Training opportunity: Stream Stabilization and Restoration

Stream Investigation, Stabilization & Design Workshop
With an emphasis on Innovative Approaches to Stream Stabilization and Restoration
August 2-4, 2010
Maxwell, Iowa

Classroom Location:
Polk County Conservation Board
The Chichaqua Longhouse
8700 NE 126th Ave
Maxwell, Iowa 50161

This workshop will introduce the methodologies and procedures for initiating, planning, analyzing, and ultimately designing long-term sustainable river and stream stabilization or restoration projects.  Innovative, environmentally sensitive, and cost-effective approaches to restoration will be discussed. Comprehensive case studies will be presented.  Rain gear, boots, and field clothes are recommended for the field trips.  After July 15th, lectures will be posted on the FTP site: ftp://chlguest:3bit5map@134.164.34.99:21/DERRICK-LECTURES

Workshop Sponsor: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wetland regulatory Assistance Program (WRAP) & USACE, Rock Island District

Instructors: Dave Derrick, Research Hydraulic Engineer with the Corps of Engineer’s Engineering Research and Development Center’s Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory (ERDC-CHL)

For more information and to register, contact Al Frohlich at 309/794-5859, Albert.J.Frohlich@usace.army.mil