DRAINAGE PRACTICES IN THE NORTHEASTERN STATES

This paper compares the practices of the Northeastern states--Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey--with regard to drainage. Problems in the Northeast have been primarily paving problems on fills. A brief summary of eight drainage items in the Northeast is presented: compaction of the filter material is required in practically all cases; perforations are placed both up and down; underdrains are located anywhere from the edge of the pavement, to beyond the edge of the shoulder; it is difficult to identify whether the primary purpose of a typical section is to control groundwater or act as an underdrain for the pavement section; it is, perhaps, expected that a drain is supposed to serve both functions and that the two separate problems are not recognized to exist; it appears that virtually every state is sealing-off the underdrain with their first layer of subbase; only one state has a program of maintaining underdrain systems by flushing them on a routine bases; and it is seldom that rational design is used in the design of a drainage system.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented at two 1973 workshops on Water in Pavements sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, held in Albany, New York, and Des Moines, Iowa.
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Research, Development, Engineering and Highway Operations, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Waidelich, W C
• Conference:
  • Water in Pavements Workshop--Detailed Report--1973
• Publication Date: 1973

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 165-174

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drainage practices; Fills; Filter fabric; Groundwater; Infiltration; Pavements; Sealing (Technology); Subbase (Pavements); Subdrains; Water
• Geographic Terms: Connecticut; Maine; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; New Jersey; Northeastern United States; Rhode Island; Vermont
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00792250
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 3 2000 12:00AM