Practice Notes 2: Kerb & Channel

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Practice Note 2: Kerb & Channel

Version 2
Published 2008, V2 2014

Preamble

This Practice Note for Kerb and Channel (Gutter) Inspection and Condition Assessment is one in a series of Practice Notes developed by the National Asset Management Strategy Group (NAMS.AU) of the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA).

It is to:

Assist practitioners in applying best practice for condition assessment for various asset classes.
The aim is to promote a national approach and encourage consistency of data and outputs.
These will be living documents, subject to review and update as further and better information comes to hand.

About Practice Note 2

Provide a number of functions for the road and the road drainage. These can be summarised as:

To collect stormwater run-off from the road carriageway, adjoining footpaths and property and convey to gully inlets or other drainage devices for discharge to the underground pipe system or other appropriate collection/dispersal arrangements.
To provide delineation between the carriageways used by vehicles and the footway used by pedestrians and possibly bikes and also between the carriageway and medians.
To provide a safety feature by discouraging vehicles from leaving the defined carriageway and mounting footways or median strips.
To provide delineation for the parking of vehicles for through traffic safety.
To provide containment of the road pavement material to enhance the structural properties of the pavement and prevent

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