August 25 - August 27, 2021
Borlaug Learning Center 3327 290th Street Nashua, IA 50658

Update: Event organizers have decided to not hold the Iowa Drainage School for 2020 due to COVID-19 issues, but instead postpone it until August 2021. The school has not been canceled, just postponed to 2021.

This is a three-day school with each day including a combination of hands-on training, lecture and discussion, and problem solving using in-field examples. By attending this school, participants will be able to plan and layout subsurface drainage systems and workout estimated project costs.

It will cover:

• sub-surface drainage concepts
• planning and laying out drainage systems
• surveying a profile
• laying out the system
• calculating tile line sizes and spacing using actual field data
• making connections
• setting up drainage control structures
• NRCS program requirements
• fixing common drainage system issues

Registration check-in: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 7:30 a.m.

The program begins at 8:00 a.m. and concludes at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 27, 2020.