Mound Installation Demo

Mound Installation Field Days provide instruction for those interested in learning more about designing and installing mounds. Registrants participating in this training session will focus on the following outcomes:

1. Understand the basic principles of how mounds work – treatment in sand layer and dispersal horizontally. Apply soil evaluation information. Understand ground water mounding.
2. Learn mound design configurations and materials; sand layer, fill, gravel, chambers.
3. Basic knowledge of utilizing topography of installation site.
4. Know factors in locating the mound – slope vs. level, clearance separations, vertical separations, fill materials for raised bed.
5. Ability to build pressure distribution laterals for mound, orientation of orifices, spacing, etc.
6. Ability to assist with preparation of basal area (soil interface).
7. Ability to assist with construction of sand layer, pressure distribution system, chamber placement, berm placement and all other aspects of mound construction.
8. This will be a complete mound installation in the field.

When: June 22, 2016 

Where: Lloydminster, SK

Register online, download a registration form, or contact the SOWMA office.