Road Crossing Field Training Workshops

Wells: Monday, October 26 (rain date: Oct. 30), 9 am – 4 pm Registration/check-in: 8:30 am
Wells Reserve, Mather Auditorium 342 Laudholm Road, Wells, Maine

Houlton: Tuesday, November 3 (rain date: Nov. 5), 9 am – 4 pm Registration/check-in: 8:30 am
Houlton Fire Department, 99 Military Street, Houlton, Maine

Augusta: Tuesday, November 17 (rain date: Nov. 18), 9 am – 4 pm Registration/check-in: 8:30 am
Associated General Contractors of Maine, 188 Whitten Road, Augusta, Maine

Old Town: Thursday, November 19 (rain date: Nov. 20), 9 am – 4 pm Registration/check-in: 8:30 am
University Forest Shop, 825 College Ave Ext, Old Town, Maine


$35.00 registration fee includes box lunch (scholarships available for Penobscot River Watershed)

Stream Smart Phase II is a field oriented technical workshop extension of the principles of Stream Smart de-sign for ecological road crossings. Participants will learn how to assess a road/stream crossing, gathering the information needed to develop a conceptual design for a replacement open bottom stream crossing.

Information gathered will include: a surveyed longitudinal profile, gradient, riffle/pool spacing, bankfull width measurements, cross sectional transects of a reference reach, and stream substrate composition.

Following the “hands on” field portion of the workshop, participants will enter data and interpret the infor-mation. The end result will be a conceptual preliminary design for a Stream Smart crossing replacement struc-ture. Stream Smart workshops are designed to provide training for professionals responsible for road-stream crossings. Participants in this workshop will receive continuing education credits for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s Voluntary Contractor Certification Program.

Online Registration at maineaudubon.org/stream-smart Workshops are offered in four different locations in Maine—content is the same for all workshops. For more information contact Beth Pauls at bpauls@maineaudubon.org or 207-781-2330 x273