Roadside Maintenance - MSA Department of Transportation

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ROADSIDE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

The Department of Transportation's (DOT) Roadside Maintenance Program repairs and maintains thousands of miles of unpaved roadside shoulders, gravel roads, open ditches, fences/sound walls, steel guardrails, and retaining walls. These maintenance activities allow storm water to readily exit the roadway, support the road structure, limit drop-offs from the edge of the pavement, eliminate obstructions, and restore ditches to their proper shape.

Roadside Maintenance Activities

The Roadside Maintenance Program performs duties on a prioritized and scheduled basis. Roadside maintenance activities include; mechanical and manual ditch cleaning, roadside shoulder grading, inspection and cleaning of storm drains structures including drain inlets and culverts, grading gravel roads, and roadside ditches and unpaved shoulders.

Responsive roadside maintenance activities are completed on an as need basis and include; the repair, realignment, replacement and installation of steel guardrails, fence and sound walls and retaining walls.

Note: Ditches that traverse private property are maintained by the Water Quality Division, 875-7246.

Large drainage culvert under rural road.

Drainage Culverts

Drainage culverts are metal tubes that often run under driveways and move storm water between roadside ditches. Roadside ditches with culverts are kept free of debris and vegetation to assist the flow of storm water and irrigation run off. The Roadside Maintenance Program maintains 2,500 culverts in Sacramento County.

Note: Underground storm drainage systems that are connected by curbside drains and manholes are maintained by the Water Quality Division.

CONTACT INFORMATION

ROADSIDE MAINTENANCE
To request roadside maintenance or report problems on County roads including drainage culverts.

    Customer Service Center
    4100 Traffic Way
    Sacramento, CA   95827   Phone: 916-875-5171 Fax: 916-875-5773

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