What to Put on a Gravel Road to Control Dust

[paulsharvey]

Then, if you do have a group fund to maintain the road, that's not cheap. Forgetting any additional material, just having a grader come out once per 3 months; that's $10,000/year. Even divided between 50 homes; that's $200 to just grade. Then, really, just to maintain 1 mile, you probably would figure atleast 3 loads of material per year, just to Maintain; not improve; at $475/load.

Also, as someone else brought up, there are sometimes folks who mean well, that end up making more of a mess than they fix.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Then, add to that 2-3 Amazon drivers, UPS, USPS, Kroger, ect, that don't care at all about being up the vehicle

Fedex is the worst! I swear the driver here goes around the curves on two wheels and tries to get the truck airborne when going over the potholes. No wonder they deliver so many busted parcels!

 

[Torvy]

I'd probably do my driveway and the road from mine up to the next guy.

Pave it with something...asphalt, tar and chip, concrete, or even just rock and fines. If it's about money, do it in phases.

If your neighbors want it, let them pay their share and you can maintain it.

 

[paulsharvey]

On speed, I do to some degree understand; you are going 30 or so, you hit the soft spots, and let off the gas, you drift right through. It also Feels like a smoother ride on wash boards. I was guilty if it when I was a teenager. Now, I realize that extra 30 seconds to make it out to the paved road is worth it to avoid the abuse on my vehicle.

With sugar sand, the one thing you never want to do is come to a stop; or spin; cause there isn't anything to grab

 

[paulsharvey]

So, some quick reading on the LDC of a neighboring county, on dedication of a private road to County. There is some stuff about either a majority or 2/3rd vote; clean title, drainage, environmental study, ect. But they Key point, the community establish an escrow account, and deposit funds required to bring the road up to current standards. Most of the phrasing implying the HOA (or other controlling agency) donates the road; so, dealing with dozens of individuals would be much worse. It did also include some language about the ability to accept substandard roads, with a study of probably cost ti bring up to standard, and a special assessment to each property.

IE; most likely 2-12 ft lanes (some might allow 20/22 ft), likely 6" base, 1.5" asphalt, repair any pot holes, ect. Then, often now the LDC would require a sidewalk, as well as 4 ft grass shoulder, and a 4:1 ditch; side drains (culverts) at driveways, ect.

On width; when I worked for the county south of me, 16 ft road, we stripped stop bar only at end; 18 ft, we did centerline, but no edgelines; 20 ft+, we did whole treatment, double yellow, and white edge lines.

 

[5030]

Without reading the entire thread, not sure if it was mentioned but... around here, we use brine as well as liquid CACL.

Brine is readily available here and cheap as in next to nothing and we buy CACL by the bag, mix it with water and spray it on the road. We usually spray on brine followed by a light coat of liquid CACL (which is expensive to use straight) but cheap when light sprayed over the brine.

 

[paulsharvey]

Then, we end up with the issue of let's say you do have a nice rural, dead end road, with multiple vacant properties down it. You know dang well that's an open invite to everyone to dump their trash, unwanted dogs, ride atvs on vacant property, do donuts, ect. It also becomes a good place fir clandestine meet ups; or in the past, if straight, a great place to land Columbian powder imports.

 

[paulsharvey]

LDC= Land Development Code, BTW

 

[5030]

Then, we end up with the issue of let's say you do have a nice rural, dead end road, with multiple vacant properties down it. You know dang well that's an open invite to everyone to dump their trash, unwanted dogs, ride atvs on vacant property, do donuts, ect. It also becomes a good place fir clandestine meet ups; or in the past, if straight, a great place to land Columbian powder imports.

Don't have that issue here, I'm always packing... Besides everyone around here knows I'm nucking futz.