I woke up, swept for a couple of hours before the blower crew came by. The
crew had a blower for the leaves and another for the large gravel. When I
initially inspected the spraying results the day before on the first street
sprayed (Comburg Castle), immediately after sprayed, I could see rocks proud of
the surface. I immediately located and discussed this with the contractor; the
supervisor told me the contract did not involve sweeping. I incorrectly
assumed this meant they left all of the rock on the road, and I was not happy
about such a blatant oversight given I had been inspecting the streets leading
up to the scheduled spraying and I had observed significant gravel
accumulations and stretches of loose gravel on both sides of the road.
Obviously, even the contractor understood the need to blow off the large rocks:
it was part of the process and they fixed that intersection I originally
inspected, on the day following when I showed the issue to the city inspector
(Quintin). Everyone openly agreed the initially observed problem area was not
correct. The rest of the area was better, but I feel there is evidence that too
much rock was left on the road, and the consequence is that the surface is less
stable, still shedding more rock than appropriate. There is currently
significant loose gravel in the streets and in the driveway cutouts, hopefully
the city will be sending out a sweeping crew to address that issue soon.
Where the road was adequately cleared of loose gravel, the surface is very
stable, shedding virtually no aggregate. I tested the area I swept on Toulouse
and the results yielded one single rock in the broom path from center to edge
of road: the surface is very tenacious and does not appear to have any tendency
to shed. The same broom path on the other blown but unswept side produced 30
or so rocks. In areas where some loose gravel was allowed to remain the
surface is less stable and still sheds rock when abraded (swiping of the foot,
in-place pivoting of my onewheel).
Sweeping the area of the existing loose gravel will help in the evaluation of
the fog seal and application, as well as address the current sticky loose
gravel problem.
On Thursday, August 26, 2021, 7:57:23 PM CDT, ROBERT BROUSSARD
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I will be waking up first thing tomorrow morning to start manually sweeping
Toulouse with a push broom. Without assistance, I suspect it may take all day
and I do not intend on stopping until the entire street is swept.
I do not accept that it is OK to proceed forward with the fog coat in light of
the scheduling snafu with the sweepers. The fog coat process needs to proceed
in a proper fashion within scheduling constraints: if a delay is necessary to
gain access to a sweeper, then the process needs to be delayed to accommodate
that constraint.
-Robert B
