Raymond Hill is open to traffic again, but the town says it won’t expend too many resources to keep it up.
The Raymond Hill runs parallel to Highway 56, running north of Highway 10. Earlier this year a slide closed the road, and residents from Drumheller and Wheatland County who use the road, rallied to have it reopened. They began a petition, which was presented to the Town of Drumheller.
At the May 10 Drumheller council meeting, CAO Darryl Drohomerski provided a report to council on the Raymond Hill Road Public Submission. The town received a petition to reopen the road on April 5. Administration scrutinized the petition under the stipulations of the Municipal Government Act and deemed it did not meet the requirements. He added the Town and Wheatland County are working together to reopen and maintain the road.
“People weren’t really talking about using it much until we shut it down, and now it is really important,” said Drohomerski. “It looks like it’s mostly for access for farm machinery. We are just going to pay attention and see if that is the case.”
He explains they have reopened the road, but they are not investing in repairing it. The town supplied a few barricades to slow the slide, and Wheatland County is to complete some grading.
“Both Wheatland and us, Town of Drumheller, have done a significant amount of work to repair that slide, so we are going to do our best to prevent it from getting worse, but we are not going to fix it all,” said Drohomerski.
