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 29 – October 1, Williamsport– Lycoming County

Where

• Genetti Hotel & Suites

What will you see?

• The trip will visit a wide variety of paved and unpaved road projects in a variety of setting in Lycoming and Clinton Counties. Practices include: crosspipes, grade breaks, through-the-bank-pipes, road fill and partial fill, dealing with agricultural issues, utilizing agricultural swales for road drainage, innovative off-ROW practices around homes, slip/slide stabilization, Driving Surface Aggregate, and more.

Itinerary

additional details coming soon

Tuesday

• Site Assessment and Project Design Field Trip (optional)
  • 1pm – 4pm
  • Ideal for new CD staff, this field trip will visit a potential DGLVR site(s) to discuss road and drainage issues, then come up with potential workplans to address those issues.
• DGLVR Advisory Workgroup Meeting (optional)
  • 1pm – 4pm
  • This workgroup meeting will be open for any CD staff to sit in on. The DGLVR Advisory Workgroup consists of CDs and a few other agencies, and is the primary advisor to the SCC’s DGLVR Program in matters such as allocations, policy changes, etc. We will be discussion a range of topics, and also looking to “re-vamp” the workgroup a bit now that the recent major policy changes have been implemented.

Wednesday PM (field trips)

• East Loop, Lycoming County
  • This trip will look at a variety of road and off-ROW practices in rural and agricultural settings. Practices include through-the bank pipes in an ag setting, several innovative off-ROW practices to work with landowners, Driving Surface Aggregate, and the use of agricultural swales to handle road runoff, and other drainage improvements.
• West Loop, Clinton and Lycoming Counties
  • This trip will visit a paved road that has had several steep bank stabilization practices completed, including two soil nail projects. It will also visit several completed unpaved road projects to discuss crosspipes, grade breaks, through-the-bank pipes, road fill and partial fill, and Driving Surface Aggregate.

Registration

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