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Access Road Letter
Aerial Photo of Access Road
Access Road Photos
Orrin, Cindy & Brandon Moon
6544 CR 331
Silt, CO
Access Road to 6544 CR 331
To whom this concerns:
The main access road to 6544 is a homeowner maintained private access road that is about 2 miles long
that accesses 9 local homes in the area. The road was built before we bought the property and it is
unknown how long the road has been there. The road appears to have been built with pit run and road
base along with crushed rock and road base added at some time.
Any road maintenance that has been done was by me, Jerry Rew, and Warren Allmon over the time that
we have lived there. Only two other home owners have contributed to the cost of road maintenance
since 2008, they are Gary Bell (new property renter on Ubanks Property) and Lowell Walters. This year
we have 5 home owners contributing to adding road base to the main road with 3- 12 yard loads already
added and another 3 loads will be yet this spring. This spring, I have been working on adding drainage
ditches, widening the road to the hill section of the road before the first two driveways. The time and
equipment has been funded by me for this project.
We are requesting Traffic Study Submittal Waiver for this application due to the low traffic volume on
this road. The access road is a dead end road, and is posted private at the entrance. We don't see a lot
of people driving around here unless they are going to a specific property on the road. The main traffic
is the residence of the road. I spend a considerable amount of time outside during the year and have a
very good idea of what vehicles belong on the road. We all watch out for vehicles that don't belong in
the area, we watch out for our neighbor's property and belongs. Very few vehicles travel the road
without someone seeing it from the area.
When looking at the County Road Specifications in Table 7-107, I found that road widths depends on
trips on the road. I have determined road trips on the road by watching who is coming and going
throughout the years and can give a close estimate on trips per day. The following is my estimate of
trips on our private road per day:
1
Almond- 4
Rew- 6
Walter- 6
Moon- 8
Ubanks- 1/4 goes to town once a week
Griffin- 2
Thompson- 2
Price- 1 vacation residence, owner here 4-5 times a year, sometimes relatives here
Bracken- 2
UPS/Fed X- 1
Total Trips: 32 1/4
Note: Encana owns property in the area but uses gas well road through Arbany Property to access well
pads and property.
My past experience was in road and driveway construction which I gained working for Elam Construction
in Grand Junction and Aspen, CO. I worked for 17 1/2 years in this field working with grades, elevations,
designed/built roads and driveways for proper drainage. I calculated grades for blue top finish (final
base grades for the laying asphalt to final finished grade). I believe this experience gives me a great
background to provide the following road synopsis.
On 2/11-12/17, I measured the road to our driveway and marked out each 100 foot mark as in distance
stations. The total length of the road to our driveway was 5123' from County Road 331. I then went to
each 100' mark, in the center of the road, measured the grade with a 4' level and an engineer tape
measure. I also measured the width of the existing road base. The grade was then figured at each 100'
mark by calculation of the measurement in 100's of a foot and divided by 4 and then multiplied by 100
to get the % of the grade at that location. The following is a general synopsis of the road.
Station
0+00 to 7+00
8+00 to 10+00
11+00 to 13+00
14+00 to 15+00
Culvert
16+00 to 21+00
22+00 to 23+00
24+00 to 25+00
26+00 to 32+00
33+00 to 34+00
35+00 to 39+00
Road Width
15'-16'
15'
16'-17'
15'-17'
15'-18'
13'-14'
16'
18'-20'
18'-19'
17'-20'
Grade
-0- to 3.5% up hill in a couple spots
1.75% to .05% down hill
2.5% to 0% up hill
2.5% to 1.5% down hill
4.25% to 7.5% up hill
6.5% to 7.5% up hill
1.25% to 3.5% up hill, high point of road
5.0% to 0% down hill
6.25% to 7.0% down hill
5.0% to 1.0% down hill
2
Cattle Guard 12'
40+00 to 42+00 14'-15' 2.0% to 3.75% up hill
43+00 14' 8.75% down hill
Culvert
44+00 15' 1.25% down hill
45+00 to 48+00 16'-17' 4.0% to 0%, high point in road
49+00 to 51+23 15'-16' 3.75% to 0% downhill, cattle guard on road 12'
The existing center of the road has mostly been maintained with a crown of 1-2% drainage, some areas
still need to be crowned. Other areas of the road have cross drainage on curves and hills. Since I have
been working on the road the goal has been to grade the entire road to our drive way with a crown or
adequate cross drainage and improve the ditches along the road for proper drainage. For the most part
the road drains with a few low areas where water stands after a good rain and causes potholes. One
good thing about a rough road is it slows traffic down on the road. We try to grade the road when wet
to allow for better compaction of the road base which makes the regrade last longer. This spring has
not been a good year for wet roads so the road is rough and slow at the time of application.
See attached photos of the road and GIS maps of the road.
Our drive way starts at this point and goes down to second cattle guard and into our property. The road
was measured for grade and width the same as the main entry road with total road length to the ADU is
1542'. The drive way is made of road base, crushed asphalt and some 3" rock with width varying on
curves. The new road into the ADU is a two track on dirt and will be final graded, %" to 1%2' road base
then compacted. A drainage culvert will installed at the low point of the new driveway.
Station Road Width Grade
0+00 to 3+00 11'-13' 9.25% to 12% down hill
4+00 to 5+00 12'-13' 5.0% to 0% up hill
6+00 16' .25% up
7+00 to 11+00 13'-15' .25% to 0% existing culvert
12+00 35' Barnyard 1.0% cross slope and drainage swale
13+00 to 14+00 14' 6.75% to 8% estimated, add future culvert for drainage
15+00 to 15+42 15'+ 3.0% to 2.0% up to house. Width will vary due to parking
See site plan for grading plan for parking and emergency vehicle turnaround.
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