The Science of Road Repair

Example of a box culvert.

As most of you — our faithful readers — probably know, Hwy 3 is currently closed between Rainbow Drive and Franklin Avenue due to a water main break. Apparently what happened is that a box culvert settled, resulting in the break of the waterline. We’ll know more on that later.

Repairs are currently underway and would normally be completed in a day. But here’s the problem. In the winter you can’t always get hot asphalt or dry material to make the repairs. That little issue will likely delay the repairs on Hwy 3, and it has also impacted the progress on our downtown waterline project on a few different occasions.

So, when you hear on the news about this being the coldest winter in however many years, you now know one other little (or not so little depending on your normal driving routes) impact this winter is having in our region.