Worksite in Focus

Each brochure focuses on a specific project completed by a program participant. Project details, costs, and directions to the site are included.

• Lackawanna State Forest – Tannery Road (798 KB): A French Mattress with overflow pipes is used to prevent road saturation and washouts. (10/2011)

• Tiadaghton State Forest – Slate Run and Francis Roads (673 KB): Use of “soil nails” to stabilize two sections of landslide-prone road. (1/11)

• Huntingdon County – Red Rose Road Revisited (1.7 MB): A look back at the eight-year old demonstration project on Red Rose Road to. (9/09)

• Westmoreland County – Linn Run Road (299 KB): Paved forest road was ripped up and returned to gravel to reduce maintenance costs. (9/08)

• Pike County – Whittaker Road (299 KB): Two high-water-bypasses were installed to control flood flows on this section of road that is prone to washouts. (2/08)
• Pike County – German Valley Road (299 KB): A 300 foot long french mattress was used to elevate the road and allow free drainage where the road had previously acted as a dam to natural wetland flow. (2/08)
• Monroe County – Hell Hollow Road (286 KB): Hell Hollow was the first demonstration worksite completed by the program in 1998. This ten-year retrospective examines the site performance and talks to the local township.(2/08)
• Carbon County – Spruce Road (511 KB): Analysis of a completed site after 5 year and no maintenance. What worked and what did not?. (2/08)
• Carbon County – Mauch Chunk Campground (436 KB): Project to rehabilitate roads in lakeside campground. Included French Mattresses, infiltration trenches, and Driving Surface Aggregate. (2/08)

• Warren County – Hatch Run Road (172 KB): Extensive site seen at 2006 workshop involving road fill, underdrains, “through-the-bank” pipes, gradebreaks, and more. (10/06)
• Tioga County – Francis Leetonia Road (130 KB): Road relocation project to move road away from stream in conjunction with the Bureau of Forestry.(3/06)

• Adams – Miltenberger Road (254 KB): 2005 Maintenance Workshop demo of raising a small section of the road and installing shallow crosspipes.(11/05)
• Tioga County – Fall Brook Road (246 KB): Narrowing of extremely wide roadway, shoulder construction and vegetation, steam stabilization. (3/06)

• Crawford County – Foote Road (246 KB): Strategies for dealing with large volumes of off right-of-way water including underdrains, pipes through the bank, and raising the road elevation (8/04)
• Susquehanna County – Jane’s Road (326 KB): Raising the road and adding crosspipes (3/04)
• Fulton County – Dutch Corner Road (566 KB): Raising the road, installing pipes through the bank, and creating surface drainage structures to handle off right-of-way drainage (4/04)
• Potter County – Horseshoe Road (195 KB): Raising the road and installing underdrain and a new crosspipe (7/04)
• Westmoreland County – Powdermill Nature Reserve (315 KB): New driveway and parking area construction at the Nimick Nature Center (11/04)