Recent Roadside Stabilization Project Completed in the Town of Bristol

After recent storm events caused a massive amount of roadside erosion, including a major slope failure along Egypt Road in the Town of Bristol, the District applied for funding through the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Water Quality Improvement Project grant program to implement roadside stabilization projects in the Genesee River Watershed. Funding supported smaller roadside stabilization projects working with the Towns of Canadice and Bristol to install flexamat material for stabilizing critical roadside ditches along 1,150 feet of roadside as well as a massive road rebuilding and stabilization project along Egypt Road, which has a stream feeding to Mill Creek, a nearby trout stream.
The Town of Bristol Highway Department undertook the construction work themselves and earned an award in the process! Working on an extreme slope, the Town had to shift the road by stripping back several hundred feet of road and rebuilding a stable base to create a solid foundation, excavating down nearly 60 feet. The Town then built up the roadside using concrete mattresses and gabion baskets to stabilize the slope. Further work included subsurface drainage, road resurfacing, guardrails, and geotextile and vegetative stabilization. This project prevents a major road failure and also protects further loss of roadside material to the adjacent stream.