Road Building ?

Last year, 2008, some long awaited repairs were done to 108 rd from Bells Lake road to approximately the 20 board. We all wondered about these repairs as they put done approximate 6 to 8 inch's of sand with a little bit of gravel. Most who live in this part of the world have never seen this type of road repair before. The general consensus seems to be that it will not stand up and I think this time of year, April, we are seeing the start of the deterioration. Only time will tell, hopefully not to soon.

Now when you go back and look at some of the work that has been done you begin to wonder what else will go wrong. I am, of course, speaking about a culvert at Malcolm Creek.

When we take a look at the following photo, all does not appear to be that bad. Right?

Now let's take a closer look.

The depression you see is where there is a culvert running below the road. The only problem is it is approximately 1/2 inch below the surface. Remember the road was resurface last year and this depression started to show up approximately 2 to 3 weeks after the project was completed??????

Now lets take a closer look.

The yellow line represents the edge of the road. What is that you say? A hole in the side of the road! Remembering of course that the road was resurfaced last summer, how could this be? Now let's take a closer look:

The yellow line is the same one in the photo above. So what do we have here. A culvert and it does not reach the side of the road. What you don't see is that a piece of culvert was added but not attached ie welded together. Then to top it off, they tried to cover up the error (?) by covering it with an abutment sign. That is the type of sign that they put on the ends of bridges, the yellow and black stripes signs.

As this road is narrow, if you were to meet an oncoming vehicle at this point and you moved over so that you could both pass, I think you would be in serious trouble. It is a SAFETY ISSUE.

You would also think that if there was any QC (quality control) during and after the project that this SAFETY ISSUE, would have been caught and rectified IMMEDIATELY.

I guess that this is the quality of construction and other things that we will have to continue to put up with.

Same old, Same old. Still lots to report on including road flooding etc. etc.

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