Roads Training Program and Resources
The 5C Program is actively involved in educating member counties in road maintenance & construction techniques that acheive transportation objectives while preserving water quality.

Ongoing workshops presented to road departments highlight the effectiveness of road treatments that enhance water quality and fish habitat. These educational presentations have fostered unity of procedure in the five counties area, insuring that road operations are planned based on watersheds, not county lines.

In addition, these publications & media were developed as educational tools for use by county road departments:

• The 5C Roads Manual, "A Water Quality and Stream Habitat Protection Manual for County Road Maintenance in Northwestern California Watersheds"
• Fish Passage Design and Engineering Workshop DVD, excerpts from a lecture series on designing appropriate fish passage solutions.
• Addressing Road-Related Sedimentation DVD, an introduction to the concepts of road-related erosion and sedimentation and their effects on water quality. This DVD also introduces various approaches that may be used to identify and treat road sediment sources.

Rural Roads Educational Webinar Series
The 5C Program participated in the Rural Roads Educational Webinar Series organized by the University of CA Cooperative Extension and the Society of American Foresters 1900.  Topics covered an overview of issues, design considerations and best management practices associated with rural roads in California. The webinar series was completed in September 2012, but is available for viewing online.  For more information or to view the presentations, visit the Rural Roads Education Webinar website. You can download the presentation by 5C Program Director Mark Lancaster at http://ucanr.edu/sites/forestry/files/152298.pdf

Resources for Road Departments

• Regulatory and Permitting Information
• Basic Field Checklist for Field Work
• Treatment Implementation Checklist
• Photomonitoring Tips
• 5C Roads Workshop Presentations
• Fish Passage Design Workshop
  

Resources for Landowners

• New: Landowner Road Maintenance References & Resources handout from the 8/24/17 workshop lists many of the resources here and more.
• New: Road Drainage Alternatives powerpoint by Don Lindsay presented at the 8/24/17 Landowner Roads Maintenance Workshop in Weaverville (pdf format).
• "Guidelines for Road Maintenance Levels." USDA Forest Service. National Technology & Development Program, 2012.
• "Designing Watercourse Crossings for Passage of 100-Year Flood Flows, Wood, and Sediment (Updated 2017)" Cafferata, Peter and Donald Lindsay, Thomas Spittler, Michael Wopat, Greg Bundros, Sam Flanagan, Drew Coe, and William Short. CA Natural Resources Agency, Dept of Forestry & Fire Protection, 2017. Supporting and additional information available on this CalFire webpage.
• 5C Roads Workshop Presentations
• The other references and links shown above for road departments may be of interest as well.

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