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Volume 24, Number 12
Friday, August 31, 2018
Durham confronts aging culverts
‘KINDNESS ROCKS’: AN UPBEAT NEW ELEMENT AT THE FAIR
By Bailey Wright Town Times
In a Tuesday, Nov. 6 referendum, residents will vote on whether to appropriate more than $2 million by general obligation bond for road culvert replacement work in Durham. In a special town meeting Monday, voters approved a motion to set the date and time for the referendum, after discussing the resolution for the road culvert replacement work associated with Indian Lane, Bear Rock Road, Haddam Quarter Road, Seward Road and Cream Pot Road and pavement work in the Dinatale subdivision. “These are projects that need to be done. If it's not funded in this fashion, it will be funded some other way, but these particular culverts need to be done,” First Selectman Laura Francis said at the meeting.
”Kindness Rocks.”
The Art Department at the Durham Fair has scheduled a new contest, “Kindness Rocks.”
FairArtRocks!, and then hide the rock in a new place for another fairgoer to find.
Painted rocks that have either inspirational quotes or designs written on them have been hidden all over the fairgrounds. Find a rock, snap a selfie with it, post it on Instagram with the hashtag Durham-
After you post five photos with five different rocks, come to the Durham Fair Art Department, show your posts and receive a prize. — Press Release
Replacement of these culverts was first deemed necessary about eight years ago, said Public Works Road Foreman John Jenkins. During last year’s budget process, the Board of Finance, along with the Board
of Selectmen, determined that financing through general obligation bonds would be most effective. Bonding would not exceed the amount of $2.1 million. Francis said that all the culverts included in the resolution are made of some kind of corrugated metal and are exceeding their life expectancy, as some are decades old. Each will be replaced with twin precast box culverts, except in Seward Road, where current twin asphalt corrugated metal pipes will be replaced with twin plastic pipes. The Indian Lane road culvert replacement will be eligible to apply for the Connecticut Local Bridge Program, which would reimburse the town 50 percent of that project. All the roads are still passable, according to Jenkins. However, several are utilizing road plates to help stabilize them. The Dinatale subdivision will be a full-depth reclaim pavement project, which will put it back in the shape it was when brand new, JenkSee Culverts, A9
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