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Schedule: 9:00 - 9:15 Introduction
9:15 - 9:45 Dirt and Gravel Roads Program and Center History
9:45 - 10:15 Dirt and Gravel Roads Program and Center Status
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Rural Road Research Speakers
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 Panel Discussion: Road Impacts at the Watershed Scale
2:15 - 4:00 Poster Session and Social
Early to mid- 1990’s
PA Council of Trout Unlimited
• Recognized pollution problem.
• Formed task force to examine problem.
• TU volunteers Identified over 900 pollution sites on public unpaved roads in protected watersheds.
1997
Act 3 of 1997 (Transportation Bill)
• $4M for municipal and state roads • $1M for DCNR roads
Special recognition needs to be made to former State Senator Doyle Corman, who championed the Pennsylvania program through funding Section 9106 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code
(a) Statement of purpose.--It is the intent and purpose of this section:
(1) To fund safe, efficient and environmentally sound
maintenance of sections of dirt and gravel roads which have
been identified as sources of dust and sediment pollution.
1997
Section 9106 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code
2013
Act 87 of 2013 (Transportation Bill)
Major Program Changes: • $1M to $7M for DCNR roads • $4M to $28M for municipal and state roads • Of that $28M, at least $8M for paved low-
volume roads (<500 cars per day) Senator Jake Corman was a champion for the program increase.
Before
After
Stream Crossing replacement possible starting in 2015.
2016 DnG Project in York County: $50K Spent, $27 in kind
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