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Project development

Engineering Process | Preliminary Design | Blowing and Drifting Snow Control

Other Snow: Blowing and Drifting Snow Control guidance

  • Strategic Highway Research Program:  Design Guidelines for the Control of Blowing and Drifting Snow (1994)
  • MnDOT Agreement Number 75966 Recommended Drift Control Measures for Selected Sites in Southern Minnesota (1997)
  • Snow Fence Market (1999)
  • Procedures for Snow Fence Descriptions Delineation (1999)
  • Snow Fence Easement Language (2000 and updated in 2019)
  • Memorandum of Understanding among MnDOT, USDA, and Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (MASWCD) (2002 and 2008)
  • Benefit Cost Model (2002 and 2012)
  • Drawing Snowdrift Prediction Model Onto Proposed Cross Sections with GeoPAK (2002)
  • Living Snow Fence Partner Forms and Information (2002)
  • Information Resources Management Project P469 Snow Trap Inventory (2002)
  • Interagency Living Snow Fence Task Force:  Catching the Snow with Living Snow Fences (1999)
  • University of Minnesota Climatological Characterization of Snowfall and Snowdrift in Minnesota (2002)
  • University of Minnesota Drift-Free Roads Design Module Website (2002)
  • MnDOT Snow Control Steering Committee (2017)
  • MnDOT Blowing Snow Control Shared Service (2019)
  • Internal Guidance for Blowing Snow Control Agreements (2020)
  • USDA Farm Service Agency:  Continuous Conservation Reserve Program
  • Snow Blowing and Drifting Snow Control