The Village of Rockyford is spending $280,000 this year as part of its street improvement program. This year’s work will have gravel streets throughout the village completely resurfaced, though not paved. Council aims to revisit the issue in the future.
The Village of Rockyford is moving ahead with some major road repairs now that the annual Rockyford Rodeo has come to a close.
Starting soon, gravel streets throughout town will be given an overhaul. However, they won’t be paved quite yet.
“We’re going to see some extensive roadwork across the village. We looked at doing some paving this year, but it would have used up all of the funding available for dust control. We thought it would be better to start with this project. In future years, we can budget for paving those three blocks,” said Mayor Darcy Burke.
The Village has set aside $280,000 for the street improvements this year.
The plan is to resurface the gravel roads, albeit with gravel.
“We’re going to excavate 100 millimetres off the top of the street, then bringing in some road crush, packing it, and then adding an oil surface on the top,” said Burke.
The resurfacing will be done in such a way to help facilitate any future plans to pave the streets.
“The reason Council chose to go this way was we did three blocks of underground infrastructure in 2011. This will be the first step in getting those streets paved,” said Burke. “With the base done, paving can take place sometime in the future.”
