06-23-2012, 03:23 AM
I'm somewhat familiar with a paving method that involves less or no road bed work and few permits because the asphalt/rock pavement is water permeable. I don't know if this would be an option for HPP or if Kahunascott has already looked at the option.
Below is the original long winded version of this post but the gist of it is above.
Where I'm currently living, the street was a sand grade which was either mud or washboard, depending on the season and required weekly grading. The county put down shell rock, which stabilized the road some, but resulted in billowing clouds of white dust, that at times made the landscape, even up into the trees, look like it was snow covered. The county not only did my street that way but a fair number of other county grades. Well, it turned out that shell rock dust is toxic and causes lung disease of some sort. Shortly after all of this came out, the roads got paved, but not a standard pavement. It was a single layer of large porous asphalt. There was absolutely no road bed work done prior to the paving. I was told by one of the county workers that it was way cheaper that way because of the simple paving technique, but more importantly it was quick and cheaper as fewer permits and EPA type stuff was necessary because the pavement was water permeable. I don't know if that is an option for HPP but it seems like it would work even better there due to the underlying rock.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
Below is the original long winded version of this post but the gist of it is above.
Where I'm currently living, the street was a sand grade which was either mud or washboard, depending on the season and required weekly grading. The county put down shell rock, which stabilized the road some, but resulted in billowing clouds of white dust, that at times made the landscape, even up into the trees, look like it was snow covered. The county not only did my street that way but a fair number of other county grades. Well, it turned out that shell rock dust is toxic and causes lung disease of some sort. Shortly after all of this came out, the roads got paved, but not a standard pavement. It was a single layer of large porous asphalt. There was absolutely no road bed work done prior to the paving. I was told by one of the county workers that it was way cheaper that way because of the simple paving technique, but more importantly it was quick and cheaper as fewer permits and EPA type stuff was necessary because the pavement was water permeable. I don't know if that is an option for HPP but it seems like it would work even better there due to the underlying rock.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
S. FL
Big Islander to be.