05-10-2017, 03:55 PM
Leo, the DOH fine was in the $7,400 range. I wouldn't be surprised if we get more fines w/only powder on our roads. It's time for the board to put the money back into basic road maint and stop CS.
Hmmm...when you get more info on the other road product, please share it. Although I think asphalt for road improvement is the prudent way to go...more bang for our buck, prof'ls would do it so the road crew could keep up w/the road and easement maint.
Something to think about...asphalt roads a few yrs ago cost about $350,000 per mile including the clearing before laying base coarse. Asphalt can last about a decade before requiring maint, esp on our cross roads w/less traffic. By what I've read on the internet, CS is usually applied on top to bolster asphalt or to fix cracks. CS requires a lot more ongoing maint, hence calling it the CS monster we'd be a slave to. If we eventually end up w/3 layers of CS on top of every dirt road, as it should be if you're going to CS the roads, that's 80-85,000 x 3 = $255,000 + per road. I doubt we'll ever get 3 layers.
The point about asphalt, which is what a majority of us voted for in the survey done in the recent past, was the low maint of it. The only maint supposedly for a long period of time would be the easements.
The CS roads on DE Makuu 32nd and 33rd may have reached their 1 yr mark by now. The newer ones on 26th have already required maint, one of which is only about a month old.
Hmmm...when you get more info on the other road product, please share it. Although I think asphalt for road improvement is the prudent way to go...more bang for our buck, prof'ls would do it so the road crew could keep up w/the road and easement maint.
Something to think about...asphalt roads a few yrs ago cost about $350,000 per mile including the clearing before laying base coarse. Asphalt can last about a decade before requiring maint, esp on our cross roads w/less traffic. By what I've read on the internet, CS is usually applied on top to bolster asphalt or to fix cracks. CS requires a lot more ongoing maint, hence calling it the CS monster we'd be a slave to. If we eventually end up w/3 layers of CS on top of every dirt road, as it should be if you're going to CS the roads, that's 80-85,000 x 3 = $255,000 + per road. I doubt we'll ever get 3 layers.
The point about asphalt, which is what a majority of us voted for in the survey done in the recent past, was the low maint of it. The only maint supposedly for a long period of time would be the easements.
The CS roads on DE Makuu 32nd and 33rd may have reached their 1 yr mark by now. The newer ones on 26th have already required maint, one of which is only about a month old.