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The
road's soil types vary. Here the soil is sandy; further
on the soil is heavy red clay.
Sandy
soil was best able to withstand damage from the bulldozer
and truck.
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Up
the first rise the soil is heavy red clay. |
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Closer
to the top of the rise, the ruts here are deep.
Normally,
when the road is like this we are able to run our ATV
between the ruts but we can't here. There is no in between
the ruts.
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Molly
is standing by the road showing how deep the ruts are.
Until
the road is fixed we will have to carry our groceries,
laundry, supplies and products of our shop, and 40 lb.
propane tanks on our backs, or in our arms. (Three-quarters
of a mile, up and down hills!)
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After
the rise the road goes toward a dip between the rise and
the well pad. |
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Molly
is standing by the road showing how deep the ruts are.
This was shot looking north, toward the rise after walking
down a bit. |
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The
company added gravel to this portion of the road when
they fixed it last September. Generally the gravel held
up well, except for sagging under the heavy weight of
the vehicles. This is the end of the graveled portion,
almost at the well pad. |
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Looking
north from the edge of the well pad. The bulldozer turned
here after backblading the well pad. |
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The
backbladed pad. The bulldozer smoothed the pad but didn't
bother doing the same for the road. |
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Even
though the pad is smoothed, that's a relative term;
the surface is still lumpy.
We
could drive our ATV over this kind of surface, but we
would risk getting stuck or breaking the ATV if we tried
driving the other parts of the road now.
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The
vac truck and bulldozer backed out of the pad into the
portion of the road beyond the pad that is used by several
surface owners. Our land begins about an eighth of mile
beyond this point.
A
bulldozer hasn't been past this point in 20 years.
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This
area is lowest between the well pad and another rise and
water tends to stay here unless the drains are working.
We paid for gravel to be put on this section of the road,
but of course this is where the bulldozer chose to turn.
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