Successes in Rural Road Maintenance and Ecology

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Schedule: 9:00 - 9:15 Introduction

9:15 - 9:45 Dirt and Gravel Roads Program and Center History

9:45 - 10:15 Dirt and Gravel Roads Program and Center Status

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Rural Road Research Speakers

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch

1:15 - 2:15 Panel Discussion: Road Impacts at the Watershed Scale

2:15 - 4:00 Poster Session and Social

Early to mid- 1990’s

PA Council of Trout Unlimited

• Recognized pollution problem.

• Formed task force to examine problem.

• TU volunteers Identified over 900 pollution sites on public unpaved roads in protected watersheds.

1997

Act 3 of 1997 (Transportation Bill)

• $4M for municipal and state roads • $1M for DCNR roads

Special recognition needs to be made to former State Senator Doyle Corman, who championed the Pennsylvania program through funding Section 9106 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code

(a) Statement of purpose.--It is the intent and purpose of this section:

(1) To fund safe, efficient and environmentally sound

maintenance of sections of dirt and gravel roads which have

been identified as sources of dust and sediment pollution.

1997

Section 9106 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code

2003

The Program Completes its 1,000th project 2009

The Program Completes its 2,000th project

2013

Act 87 of 2013 (Transportation Bill)

Major Program Changes: • $1M to $7M for DCNR roads • $4M to $28M for municipal and state roads • Of that $28M, at least $8M for paved low-

volume roads (<500 cars per day) Senator Jake Corman was a champion for the program increase.

Before

After

Stream Crossing replacement possible starting in 2015.

2016 DnG Project in York County: $50K Spent, $27 in kind

2016

The Program Completes its 3,000th project

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Successes in Rural Road Maintenance and Ecology

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