Roads Education & Training Program
The 5C Program is actively involved in educating member counties in road maintenance & construction techniques that acheive transportation objectives while preserving water quality.

Ongoing workshops presented to road departments highlight the effectiveness of road treatments that enhance water quality and fish habitat. These educational presentations have fostered unity of procedure in the five counties area, insuring that road operations are planned based on watersheds, not county lines.

In addition, these publications & media were developed as educational tools for use by county road departments:

• The 5C Roads Manual, "A Water Quality and Stream Habitat Protection Manual for County Road Maintenance in Northwestern California Watersheds"
• Fish Passage Design and Engineering Workshop DVD, excerpts from a lecture series on designing appropriate fish passage solutions.
• Addressing Road-Related Sedimentation DVD, an introduction to the concepts of road-related erosion and sedimentation and their effects on water quality. This DVD also introduces various approaches that may be used to identify and treat road sediment sources.

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