Residents on South Waseosa Lake Road will have to pack their patience for about another two months this summer.
At the May 28 General Committee meeting, Director of Operations for the Town of Huntsville, Randy Bissonette, gave councillors a rundown of what’s being planned.
He said the road will be pulverized, and three inches of granular A gravel will be placed on the top. Then 3.5 litres of calcium chloride per square metre of road will be added. “Then we put the pulverizer through it again, so that’s called base stabilization, so we’re stabilizing the base,” Bissonette told councillors, adding that the material will all be graded and packed afterward. “The final thing is we put a fog coat on top of the graded road which pulls the calcium chloride… up to the top so it will be like a hard surface and that should hold until the surface treatment gets done, which should be about three weeks after that process,” he said, referring to the high float the road will end up with.
The work will be done as part of a District contract in order to get better pricing, explained Bissonette.
The signs are up, and the work is expected to begin on Monday, June 16.
In the spring, the Town put down two inches of gravel on the road, which did not hold up well, with residents complaining about the state of the road en masse.
Councillor Scott Morrison, who lives on that road, as well as Councillor Bob Stone, wanted to know how the new work might hold up. Bissonette said the more you build up the base, the better it will be. “Realistically, probably in the long run, the base should be all redone, but you’re looking at like 10 million dollars,” he noted.
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