Incorporation of Soil Health Engineered Measures on MnDOT Construction Projects and Resilient Stormwater Management

Construction activity often results in severely degraded soil health compounded by normal damaging event such as stockpiling, rupture of root structure, diversity of vegetative covers, compaction, change in porosity and infiltration. The goal of this research is to define preconstruction baselines of soil health from reference locations, determine optimized design and field implementation options to rapidly return soils to original baseline health indices after construction projects.

• Record URL:
  • https://researchprojects.dot.state.mn.us/projectpages/details?id=30618&type=CONTRACT

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $314,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  1058744

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  395 John Ireland Boulevard
  St Paul, MN  United States  55155
• Managing Organizations:

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  Office of Research & Innovation
  395 John Ireland Boulevard, MS 330
  St. Paul, MN  United States  55155-1899
• Performing Organizations:

  Michigan State University, East Lansing

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  East Lansing, MI  United States  48824-1226
• Principal Investigators:

  Cetin, Bora

• Start Date: 20250516
• Expected Completion Date: 20270630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction by environment; Soil conservation; Water control
• Subject Areas: Construction; Geotechnology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01955358
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Minnesota Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 1058744
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 19 2025 1:25PM