• Paint Pony - Total rebuild, culvert cap, widening, and ribbon curb addition. Approximately 630 linear feet including cul de sac. Click here to go to details of Paint Pony work.
• Mustang Mesa - Demolish and replace with concrete the washed out low area near the Haines property. Replace and add slope to one driveway so water will cross it.
• Buckskin - Demolish and rebuild 50 linear feet, widen, and include ribbon curbing.
• Various - repair five serious pot holes of various sizes, totaling approximately 161 square yards

2. Road condition

• Paint Pony - It has deteriorated rapidly and completely during the monsoons of last summer. After work was started, Rayburn discovered vitually no base course was present from the oringinal construction. This is typical of the north side road construction quality from the developer. See the picture below.
• Mustang Mesa - It is pretty much the same, little or no base course. This road has some slope to it, as opposed to Paint Pony, which may have slowed the deterioration some as water can get off of it quicker. This isn't true of the current repair site which is low and flat. All of Mustang Mesa is going to pot pretty quick and will require constant maintenance and repair until the whole road section from the north gate to Buckskin is redone.
• Buckskin - It is the same composition as Mustang Mesa and Paint Pony, but is in better shape due to low volume of traffic. We tackled the worst area which is 50 feet long and is totally destroyed.

3. Progress

• Work will be done in a manner that allows traffic flow at all times. In some cases, such as Paint Pony, work will be conducted on one lane at a time.
• Work is progressing nicely except for a few recent days.
• Contractor didn't want to open up any road surface with pending rain.
• Original plan was to finish by end of January. He may hit that if weather holds, but I would say more like the last week of February.

 

 

Paint Pony had very thin asphalt and no road base, only a very small layer of chalky limestone (as seen in the left view), and the new surface has 8 inches of road base and at least of 2 inches of asphalt surface (right view). The right view is that of a test sample that was removed from Paint Pony by the testing company.

 

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Last updated 4/14/2008