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7 Lakes Alliance Workshop

Event Date: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 9:00am to 3:00pm

7 Lakes hosts camp road workshop Monday

7 Lakes Alliance is hosting a camp and gravel road maintenance workshop from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday, July 25, at its building at 137 Main St. in the Belgrade Lakes village.

The cost is $20 for those who pre-register and $30 for registering on the day of the event. A $5 discount is offered for two or more members of the same road or lake association, business or municipality. To register, click on the button below or this link. Payments will be made at registration at 8:30 a.m. Monday. 

The workshop is designed to help camp road residents, lake and road association members, driveway owners, municipal officials and contractors economically maintain roads and driveways while protecting water quality against runoff and erosion.

Topics will include grant funding for road projects that reduce erosion to protect water quality, grader operations, culvert sizing, winter plowing, permitting, stream crossings, design and maintenance of gravel roads, and non-traditional practices to repair roads. 

The cost of the workshop includes lunch. Presentations will be from 9 a.m.-noon, followed by field visits from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Parking will be available in the Union Church parking lot on School Street in the Belgrade Lakes village. (The church is at 62 Main St.; its parking lot is behind it.) 7 Lakes is about a block north of the church. 

Presenters include officials from 7 Lakes, the Maine Department of Transportation, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and the Kennebec County Soil and Water Conservation District, along with a retired state soil scientist. Four continuing education units (CEUs) can be earned for recertification in erosion control practices. 

In addition to 7 Lakes Alliance, the workshop is hosted by the Friends of the Cobbossee Watershed and 30 Mile River Watershed Association. Funding for the workshop is provided, in part, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. Section 319 funding is administered by the Maine DEP in partnership with the EPA.