Infrastructure Management
IM01 Storm water Runoff: I Can Make a Difference
Coastal 15 Minutes
VHS & DVD Available
Oil, grease, harmful bacteria, pesticides and fertilizers are a few of the dangerous elements that can be found in storm water runoff. This illuminating program describes the devasting effects of runoff and how the government and private industry can work together to clean it up.
IM02 Environmental Awareness: Recipe for a Cleaner World
Coastal 20 Minutes
VHS & DVD Available
This program explains a variety of government acts that protect the environment in an effort to inform employees and motivate them to comply with the acts and protect the environment.
IM03 Forest Roads and the Environment
USDA Forest Services San Dimas Technology and Development Center 116 Minutes
VHS Available
Forest Roads and the Environment - Overviews of how the road and environment interact with each other. Introduction to maintenance of low volume roads highlights issues that benefit from proper maintenance activities, including water temperature, fist habitat and aggregate surfacing loss. Reading the Traveled Way - Learn to quickly identify what the road is "saying." Focuses on understanding the condition of the road and how to proactively avoid costly repairs by properly addressing the road in its current condition. Reading Beyond the Traveled Way - Properly maintained roads require an understanding of what is happening beyond the road surface. Considering the natural functions before beginning maintenance operations can help minimize significant to the road. Smoothing and Reshaping the Traveled Way - Covers the detailed, step-by-step process used for both smoothing and reshaping a road, including crowned, insloped roads and transition sections. Maintaining the Ditch and Surface Cross Drains - Provides comprehensive instruction for correctly constructing and maintaining ditches, culverts and various surface cross drains. Highlights surface cross drains the rapid spread of invasive plants. Highlights plant identification, inventory systems, mapping, mechanical removal, herbicide treatments, weed free products, maintenance techniques, and cleaning of equipment.
IM04 Planning for Disaster: Floods
Coastal 8 Minutes
VHS Available
Floods leave a deluge of destruction behind. But through this Special Report, you, your assets and your employees need not be swept away. Immerse yourself in this program so that you can successfully wade through any dangers, protect your employees and minimize losses.
IM05 Sand and Salt Spreader Calibration
Baystate Roads Program Massachusetts' LTAP 13 Minutes
DVD Available
Paul Brown, Director of Snow and Ice Operations at the Massachusetts Highway (MassHighway), guides highway employees through a successful spreader calibration and explains the proper techniques and calculations. You must calibrate each spreader according to specifications each winter season or whatever repairs are made. This will reduce waste, increase efficiency and protect the environment through better control of materials application.
IM06 RCRA Large Quanitiy generations: A Commitment to the Future
Coastal 23 Minutes
VHS Available
RCRA is Resource Conservation Recovery Act. This video discusses Large Quantity Generators that create 1000kg of hazardous waste per month. This tape explains EPA notification, hazardous waste accumulation, transportation procedures, manifest, selecting TSD facilities, contingency plans, and record keeping.
IM07 Maintenance Management Systems
Federal Highway Administration 35 Minutes
VHS Available
A successful system consists of planning, organizing, directing and controlling streets. The video refers to the FHWA handbook on maintenance Management Systems.
IM08 Dangerous Travelers: Controlling Invasive Plants, Along America's Roadways
USDA Forest Services 26 Minutes
DVD Available
This video covers the best management practices to assist road maintenance crews in controlling the rapid spread of invasive plants. Items highlighted include plant identification, inventory systems, mapping, mechanical removal, herbicide treatments, weed free products, maintenance techniques, and cleaning of equipment.
IM09 Lifeline Your National Forest Roads
USDA Forest Services 32 Minutes
DVD Available
This DVD explores the relationship between the people and the land - past, present, and future - as it celebrates the partnership between USDA Forest Services, Federal Land Highway Administration, and State and local communities in providing continued stewardship and access to our national forests.
IM10 Highway Safety and Trees: The Delicate Balance
FHWA 12 Minutes
DVD Available
While valued as a community asset due to their beauty and environmental benefits, trees are the single most commonly struck objects in serious roadside crashes. Vehicle collisions with trees account for more than 4,000 fatalities and 100,000 injuries each year. Efforts by highway agencies to remove trees are often met with strenuous objections by local residents, concerned with preserving our natural resources and the aesthetics they bring to our surroundings. To further explore the issue of the safe placement of trees along our country’s roadsides, the Federal Highway Administration announces the availability of a 12-minute video entitled Highway Safety and Trees: The Delicate Balance. This video encourages highway agencies and the public to work together to improve safety while minimizing damage to the environment.
IM11 Getting Across: Aquatic Organisms and Road-stream crossings
USDA Forest Services 23 Minutes (Two-Tape Volumn)
VHS Available
(Tape One) 6 Minutes This short video illustrates why and how road-stream crossings are constructed to pass aquatic organisms. It is very brief introduction to the subject intended principally for land managers.
(Tape Two) 16:30 Minutes This video provides a general overview of aquatic organism passage at road-stream crossings. It is intended for people who want to broaden their understanding of the issue and its solutions.