The New Elm Estates lot owners road maintenance notes.
See also, a map view: http://boballan.ca/molega_road/NewElmRoadMarkers_link.kmz
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http://boballan.ca/molega_road/NewElmRoadMarkers_updated_remotePhoto.kmz
Background
The developer built the road in the mid 90's to service the lakefront lots. The trees have regrown considerably since the original clearing and road construction.
Organization
The residents all hold a right-of-way in common on the road and so it is in each of our interest to maintain the road. We do this together by contributing equally to the cost of each years contracted work. We also each contribute according to inclination and ability to the woods work and tending of the bush, trimming and such. We tend to discuss and agree the approach each year.
(Updated 2018-07-28) We thank Bob Allan, Ian Goldswith and Kelly Donaldson for collecting our donations and paying the contractor. Our bank account is:
Scotiabank,
71613
421 Lahave Street,
Bridgewater, NS B4V 3A2
Robert Allan/Ian Golsmith ITF New Elm Estate Lot Owners
Account # 71613 0492825
Maintenance work and re-surfacing
The right-of-way is a 66 feet wide. The single lane sections of road are about 14 feet wide. We could clear back about 25 feet from the edge of road surface on each side (33 feet from the centre line) and still be within our right-of-way. We usually try to clear at least 8 or 10 feet back from the edge of the road.
Fast facts:
- Class A gravel weights about 1.5 tonnes per cu yard.
- Slate or shale weigh about 2.2 tonnes per cu yard.
- A good load on Darrell's dump truck is about 10 cu yards.
Cost summary
We measured our road and annotated a map with some main features. This map may help us when we talk about parts of the road that we have upgraded, and parts that we plan to do in the future.
http://boballan.ca/molega_road/NewElmRoadMarkers_link.kmz
Taking stock of our progress over two years (2011, 2012), we estimate the cost of re-surfacing. We measured the distance on a trip meter with a gps in m, and we converted between weight, loads and volume using some conversion factors:
- Class A gravel, tons per cubic yard: 1.43
- Shale, tons per cubic yard: 2.2
- Size of a load, in yards: 10
- and our metric conversion of yards per meter: 1.09361
Our re-surfacing work to the end of 2012 was:
- Length of surface: 503m (550 yds)
- Cu yards of shale: 210
- Cu yards of Class A: 90
We find that we have spread the shale about 3 inches thick and the Class A at about 1 1/4 inches thick. We presume that's about what our contractor was aiming for, and, we think it's pretty good road surface to drive on.
We add the two years total costs including HST, $6509.27, and we estimate the cost of road surface at $11.83 per linear yard ($3.94 / foot) ($12.94 / m for the metric crowd). Since only a very small amount of the cost is fixed per-session, we can use these estimates to plan our distance covered according to our budget.
