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Green Infrastructure for Clean Water 2012: The Essential Role of Soil

The best management practice for soil compaction is prevention. It is difficult and expensive to undo using biological, chemical and mechanical equipment with high variability of success. The reality of construction and human activities treats soils as an unknown through ignorance or as a nuisance to overcome rather than a resource for protection. However, soil and water health can be improved using common management practices if incorporated early in the design and post construction through written O&M plans. This presentation will discuss methods used to verify mechanical decompaction practices, avoidance and minimization best management practices through contract language, standard specifications, design elements, and plan lay out. Specific BMPs will enable a contractor, or maintenance operator to select appropriate soil ‘bridging’ technologies and reseeding techniques that have the potential to prevent or minimize soil compaction in the performance of job duties.