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Background
Through an Advisory Committee
process, members and partners
identified erosion and sediment
control as an area of high
importance.
Initial cooperators and strong
support originated in Alberta.
Soon took on a national focus.
Participants represented
the resource industries,
Provincial government,
and Federal government
(DFO)
1 - Introduction
Planning
Control vs. repair: it is less costly to plan ahead and
identify techniques to control erosion than conduct repairs.
Communication: discus plans with regulatory agencies and
the field crews early in the process.
Phasing: plan the various phases of construction to occur
closely to reduce the erosion potential of exposed soil.
Erosion and sediment control plan: from basic to complex
depending on size of activity and known hazards.
1 - Planning
Additional surfacing
Hydroseeding
1 - Planning
Riparian areas
Last natural line of defense against sediment entering a
watercourse
Protect water quality by maintaining stream bank and
channel stability
Offer a filtering function for sediment-laden water arriving
from upland areas
1 Riparian areas
Riparian areas
Narrow width of ROW
felling when
approaching a stream
Establish buffers
Use of straw
Check structure
Ditch armouring
Permanent versus
temporary armouring
3 Ditches
Check structures
3 Ditches
3 Ditches
Ditch turnouts
Disperse ditch flow into the
forest
Spacing will vary by terrain
and hazard
3 Ditches
3 Ditches
Locate to allow
water to maintain
natural flow path.
3 Ditches
Road surfaces
Rolling grade
Waterbar
Open-top surface drains
Deflectors
Outslope, inslope and crowned
Roadside berms
Rolling grades
3 Road surfaces
Rolling grade
Waterbars
3 Road surfaces
3 Road surfaces
3 Road surfaces
Roadside berms
Can purposefully contain
water to protect a
resource.
Berm eventually breached
away from fish-stream
Establish a cover:
by seeding, mulching, use of
fibrous mats, or
bioengineering
3 Cutslopes and fillslopes
Culverts
Armouring
Alternatives to aggregate armouring
Ditch considerations at stream crossings
Vertical alignment of road
Dewatering (during construction)
Stockpile management (during construction)
Protection against beaver damming
Armouring
Aggregate is typically the
preferred material.
Can be used along the
fillslope and the immediate
stream bank
3 Culverts
Dewatering
Stockpile management
Common to have a
stockpile during
culvert installations.
Need to consider
how to:
1. prevent erosion
of the stockpile
(think cover)
2.contain sediment
(think deposition).
3 Culverts
Bridges
Bridge deck
Abutments and wing walls
Vertical alignment of bridge deck with the
approaches
Bridge decks
3 Bridges
Bridge decks
positioned at low
areas of the road will
require water
interception
techniques.
3 Bridges
Common methods to
address subsurface
water is to build and
utilize French drains or
stand pipes.
Thank you
Ditch erosion
repair
clayton.gillies@fpinnovations.ca
604 228 1555
clayton.gillies@fpinnovations.ca
604 228 1555