Drainage - Colorado Springs

Course Description:

An often-repeated adage in the road construction and maintenance industry is that "the three most important things to understand in building and maintaining roads are 'Drainage, Drainage, and Drainage'!" This critical issue is often ignored when building and maintaining local roads.

With Roadway Drainage, the saying “Pay me now or pay me later” is absolutely true but the cost later is going to be a lot higher. Do your roadways have soft spots, turn into mud holes in the spring, or do high school kids come to your road for mud bogging? If so, you may have a drainage problem. The challenge for most agencies is keeping the moisture out from under the roadway; because it is this water that makes the subgrade soft and destroys the roadway. On average, most agencies will spend 25% of their budget remedying drainage issues. However, it is often the most overlooked item in your maintenance plan.

 Learning Objectives:

• Understanding of how water gets into the roadway
• How the freezing temperatures and traffic impact the roadway
• Methods for keeping the water out of the roadway and draining it away
• Maintenance that should be performed on the drainage system
• Effects of Forest or Range fires on the drainage system

Roads Scholar I - Core

This course is a CORE class in the Roads Scholar I course track and required for graduation. Click above for more details.

Registration Fee

The registration fee for this workshop is $50 per person for employees of government agencies and $75 per person for non-government agencies. Fee includes any class handouts and lunch. Registration can be paid online, or via invoice upon special request. Please contact cltap@frontrange.edu for questions.

Special Notes

In order to receive credit for this class, attendees must stay until the end when it is dismissed by the instructor and class certificates are awarded.