Dear AWWA Friends,
If you have any concerns about your gravel driveway or road please
consider attending this informative workshop being held in our
neighboring watershed, sponsored by the Green Mountain Conservation
Group:
On March 23, Madison resident and gravel road guru, Russ Lanoie, will
give a workshop at the Freedom Town Hall on gravel road maintenance
techniques that can improve performance and durability of gravel roads
while helping protect surface water quality through properly managed
drainage.
Russ is a specialty sitework contractor who has over 40 years of
experience installing surface drainage and maintaining dirt roads in
the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He has an associate’s degree in
Civil Technology from UNH and has written and presented programs on
unpaved road maintenance, energy conservation, solar home design,
understanding septic systems, and wet basement mitigation.
This workshop will be based on Russ’s gravel road maintenance
manual, A Ditch in Time, which will be available for purchase at the
workshop. The workshop is targeted at camp operators, road
associations, private land owners who maintain long unpaved driveways,
and more generally, to those who contract for dirt road maintenance.
The morning workshop will be followed by a site visit to assess a
nearby road. The workshop is free and will be held at the Freedom Town
Hall, located on Elm Street in Freedom Village, from 9:00 a.m. to
noon. Please register by calling GMCG at 539-1859.
—
Linda Schier, Executive Director
Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance
PO Box 235
Union, NH 03887
(603) 473-2500
info@AWwatersheds.org
www.AWwatersheds.org