Manual "Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance for Dirt and Gravel Roads" Available!
“Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance for Dirt and Gravel Roads”, sponsored by Pennsylvania DOT with funding assistance from the EPA, has been developed. It can be viewed by Clicking on the Title. This is a non point source pollution project that identifies, documents, and encourages the use of environmentally sensitive maintenance of dirt and gravel roads. Specifically this project involved the development of a reference manual and related technical information sheets on “Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance of Dirt and Gravel Roads” for national use. The manual provides insight into using natural systems and innovative technologies to reduce erosion, sediment, and dust pollution while more effectively and efficiently maintaining dirt and gravel roads. The manual addresses the environment of forests, mountainous terrain, and rolling hills. Various states already employ some of the more common practices, particularly forestry departments. These states and their local governments are prime targets for deploying the additional practices to be addressed in the manual. The manual gives the users a “tool box” full of environmentally sensitive maintenance “tools” or practices, recognizing that not one tool can fit every situation or site or solve all their problems in maintaining their dirt and gravel roads and protecting the environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency has also placed on their website, dividing up the chapters, appendices, etc. into separate pdf files, so downloading target sections will proceed much faster. Visit their website at http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/sensitive/sensitive.html
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Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance for Dirt and Gravel Roads (PDF File)