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Resources
Management of Highway Runoff
Assembled by William Fletcher, ODOT
for the Stormwater Solutions Workshop in Coos Bay on Feb 13-14, 2017
Federal Aid Highway Programmatic (FAHP):
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/GEOENVIRONMENTAL/Pages/FAHP.aspx The FAHP web
page has a link to FAHP documents, including the Biological Opinion, a User’s Guide, and associated
forms. The User’s Guide includes a chapter on stormwater management requirements.
SLOPES V: http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Environment/SLOPES/ The Corps of Engineers’
SLOPES web page has links to the three SLOPES programmatic Biological Opinions, Transportation,
Structures and Restoration. The links take you to the NOAA site. To download the actual BO, scroll down
the NOAA site to Concluding Documents.
Oregon DOT Hydraulics Manual:
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/GEOENVIRONMENTAL/pages/hyd_manual_info.aspx Chapter
14 and associated appendices cover stormwater treatment. The LID approach from a highway perspective
is given in Appendix 14-A. Filter strips are addressed in Appendix 14-b.
Design Guide for Roadside Infiltration Strips in Western Oregon: Available on the ODOT Research Unit’s
Research Publications page: https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP_RES/Pages/publications.aspx.
Click on <Research Report ’70-Current>. The report number is SPR 758, published in 2016.
Washington DOT Highway Runoff Manual:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Environment/WaterQuality/Runoff/HighwayRunoffManual.htm. This
manual has more detail than the ODOT manual with regards to calculations for compost amended
vegetated filter strips (CAVS) than the ODOT manual. Note that the regulations regarding highway runoff
treatment are rather different than in Oregon.
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), a part of the National Academies’
Transportation Research Board, has put out a number of research reports on the management of highway
runoff. These reports are available on the NCHRP website for free download:
http://www.trb.org/NCHRP/NCHRP.aspx These reports include:
Volume Reduction of Highway Runoff in Urban Areas: Guidance Manual – Report 802
Long Term Performance and Life-Cycle Costs of Stormwater Best Management Practices – report 792
Bridge Stormwater Runoff Analysis and Treatment Options. Report 778.
Measuring and Removing Dissolved Metals from Stormwater in Highly Urbanized Areas – report 767
Guidelines for Evaluating and Selecting Modifications to Existing Roadway Drainage Infrastructure to
Improve Water Quality in Ultra-Urban Areas – report 728
Evaluation of Best Management Practices for Highway Runoff Control – report 565
Assessing the Impacts of Bridge Deck Runoff Contaminants in receiving waters – Report 474
Pollutant Load Reductions for Total Maximum Daily Loads for Highways – Synthesis Report 444
Stormwater Treatment with Vegetated Buffers - 25-25/Task 53
Permeable Shoulders with Stone Reservoirs - 25-25/Task 82
Current Practice of Post- Construction Structural Stormwater Control - 25-25/Task 83
More reports, including one on Watershed Approaches to Stormwater Management, are forthcoming.
Some non-stormwater, Green Infrastructure related NHCRP reports are:
Evaluation and Assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Stream Bank Protection Measures - Report 822
Environmentally Sensitive Channel and Bank Protection Measures – Report 544
Data and analyses of the effectiveness of structural stormwater water quality treatment facilities are
available from the International BMP Database: http://www.bmpdatabase.org/ . Along with data, this
site includes links to reports and other databases.