Forest Road Engineering Guidebook - Ministry of Forests
Forest Road Engineering Guidebook - Ministry of Forests
Forest Road Engineering Guidebook - Ministry of Forests
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5. <strong>Road</strong> and Structure Inspection and Maintenance<br />
Introduction<br />
<strong>Forest</strong> <strong>Road</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Guidebook</strong><br />
<strong>Forest</strong> road and bridge inspection and maintenance involves the following<br />
activities:<br />
• assigning road inspection priorities based on risk analysis<br />
• road inspections<br />
• bridge and major culvert inspections<br />
• road prism maintenance<br />
• structural maintenance <strong>of</strong> the subgrade<br />
• clearing width maintenance<br />
• ditch and culvert maintenance<br />
• road surface maintenance<br />
• maintenance <strong>of</strong> structures<br />
• inspection and repair <strong>of</strong> deactivated roads.<br />
Required maintenance activities should be determined from field information<br />
documented during formal inspections, and from information and incidents<br />
provided by road users. From this, a maintenance plan should be prepared to<br />
remedy the identified deficiencies.<br />
The objectives <strong>of</strong> forest road maintenance are:<br />
• ensuring user safety<br />
• minimizing potentially adverse effects to adjacent forest resources from<br />
the use <strong>of</strong> the road<br />
• maintaining safe fish passage at fish stream crossings<br />
• maintaining water quality in community watersheds<br />
• protecting the road infrastructure investment.<br />
<strong>Road</strong> works shutdown indicators and procedures should be considered when<br />
forest road maintenance works are being carried out on active roads and<br />
when remedial works are being carried out on deactivated roads. These indicators<br />
and procedures are provided in Chapter 3, “<strong>Road</strong> Construction.”<br />
Assigning road inspection priorities<br />
A person responsible for carrying out inspections on maintained roads and<br />
temporary and semi-permanently deactivated roads should “risk rate” roads<br />
using a simple, qualitative risk-analysis procedure.<br />
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