Infrastructure

Road Design, Construction & Maintenance 

Gravel

• Introduction
• A Recipe for Success
• Gradation of Granular Materials
• Local Road Material Specification
• Combining Materials
• Sampling and Preparation for Testing
• Gravel Testing
• Hand Tests
• Sand Equivalent Test
• Quick Wash Test
• When To Pave a Gravel Road?
• Pavement Cracking: A Failure Indicator of Your Roads
• Preparing Specifications: How to Get What You Want
• Road Maintenance Worksheets
• Blank Worksheet
• Inherited an aggregate surfaced road

Superpave Hot Asphalt Mix

• What is Superpave?
• Aggregate Friction Selection
• Performance Graded Asphalt Binders
• Upgrading Your Roads
• Road diet fact sheet

 Minimum Maintenance Roads

• Standards for Local Roads & Streets
   

Bridges

• What is a bridge?

Drainage (including culverts) 

• Drainage, Drainage, Etc. 
• Good Housekeeping and Pollution Prevention on Our Roadways
• Roadside Ditches: Best Management Practices to Reduce Floods, Droughts, and Water Pollution (pdf)
• Rebecca Schneider, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
• Squeezing the greatest value out of the Highway Department Dollar

Winter Maintenance 

• Best Practices for Disposing of Snow
• Wintertime Rural Mail Box Responsibilities

Snow Fences

• ESF - Willow Living Snow Fences
• Living Snow Fence, NYSDOT
• Structure and Function of Living Snow Fences in New York State 
• Living Snow Fences: Species Matrix for New York State
• Living Snow Fence, Wisconsin DOT
• Living Snow Fences, Minnesota DOT
• Iowa DOT, Snow Fence Information