This document discusses environmentally sensitive road maintenance and closure. It outlines different styles of maintenance including routine, periodic, traditional, and environmentally sensitive maintenance. It emphasizes the importance of doing maintenance and lists various areas that require maintenance like the road surface, ditches, armoring, culverts, disposal areas, clearing, cut slopes, erosion control, and signing/safety. The document provides examples of different maintenance techniques and stresses developing a maintenance plan that identifies priorities, resources, and work sequence to properly care for the road system.

1. Environmentally SensitiveEnvironmentally Sensitive
MaintenanceMaintenance
andand
Road ClosureRoad Closure

2. Styles of MaintenanceStyles of Maintenance
• Routine and Periodic MaintenanceRoutine and Periodic Maintenance
(Ongoing and Deferred)(Ongoing and Deferred)
• Traditional Road MaintenanceTraditional Road Maintenance
• Environmentally Sensitive RoadEnvironmentally Sensitive Road
MaintenanceMaintenance

3. Most Important--Most Important--
Do MaintenanceDo Maintenance!!!!

4. Pothole FishingPothole Fishing
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6. Areas of MaintenanceAreas of Maintenance
• Road Surface-Potholes and Ruts
• Ditches
• Armoring/Riprap
• Culverts
• Disposal Areas
• Clearing/Brush Control
• Cut Slopes
• Erosion Control
• Signing/Safety

7. Road
Surface

12. Road Surface needs ReshapingRoad Surface needs Reshaping

28. ROAD SURFACE PATCHING
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30. Grader

33. Ditches

47. Ditch Armoring

54. Culverts

65. ClearingClearing

71. Cut SlopesCut Slopes

75. Penn State-
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76. Erosion ControlErosion Control

81. Disposal Areas

82. Poor Disposal Sites

83. Good Disposal
Sites

86. Lazy Maintenance

87. Signing/Safety

90. The Maintenance Plan
When? How? Where?
What?
• Road Surface--R
• Ditches--R
• Armoring--P
• Culverts--P
• Disposal Sites--P
• Clearing--R
• Erosion Control--R
• Signing/Safety--P

91. What do we Need for aWhat do we Need for a
Maintenance PlanMaintenance Plan
• Road System Inventory.
• Knowledge of your roads.
• Priorities of the worst roads and structures.
• How will we accomplish the maintenance?
• Funds and equipment available.
• The work sequence.
• A mixture of contracting, force account
equipment, and manual labor.
• What is routine, What is periodic?

92. Most Important--Most Important--
Do MaintenanceDo Maintenance!!!!

94. EnvironmentallyEnvironmentally
Sensitive MaintenanceSensitive Maintenance
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