This project repaired a dirt road for better forest and hay land access. When the landowner's hay truck could no longer access the field due to degradation of the roadway after a few years of high rainfall events, she applied for a contract under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to help with technical and financial assistance to repair her access road. The damaged road breached the lower berm of a vernal pool, inhabited with breeding wood frogs and spotted salamanders, allowing water to escape and depositing sediment in the pool. In order to protect the vernal pool and upgrade the road, the berm was reinforced between the road and the pool. The road bed was smoothed into a broad-based dip in the wet areas and geotextile fabric, with stone, was added to provide a firm roadbed and drain water from the road. On either side of the wet areas, gravel was added to raise the roadbed. The landowner can now easily access the hayfield and forestland, and the wetland is intact for its inhabitants and no longer has sediment from the eroding roadbed.
