Heartland’s rocky roads: Broken asphalt led to the sinking of a city garbage truck
March 23, 2012 at 7:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
Tire tracks cut through yards in Heartland Village in south Dickinson because that’s the only way to drive a vehicle home, residents say. Continue Reading
.More talking to long term residents in this court woulda completely different story. This park has had dangerous roads for several years they pretend to fix them by filling holes with sand or dirt. They do not actually fix them. Last spring there were holes virtually every place several blocked off with safety tape and trash cans A li
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Where’s a Roman when you need one? They seem to have known things 2000 years ago that are a total mystery today.
The basic problem is the soil is too wet. There are different ways to deal with that, but the simplest is drain tiles under the road. You might be able to daylight them or you build a sump and pump.
Get the water out and your road won’t act like soup. It’s not any more complicated than that.
Winter will get blamed, all sorts of things will get the blame, but it’s really a case of somebody putting a trailer park in without spending any money to build roads. Putting asphault on top of mud is not a road though it does cost money.
Pouring a bit of gravel or dirt into the soup isn’t going to actually do anything long term. It kind of soaks things up and appears to help for a short time and then you are back to where you were. Some soft spots will eat truckload after truckload and never blink. Some eat trucks and don’t burp either.
The other alternative would be to dig down, and put down geotechnical cloth and possibly reinforcing mesh, and then fill a couple three feet of gravel.
It’s a lot cheaper to put in the drain tile.
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Is there any way the residents can get together and sue the property owner to get the roads fixed? Accessibility to the properties is the responsibility of the owner, and they are failing to provide it. They are paying an absurd amount for lot rents, and they aren’t getting a basic service they are paying for.
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Those roads have been bad for at least 10 years. I remember there were issues in the paper before about whos responsibility it was to fix them. The city should be able to fine heartland for every day they sit around instead of getting professionals to fix the roads the right way.
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