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Home My WebLink About981779.tiff 06h4rig. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PHONE (970) 356-4000, EXT.4200 FAX: (970) 758 P.O.O BOX BOX 758 GREELEY, COLORADO 80632 I C. COLORADO September 15, 1998 LaRue and Mary Johnson 5701 WCR 13 Windsor, CO 80550 RE: Weld County Road 13 between Weld County Road 70 and Weld County Road 74 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Johnson: This letter is in response to your letter dated August 16, 1998. Your complaint regarding the unsafe condition of the railroad tracks is valid. A County maintenance crew will work with Great Western Railroad to correct the problem. The tracks will be cleaned and the approaches will be paved for approximately 100 feet in each direction. This work is expected to be completed within two weeks. We feel that the current weekly grading schedule is sufficient at this time. The windrow of gravel is left on the shoulders as a maintenance tool for spreading gravel. Weld County does its best to upgrade those roads that will benefit local residents and the traveling public. Before the Commissioners determine which roads to renovate, they consider traffic counts, area traffic patterns, drainage problems, and complaints from citizens. The Public Works Department receives a tremendous number of requests each year. Unfortunately, it is not possible to comply with everyone's wishes. The traffic volume has dramatically increased during the past few years. This road will be considered on the work schedule in the year 2000. It will be necessary for us to work with Larimer County on any major project. If you have further questions, please contact Frank B. Hempen, Jr., Public Works Director, at (970)356-4000 Ext. 3750. Sincerely, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Constance L. Harbert, Chair cc: Commissioner Webster Frank B. Hempen, Jr., Public Works Director 981779 CORRESPONDENCE RESPONSE ?cad f c4 �-r3nd ****PLEASE RESPOND BY: **** RECOMMENDED ACTION: Narrative: METHOD OF RESPONSE: Board Action Worksession X Letter (Attached) Telephone Call No Response Staff Signature K:\opman\rdcompll 05/28/98 Ind 77i August 16,1998 To: Weld County Public Works(Engineering Division) 933 N. 11th Ave. Greeley, CO 80631 Larimer County Public Works(Road and Bridge Dept.) 218 W. Mountain Fort Collins,go 80521 -i cc.Weld d Larimer County Commissioners From: LaRue and Mary Johnson 5701 WCR 13 Windsor, CO 80550 DearAll: Perhaps after living for 20 years on the Larimer side of the county line and dealing with all the frustrations of a Windsor PO,a Ft.Collins telephone,4 children having attended the Poudre School District,vehicles being registered in Larimer County but annually being told that I must go to Greeley for registration, a Greeley domestic water tap and all the while being employed at CSU in Ft. Collins and doing equal amounts of our shopping in Windsor and Ft. Collins you just might be receptive to our following frustration: We live on Weld Cty. Rd. 13(also could be called Larimer Cty. Rd. 1),approximately 1 mile south of Colorado Hwy.68(the Harmony/Severance Rd.).This is a gravel road that has over the tenure of our residency served the residents and agricultural community and has been regularity"maintained" by weekly grading from Weld County.This road is of course getting more use now that Windsor area is rapidly growing and the weekly grading is not holding up over the interval.The grading generally occurs on Mondays and the residual corrugation is already bad by Tuesday morning which of course gets progressively worse during the remainder of the week.Moreover,the windrow of gravel that is left at the margins of the road as well as lots of loose gravel between the wheel tracks is not a safe situation considering that many drivers are traveling "the limit+"(which I'm told by the Colorado State Patrol is 55 mph). In addition,the railroad tracks currently utilized by Great Western cross the road on our property and are regularily graveled over by the grader.We have crossed our fingers as the infrequent train comes by hoping that it can stay on the tracks.Last but surely not least is the nagging dust that fills the air when one of the large trucks rockets by.As a CSU veterinarian frequenting the rural communities,I(LJ)travel many gravel roads and find few as dangerous as this stretch of Weld Cty. Rd. 13. So, having shared our frustration,We now offer our solution which is to seal the surface. Already,the road is sealed or black topped one mile south and sealed 3 miles north of us. I'm assuming that Weld and Larimer Counties share the maintenance of county line roads and many of the roads in Larimer county appear to be sealed.It would seem that the weekly expense of grading the road(quite frankly with questionable value)could be replaced with the initial sealing and minimal follow-up maintenance as appears to be the case with the sealed roads in our area. In summary,as Larimer county taxpayers,we expect that some attention should be given to our concerns and that minimally you will respond by contacting us with your proposal.I would encourage you to in person witness the road's condition in the gravel as well as the transition into the sealed state,especially south of us where the traffic on the surface will have been essentially identical. Thanks in advance for your attention to this matter. Respectfully, — 7I diQt_ 44/4104 LaRue W.Jo on DVM,PhD and Mary E. 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