Upcoming Workshop:
2025 Drainage Workshop, Mar 4-6, 2025
Past Workshops:
2024 Drainage Workshop, Feb 27-29, 2024 (More Information)
2023 Drainage Workshop, Mar 7-9, 2023 (More Information)
2022 Drainage Design Workshop, Mar 8-10, 2022 (More Information)
2021 Drainage Tools Workshop: Tools to Inform Drainage, Aug 24, 2021 (More Information) (Video recordings)
2021 Drainage Design Workshop, Canceled due to COVID-19
2020 Drainage Design Workshop, Feb 12-13, 2020 (More information)
2018 Drainage Monitoring Workshop, July 19, 2018 (More information)
Quotes from ONE-YEAR follow-up Survey of former attendees
1- “It helped me better size outlets and spacing, saved me time with summer tile installation and gave me confidence that I was doing the right thing on my farm”.
2- “helped me make the choice of tiling myself or sub-contracting”.
3- “it has helped me evaluate fields for planting. I do hay and I need to understand the wet areas”.
5- “assisted me with helping landowners improve their drainage in a residential setting”.
6- “it helped me connect with my customers better”.
7- A drainage contractor attendee who had also attended another drainage school, had this to say: “… [the Michigan workshop] covers all of the necessary info needed to understand drainage installation”.
8- "The workshop helped us by increasing our knowledge of drainage tools that we can use in conjunction with our contractors to complete projects the most efficient way possible."