The Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission will host a field workshop on Stream-Smart Road Crossings coordinated by Maine Audubon. The workshop will be held Thursday, Oct. 23 (Oct. 24 rain date) at 9 a.m. at the Whitefield Fire Station meeting room on Townhouse Road. The field work will take place at a nearby road-stream crossing.

The workshop will be led by:

• Alex Abbott, GIS professional and cartographer working as a partner to the USFWS Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
• Dan Baumert, state conservation engineer for the Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Steven Koenig, executive director of Project SHARE, whose mission is to restore aquatic habitat particularly for Atlantic salmon and brook trout
• Ben Naumann, fisheries biologist for the Natural Resources Conservation Services

Stream Smart workshops are designed to provide training for professionals responsible for road-stream crossings and are limited to town officials, engineers and contractors.

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 information.

The end result will be a conceptual preliminary design for a Stream Smart crossing replacement structure. Participants in this workshop will receive continuing education credits for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s Voluntary Contractor Certification Program. 

For more information or to register for the workshop, please go to http://lcrpc.org/events/2014-stream-smart-road-crossing-field-training-workshops-phase-ii for a workshop flier and registration form.

Please note that the workshop will be limited to the first 25 registrants.