A Comparison of Methods to Address Anaerobic Conditions in Rainwater Harvesting Systems , WATER (2021)
• Hydrologic Modeling of Distributed Stormwater Control Measure Retrofit and Examination of Impact of Subcatchment Discretization in PCSWMM , JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE WATER IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (2021)
• Monitoring the Water Quality Benefits of a Triangular Swale Treating a Highway Runoff , JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE WATER IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (2021)
• Next generation swale design for stormwater runoff treatment: A comprehensive approach , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2021)
• Survey of the operational status of twenty-six urban stormwater biofilter facilities in Sweden , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2021)