Roads, Highways and Bridges - NPS Categories

EPA Sites

• Controlling Nonpoint Source Runoff Pollution from Roads, Highways, and Bridges



• Road Maintenance Video Set
  The "Road Maintenance Video Set" is a five-part video series developed for USDA Forest Service equipment operators. It focuses on environmentally sensitive ways of maintaining low volume roads.



• Gravel Roads: Maintenance and Design Manual
  This manual was developed with a major emphasis on the maintenance of gravel roads, including some basic design elements. The purpose of the manual is to provide clear and helpful information for doing a better job of maintaining gravel roads. The manual is designed for the benefit of elected officials, mangers, and grader operators who are responsible for designing and maintaining gravel roads.



• Planning Considerations for Roads, Highways, and Bridges



• Pollution Control Programs for Roads, Highways and Bridges



• Erosion, Sediment, and Runoff Control for Roads and Highways



• Recommended Practices Manual: A Guideline for Maintenance and Service of Unpaved Roads
  This is a manual of standard procedures, produced by Choctawhatchee, Pea and Yellow Rivers Watershed Management Authority, which describes and illustrates cost effective techniques and practices which can be used to enhance stability and maintenance of unpaved roadways while reducing sedimentation and improving the quality of surface waters.

Non-EPA Sites

• Low-Volume Roads Engineering Best Management Practices Field Guide
  [When prompted for a password, press cancel to access the document - link to chapters from table of contents].
  This guide is intended to provide an overview of the key planning, location, design, construction, and maintenance aspects of roads that can cause adverse environmental impacts and to list key ways to prevent those impacts.

• Massachusetts Unpaved Roads BMP Manual (PDF format, 1.5MB)
  This manual presents BMPs that can be used to improve water quality while enhancing the quality of unpaved roads. It is designed to be used by highway department supervisors, road crews and others engaged in maintaining private or public roadways.

• Best Management Practices for Environmental Issues Related to Highway and Street Maintenance (PDF format, 10MB)
  This document, produced by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, is appropriate for state, county, city and local agencies. It is a compilation of practices likely to increase the environmental sensitivity of road maintenance work, including many practices that have become widely adopted and adapted.

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