Jay Dorsey

Jay is a water resources engineer with 30 years experience addressing watershed management issues through watershed planning, watershed modeling, site evaluation, stream assessment, and all facets of stormwater management (planning, design, review, construction, maintenance, monitoring, and modeling). 

• Jay currently is a partner in the Ohio State University Stormwater Management Program which conducts applied research at the practice, site and small watershed scale to help understand the cost of, and benefits and services provided by, green infrastructure and stormwater management systems.
• During his 10 years with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Soil and Water Resources, Jay provided stormwater and stream management technical assistance and training to state agencies, local communities and the private sector engineering community. 
• Jay’s work for a stream restoration contractor provided experience in all facets of stream assessment, restoration design, construction and monitoring. Jay’s projects included a detailed assessment of channel stability and stream habitat in the Portage River Watershed for the Toledo Area Metropolitan Council of Governments.
• Jay served as watershed coordinator for the East Fork Little Miami River where he led development and implementation of two state-endorsed watershed plans. As watershed coordinator, his responsibilities included stakeholder engagement, stream reach and watershed assessment, and project ranking, prioritization and implementation. During Jay’s tenure as coordinator, East Fork watershed program partners developed six successful grant proposals totaling $2.6 million to implement watershed initiatives including permanent floodplain preservation and the restoration of Aveys Run.