People living along four miles of Delaware Road east of the old Zillah School will get their wish. COMMISSIONERS approved a request for Iola High School’s band to have a fundraising event on the courthouse lawn May 3. Details will be announced later.
Those residents were distraught last year over the condition of the road, arguing that heavy truck traffic had left it dangerous and dusty.
County crew milled up the asphalt and let it settle over winter. Within a couple of weeks reconstruction of the road will start, Director of Public Works Bill King told commissioners Tuesday morning.
Plans are to put down six inches of base rock with the county’s pug machine, a device that mixes rock, water and fine quarry ingredients during application. The surface then will be rolled “and it will be like concrete,” King said. “You won’t be able to drive a nail into it.”
When the time is right county crews will add a double coating of chip-and-seal, which will leave the road “better than when it was first built,” King predicted.
Those four miles will be among about 30 of Allen County’s 180 miles of hard-surfaced roads that will have chip-and-seal treatment this summer.
Allen County also has 820 miles of rock roads along which they must keep grass and weeds at bay.
Repairs OK’d for Delaware Road
