Forest Road Engineering Guidebook - Ministry of Forests

non-fish streams” in Chapter 4, “Road Drainage Construction,” for additional
maintenance information on fords.
Weirs
Forest Road Engineering Guidebook
Where weirs are installed in a stream to maintain water levels for fish passage,
they should be inspected and maintained to ensure that the fish passage
objectives are being met.
Inspection and repair of temporary and semi-permanently
deactivated roads
Inspections of temporarily and semi-permanently deactivated roads are to be
carried out at frequencies commensurate with the risk to the road, its users,
and adjacent forest resources. Their purpose is to assess the adequacy of
bridges, culverts, and ditches, and to determine the need for further drainage
work, road surfacing, and revegetation.
Where inspections identify inadequacies, remedial works must be performed
to satisfy the requirements of the Forest Road Regulation.
A sample road deactivation inspection report is provided in Appendix 7.
Suggestions for further reading
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). 1995. Surface
Maintenance. RRET 3328. Burnaby, B.C.
____________. 2001. Bridge Maintenance. RRET 3324. Burnaby, B.C.
____________. 2001. Culvert Maintenance. RRET 3322. Burnaby, B.C.
British Columbia Ministry of Forests. 2002. Fish-stream Crossing
Guidebook. Victoria, B.C.
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