Environmental Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management

About this book

The management of rights-of-way by electric and telephone utilities, highway departments, gas pipeline companies, and railroads around the world is guided and constrained by policies and regulations to protect the environment. Companies that manage rights-of-way are required to comply with these regulations, and are seeking the most cost-effective management practices which, at the same time, demonstrate stewardship of the environment. Protection of biodiversity and sustainable development are especially important as national goals in many countries, and rights-of-way managers are seeking practical ways to include public participation in their operations.

Contents

Part I. Symposium Summary Statement. Environmental concerns in rights-of-way management: summary statement (J.W. Goodrich-Mahoney et al. ). Part II. Vegetation Management. A review of upland game habitat management on rights-of-way (D.H. Arner). Environmental impacts associated with routine transmission line maintenance (J.M. Bridges et al. ). Edge effects on vegetation in rights-of-way (J. Brisson et al. ). Study of the Iberian flora compatible with power lines (J. Arevalo-Camacho et al. ). Part III. Roads. Vegetation management: trends and training in transportion (B.L. Harper-Lore). Part IV. Project Planning. Designing groundwater monitoring programs for rights-of-way facilities (B. Allen III). Minimizing the risk of contaminated soils in pipelining (M.E. Buszynzki). Third-party EISs for federal approvals of pipeline projects in the United States (D.F. Jenkins). Common environmental problems encountered during construction of major gas transmission lines (D.D. Macks et al. ). Part V. Cultural. Methods of overhead transmission line construction and prevention of disturbance to the archaeological record: an example from the Pennsylvania piedmont (D.G. Roberts). Unanticipated discovery of cultural resources during pipeline construction: two case studies (C.S. Smith). Transmission lines and the protection of cultural properties: a methodological proposal and a study of case (M.Z. Taam et al. ). Part VI. Wildlife. Effects of the introduction of a pipeline right-of-way with planted travel corridors to a deer wintering area in northern New York (K.R. Dominske). Snowshoe hare, red squirrel and gray squirrel winter activity in a 120 kV powerline right-of-way and in adjacent forests (G.J. Doucet, D.T.Brown). White-tailed deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) use of forested travel corridors in a twin 735 kV powerline right-of-way - 20 years of observation (G.J. Doucet, Y. Garant). Experimental storage of terrestrial lichen and implications for reclamation of caribou habitat (R. Glaholt et al. ). Part VII. Biodiversity. Power and biodiversity in the Colombian territory (E. Alvarez Davila). Mulching wetlands after pipeline construction: effects on plant diversity and density (T.L. Andersen, G.M. Konik). Fragmentation and road-infrastructure in The Netherlands, from history to future (G.J. Bekker). The conservation of threatened or vulnerable plant species: the Des Canton-Levis transmission line experience (C. Belzile, C. Cohen). Part VIII. Geographic Information Systems. GPS guidance system for right-of-way aerial spraying of phytocides (J. Domingue, J. Turbide). Geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) applications for the selection and environmental evaluation of high voltage transmission line rights-of-way in Colombia (L.F. Cadena et al. ). Part IX. Wetlands.

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