August 3, 2020
The condition of Bradley Pond Road is generally fair to good as of this writing.\u00a0 Recent thunderstorms\u00a0bringing heavy rain have caused some erosion\u00a0on graded areas.\u00a0 These areas would benefit\u00a0from the addition of new gravel and grading.\u00a0 The heavy rain also caused two small erosion\u00a0holes to form on the edges of the road at the second brook culvert in from Route 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Winter condition of the road was good.\u00a0 Josh Jones Construction continues to perform winter maintenance to include plowing, sanding, and pushing back snow banks when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our 5th season, mud season, which comes\u00a0between\u00a0winter and spring, was longer and messier than normal this year.\u00a0 For those new to mud season let me explain what it is as it always seems to be the issue most talked about.\u00a0 During the winter our road and the ground under it freezes several feet deep.\u00a0 This is true of all roads.\u00a0 As the weather warms in the spring the top few inches of the road surface begins\u00a0to thaw.\u00a0 At the same time the snow begins to melt.\u00a0 The melted snow saturates the road surface if the water is not able to drain via ditches or grade.\u00a0 That water is not able to permeate through because the ground is still frozen underneath.\u00a0 As more of the ground thaws and more snow melts the mud becomes deeper.\u00a0 This continues until “the frost comes out of the road” or, more accurately, the road fully thaws and the water is able to permeate through.\u00a0 As some of you remember, mud season was far worse years ago.\u00a0 Bradley Pond Road was virtually impassable for 2 weeks or more every spring.\u00a0 Thanks to ongoing work by BPA, the Town of Lovell and contributions of BPA lot owners, the spring conditions have greatly improved.\u00a0 That being said we still have several problem areas, that depending on the weather and snow pack, create stretches of deep mud and resulting ruts.\u00a0 Typically these areas are the stretch just before the corner where the Old County Road intersects (Arce and Grzyb property\u00a0line), the stretch just before Grzyb’s\u00a0driveway, the area just before the fork, and the entire stretch\u00a0from the fork to the Winship residence.\u00a0 Fixing these areas would require the addition of heavy road base type gravel and grading of the road to promote drainage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another maintenance\u00a0issue that results from the frost\/thaw cycle are stones working their way to the surface.\u00a0 Some of these stones can be large and pose a hazard to the underside of vehicles.\u00a0 Many of these stones can be removed by hand and I remove them when I can with a pinch bar.\u00a0 I know others have done the same.\u00a0 Larger stones require a piece of equipment to remove.\u00a0 Erosion\u00a0also exposes some of these stones and can be covered by adding gravel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As far as maintenance, little has been done in the last two years.\u00a0 The town usually grades the road from Route 5 to the boat landing every year which greatly improves that stretch.\u00a0 Last year (2019) they only graded from Route 5 to the area by the mirror.\u00a0 After experiencing mechanical issues\u00a0with the grader they were not able to continue the rest of the way.\u00a0 This year they have not graded at all as of this date.\u00a0 They did York rake the road in the spring.\u00a0 BPA funds have not been available the past two years to perform summer maintenance\u00a0on the road due to heavy winter maintenance\u00a0costs.\u00a0 As you may know, Bruce Davis and Jennifer Moore have begun construction on their lot at the fork.\u00a0 That has brought heavy construction vehicle traffic which caused some wear to the road.\u00a0 However the construction company (Fred Wilson Excavation) has addressed those issues by adding and spreading several dump truck loads of gravel to the problem areas restoring the road to better than before condition in those areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In closing, please feel free to discuss these or any other road related issues further\u00a0in this email chain.\u00a0 Also, once we learn what we have for funds, let me know if we want to direct any of them towards summer maintenance.\u00a0 I’ll leave a top 3 list below.
Respectfully submitted,
Walt Grzyb BPA Road Commissioner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 – Repair water holes at 2nd brook
2- Replace culvert between Old County Road and Grzyb driveway
3 – Add road material to area near fork<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
August 3, 2020The condition of Bradley Pond Road is generally fair to good as of this writing.\u00a0 Recent thunderstorms\u00a0bringing heavy rain have caused some erosion\u00a0on graded areas.\u00a0 These areas would benefit\u00a0from the addition of new gravel and grading.\u00a0 The heavy rain also caused two small erosion\u00a0holes to form on the edges of the road at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenportpottery.com\/bradleypond\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenportpottery.com\/bradleypond\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenportpottery.com\/bradleypond\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenportpottery.com\/bradleypond\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenportpottery.com\/bradleypond\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenportpottery.com\/bradleypond\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/greenportpottery.com\/bradleypond\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenportpottery.com\/bradleypond\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}