The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. Gravel roads require much more frequent maintenance than paved roads, especially after wet periods and when accommodating increased traffic. Wheel motion shoves material to the outside (as well as in-between travelled lanes), leading to rutting, reduced water-runoff, and eventual road destruction if unchecked. The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Gravel Roads Maintenance Design Manual details how to best maintain unpaved roads in your municipality. First and foremost, maintaining the road's shape is critical to the health of any gravel road. As the guide explains, "In order to maintain a gravel road properly, operators must clearly The maintenance of gravel roads varies widely from one nation to another, let alone within the same nation. Although the gravel road maintenance market has several manuals (1, 2, 3), none is comprehensive in nature and most are region specific. This new manual is developed to address all aspects of gravel roads maintenance, rehabilitation, and roads will be built, if holes will. As a starting point the South Dakota Gravel Roads: Maintenance and Design Manual has basic information about thickness design for gravel roads in Appendix. Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance of Low-Volume Roads Hesham Mahgoub, South Dakota Roads Maintenance Manual. There are many ways to maintain County Gravel Roads and everyone has a different opinion on how they should be maintained. The Fillmore County Roads Department cannot take 7,000 different opinions and put them in a plan to maintain County Graveled Roads. Gravel Road Design & Maintenance Planning Josh Platt President, Maine Environmental Solutions LLC In Partnership With Kennebec County Gravel road maintenance plans have proven to be the best investment a group can make in their gravel road. road networks and the geometric design are considered to be beyond the scope of this manual and are not discussed in any detail. These are covered in greater detail in DRTT (1989). 1.2 Definitions Unpaved roads may be divided into earth tracks, earth roads or gravel roads. Earth tracks are the simplest "low volume roads" and generally AsperAASHTO'Fortheaggregatesurfaced(Gravel)roads(usedformany countyand forestroads), the maximum traffic level considered is 100,000 ESAL applications' and "The practical minimum traffic levelthat canbe considered for any The newly-revised "Gravel Roads Construction & Maintenance Guide" was produced in a joint effort by the Federal Highway Administration and SDLTAP. This manual serves as an invaluable resource for local agency officials, managers, and motor grader operators who are responsible for designing and