2025 Drainage Workshop: Learn to maximize profit and protect water quality
March 4, 2025 - March 6, 2025
Registration Deadline: February 24, 2025 - 12:00AM
524 S Shaw Lane, room 106
The drainage design process will include basic design considerations and a step-by-step design procedure. Other topics include
- Soils and water movement in soils
- Surface drainage (shallow ditches and grassed waterways)
- Subsurface drainage principles and economics
- Selection of pipe style: 4-row or 8-row pipe? Sand-slot vs knitted-sock pipe?
- Making contour maps with QGIS free user-friendly software
- Design procedure (a step-by-step guide to design)
- Legal considerations of drainage
- Drain Spacing Tool to maximize profit
- Determining if drain sedimentation is a problem
- Properly sizing the main collector pipe to avoid drainage underperformance
- Determining if upsizing of the existing main is necessary when splitting lateral spacing
- Installation tips and safety
- Controlled drainage design
- Conservation drainage benefits: Controlled drainage, drainage water recycling, blind inlet
- Demonstration of drainage design software
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