Tile Drainage Design & Water Management Workshop

Creating Drainage Maps with Public Domain Applications | August 4 | 8:30 AM - 1 PM

(Essential for participants without prior QGIS experience)

• Coordinate Reference Systems: Latitude/Longitude, UTM, State Plane Coordinates*
• Google Earth, SoilWeb*
• Introduction to QGIS, QGIS Print Layout, 3D Mapping in QGIS*

Subsurface Tile Drainage Design | August 5 | 8:30 AM - 5:15 PM

(Introductory and Advanced tracks available)

• Surveying Basics* Calculating Lengths and Slopes*
• Illinois LiDAR data*, LiDAR Resampling*, Creating Contour Lines*
• Water Quality
• Soil Properties: Drainage Coefficient* and Lateral Depth and Spacing*
• Watershed Delineation, Lay LInes * and Watershed-scale Topo Map Creation*
• Drainage Law
• Sizing Mains* and System Layout*
• Sizing Control Zones* and Illinois Drainage Water Management Plan*
• Water Quality Saturated Buffers
• Proper Installation Procedure

Trainers include Falasy Anamelechi, Rabin Bhattarai, Laura Christianson, Reid Christianson, Richard Cooke

Registration Required

*indicates interactive sessions