# Forest Service Road Maintenance Series: Maintaining the Ditch and Surface Cross Drains

USDA Forest Service Video VH-416E Forest Service Road Maintenance Series: Maintaining the Ditch and Surface Cross Drains Well-maintained ditches and surface cross drains are crucial systems for protecting the road and the environment. Video provides instructions for correctly constructing and maintaining ditches, culverts and surface cross drains, including how to heel and pull ditches and how to maintain rolling drain dips, interceptor dips, earthen water bars, and open-top drainage devices.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2002
- By: USDA Forest Service
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.fhwa.ttp.vh-416e)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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