SACDOT’s Roadside Maintenance Program repairs and maintains miles of unpaved roadside shoulders, gravel roads, open ditches, fences/sound walls, steel guardrails, and walls. These maintenance activities allow storm water to readily exit the roadway, eliminate obstructions, restore ditches to their proper shape, support the road structure, limit drop-offs at the edge of the pavement, and maintain safety and retaining structures in as-built condition.
Roadside Maintenance Activities
Roadside maintenance activities include: ditch cleaning; roadside shoulder grading; inspection and cleaning of culverts and storm drain grates; grading gravel roads; and the repair, realignment, or replacement of steel guardrails, fences, and walls.
Note: Ditches that traverse private property are maintained by either the property owner or the Sacramento County Department of Water Resources. For a determination, call 3-1-1 or report online at www.311.saccounty.net.
Drainage Culverts
Drainage culverts are pipes or tubes that often run under driveways to move stormwater between roadside ditches. Roadside ditches with culverts are kept free of debris to assist the flow of storm water and irrigation runoff.
Driveway culverts are private property. SACDOT cannot provide cleaning service for substandard or damaged driveway culvert pipes. Property owners are encouraged to clean out driveway culverts on their property annually to keep drainage flowing.
Note: Underground storm drainage systems that are connected by curbside drains and manholes are maintained by either the property owner or the Sacramento County Department of Water Resources. For a determination, call 916-875-RAIN.
Contact Information - Roadside Maintenance
To request roadside maintenance or report problems on County roads, including drainage culverts, call 311 or 875-4311 or report online at www.311.saccounty.net.