Maintenance & Construction Standing Committee

1. Maintenance & Construction Standing Committee Summer & Winter Sub-committee Meeting Report 2010-04-10 Summer & Winter SC Report

2. Philosophy • Maintain balance Summer / Winter / Salt Management • Follow TAC Sub-committee guidelines • Provide member / observer option • Encourage member participation Summer & Winter SC Report

3. S&WSC Meeting Agenda • Project Briefs / Status Precis • Road Condition Terminology • Salt Management Guide Update • Presentations: • Winter Service • MTO WSI Development • Remote Sensing & Operational Control of Spread - Calgary • Salt Management • Report from Environment Canada • CCME Revision of Chloride Toxicity standard • Summer Maintenance • MTQ Managing Culvert Maintenance Summer & Winter SC Report

4. Winter • MTO WSI development • Approach to use winter severity to evaluate winter maintencance practices • Good progress with excellent promise • Challenge – data quality, external factors • Remote sensing • Evaluation of using GIS-based automatic control of winter material spread • Few winter events this year limit experience • Potential benefits seen, possibly more applicable to non-urban areas Summer & Winter SC Report

5. Salt Management • EC Report: • Excellent reporting from provinces • Improving reporting from municipalities • Varying uptake of BMP’s • Need more work on salt impacts and identifying/defining salt sensitive areas • RSWG active on process to address updates and filling gaps • CCME revision of chloride toxicity standard • Included water chemistry factors • Raised toxicity standard variability depending on the identified modifying factors ie hardness etc Summer & Winter SC Report

6. Summer • Culvert “asset management system” • MTQ evaluated culvert condition based on an evaluation process • Identified needs and minimum inpuit to maintain current level or imorove\ • Instituted strategic process to improve. • Measured success Summer & Winter SC Report

7. Project: Salt Management Guide Update • Project start timing is important • Original funding requirement = $90 k • Committed to date = $ 68 k • Discussion that less emphasis will be necessary for literature search and surveys • Motion to request M&CSC / CEC to • Part 1 - form a PSC to develop a terms of reference (TOR) for a consultant to develop an updated salt management guide with updated Current Operating Practices, based on the funding available. • Part 2 – re-survey the membership to see if there is any further funding contributions available (Environment Canada expressed an interest in participating) • TOR to be complete for presentation, letters of interest and RFP’s complete for presentation at the Fall meetings Summer & Winter SC Report

8. Housekeeping • 14:00 to 17:30 including1/2 hour OT • 14 participants in meeting • Next meeting Fall 2010 • Executive refresh Summer & Winter SC Report

9. Summer & Winter SC Report