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Ethan Casaday

International Erosion Control Consultant

Please feel free to send me an email at the following address: 

emc2 (at) humboldt.edu

or

Ecasaday (at) sbcglobal.net

You can also call me at work (530) 545-8400

I specialize in low-volume road rehabilitation with experience in road decommissioning and road reengineering.  I also conduct road inventories and watershed assessments. 

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Abandoned road before treatment.

Excavator removing unstable fill.

Same road after decommissioning.

For more information on my work experience, click here to view my Curriculum Vitae. (pdf 30 kb)

My goal of working on the international level in watershed rehabilitation also led me to attend the International Development Technology Graduate Program at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California during the years 2004 and 2005.  To read my Statement of Purpose for attending HSU, click here.

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Engineers, Planners, and construction workers at a Low Volume Road training course in Pantasma, Nicaragua.	Road construction equipment in Granada, Nicaragua preparing the base course for concrete block surfacing.	Training course participants evaluating a low water crossing for potential upgrades.
Poor road drainage causing impassable conditions during rainfall.	Hand labor road construction crew preparing the base for concrete block surfacing.	A vented ford with small culverts blocked by woody debris.

Click here for more information on my Graduate Project titled

"Rural Road Rehabilitation Training Guidebook for Developing Regions"

(pdf 549 kb)

The guidebook includes Road Reengineering Graphics (pdf 3790 kb)

and

Road Removal Graphics (pdf 2378 kb).

During my work with California State Parks, I prepared numerous documents and reports on road rehabilitation.  The following are examples of some of my written works:

	Mill Creek Road Removal Project (pdf 4237 kb)
	The Inspectors Guide to Road Rehabilitation (pdf 891 kb)

I have also written magazine articles on road rehabilitation which can be viewed by clicking on the images below to go to the Erosion Control Magazine web site.

Road Rehabilitation work in California State Parks typically utilizes heavy equipment including bulldozer, excavator, grader, roller, and water and dump trucks. The following are short video clips of my work using heavy equipment.

	Bulldozer dishing out a stream crossing during road decommissioning.
	Excavator removing outboard fill and placing it against the cutbank.

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Abandoned forest road before treatment. The road has no drainage structures and concentrated flow is causing downslope erosion.

Excavator and bulldozer working together to remove the road.

Same abandoned forest road after treatment. The road is recontoured to match the adjacent slope, and forest debris used as mulch.