Annual Maintenance Workshop

The Center’s annual maintenance workshop is held each fall at locations around Pennsylvania. The Workshop typically attracts up to 200 attendees from a variety of entities involved in low volume road maintenance. The Workshop features invited speakers, concurrent classroom sessions, and field trips to active and completed road sites to view the implementation of ESM practices.

September 23-25, Gettysburg – Adams County

Where

• Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel & Conference Center

DRAFT planned agenda – subject to change

Tuesday September 23rd – OPTIONAL

• Optional Afternoon Sessions for CDs/Forestry:
  • Quarry Visit: Visit a nearby quarry to learn about aggregates and quarry operations.
  • DGLVR Project Mapper: Learn how to make workplans and layouts for DGLVR projects.
  • Battlefield Tour: We are planning a battlefield bus tour after the brief optional sessions above.
• Municipality Day: A separate field trip that will visit many of the same sites that CDs will see on Wed/Thr. (Local municipalities will receive a separate invitation to this event. They will spend the entire day in the field, visiting projects that rest of the attendees will see on the three field trips Wed/Thr. This one-day event will count as a 5-year ESM recertification, ONLY for municipalities who have a current ESM certification. You can find more details here.)
• “Icebreaker” Informal reception for early arrivals ~5pm

Wednesday September 24th

• Morning
  • Opening Session (8:15am)
  • Concurrent Classroom Sessions: New this year based on feedback: longer class sessions, including some roundtables and/or panel discussions.
• Afternoon: Field Trips
  • Choose one of two field trip options. Field trips will visit sites in Adams and Cumberland county. Planned stops include: new stream crossing to DGLVR standard, urban subsurface infiltration BMP, CD/Forestry collaboration project, and several paved and unpaved drainage improvement projects.
• Evening:·Vendor Reception (~5:00), Dinner (6:30)

Thursday September 25th

• Concurrent Classroom Sessions: We will repeat the longer classes from Wednesday (you can see 4 of 6 classes total) and have additional discussion sessions. Will include the popular informal chat session with SCC staff
• Workshop ends with lunch.

CD/Forestry Photo Contest

Submit photos for 2026 DGLVR Calendar, photos voted on at workshop, winner receives a prize.

How to submit:

• “Before and After” project photos preferred, but in-progress or other photos welcome too.
• Submit photos, along with a brief project description (2-3 sentences or a few bullet points), to Amy Lee Pifer (alp90@psu.edu) by the end of August.

Can I Register Yet?

• We hope to finalize more details and open registration by the end of May.
• Feel free to contact us with questions.

Registration

No fax, snail mail or call-in registrations will be accepted!