Road Sign - N. Orwell & Lamb Roads

The road sign at the intersection of N. Orwell Road (T887) and Lamb Road (T758) has been dislodged from the sign post and is laying on the stream bank.
An email was sent to the Township Roadmaster on January 29th and Mike replied the same day.Mike's reply:

"We are experiencing vandalism to a great deal of our signs.  We believe that there are a select few within the municipality and just outside of the municipality trying to disrupt the sincere efforts of the two supervisors and the raod crew.  I appreciate the emails in the constructive form.  Please note that we are constantly trying to improve the twp and its roadways and with that being said, please consider us friends here and not the enemies.  Im not political and take a sincere and personal approach to doing as stated above.  Feel free to come to me with any questions or concerns you may have. "

Snow Plowing - Where's the Snow?

On Sunday, January 26th, at 2:20PM a cloud of dust drifted across our lawn as the Rome Township show plow went by our house (very fast) with the plow down. What made this unusual was the lack of snowfall for the day.Why was this road plowed, on a Sunday, when there wasn't a need???



Soon after the snow plow went up Joyce Road I took the following picture showing the dirt that was plowed up and thrown into our lawn and the lack of snow moved by plowing.



The following picture was taken at the top of the hill on Joyce Road and also shows the lack of snow removed by plowing.

 

This is a close-up picture of how the plow blade was scraping on the road surface and removing more dirt (road surface) than snow.

Stone in Lawns

Rome Township dumped several loads of crushed stone on Joyce Road to correct the mud to stone ratio of the road. Unfortunately the road was frozen when the crushed stone was  dumped on the road and was not worked into the surface. Within days after spreading the crushed stone on the road, the Rome Township snow plow removed most of the stone from the road and deposited it in the neighborhood ditches and lawns.

A view of our lawn looking north from 544 Joyce Road.



A view  looking south from 544 Joyce Road.



A view of Maureen Brady's field, looking south from 1027 Joyce Road.

Spreader "ON"!

While spreading crushed stone on Joyce Road to adjust the mud to stone ratio of the road surface, the truck operator failed to turn off the spreader while turning the truck around.