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- From: kathryn@Apple.COM (Kathryn Vandiver)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural,ba.mountain-folk
- Subject: Re: Road Maintenance
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:26:37 GMT
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- >
- >Get some "rip rap", "rip rock", or whatever your local quarries call
- >the roughly football sized crushed stone they sell. Around here the
- >stuff goes for about $20 a ton delivered. Get a few tons and build in
- >where the erosion is happening. Put down one layer of rocks, then
- >shovel in some smaller gravel liberally. Then build up a few more
- >layers of rock. This should end your erosion problems in that area.
-
- Our neighbors tried the smaller sized 2" rock, it washed away. Is the
- rock you describe about 6"? if so, Andolini's in Soquel sells it for
- quite a bit more per ton ($150 or so).
-
- >
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