Description: The Maintenance Manual provides maintenance personnel with procedures and guidelines for maintaining the highway system in Washington State. It focuses on equipment, materials, facilities, techniques and other information to carry out maintenance activities of the department. This manual does not establish absolute standards but provides uniform operating procedures and performance guidelines.

Individual Chapters

Full Manual (pdf 3.57 MB)

• Date Originally Published: April, 2007
• Publication Number: M 51-01
• Last Modified: February, 2008
• Version: M 51-01.03
• Manual Managers: Helen Simmonds, Rico Baroga
• Originator: Maintenance and Operations Programs
• # of Pages: 180
• Subject: Maintenance of highways.
• Keywords:
• Related Publications: Emergency Relief Procedures Manual M 3014, Highway Engineering Field Formulas, Work Zone Traffic Control Guidelines M 54-44

Maintenance Manual Individual Chapters

Foreword (pdf 168 KB)

Contents (pdf 223 KB)

Chapter 1 Emergency Procedures (pdf 102 KB)

Chapter 2 Work Zone Traffic Control and Safety (pdf 339 KB)

Chapter 3 Pavement Patching & Repair (pdf 445 KB)

Chapter 4 Drainage (pdf 176 KB)   

Chapter 5 Maintenance of Structures (pdf 262 KB)

Chapter 6 Roadside Management (pdf 759 KB)

Chapter 7 Snow and Ice Control (pdf 270 KB)

Chapter 8 Traffic Services (pdf 263 KB)

Chapter 9 Electrical System Maintenance (pdf 167 KB)

Chapter 10 Miscellaneous (pdf 245 KB)

Acronyms and Abbreviations (pdf 116 KB)

Appendix (pdf 2.2 KB)

Index (pdf 163 KB)

This abstract was last modified April 29, 2009