A brief history of the work on the road

Here is a brief history of the recent work on the road.  See the article at the 2013 season road work.

Work before 2010

Some of the lot owners had some work done on parts of the road now and again. Thanks to all who contributed; but, we don't have any records of that so we will begin our tale with the 2010 season. We opened a bank account and started to pool our resources in the fall (October) of 2009 in preparation for the 2010 work.

The 2010 season work

We contracted with Darrell Naugler to patch a number bad spots on the road. Here's what we bought.

The 2011 season work

The residents started an upgrading of New Elm Estates Drive beginning at (near) the intersection with Long Cove Road.

We used a new building/upgrading approach this year.

The method is:

• begin at the inner end of the New Elm Estates drive where it is used in common by all
• lay a layer of shale, pack it in and grade it with a buldozer
• lay a layer of class A gravel over the shale to cover.
• the shale is thick enough to cover the rough spots, fill the pot holes, and raise the road surface above the ground beside to enable drainage.

Here's a photo of the beginning of that piece of updated road; it is much more smooth and dry and seems to hold up well (writing this in August, 2013).

We contracted Darrrell Naugler to do the work.

The work was:

• 71.52 tonnes of class A gravel (that's 5 loads at about 14.3 tonnes per load)
• 7 loads of shale (a load is about 10 cu yards in that truck;

We did some woods work to clear back from the edge of the road surface. We clear the trees back from the road surface far enough for:

• clearance for the road surface work,
• clearance for vehicles passing without brushing the trees,
• clearance of the tucker bush to prevent scratching vehicles, and
• adequate sight line at corners.

The 2012 season work

We contracted more road surface upgrade using the same method as 2012.

We collected $3600 from 7 owners of 9 lots ($400. per lot).

We contracted Darrrell Naugler to do the work.

The work was:

• 14 loads shale; $1890; @$135/load (we pay by the load).
• 4 loads class A gravel; $1048; $262/load (we pay by the tonne).
• $70 to move the dozer; $70 1 hour at $70 per hour, and
• 1.25 hours dozing work; $87.50 @$70/hr.

The residents did some woods work to clear back from the road surface.