New Elm Estates Drive road maintenance summary August 2018 through May 2020
Date: 2020-06-12
Our most recent update on the road maintenance was back in August, 2018. We outlined some plans for work by contract to Darrell Naugler and by way of contribution by Ian Goldsmith. We followed that plan and report a few highlights:
Darrell’s work: Shale with Class A build over the outbound section from the end of 2016 work for a distance of about 430 metres (470 yards) at a cost of $19.66/metre ($16.90/yd)
|
Item |
Amount |
Cost |
|
Class A Gravel |
62.69 Tons |
$1,247.20 |
|
Shale |
31 loads |
$5,115.00 |
|
Machine Time (mini excavator) |
10.5 hours |
$787.50 |
|
Machine time (moving it around) |
1 lot |
$200.00 |
|
Subtotal |
|
$7,349.70 |
|
Tax (HST) |
|
$1,102.46 |
|
Total |
|
$8,452.16 |
Ian’s work: Concentrated on the gap section between the hill and the pit. This is in lieu of Goldsmith’s (Lot 2) cash contribution for the 2018 year.
- Mini-excavator ditching in the section around the hill, rock picking and smoothing the road.
- Supplied and installed a culvert ($350.) c/w a load of shale ($300.) at the low point in the gap draining the up-hill side ditch and pond.
- Supplied and installed a culvert replacing the wooden one on outbound side of the low point. You may notice this still needs a little fill. The rut is because the old wooden work failed again after placing a culvert underneath it.
- Supplied and installed a culvert at the wet spot where we had only clear-stone for drainage before. Ran a ditch off into the down-stream side and re-filled with the existing stone.
- Drained several puddles including a notch in the down-stream side of the road at the beaver pond.
Short summary of all work to date over the many years:
- About 1.9 km of Shale base and Class A topped road built
- about 1.45 km of that re-coated with Class A in 2016
- moving the road sideways at the hill (2014) with lots of shale and a culvert needed
- Large culvert and beaver excluder installed which dried up the inner beaver pond (2016)
- Spot filling of pot holes with shale in several places neither included in the distance covered.
Remaining work to do:
A remaining 2.9 km of road has not been rebuilt including the remainder of New Elm Estates Drive consisting of the gap at the base of the hill and out bound sections to the highway (~1.5 km) and the lake-front section of New Elm Estates Drive to Mint Brook plus Mint Brook and all of Long Cove to the end of all developed lots (~1.4 km).