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The purpose of the training is
to make the roadmasters aware
of the environmental impacts of
their road construction and
maintenance practices.
The program was apparently
created with a good understand
ing of the road manager job and
common practices.
It reviews common problems
and situations, then provides a
mix of introductory level and
advanced level educational
materials to help provide an
enhanced awareness about the
negative consequences of some
maintenance and construction
techniques and corrective mea
sures and considerations.
The topics coveted geology
and soils, water drainage
aspects and and road principals,
basic grading principals, ero
sion control and sedimentation,
bank stabilization, mainte
nance, technologies, regula
tions and grants.
A common theme in the
entire program is watershed
protection, its proper care, and
prevention of water pollution.
Those seeking to prevent
water pollution were the source
of force behind the effort to
establish the new program.
But water flows are integral
to the nature of dirt and gravel
roads.
For example, a bend in a dirt
road, depending on how it was
constructed, can become a
water trap.
The trapped water saturates
the soil, disolving some of the
soluable particles, incorporat
ing some of the suspended sol
ids, and acting as a lubricant for
the movement of {articles.
When a vehicle drives
through the area, the wet area is
soft and pushes out Any stand
ing water sprays away from the
tire, taking with it what road
engineers call “fines,” the small
particles.
The fines wash out and the
larger road materials become
loose, and begin to be moved
out with successive us cage.
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Eventually a rut is formed, and
the longer it is allowed to remain
and hold water, the faster that
stretch of road will erode.
Too dry of a road can cause dust
problems.
Dust from dirt roads can be con
trolled through various methods,
such as spraying with approved
non-toxic adhesives or dampening
or binding agents.
Large-scale highway construc
tion with finished surfaces appear
fairly generic over long stretches,
and dctatched from local
landscape.
They should be expected to have
well built-up subsurfaces engi
neered to avoid saturation under
normal seasonal conditions.
However, dirt and gravel roads
are part of the environment in
which they are built They are a
manipulation of the environment,
rather than a challenge to it
According to Karl Brown,
executive secretary of the State
Conservation Commission (SCC),
a reference is under contract with
Penn State University to develop
ment and publish.
He said the state Department of
Environmental Resources and the
Task Force had compiled all exist
ing standards and specifications
for non-paved roads. He said it’s
referred to as the “Yellow Book,”
but it is too unweildly to easy use.
He said Penn State is to be fin
ishing on second generation work,
mote appropriate to use on dirt and
gravel toads.
“It’s ccrtinaly valuable to far
mers and roadmasters and other
people,” he said.
He also said that of the $5 mil
lion allocated, $1 million is to go
directly to the state Department of
Conservation of Natural Resour
ces Bureau of Forestry.
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The remaining $4 million are to
be directed through the SCC and
then through county districts. The
money comes from the state’s
Motor Vehicle License fund,
otherwise known as the gas tax.
Locally, the program is to be
administered through a quality
control board consisting of a four
member board.
Two members of the board are
to be appointed by the county con
servation district board of direc
tors. The other two are to be a rep
resentative of the local Geld ofGcc
of the USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS),
and a representative of the Pa. Fish
and Boat Commission.
Of those from the county con
servation district, one is to serve as
non-voting chairperson of the
quality board, while the other is a
voting member. They can be direc
tors, associated directors, staff, or
anyone else the district board
chooses to appoint
To local conservation district is
to assist road managers, coordinate
the dirt and gravel road program a
the county level, and to review the
one-page applications (still being
finalized) from the municipalities
and other eligible agencies.
As soon as the applications are
finalized and made available, con
servation districts can begin
accepting and reviewing them.
Because it is in its first year, and
because the state has identified
specific watersheds with high
quality or high value streams for
immediate attention, the program
is to initially be offered only to
those within those designated
watersheds.
After work on those initial areas
is underway the program will open
up to other areas.
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