Wow, 23° at midnight, dropping to 19° this morning.
Temp & Dew Point for 12/8/09
Our community was blessed with a mild 2008/09 winter season that kept damage to our roads at a minimum.
PROJECTS
- Sections of Britchen and Cantle had seriously eroded ditches. Rock was added and the ditches were recontoured.
- Ditches were recontoured on both sides of a portion of Surrey
- Stagecoach was double chip sealed from Surrey south to the washout. This completed the second of our five phase road maintenance plan initiated in 2008. The next phase is double chip sealing Stagecoach from Horseshoe to Sulkey, followed by sealing Pommel from Horseshoe to Colt.
- The Stagecoach bridge crossing project is progressing ever so slowly. The latest estimate is that we will have our bridge by 2012. The $900,000 project is primarily funded by CalTrans, with approximately $92,000 provided by us.
- Public Works will survey the most dangerous hump on Surrey in order to provide an estimate of work & costs to the community of widening the road sufficiently enough to prevent head-on collisions. Widening the entire length of Surrey proved to be too expensive for the community.
BRUSHING
Diamond XX roads were evaluated for brushing and it was anticipated that Cal Fire crews would do the work. However, since our community brushing is not a high priority of Cal Fire, we are still waiting for them to have time to do this work. The Public Works dept. came out for 2 days and started the brushing process. However, county crews were then needed in the higher elevations to prepare for winter snow removal.
DITCHING
Deep ditches on either side of Pommel are a concern and Public Works will inspect the area and hopefully provide an economical solution.
Ditching throughout our community will began when the soil is sufficiently damp in order to pack down and prevent run-off of soil re-clogging the ditches. Our dry weather has not been cooperating with this process.
FINANCE
We have started the 2009/2010 fiscal year owing the county $168,261.94. The reason for this is that FEMA still has not reimbursed us the $352,355 that they promised to help repair the damage from the April 2006 storms. County staff, who have been following up with FEMA , are optimistic that we will receive this money. With that reimbursement, our account balance should be $184,093.06. Remember, DiamondXX must keep in reserves $92,000 for the Stagecoach bridge crossing or we will loose our grant.
SUMMARY
The Road Committee continues in its efforts to get the most road work done while striving to keep expenses at a minimum.
Please help your community to keep costs down by monitoring the front of your property. Trim or remove trees and brush that my cause a sight problem for motorists or clog ditches with debris. Check culverts to make sure water will move freely through them. Maintain your encroachment (gravel, re-pave, etc.) so that you are not bringing mud out on the public road.
Our storm total was approximately 3.7″, with wind gusts up to 39 mph. Posting this via my iPhone as power has been out for the past 18 hours.
Last 28 days from my weather station – look how we went from Summer heat to a wonderful crisp Fall in 1 day.
Temp & Dewpoint past 28 days
Hi everyone,
This Fall the Road Committee will be having the Public Works Dept. do its annual ditch clean-up before winter rains. Are there any specific areas that you’d like to inform us about that will require more attention?
Take care,
Jeane Kennedy
Road Committee Member
Use the link above to comment or send an email to roadcommittee@diamondxx.info
How about some really local weather? Look on the right sidebar for data from my weather station, updated every 10 minutes, and a webcam image of Flowers Lake. Click on the weather info to see weather history by the day, week, or month. Click the link to “more weather station data” for even more.
Not sure how accurate any of this is – I assume it is pulled from census data. Interesting nonetheless:
This has the whole subdivision and all roads.
Hi all,
You may notice the site has a shiny new design. The software package I was using had security issues, so I moved the site to a different hosting platform. All documents from the old site are available here.
This new site could allow us to do some fun things in the future, including a services directory, event notifications, and buy & sell listings. Please use the comment area below to share your ideas.
Registration is not required to read the site or post comments, but is appreciated.
Note that search is broken until Google re-indexes the site. It returns results, but the links are broken. This should resolve on its own in a few days or weeks.
Search works now!
Enjoy,
The Road Committee as defined by Calaveras County Resolution No. 94-365:
Whereas, County Service Areas have been established to provide construction and maintenance of certain roads within the unincorporated territory; and
Whereas, it is advantageous to form a Road Committee for each County Service Area to advise the County regarding the perceived needs of each County Service Area; and Whereas, the purpose of these Road Committees is to act in an advisory capacity to the Board of Supervisors…
How one becomes a Road Committee member:
Volunteers are chosen by our district supervisor to serve without salary or any form of compensation. To volunteer, either request a form from County offices or download
the form from our website. It will then be up to our Supervisor whether the appointment to the committee will be made and for what length of term.
What to expect:
The present Road Committee stays in contact with members generally through email in order to obtain the feedback of as much of the community as possible. Committee members are contacted by residents and property owners by phone, email, and mail. Community meetings are held on an as needed basis in order to make decisions concerning the expenditure of funds by the county.
The committee also meets in San Andreas with Public Works and in Copperopolis with our supervisor. Weekly phone conversations with Public Works assures projects get the highest amount of regard and keeps the Road Committee informed of the budget, scheduled work, etc.
The present Road Committee consists of…
1. Former internal auditor for the Clorox Co., retired IBM executive of more than 33 years.
2. Grounds Supervisor at Las Positas College in Livermore for over 26 years, responsible for asphalt parking lots, asphalt roads and streets, drainage, weeds, signage, etc. Owner of multiple lots in the Diamond XX since 1982.
3. Self-employed former consultant to Scotts, Ortho, Monsanto, and other lawn & garden companies.
4. Director of Quality Control for Sutter Hospital
…And we need one more to complete a committee of 5.
