Posted by Travlr (anonymous) on January 26, 2010 at 2:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)

OUCH!

Posted by getbizi (anonymous) on January 26, 2010 at 10:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)

It seems to me that the dirt roads require more upkeep than the paved roads. Everytime it rains they seem to wash away.

Posted by kittycreek (anonymous) on January 26, 2010 at 12:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

We're hearing a lot about dirt road issues (and paved) because we have had a lot of rain lately.

I had forgotten how much maintenance my own dirt driveway required because we stayed in a drought for so long.

Of course, I'd rather worry about erosion problems than have to fight over water!

Posted by CCOF (anonymous) on January 26, 2010 at 1:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Kittycreek- the amount of rain has made it worse. If it were only happening now, I probably would not have said anything in a public forum. It is everytime. When it is hot and dry, the road workers clean out the ditches and leave piles of...stuff... where ever. Once I could not even turn in our drive due to the leaves, rocks, sticks and dirt that was piled up. I thought they must still be working on the road. But, they were finished! My husband, again, cleared our drive and placed a call to Mr. Werren. What do we pay our county workers... and where does the money come from? Our property taxes rise almost each year, where is it going? Did we give raises that the public had no knowlege, and if so, who got the raises?

Posted by Tommy (anonymous) on January 26, 2010 at 4:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Crystal, You are exactly right. Until someone learns how to properly ditch a road and make the water runoff quickly and without taking sediment to the nearest culvert and clogging it, then this will always be an issue. Anyone can run a motorgrader and leave a windrow of loose soil to be carried to the nearest pipe, therefore clogging the pipe. One problem the county workers in Chilton has to worry with is the sandy type soil we are blessed with, this soil is easily picked up and washed away only to clog driveway culverts. I totally agree that more experienced operators would help with this problem.

Posted by 1oldman (anonymous) on February 5, 2010 at 6:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)

my question is what ditches, I have not seen a ditch worked in 30 years, when they dig the road down till it will not drain, then haul more in to build the road back up, and hope it will drain. Our creeks are full of silt washed from the roadway, into what ever means we can keep up to drain the runoff from our homes to and from our fields and this silt has built up there until the water can't flow to the creeks, and stands. In many areas, the road has been widen past where the ditches use to be and now the culverts are inches to a foot more narrow than the road, and one has to be alert or finds him or herself off in the culvert. Usually one can drive out and to the shop for repairs provided nothing was broken. twenty years ago when I asked about this means of maintaing the road, I was told they didn't care where or how the water was moved as long as it was. No wonder the comission has such a job getting extra funds for road maintainace.