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And I agree 100% with everything Harriette, my wonderful friend and amazing neighbor, has said. I've been up in Northern British Columbia without phone access all week, which makes this whole situation even more unbearable and frustrating! But I can always count on Harriette to be articulate and right on the money with her postings! Lisa

Whats the status on the road work today ?

It's Saturday. No work.

Does anyone know just how far north this work will progress?
And what is the "driving" source?

DC

Someone (on this thread I believe) said it would continue to Mata Chica. That's pretty far north. Can't answer the other question!

Saturday the back hoe and dump truck were all the way up to La Perla!

The section between Windmill House and Xamenec is looking great too.

They have been getting material form the North and driving it South past us all Friday. Doing that they messed up the road badly here, but I talked to one of the drivers and he said they are going to fix it again next week. The roadsection between La Perla and Canary Cove (former Kitty's) was made back in 2004 and paid for by the residents and resorts to divert traffic away from the beach.

Spectacular sight to see them driving by slowly as the ground is sinking away under the trucks and float up again when they have passed. The road here is actually a hardened top layer that floats on the marsh. Once the top layer breaks it becomes impassable. That is why the road can never be used for heavy traffic, unless -in my opinion- it is filled up all the way to bedrock and that is about 4-7 feet here.

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When the sewer/water facilities were built back in about 1994, the contractors used a steel mat on top the marsh then filled the road material on that. It distributes the loads over a larger area and seems to work. It has survived all these years....

I have been watching the news about the sink hole in Florida. It looks to me like we have the same substrata - am I wrong?

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