The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 21, 2001 - A9

It’s normal for failures
_ {0 emerge over time but
-having 27 pop up in less
than two weeks is unheard
of- under normal condi-
tions, said Fulford.

‘Fulford isn’t prepared to
say the soft spats hap-
pened because of the log-
ging trucks, but she did
say they did play a part.

“Dover and Merkley are
built for residential traffic,
not for industrial use,” said
Fulford. “It’s not meant for
10, 20 or 30 logging trucks
aday, more like one garb-
age truck per week.”

road failure occurs
when the base under the
gravel becomes super sa-
turated. Weight of heavy
vehicles presses down on
the surface and water
perks,.upw displacing
the: ‘fine sand like .sub-.
_stance - that. holds the gra-
vel together,

When that happens soft
spots ranging in size from
a few inches in diameter
to the entire width of the
road are created.

The damage came to
Fulford’s attention because
residents started complain-
ing.

She placed an &0 per
cent load restriction on
those roads in an effort to
reduce the weight travel-
ling on them,

That meant that local
loggers couldn’t haul out
full loads, potentially cost-
ing them thousands of dol-
lars per day.

“In an effort to keep
much needed money com-
ing into Terrace’s econ-
omy Fulford, the loggers
and forests district man-
ager Brian Downie struck
a deal that would enable
the logging to continue
and still use the residential
toads.

“We've been working
with highways doing extra
grading and partnering in
road) =rebuilding,” said
Downie.

The deal saw the mini-
stry of forests pitch in
$35,000, the ministry of
transportation kicking in
$55,000 and forestry provi-
ding use of equipment to
grade the roads more fre-
quently.

Loggers agreed to re-
duce their loads during
heavy rainfall and to stop
hauling completely during
excessive. rainfall.

Road maintenance
company Nechako North
Coast also pitched in by

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