Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance for Dirt and Gravel Roads
Credits: 4 PDH
PDH Course Description:
This online engineering PDH course describes environmentally sensitive maintenance practices for dirt and gravel roads. If implemented, these practices reduce erosion and sediment, maintain subsurface hydrologic connectivity, restore drainage density
to more natural conditions, and eliminate diversion potential. Additionally, long term maintenance costs are reduced and maintenance cycles lengthened.
This course describes a simple protocol to help road managers and maintenance practitioners assess road conditions; identify problems; determine cause; and select the appropriate environmentally sensitive practices that fit site conditions. The various
conditions are illustrated through the extensive use of carefully chosen photographs.
Topics:
- Keys to diagnosing road problems
- Subsurface water
- Road surface drainage
- Roadside ditches
- Ditch outlets
- Road stream crossings
- Surface aggregate
- Road assessment and monitoring
To take this course:
1.) Enroll in Course: Click below to enroll:
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Download the Study Guide
3.) Test: Once you've thoroughly read the course materials, please click below to take the final examination.
Take the final exam
4.) Certificate: A passing grade of 70% or higher on the exam, is required to receive the certificate of completion for this PDH course.
NOTE: After the exam is completed, you will need to return to this page, in order to print (download) the certificate of completion.
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Intended Audience: This course is intended for civil, highway, county, and state engineers concerned with the design and maintenance of gravel roads.
Publication Source: This course is based on the United States Department of Agriculture document 7700-Transportation Management 1177 1802--SDTCD, “Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance Practices for Dirt and Gravel Roads,” written by personnel from the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Dirt and Gravel Roads, April, 2012.
Print the Certificate of Completion
Intended Audience: This course is intended for civil, highway, county, and state engineers concerned with the design and maintenance of gravel roads.
Publication Source: This course is based on the United States Department of Agriculture document 7700-Transportation Management 1177 1802--SDTCD, “Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance Practices for Dirt and Gravel Roads,” written by personnel from the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Dirt and Gravel Roads, April, 2012.
Mark Rossow PhD, PE (retired)