2018

A Sill will Protect a Forest Road

Work has been completed on a specific road construction project "Vārupes pārgāznis" (Vārpupe Sill) which, in case of high rainfall, will prevent road damage.

fter rainstorms, there is a temporary high water level rise on Vārupe road in Latgale Region Northern Latgale Forestry Žīguri Forest District, which cannot be managed by the existing culverts. As a result, water flows across the road and undermines its structure.

In this place, a 30 to 50-metre-long road section was flooded in 2017, causing heavy damage to the forest infrastructure.

This time, a solution has been developed that allows water to flow across the road without undermining its design in the event of flood.

Since its foundation in 1999, Joint Stock Company "Latvia’s State Forests" implementing sustainable forest management has paid one billion euros to state and local government budgets. LVM's economic activities are carried out by maintaining and recovering forests, taking care of nature conservation, recreation opportunities and increasing timber volumes, as well as investing in expanding the forest land and developing forest infrastructure - renovation of drainage systems and forest road construction. The volume of timber in the forests managed by LVM increases by 12 million cubic metres annually.