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Analysis of the geologic context of maintenance costs for rockfalls, landslides, and sinkholes in Kentucky

Bethany OverfieldDan Carey

Jerry  WeisenfluhRebecca Wang

Kentucky Geological Survey

Overview

•Landslide/rockfall prone areas in Kentucky‐Landslide  inventory 

• Geology of Kentucky‐obvious correlation between geology and landslide\rockfall occurrence

• Maintenance Cost Database Project: 3‐year project funded by Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

‐Phase I: data manipulation

‐Phase II: field investigations

‐Phase III: statistical analysis of data, creation of a map product for eachdistrict.

Landslides in Kentucky

Landslide inventory map of Kentucky ( as of 07/2011)

Geology of Kentucky

Pennsylvanian: coal-bearing sequences

Ordovician: carbonate sequences, shale

Geology of Kentucky: shale distribution

Shale: the main culprit

Road distribution

Road distribution: colored roads are interstates and parkways.

They are evenly distributed throughout the state, therefore there are a number of roadways in landslide‐prone areas.

Maintenance Cost Database Project

Objective: assess the geologic context of landslide and rockfall maintenance costs along Kentucky roadways

Data: ‐derived from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) Operations Maintenance System, a database of maintenance activities derived from district work orders (2002‐2009)

Phase I (completed): ‐ converted tabular data into GIS format in order to analyze costs geospatially

Phase II: (completed)‐ investigated the context of landslide and rockfall costs  in the field

Phase III (in progress): ‐ statistical analysis of data, creation of a map product for each district

Maintenance  Project: Phase I‐Project started with acquiring all KYTC work orders involving landslides and rockfalls

‐Maintenance costs include the cleaning up of rocks in the roadway and dressing/stabilizing roadcuts ONLY. 

Maintenance  Project: Phase I

Two types of cost data from the KYTC:

County data: 

‐general costs  weresummarized by county.‐no site specific location

Site specific data:  ‐defined by mile marker.

Maintenance  Project: Phase I

Derived from county data:

Derived from county data:

Maintenance  Project: Phase I

Maintenance Workorder Processing

Milepoint 15.5 to 22.0$4,250

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

$654 $654 $654 $654 $654 $654$327

For site specific data, a monetary value was assigned to each mile. This was done using GIS (linear referencing). 

Maintenance  Project: Phase I

Landslide locations by segment.  One year.2008‐2009

GIS end product: one‐mile line segments with summed costs of site specific data.

Maintenance  Project: Phase I

Rockfall locations by segment.  One year.2008‐2009

Maintenance  Project: Phase I

From the maps, tabular data was creating using site specific data:

Maintenance  Project: Phase I

Rockfall and landslide costs per year.

Analyzed spatial context of cost data to identify areas of high cost/high occurrence.

•Identified:a set of field study areas focusing on sites where repeated maintenance was  common. **These sites were not necessarily the biggest and most visually impressive**

• Investigated:the geology, hydrogeology, and land‐use in order to surmise what the recurring problem was at each site.

• Initiated: a data collection standard that can be used to assess sites (which entailed creating an inventory form that can be used for each site).

Maintenance  Project: Phase II

Phase II: What is the data telling us?

‐KYTC work orders do not contain information about context ofdisturbance

‐Landslide/Rockfall site investigations were to be done

‐Started by looking at the data:

Interested in: ‐magnitude of cost of maintenance‐frequency of occurrence of maintenance

Maintenance  Project: Phase II

# of times site has been maintained

Phase II field investigation: rockfalls

Magoffin County

Meade County

Most rockfall sites have been cleared but evidence of rockfalls exist.

Phase II field investigation: rockfalls

Meade County

Phase II field investigation: landslides

Breathitt County (eastern Kentucky)These are often repeat offenders.Proximity to streams an issue.

Phase II field investigation: landslides

Meade County

Phase II field investigation: landslides

Breathitt County

Phase II field investigation: landslides

After many field visits, the following became parameters of interest:

bedrock: lithology, weathering, structure, fractures

hydrology: groundwater, surface water

topography: slope angle, landscape context

disturbance: anthropogenic, geomorphic, seismic

road usage: type of traffic, frequency of traffic

Phase II: parameters of interest in the field

Phase II: Field Assessment Inventory form—part 1

Phase II: Field Assessment Inventory form—part 2

The ultimate goal is to relate maintenance costs to geologic conditions.

KGS met with KYTC and KTC to get input from them concerning the most useful deliverables and we are currently working with them on those now. 

Deliverables include:● geologically‐based maps (by KYTC district) highlighting maintenance costs

‐intersect one‐mile cost segments with geology data to analyze data based on mapped stratigraphic units.

● report including statistical analysis relating geology to costs.

Maintenance  Project: Phase III

Phase III: Map prototype by district

Average $Cost per Mile Segment Repaired, by Geologic Unit:

Total Cost per Road Segment ($), 2002-2009:

Highest Total Road, Highest Rockfall, and Highest Landslide Road Costs/Work Orders tables:

Phase III: Statistical analysis (by district)C

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Formation

Questions?

We’ll be able to report back on the completion of Phase III next year!